Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1943 — Page 13
Weather, ‘campeon “Aeon Crons| Often Overlooked in Food Problem
B0GER BuDHOW—
THERE 1s ‘MORE TO THE FARM PROBLEM than| g manpower. It is the most ‘talked-about but not the most
important factor. By all means the weather is the biggest]
factor determining how much food this country can produce - this summer. Last year we had mighty good treatment from he weatherman. Pastures were the best in a quarter of a century. Crops yields were higher, so that with a smaller acreage we pro- * duced more food. These big feed crops make possible an in- - crease in livestock production this year.
APPEAL |
ks _ Unpatriotic n View of Supplies.
© By CHARLES T. LUCEY ‘Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 8~Wor-
have failed to stem “panic buying” today tock a new approach—an ap-
justified. ‘With reports of. inflated buying
Offials Say Clothing Rush
ried government officials whose} denials of clothing rationing. plans| §
In addition to the weather, Purdue economists point out other over\Jookea factors. There is the limitation of: process“ing facilities, for example, which! caused .a jam in crushing last year’s big soybean crop, And there is the competition between enterprises, usually not taken into consideration by, those df -who don’t think i in farm terms. Mr, Budrow “vast month Purdue’s division of agricultural economics sized the situation up. this way: Increases in milk cows, hogs, poultry and corn; decreases in hay, : ture and wheat, not much change tomatoes; and a probable decrease in soybeans. Judging from today’s survey by the AAA of what Indiana farmers intend to do, Pur- . due hit Jb on the nose :EXGeph for Soyhenns: ) mansion in milk cow numpor is hindered by the fact that ere will be less pasture this year and the competition with hogs for grain. Feed supplies handicap inreading hog and Poultry produc~ ion Corn’ competes with soybeans and Incentive payments for other crops. Hay and pasture have to :compete with corn and soybeans as does wheat which, in addition, has acreage restrictions, 2 sn THE SHORTAGE. of manpower is really important in only one major crop, Purdue concludes, and that is tomatoes where the trouble is actually womanpower. Getting women to work in canning factories and ‘finding transportation for them are the obstacles in this case. If we should have poor weather this summer, then feed for livestock will suffer, fewer breeding animals will be kept, thus incregsing the slaughter of livestock in the fall and early part of next year and decreasing the: livestock being fed on ‘farms after that time. 1: 8 8 #8 PURDUE POINTS out that “an acre of pasture converted into beef or milk does not produce as much food as an acre of potatoes
or as an acre of corn converted into pork. In most of the corn belt, including Indiana, the corn acreage
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Good A on many fams can be further in-|Medium
creased at the expense of hay and rotation pasture with little reduction in yields. When viewed from the standpoint of the amount of food that can be produced from a given amount of land and labor (on farms where one can be grown and . produced about as well as the other) corn, hogs and chickens have a much higher rating than pasture, hay, beef cattle and milk COWS. : “If more milk is desired, Indiana farmers .can be inducted to milk more cows and raise fewer hogs by making if more profitable to grow pasture and hay and produce milk “than it is to grow corn and produce hogs. At the present timé, corn and hogs are much more profitable per acre of land and per hour of labor expended.” ss 8 =»
- ODDS AND ENDS: Associates Investment Co. of South Bend will .pay ent dividend on its common stock March 31. . ,. U. S. Rubber - Cos new airplane tire uses enough nylon to make 186 pairs of hosiery; pany claims it is twice as strong a tire as those made with rayon or cotton fabric. . . . Preliminary figures show our national income last year was 121 billion dollars, three times| what it was in the depression low of | Good 32. 5 a
NO MORE ELECTRIC RANGES Ee WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.P). The war production board today halted the production of all do- | Boo mestic electric ranges Which pre- | ed! viously were produced on appeals granted for miliary and defense
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HOG PRICES uP 10 T0 15 GENTS
Top Returns to $16 Here; 6300 Porkers Arrive;
Vealers Steady.
Hog prices at the Indianapolis stockyards today returned to Friday’s levels or 10 to 15 cents higher than Saturday's prices, the food distribution © administration reported. The top was $16 for .good to choice 200 to 225-pounders. Vealers were steady with a $17.50 top. Receipts included 6300 hogs, 1250 cattle, 350 calves and 725 sheep.
HOGS (4300)
Good to choice— : sevessescsa: $14. 25015.00 esss 15.00@15.
