The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 09, 1948, Image 10
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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
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•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.
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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
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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.
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