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Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 9, 1948 CAGE CAPTAIN As Washington Sees It. THE NATIONAL SCENE the 1948-49 season is again expected to decline but that exports are ex pected: to double the two million to about 2,350,000 running bales of ed last July 1 totaled 19,347,000 long raw cotton,’’ he explains. , tons. This is the largest quantity of “In 1949 South Carolina farmers food ever shipped by any cqrmtry in European recovery program. They got 65 per cent, other European coun tries 1.4 per cent^Far Eastern coqn- ny cqjli bales exported last season. He adds, should look for >vays of lowering the | a single year. It topped American ex-I tries 16.4, Latin America 9.5, Canada y however, that the total amount ex ported will depend upon the amount of money made available to purchase cotton under the Marshall plan. production of quality cotton. Better 1 P 01- * 5 of the previous art'op year by 4.1 and other “areas 3,6. fertilizing and cultural practices 187,000 tons. i The British-American zones of along with improved insect and dis- Even after sharing this record sup-,Germany received more American ease controls and the use of labor-! ply, Americans had 14 per cent more food than any other country. * “The government will make loans saving machinery make the prospects' to eat than in the 1935-39 period. ‘ The department said Americans on the 4949 cotton crop at 90 per; increasing cotton yields and low- Exports are running heavy this | consumed slightly less food during Special to The Chronicle. Washington, Dec. 9.—The new Democratic controlled 81st congress . . , . will be a pro-agriculture congress cent of the parity price.” Dr. Roches- f nng V 16 cost of production bright,” , cr0i p year and it j s q U jt e possible that the past crop year than in the pre- and according to all indications will ter says. “If the parity index does ne declares. not decline more than five per cent ! ' .• from the present level, which seems United StatCS Sends unlikely, t£ie parity price of cotton HERB LINDSAY Hr.b Lindsay, three-letter senior •athlete, of Greenville, has beem nam ed captain •: the Presbyterian col lege ba.'ke.bail team again this year. Lindsa-y has played the position of first sti ng center for the past two yea;' and expected to repeat -in ’hat capacity again this season. w Sor COLD DISCOMFORTS Xi+uidL - 35 * Per Bottle Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 FAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Square HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to 5:30 Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 791 for Appointment You Take NO • Rf#lz # In patronizing this Pre scription Pharmacy, you take no risk—and you want to take none. Health isn't a gambling matter. That's whv we employ only able pharrr acists, use the purest drugs and double-check even step for accuracy, ^et, a prescription here costs no more. Stop by next time! BISHOP-WALKER PHARMACY PRESCRIPT! TRAILWAYS 4 trips daily to CHARLOTTE via Chester, leaving *8:30AM, 12:15 PM, 3:10 PM, and '*6:24 PM. *—only 1 change to Wash ington and New York. 4 trips daily to ANDERSON leaving 10:30 AM, 3:35 PM, 5:15 PM, 8:10 PM, All Anderson schedules connect with fast service to Atlanta. Other daily service to AU GUSTA, SPARTANBURG, and ASHEVaXE. Clinton Bus Terminal Phone 59 TRAUWaYS be much more generous than the 80th congress in giving farmers about "anything-.they want in legislation. The only factor which might pre vent this generosity, according to ob servers here, is failure of the leading farm organizations to agree on a program among themselves, or for some controversial subject like the butter-oleo battle to build up such antagonisms as will defeat or water- down basic farm legislation. r chairman-elect of both the house and senate agricultural Committees . . . Congressman Harold D. Cooley of Nqrth Carolina and Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma . . . have advocated a straight-away 90 per cent of parity price support in opposition to the sliding 60 to 90 per cent as presently provided by the Aiken bill which does not take effect until January 1950. Farm or ganizations are not. ,m complete agreement. All want price support but they have not reached accord on the ratio of'parity. The same thing is true on conser vation. All farm organizations want the conservation program continued but the American Farm Bureau fed eration favors giving the agricultural extension service, which the federa- tion shares in financing in some lo calities. wide responsibility for ad ministration. The National Grange and the Farmers Union oppose the Federation stand and would put only the educational feature of the con servation program under the exten sion service. It may be that the national con ventions of the various organiza tions will bring them more into alignment. ■ • v In only four states do the Grange and the Farm Bureau really run a riip-and-tuck race for membership. In New York. Grange mercUaership runs 141,337 with the Farm Bureau membership at 87,336; in Michigan the Farm Bureau has 48,100 and the Grange 28,207; in Ohio the Farm Bureau