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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- APRIL 9, 1943 Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT LISTENS I The President did the listening, in stead of the talking, when he con ferred on farm manpower and food with three prominent farm leaders —Albert S. Goss, master of the Na tional Grange, H. E. Babcock, vice president of the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives, and Ezra T. Nelson, its executive secretary. The farm spokesmen spent about 30 minutes of the 37-minute confer ence expounding their views on what caused the food shortage now facing the country and what has to be done to remedy it. The President con fined his remarks chiefly to asking questions. He began by telling his visitors that the food situation was “ex tremely serious.” “That’s why I invited you gentle men here today—to get your opin ions on what has to be done,” the President said. “Go ahead and be as frank as you like.” The farm leaders accepted the challenge. They charged the ad ministration with "shortsightedness” in dealing with farm labor defer ments and contended that govern ment price policies also had con tributed to the farm manpower shortage. Local Draft Problem. "If you want my views, I’ll give them to you, Mr. President,” spoke up Ezra Nelson. "Two things have to be done and done immediatefly. First of all, someone in authority here in Washington must tell these local draft boards where to head in. “They must be told that they have almost as much responsibility to see to it that we have sufficient man power to produce food for the war effort as they have to provide men for the fighting forces. Food is just as important as munitions in my opinion. We can’t fight the war without it, and we can’t let our civil ians starve. “A lot of these local draft boards still feel that they must fill their induction quotas,” Nelson continued. “The boards have been assigned quotas, but they don’t have to meet them, at least not in sections where there is a crying farm labor short age. You, or someone else should tell them this.” The President pointed out that many young farmers don’t want to be deferred. “This isn’t the fault of the draft boards,” he said. “The young men themselves are so patriotic that they do not want to remain on the farm while a war is going on.” It was agreed that steps would have to be taken to convince se lectees that they could serve their country as well on the farm as in the army. Goss suggested that one “way out” would be to induct farm hands and then “furlough” them back to the farm at prevailing farm wages, instead of army pay. This would require legislation, but the President said it was an idea worth considering. Stop Selling Cows. “The second thing that has to be done is for the government to step in and stop the widespread selling of dairy cows and other stock and farm equipment by farmers who are unable to continue in business at present farm price levels,” Nelson continued. “I’m as much opposed to inflation as you are, Mr. President,” he add ed, “but we have got to make it possible for farmers to operate at a fair profit if we are to lick this threatened food shortage. They have got to be assured fair prices in order to pay wages that will keep their help from migrating to jobs in in dustry.” The co-operative official contend ed that farms had lost two-thirds of their manpower to war industries because of low farm wages. The President said that he, too, was deeply concerned about this fac tor, suggested to his callers that they get together with Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and map out a program embracing their recom mendations. “Then come back and see me again,” urged the President. “I want to continue these discussions.” • • » CAPITAL CHAFF C. The super-cabinet’s careful con sideration of how big our armed forces should be was actually a sham battle. FDR has the “old dutch up” over the size of the armed forces and wouldn’t take anybody’s say-so on this point, except the army’s own plan, conceived way back in 1938 . . . The army in 1938 had no idea whether we would have the ships in 1943 to transport troops abroad, but is sticking to its original plan just the same. And FDR is 100 per cent behind it. C. John McClintock, assistant co-ordi nator of inter-American affairs, is off to the Amazon, to inspect food and health programs for rubber tap pers. C. When General Marshall turned down-the rank of “Field Marshal” he also knocked over a carefully laid plan whereby Admiral King would become “Admiral of the Fleet” ... To date only three men have won the title “Admiral of the Fleet”—Dewey, Farragut and Por ter . . . Tipoff on the proposal to make King Admiral of the Fleet was so he could outrank Admiral Leahy. Personalities on Day’s News Front Shown at left is Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a “native son” of California, who is a crack shot with a pistol. General Patton’s armored forces have been giving Gen. Erwin Rommel’s desert army in Tunisia some thing to think about. Center: Petite, attractive Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of China, who has become the American spokesman for China’s fighting masses. Mme. Chiang thrilled - great audiences here. Right: J. Lester Perry, president of the Carnegie-Illinois company, a subsidiary' of U. S. Steel, shown as he appeared before the Truman committee investigating war production. Charges were made that false tests were made on steel which was being used by the navy. Teamwork Keynote of Anti-Aircraft Artillery Success In few branches of our armed services are teamwork and co-ordination more important than in the anti aircraft artillery. Pictures shown here were taken during maneuvers at Camp Davis, N. C. Upper left: When the alert sounds, anti-aircraft crews must reach their stations in seconds. Dress is of slight importance, but they must have their rifles, cartridge belts, gas masks and helmets. They race to their posts. Right: This picture was made while the 90-mm gun was actually in full recoil. Lower left: Captain Rousseau peers through a slit in the battery commander’s underground station to check on the operations of the crew. Sends Son to Fight Against Homeland Visits Home Fleet Shamed by the Jap attack upon Pearl Harbor, James S. Kondo, 51, a Jap-born resident of the Hawaiian islands, was gratified when