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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
Let's Face Facts
Boom in Farm Values
Looms Up as Menace
To Economical Farmer
By BARROW LYONS
WNU Staff Corrmspondmt
, Barrow Lyons
Country America is headed direct
ly into a land-boom spree, if some
thing isn’t done to stop it. Average
farm land values rose nine per cent
In 1942 over those of 1941. In 1943
the rise was 15 per cent—a boost
of 25 per cent in two years—and
values are still going up at a rate of
at least 1 per cent a month.
In some areas the upward push
has been even greater. In Kentucky,
for instance, crop
controls for to
bacco before the
war and the ab
normal demand
for Burley leaf
during the war
have brought
about an increase
in farm land val
ues of 70 per cent
over the 1935-39
average. Out on
the Pacific coast,
the quest of thou
sands of war factory workers for
security on the land and the increase
in produce values meant a rise of
30 per cent to 50 per cent in farm
land values during the same period.
The great rise in prices of farm
commodities has induced many pur
chases for quick profit. A California
land dealer reported the sale of a
1,000-acre rice farm at $50 an acre
that’s $50,000—but the farmer who
bought it was able to obtain more
than $50,000 for his crop in one year.
A vineyard near Fresno valued at
$200 during the depression sold re
cently for $8,000.
Even the land brokers are worried
Ibout the situation, despite down
payments of one-third the selling
price. No one expects farming to
continue to be as profitable as it is
now for an indefinite number of
years, even if farm produce prices
remain on a high level. The day
when it will be hard for many pur
chasers to continue payments at the
rate contracted for is foreseen by
conservative land dealers.
War Bonds Preferred
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard has urged repeatedly
farmers who are making money to
pay off mortgages and invest it in
war bonds, rather than in more
land, if by doing so they bid up the
price to a point where it would be
come unprofitable to farm during pe
riods of depression, especially if the
buyer must give a heavy mortgage.
It is clear that every farmer who
so burdens himself with large in
stallment payments will have to
meet the competition of those who
have paid off mortgages out of the
$34 billion income farmers have re
ceived in the last two years.
During a trip I made through the
Middle West and South last winter
I discovered that the most progres
sive farmers were very well aware
of this situation, which is happening
In greater or lesser degree in nearly
every part of the country. They were
particularly resentful of the men
who have had comparatively little
experience in farming, but now see
a chance to make a quick cleanup
on high markets.
Not only do these newcomers pay
too much for their land, but without
the perspective of years of experi
ence, pay much higher wages to
their help. This’makes it especially
difficult for the experienced farm
ers to keep good farm hands, espe
cially in the face of demands of
selective service and the compe
tition of munitions industries.
The Farm Credit administration is
doing what it can to retard the pres
ent tendency. Throughout the coun
try it has refused to make loans
based on sales at exorbitant prices.
Its loan business has been greatly
curtailed, and tenant farmers con
templating purchase are being ad
vised to figure with great care what
they can reasonably expect to earn
on a farm over a period of years
and to base their purchases on such
calculations, rather than on present
commodity prices.
It has even been suggested that
down payment of half of the price
should be a legal requirement for
any farm purchase.
Refuse to Match Speculators
There is little the individual farm
er can do to check this growing
menace, except to hold on to his
farm and refuse to meet the com
petition for acreage of speculative
farmers. But there is a good deal
each can do, if he will inform him
self of the situation in his own
area and then let his congressman
know about it.
He might also write directly to
Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North
Carolina, who has been named
chairman of a subcommittee of the
seuate finance committee named to
consider two bills introduced by
Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa.
The other members of this group
are Senators Robert M. La Follette
Jr. of Wisconsin and Harry F. Byrd
of Virginia. The Gillette bills would
tax the profits from the resale of
farm land within two years of pur
chase of 90 per cent, with diminish
ing taxes on resales up to six years.
Public hearings have not been
held on these bills as yet and the
subcommittee has made no report.
A show of public interest in the mat
ter undoubtedly would get some
action.
Seabees Open Ice Cream Parlor
Destined for the scrap heap because many of its parts were worn out
and could not be replaced, an ice cream manufacturing unit of Guadal
canal was salvaged and put in order by a naval construction battalion
and now is turning out ice cream twice a week for Seabees and the
marine unit to which they are attached.
Pegging a Strike at a Jap Pillbox
Watch Skies
This photo was made as General
Eisenhower (arrow) was on an
inspection tour of an RAF bomber
wing, somewhere in England. With
him at the control tower are, top
left, Maj. Gen. L. H. Brereton,
USAAF; top right, air marshal Sir
Arthur Coningham; center left,
group captain C. R. Dunlap. The
general at lower left is unidentified.
Sewell Avery Family
A Jap pillbox has been located on Bougainville island, and Sergt.
Charles H. Wolverton of the 37 th division sticks out his tongue as he
takes aim before letting a grenade fly to its target. These are two of
the soldiers who beat back Jap counterattacks in the Empress Augusta
Bay area in Mareh, taking a toll of about 7,000 Jap dead.
Rail Key Loss Perils Honan Province
Two critical -situations face China as Jap drive along the Peiping-
Hankow railroad (1) has resulted in the taking of Chengchow by the
enemy (2), key points on the north-south line. As the map shows, Cheng
chow is on the northern rim of the Honan province, a great food-raising
area. From Chengchow the rail line cuts across Chinese territory (indi
cated by dark areas).
Sewell Avery, chairman of the
board of Montgomery Ward ft Co.,
Mrs. Avery, and their daughter,
Nancy, shown after the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the com
pany, in Chicago. The Ward plant
was seized under President Roose
velt’s orders.