membership is 55;777 while the Grange runs 113,632, and on the west coast in California the Farm Bureau has 47,654 and the Grange 34,152. Another large farm organization serving some 2,500,000 farm families is the Council of Farm Cooperatives with 115 marketing and purchasing cooperatives with about 5,000 local groups. Memberships in these groups, however, duplicate memberships in the other three farm organizations. Executive secretary of this organ ization is John W. Davis, a former school leacher and school superin tendent, Missouri-born and lowa-i bred, formerly with the Farm Credit Administration and the Commodity Credit Corporation. He is a member 1 , of the eleven-man national advisory committee on research and market ing under the Hope-Flannagan act and twice served oij U. S. delegations to the International Food and Agri cultural Organization. An inkling of what may happen to farm price sup- ..pox.t..i*v«4'he''(- , «flri:ng congress is given by Mr. Davis when he says that he senses among farmers a move backi to the more rigid price support sys tem rather than to the flexible 60-90 support plan as provided in the Aiken long-range farm law. Here are some things the farm ers may get in the next congress if they ask for them . . . stand by price controls without price ceil ings on food or farm products as! long as they don’t get out of hand; more grain bids from CCC; govern- : ment authority to regulate trading) margins on commodity exchanges; J extension of Export and import con- I trols; approval of the international wheat agreement if pact can be re vived with British support; farm home building in the housing act; I government loans and grants to I low-income farmers; increase in ru ral electrification and school lunch appropriations; additional crop in surance; overhaul of the farm credit agency; a national fertilizer pro gram; and increased appropriations for reclamation and irrigation proj ects. The farm population of the nation, placed at approximately 27.5 million, is not selfish in demands for price supports and other 1 geislation ac cording to farm leaders here. What they want is long-range programs to cushion the farmer from sudden economic shocks and save his land from slow deterioration under the contention that ^his is in the interest of the entire country. In return the farmer will continue full and abun dant production of food and fibre. These leaders point out that depres sion hits the farmer first and that farm collapse would bring the rest of the economic structure tumbling, so the nation’s stability rests upon, the farmers’ economic security. Outlook For 1949 Cotton ! Crop Is Called Not Good ) Clemson, Dec. 6.—The outlook tor cotton is not so good as it has been 1 in the past few years, according to Dr. M. C. Rochester, leader of Clem son agricultural economics extension work. He points out that both the J amount of cotton used by dmestic mills and the amount of cotton ex ported during" the past season were below the amounts of a year earlier; in fact, the exports were the lowest of any peace-time year since 1871-72. He says that domestic mill use in w’ould be 29.45 cents per pound, and the loan level would be 26.50 to 27.00 cents per pound. This loan rate is applicable to middling 7-8 inch cot ton at average ocation. “Competition from synthetites is greater than at any time in. history,” Dr. Rochester continued. “Deliveries of rayon to consuming establishments in the United States in 1948 will ex ceed one billion pounds for- the first ■Record Amount Food To European Countries Washington, Dec. 7.*—The United States shared a record amount of its food with other countries during the past^crop year and still fed itself bet ter than before the war. So reported the agriculture de partment today in a review of this country’s efforts to help feed the shipments will be even greater than vious two years. Most of this reduc- i those of the past year. tion reflected a smaller supply of Grains, including rice; made up meat and other livestock products, about 81 per cent of the export ton-j Foods consumed in greater quan- i nage. Wheat and wheat products rep- tity than in the preceding crop year resented about 67 per cent of the were evaporated milk, dried milk, grain shipments. i sugar, eggs, lard, maegarine, short- On a quantity basis, Americans ening and other edible fats and oils, took 84.7 per cent of the country’s 1 Decreases in consumption were re food supply. For some commodities, U. S. civilians consumed practically time in any 12-months period. One hungry abroad, billion pounds of rayon is equivalent Exports during the crop year end ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A4 all of the supplies. Meat was an out standing example. Exports of meat were about 1.1 per cent of the sup ply. Most of the exported food went to countries receiving aid under the ported for wheat and corn products, rice, butter, cheese, fluid milk and cream, meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dry beans and peas, fruits and vege tables and peanuts. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE " The Taper Everybody Reads” ; r ! 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