the army permitted his son, Herbert, 18, to join a special combat regiment made up of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Herbert is shown in the center with his mother and father, who wears his American Legion cap. He is a veteran of World War I. Prime Minister Winston Churchill Is being piped over the side as he leaves a destroyer depot ship while visiting the British home fleet. Lead ing the prime minister down the lad der is Vice Adm. Sir Bruce Austin Fraser, whose appointment to com mand the British home fleet was recently announced. Nineteen stenciled Jap flags mark the score of this Grumman Wildcat shown on famous Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. The score was made Ky several different pilots, of which Tech. Sergt. R. W. Greenwood, a fnarin* from Jamesport, Mo., is plane captain. He is shown in cockpit. ‘Shots’ for Dogs It’s inoculation day at San Angelo, Texas, army air field, where bom bardier school mascots get immu nized by post veterinarian Capt. H. R. Collins, against rabies. ELMER TWITCHELL AND THE VICTORY GARDEN Elmer Twitchell issued a commu nique today announcing that he has launched his spring Victory Garden drive again. “I never won a victory over it yet,” he said sadly, “but I am going to try once more.” • • • “I can’t give you much time,” he told reporters, “I’m going over the whole situation to check up on gains and losses in my campaigns so far, find out where I am, consolidate my forces and decide on my 1943 tactics.” “What’s your tactical position?” a reporter asked. “I’m not positive,” he replied. “This is only my second summer in the field. Last summer it was touch and go most of the way, with a pret ty .serious defeat at the finish. I held my own until August when over whelming forces just about ruined me.” “Are you more confident of vic tory this season?” “I am stronger than I was a year ago. I’ve trained hard all winter. I’ve got some new weapons and I have the will to win.” “Do you intend to wage a defense or offensive war?” “I found out last summer that you can’t get anywhere with a Victory Garden on the defensive. Those damned bugs love it if you stay on the defensive. That’s right up their alley.” • • • “Don’t forget,” Elmer resumed, “that all these garden pests and blights were in a much better posi tion than I was when the fight start ed. They had been doing nothing else but waging an all-out war for years. I was green at it.” “Was it the element of surprise that bothered you?” he was asked. “Not so much surprise as the pow er and determination of the enemy,” he replied. “And of course their reserves are inexhaustible. I’d Uck ’em and think I had wiped ont the last bag, and np would come an other battalion of ’em. That sort of thing gets pretty disconraging.” “Who do yon think was yonr toughest foe?” a reporter asked. “I thought General Aphis was tough early in the season but later the Mexican Bean Beetle proved harder to beat. His armored attack on bean vines is terrific. Then came the Japanese Beetle. He used heavy tanks and is strictly a suicide fighter.” • • • Elmer seemed depressed just re viewing last year’s garden cam paign. “I threw them all back up to midsummer, but then General Cut worm attacked in force, using blitz methods. He was supported by waves of corn borers, potato bugs and snails.” “How about your chemical war fare?” he was asked. “Oh, I gave ’em all I had, but they had too many fresh shock troops to throw in. But do you know what really broke down my morale last season?” “No.” “The neighbors’ chickens,” con cluded Elmer. “That was what got me. I thought they were neutral. They were Fifth Columnists!” • • • Add similes: As funny as New York talking about crime waves in other cities. • • • Ima Dodo thinks that the new Tracy-Hepburn film, “Keeper of the Flame,” is a heart-stirring drama of the winter struggle with the oil furnace problem. • * • Larry Singer thinks some con gressmen who turned down the Ruml plan thought they were voting against Rommel. * • • R. Roelofs Jr. wants to know if you remember away back when antipasto included a sardine? And when you could get a radio repaired? • • « Can You Remember— Away back when you could walk right past a food display in a store window without looking? • • • “M. G.” suggests as his own bev erage plan: Free beer and pretzels from the cradle to the grave. • • » Hi— Remember away back when the wail was “all ‘meat and no potatoes”? W. B. FERIOLA. * • • E. Arcy nominates for the civilian “E Award" Oswald Killuff who after 30 years experimenting has evolved a method of baking an apple pie without seeds or bits of core in it. • » • “Hitler’s mental trouble has passed the phase where it could only be recognized by specialists. It is now obvious to the layman.”—Swiss dis patch. Whaddaya mean by “now”! • • • A Guernsey heifer on a farm in Elms- wood, N. Y., suddenly stopped contented grazing, tore across the field and dove into a swimming pool. Such behavior is hard to explain. But we must remember that a cow can’t get into the headlines today by mere ly doing the things mother used to do. l/ncle PhilC k Say*: Ever Think of Thu? Nearly all government is ear*! ried on by amateurs. And- some! of them remain just that! Money has wings, bat it Isn’t a homing pigeon. Nothing is so upsetting to a woman’s poise as worrying over her avoirdupois. 1 At Leapt It» Coat Isn’t it a pity a man can’t dis pose of his experience for a price? The success of any dark iptrse depends upon its pulling power. Many a man is kept busy trying to undo the things he did yesterday. Services of USO The USO now has more than 650 clubs, 300 units and lounges, 100 information centers and 50 mobOe units in 500 cities and towns of this country, for the service and entertainment of our soldiers, re-, ports Collier’s. The organization also maintains 70 road shows, with 1,000 performers, the scenery, sal-' aries and traveling expenses of which will amount to about $4,000,- 000 in 1943. CLASSIFIED! department! MONEY TO LOAN Funds available for buying, bldg., repair ing, refinancing property. Anywhere. Other purposes. Int. from 2% vrly. Repayment to 40 yrs. Interstate Housing, Enrekat N. Y. Living Longest He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—James Mar tine au. Cheerful Beginning Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expecta-; tion.—Goethe. 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