1€0- 220 pounds Packing Sows Good to choice— 270- 300 pounds 300- 330 pounds .... 360- 400 pounds 360 450 pounds
Good— 400- 450 pounds .... 450- 550 pounds Medium— 150- 250 pounds
CATTLE (1250)
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14.00@ 14.85
1300-1500 Good—
700- 900 vs 15.00016.00
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700-1100 pounds Yoo-1300 pounds
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Choice—
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Sausage—
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esasessss 11.50 Cutter and common 0.50@ CALVES (350)
Vealers (all weights)
Good to choice Common and medi Cull (75 lbs. up)
Feeder & Sjocker Cattle & Caives Steers :
Choice—
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Calves (heifers)
Good and Choice— 500 pounds down
Mediutm— : 500 pcunds down ............ [email protected] SHEEP AND LAMBS (725)
. Ewes (shorn)
Good and choice ........e... Common and choice ...
Lambs and choice Shedim and good Common - Lambs (Shorn) Good and and good
7.50@ 9.00
4.009 15.00 12.0091¢.00
Local PRODUCE UE RULES EE
horn hens, 23c. : Broilers 2% Ibs. snd over, white and barred rock, 27¢: p.Solored, oo Hoaseors. 4 lbs. and over, colored, 7c; white and barred rock, 28c. Stags: Leghorns, 21¢; heavy breed, 2%: Cocks, 16¢. StS x receipts, 54 1bs. and up eC.
ge—~Grade A, ‘large, 35¢;| a 33c; grade A, small, 35¢;
48@48'%¢; No. 46 PP vig battertat. Ne Soe No. Tie (Prices on produce delive t Indian.
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* lan all-time high, and the fear psy-
- | fabric—finished clothing as well as
5 2.168,000,000 in 1941 and 1,991,000, 21000 in 1939.
%!by WPB director Donald Nelson
» of a Boston store which told the
5 but seeks only to share available 35| goods fairly.
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coming from all over the country, Joseph 1.. Weiner, director of civilian supply, put it this way: “Are we going to act as citizens who realize we're in a war, backing up the boys. at “front by trying to maintain & stable life at home or, are we fo show that our main object is to see how HICH of of the nation’s common goods we can get for ourselves, without reggrd for others? * “Goods in retailers’ hands, on the basis of our last figures, are at
chology must be stopped. The fact is that it should become a badge of honor to be fighting ‘this war on the home front in a shabby suit, and just the opposite to be wearing a fine one.”
Store Stocks Big’
Retail stores began 1943 with the largest stock of clothing and textile ‘house furnishings of any similar inventory period in the last five years. In terms of linear yards of
piece goods — the retail inventory showed 2,960,000,000 yards, compared with 2,903,000,000 in 1942,
Recent denials of rationing plans
and OPA director Prentiss Brown had no lasting effect on stemming the scare buying. . Many officials, recognizing the danger of an upset economy, confess they don’t now what to do about it. This perplexity is shared by representatives of major retail organizations, who have made some effort to have stores and their clerks assure customers of the present adequate supplies and discourage excess buying.
Hit ‘Scare’ Ads “Scare” advertising, such as that
public “you can still buy clothing without coupons,” also is being discouraged. But it is claimed that the situation is being aggravated in some places by clerks still ad-
anticipation of shortages. There is no basis for this advice, officials insist. Some estimates are that national retail inventories are at abnut four
chasing power. Officials contend that the buying sprees fostered by fear of rationing
not take away goods, they argue,
And, while they say rationing is not in prospect now, they acknowl-
any possible current needs. Retail buying in January, according to the federal reserve board, was 46 per cent more than in January, 1942. Cities in which large war industries have expanded tremendously showéd some of the greatest gains.
the past to restrict credit buying, present instance, as a great volume be for cash.
LOCAL ISSUES
Nominal quotati furnished by unit of National ASocta ion of Securities Dealers. Asked
Agents Pin Corp com
Yds 6% p? Dobbs Me Bois
Vi i Milk td. : EE dh an m sesssssss Van Camp Milk rd . .
Algers Wins'w W- % American Loan 5s 51 American Loan 5s 46 99 Cent “Com Hide Co 42d alias choot) of Co
Gonsol in 5 In
em r—— nities me Animal Trap Co. of America, Inc. —1042 net income, $115,836 or $1.22 ‘a’ common share V8. $145 in 1941. ;
Allied Chem i vising customers to: buy more in Am Chal
billion dbllars—larger than. usual, |4 but so is the flood of wartime pur-{Balt & Obi
n Beth Steel Borden Borg-Warner . Bdgpt Brass ..