Behind Firing Line
Prize-Winning Waste Paper Campaign Photo
The above picture won the national grand prize in the news picture
contest sponsored by the V. S. victory waste paper campaign. It was en
tered by John Mendicino of the Chicago Sun. Award was a $500 war bond
plus $200 war bond for first place in the East North-Central region. Prize
winners were announced by Linwood I. Noyes, president of the ANPA.
As if they didn’t have enough
shooting, these American doughboys
who came back from the front line
at Anzio beachhead for a rest, bang
away at targets on the rifle range,
somewhere in Italy.
Miss Pan-America, ’44
i By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
M ETRO’S going to do big
things the week of June
22nd, in celebration of the or
ganization’s twentieth birth
day. Their first big picture
was “The Big Parade”; their
thousandth, now being shown,
is “The White Cliffs,” starring
lovely Irene Dunne. During
anniversary week practically every
movie ’heater in the nation will show
some Metro picture—a short, a
newsreel or a feature. At the studio
there’ll be a ceremony honoring
those who have served the company
for 20 years. And a cqast-to-coast
broadcast will feature every star un
der contract to the studio. King
Vidor’s “America” and “Dragon
Seed,” with Katharine Hepburn, will
feature in the celebration.
—*—
Chili Williams, model now under
contract to RKO, is too popular for
the good of her bank account. One
photograph in k weekly magazine
CHILI WILLIAMS
brought her 40,000 requests from
servicemen for pin-up pictures.
Think what’ll happen after they see
her in “Having Wonderful Crime”!
*
When the temporary chairman of
the Republican national convention
calls the party delegates to order,
the National Broadcasting company
will have eompleted six months of
preparation; for the sixth time,
they’ll handle both the big political
conventions.
*
A program of real importance will
originate over about 500 radio sta
tions this month; it’s “The Life of
Premier and Field Marshal Jan C.
dmuts of South Africa.” The South
African Broadcasting corporation at
Johannesburg made a dramatization
in 13 episodes, and the discs were
flown to New York and there re
processed into master recordings.
The series begins with the discovery
of diamonds and gold in South Af
rica, tells the legendary exploits of
the famous field .marshal, ends with
the Union of South Africa as one of
the United Nations.
—*—
Relatives and friends in Wades-
boro, N. C., of Pvt. Rowland S. Pru
ett had heard nothing of him since
he was reported critically ill in an
I tab an -hospital-—until 'they heard his
voice when he spoke from Algiers on
the Allan Jones-Frankie Carle air
show. His wife and mother were
called out of prayer meeting by
friends in time to hear his last few
words on the broadcast, which later
was done over for them by the local
station.
*
Maybe K was because he was kid
naped at the age of three months, or
perhaps it’s because of his appear
ance in a mystery play when he was
three; Frank Readick doesn’t know,
but he’s been living a profitable life
of crime for some time. He played
the title role in “The Shadow” for
eight years; he’s the villain in “The
Crime Doctor,” “Gangbusters,”
“Mr. District Attorney,” and other
air shows, including “Portia Faces
Life.”
Lovely 19-year-old Virginia War-
len of Miami, Fla., bolds huge tro
phy presented to her, following her
selection as Miss Pan-America of
1944, at a contest held in Miami.
Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding
the army air forces, recently wrote
the president of Paramount express
ing his appreciation of the compa
ny’s wide distribution of “The Mem
phis Belle.” There’s a picture that
no one can afford to miss. It’s a
four-reel Technicolor documentary
film dealing with an American
bomber mission over Germany, and
“superb” and “thrilling” are much
too tame a description of it.
*
“Double or Nothing,” radio’s old
est quiz show, is working hand in
hand vith the movies these days.
John Reed King and Frank Forest
went to Colorado Springs for the
first showing of “Buffalo Bill”; right
after that, the quiz show went to
Philadelphia for the grand opening
of “Mark Twain.” Now all they need
is some more bigger and better
movies, with celebrities to appear
on their show.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—“Girl of the Lim-
berlost,” made once by RKO, once by Mon
ogram, will be remade by Columbia, star
ring Jeff Donnell. ... W. C. Fields has
been chosen pin-up man for Subchaser 1360,
novo in action against the enemy; seems
when everything goes wrong they gaze at
his picture and break out in laughter. . . .
Hollywood owners of trained shepherd
dogs have been taking them to RKO for
tests—one will play the second most im
portant, role in ~The I’unipkin Shell.” . , .
Don Ameche has been asked to serve on
President Roosevelt’s Committee for Ital
ian Relief.. .. Constance Moore’s baby cun
call Mrs. Cary Grant godmother.
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and other rheumatic pains. Caution:
Use only as directed. First bottle
purchase price back if not satisfied.
60c and $1.00. Today, buy C-2223.
DON'T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
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feel irritable, headachy, do at milliona
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chewing-gum lezative. Simply chew
FEEN-A-MINT before you go to bed;
taking only in accordance with package
directions — sleep without being dis
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relief, helping you feel swell again. Try
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and economical.A generous family supply
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A Bomber Reports
From the Dutch we get this re
port turned in by a Netherlands
pilot after he’d bombed a Japa
nese airstrip in occupied Nether
lands East Indies: “Beg to report
honorable airstrip has lost face.”
Mother says:
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Get PAZO Today! At Drugstores!
Use Indian Dialects
The army often uses Indian dia
lects for messages since the ene
my is unable to decipher them.
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