are without reason. Rationing does Chiysies
edge that it could be forced by per- = sistent consumer buying far beyond | Goodrich
The bpard, which has acted in N ¥ Central | Noblitt-Sparks is believed unlikely ‘to act in the Pach on
of today’s scare buying is said tol;
rvel Inc local| So Por R Sug
$116,155 or|y
peal to good citigenship—to Kill a| (8 fear psychology they called un-|:
the west coast ani used their pre-
WASHINGTON, March 8—Shou'd seme enforcitle program be _ |worked out Which would eliminate u greater part sm {ON |priblem, I recommend that an effort: de -lup some sy:tem. in private industry of
made at the same t short
or four Oi1S 4s 8 Toward to: those Who have s §
working performance. 2's war EE iawe: Appé.ant that
‘were cal of Japan trouble on effiziently te their jobs throughout
the -period cf a long war without
"| absentee list suffer because of their
workers carnot devote: themselves:
ered. io Seattle’s civic stadium to furiher their protist of the recent
plane manufacturing dustry. Senator Mon C. Wallgren, chair-
; man of the aviation subcommittee
patriotic adherence to duty. In many indust:ies workers have had _ {no vacation neriod since Pearl Har“|bor. - This is not # good thing from the standpoin of morale, health, or production. Even soldiers and sail-
[of the Truman coramittee, told the|OTS in the arid services are grant-
GRAIN FUTURES TURN STRONGER
No Corn Offered at Ceiling ‘Prices; Rye Sells Cent Higher.
CHICAGO, March 8 (U. P.)~— Grain futures developed sums after an irregular opening on board of trade today. At the end of the first hour, wheat was unchanged to up % cent a bushel; corn unchanged at ceiling bids, oats up % to %, and rye up % to 1 cent. Traders continued to watch Washington news for developments in pending’ legislation, but the weekend offered no new incentives. Commission houses sold wheat, attributed to’ hedging, but prices firmed under scattered mill-buying. Corn continued inactive at ceiling bids with no offerings available, Commission houses acted on both sides of the rye market. An eastern house, recently on the buying side, turned seller, before new buying advanced prices up to 1 cent a bushel. Oats futures firmed very light trade.
N. Y. Socks
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Completa New York stock quotations are carried daily in the final ediHon, of The Times.
DAILY PRICE INDEX NEW YORK, March 8 (U. P.)— Dun & Bradstreet’s daily weighted price index of 30 basic commoritits, compiled for United Press (1930-32 average equals 100): : Saturday oe oie iesvevbseche 171.94 Week ago Ts 171.23 Month 880’ c.cvevsssssessscss 160.11 Year 880 ..... ih. Tevsaeaee 155.14
U.S. STATEMENT hy LC YOTON. Match : 2 PCr So a n= 0 80 t Yi ma Shin Tile 39:231.508, 14 sigiasio de 575
Cash Balance 5,018,054, 068.407.4803 806.163. 068 Wong oa ti Sam dum]
fo “Debt. 119, Ee Bosse 22706047386
INDIANAPOLIS a cLEARING : nous
Lg 9 W. WASH S81 | 'stal ish 42 Years .
1943 High Maron. &. senevsas 17004] 1943 Low (Jan. 2 Loi. 10861)
‘Cradle to Grave". Security Planned
WASHINGTON, ‘March. 8.—SecreLabor - Frances Perkins last a urged expansion of ‘the social
security program to provide a post-| . | war ‘cushion against economic mal-
adjustment. Chairman: of President ‘Roosevelt’s committee on economic security, she and other federal officials soon ‘will recommend a new “cradle
to the grave” program similar t0|time
the | ihe British Beveridge plan. It will call for. .greatly expanded benefits, which also -. would be extended to members of the armed forces, federal employees, farm workers and others now exempt. Employer-employee contributions, now one per cent each, would be increased to five per cent each.’ Speaking before a conference of the American Church union here, Miss Perkins said the expanded system, if authorized now, would “do much to stabilize our political and social development in the future.” “The nation’s returning fighting men,” she said, would be given “a sense of security” because they and their families would be protected in the period of demobilization. It also
in would serve to offset “the doubt and
dread, fedr and uncertainty” anticipated by many when war industries are reconverted to peacetime production, sHe said. ho : Declaring there can be “no question of our ability to pay for an adequate system,” she said the incomes of both workers and employers now are at high levels and can “bear the price of this increased contribution.”
WAGON WHEAT
Up to the close of the Chicago today, India ota flour mills an elevators paid $1.53 per bushel for red wheat (other grades om on thelr merits). No. 2 ie oats 7c, and Ni 57¢; No. fod So oe" and No.3 3n te corn, $1.03
i snd” grain
or bush:
bq
Amy
‘about a month. ;
‘audienice he intenils to recommend ed Tusloughs for 1'est and change of an investigation of the WLB de-|énvironmen cision when the ‘committee makes| The scope and intensity of the
wroposed I coast war is increasing on-all fronts. In a} ip. fo; the In, ite. face of tivis prospeetidn the war
zones, we find that absenteeism in Production Undisturbed ~~ lwar production plants in. this counThe Boeing airc/aft company re-|try has been increasing. ported production was undisturbed During December, 1942, approxi-
at the meeting sincé work at the/mately 16,700,000 man hours were
Seaitle and Rentoli plants on Sun- {lost through sbsenteeism in the ship day is only by skeleton crews.|yards and navy ysrds of the counWorkers interrupt:d speakers nu-|try; sufficient men hours, to con‘merous times to applaud state-|struct 14 additionzl destroyers, and merits that there vould be no work|approximately 40 times the man
storpage. “Some months ‘ago, Byrd said, “the Jap war lords said that they knew that there would be west coast labor trouble at about this ¢ « « they wire gloating over my telling you how we knew the Jap war lords wer discussing this coming. trouble, but the source of the information is unquestionable. “Furthermore, sve know from neutral countries that the Japs have been using this f)reknowledge of West, Coast labor troubles as propaganda to influence neutral countries to fight with the ais dgainst us onl, the ground that free people can’t govern themselves j)roperly or compete with the axis in war because they are too ind; ividualistic and self-centered to Treslly unite.” Byrd drew cheers from the crowd when he said’ “I dam certain as I stand on this plaiform that you and all the rest of tis will in the end prove these Jap ‘warlords to be liars. What do you say?” Investigation: Sought Senator Waligren, also on an unrevealed mission—ifor the military affairs committee, told the workers “your short layoff the other day was a dramatic deraonstration, not a strike. It succepded in calling the public’s attention to your problems caused by delay after delay of the WLB in corning to a decision.” He referred to the demonstration by 15,000 Boeing workers, who 3 halted production for several hours
el,
oats, | 10 days ago to dttend a mass meeting. : yrea 5 aay
hours lost dus to strikes or shutdowns in the ship yards of the United States for the whole year of
1942. Cites Union Aid
These figures, however, include authorized leave, sick leave, . and other legitimaje causes for absenteeisra. The best available estimate is that only. about 50 per cent of. this total of man hours lost through absenteeism is due to chronic or wilful absence from work.. It is admitted by all, management, organized labor, and the government | ' agencies, that ‘the problem is one that needs to he studied and a cure developed. Unfortunately, however, the problem is so complex that a satisfactory and fair remedy is difficult to find and to apply. Mr. William Greer, president of the A. PF. of L. and Mr. Pihilip Murray, president of the C. I. O. have come out definitely and strongly against chronic and wilful absenteeism and both of these labor organizations have started campaigns for the reduction of =bsenteeism in the industry. There are qiite a number of legitimate reasons for absenteeism, including poor transportation, weather, inadequate and poorly located housing facilities, necessary personal and business duties, illness and fatigue. Thess absences must be expected and accepted, and the campaign should not be against them but against unjustifiable and wilful absences. The chief reasons for. unjustifiable absences ars probably the desire for recrsation and irrespon-
now earning more money than ever before, and in view of the r ing and spending restriotions, earnings are more than s for thelr needs so they do‘ not. the urge for continuous work. 3till- another cause’ of ‘this senteeism is false optimism due #
and that, therefore, an individual worker's absence will not be missed because the war will be over in & short while anyway.
“Get Rid of Chronic Offender’
‘n my opinion a great deal of this absenteeism is due to the above reasons and carelessness. in attacking this problem, there fore, I believe that every effo should be made to punish and get ric. of the chronic offender—the worker who can work and won't work. In going after the chronic offender, however, care should be taken that the means adopted are such that unwarranted injury 1s not done either financially or to the reputation of those who want to work and make every effort to work but because of matters bes yond their control simply cannot get to work every day.
STUDEBAKER PROFIT REDUGED BY TAXES
SOUTH BEND, March 8 (U. PJ). —Increased taxes cut Studebaker Corp.'s consolidated net earnings for 1942 to a new four-year low; the company disclosed today. Net income of the Sompany and its subsidiaries amounted to ' $2,« 043,278 or 92 cents a common share, the smallest - since 1938 when a deficit of $1,762465 was reported, and compared’ with $2,486,397 or $.12 a share in 1941. The company said that 1942 earne ings are subject to adjustment cause of renegotiation of govern ment contracts, but added that such renegotiation will not materially affect the earnings. i: HZarnings were after a reserve $500,000 for ' contingencies and & provision of $5,200,000 for federal income and excess profits taxes, after deducting $400,160 for debt re= tirement and credit of $109,840 as post-war refund on excess profits levies. In Ba taxes totaled $3475,» 000.
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