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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Let's Face Facts
Republicans Promise
Farmers Fair Share
J Of National Income
By BARROW LYONS
WNU Staff Corrttpondant
Barrow Lyons
WASHINGTON, D. C.
There is a plank in the Republican
agricultural platform that goes to
the heart of what the farmer wants.
It reads: “We propose ... an
American market price to the Amer
ican farmer and the protection of
such price by means of support
prices, commodity loans, or a com
bination thereof,
together with oth
er means as will
assure an income
to agriculture that
is fair and equita
ble in comparison
with labor, busi
ness and indus
try. We oppose
subsidies as a
substitute for fair
markets.”
One need re
flect on this only
a little to realize how far the farmer
and the Republican party has moved
from traditional moorings at the
post of the good old law of supply
and demand as the principle price
determinant. Although the plank
does not mention parity prices,
viewed in the light of this plank’s
history, parity price and parity in
come are implied.
It means that the organized farm
er realizes that to prosper, a way
must be found to control farm prices,
and that farm income must be held
in fair relation to the income of labor
and business. Of course, this means
that an equitable share should go
also to labor and to business. Obvi
ously, this calls for national machin
ery to determine what income actu
ally is going to the various segments
of society.
Congress is the only body in a po
sition to pass final judgment on
what is a fair share for each, al
though labor and business may raise
objections because about 74 per cent
of the congressmen come from rural
areas. Anyhow, if the implications
of this plank are squarely faced, it
holds promise both for the farmer
and for the city worker.
This plank does not sound as
though it had been written by any
interests that desire to purchase
farm products at low prices, such
as the millers or meat packers.
Governor Bourke B. Hickenlooper of
Iowa, who was the chairman of the
Republican agricultural subcommit
tee which drafted the farm planks,
assured me in a long interview in
Chicago that no pressure was
brought upon the committee by com
mercial interests to influence the
farm plank.
“The committee held regional
hearings in Chicago, Salt Lake City
and New York,” he said, “and no^
where was it approached by milling,
packing or railway interests—at
least to the best of my knowledge,
and I think I would know.”
This idea of protecting the farm
er’s share of national income prob
ably is typical of the rejuvenated Re
publican party. Superficially it does
not fit into the picture of the Repub
lican party as the party of the' great
industrial interests. It implies that
the share of the farmer has been
too small in the past, which can
only mean that the share of someone
else has been too great.
Stand on Labor
At the hearing held by the agri
cultural subcommittee it was clear
that the Grange and the Farmers
Union felt that the share of many
underpaid industrial workers had
not been too great. The American
Farm Bureau federation has not tak
en as generous a stand toward labor.
Certainly, the plank needs definition
and clarification in respect to some
of its implications. Governor Hick
enlooper said he believed industry
was beginning to accept the idea
that adequate income for the farmer
and industrial worker was good for
industry also.
Another extremely interesting
plank is that which declares for “ar
rangements which will enable farm
ers to make necessary adjustments
in production of any given basic
crop, only if domestic surpluses
should become abnormal and exceed
manageable proportions.”
Apparently there is a limit even to
the political concept of an economy
of abundance. It may be presumed
that one of the evidences of surpluses
becoming unmanageable would be
the tendency for market prices to
fall below support price.
, In other words, production is to
be controlled only when developtnent
of new uses for a commodity, gov
ernment purchases of surpluses and
commodity loans fail to do the job.
We hope those remedies never prove
to be too late to sustain farm in
come in “fair and equitable com
parison with labor, business and in
dustry.”
“Sound irrigation projects admin
istered as far as possible at state
and regional levels,” is included in
the last paragraph of the farm plat
form. This is an extremely con
troversial plank, and straddles a se
rious conflict. In the Central Valley
of California, where large corpora
tion farms have been highly devel
oped, the big farmers are anxious
to modify the operation of the Rec
lamation act, which makes it nec
essary for farms of more than 160
acres to dispose of the balance of
land above that amount, if they re
ceive water from the new project, „
Big Pull Behind Allied Push
Not far behind the Allied Fifth and Eighth armies who are poshing the
Germans out of Italy eome the hundreds of refugee families who are tak
ing the road back to their homes. This family is typical. Lacking trans
portation, the family uses its man (and woman) power to haul its worldly
possessions on a farm cart.
Drang Nach Osten in Reverse
The Red army’s drive to coincide with the Allied invasion of western
Europe has brought the Russians nearly 200 miles nearer to Berlin. The
map above shows how the Russians put the squeeze on strategic Minsk,
gateway to Warsaw and Berlin. All routes of escape, except dirt roads
through marshes and forests, fell into Russian hands.
Veterans at New Secret Base
Sergt. G. S. McCall of Augusta, Ga., meets two young Russian women
Soldiers at one of the new secret air bases in Russia being used by U. S.
planes for shuttle bombing. Both women are 21 years old and veterans
of the battles of Leningrad and Stalingrad. Several of these bases are
now being operated by U. S. air forces in Russia.
Rocket Ramp Abandoned by Nazis
American engineers are shown surveying a 700-foot steel and con
crete unfinished ramp in Normandy, which is believed to have been
planned for use by the Germans as a launching site for rocket bombs.
Assembly line of concrete mixers abandoned by the Nazis are in the
background. Not enough and too late was the story of this Nazi effort.
Chinese Wash Day
After a hard day in the field grow
ing food for Maj. Gen. Claire Chen-
nault’s air troops, Chinese farm
women wash thei v clothes in a small
stream, before getting night meal.
China is furnishing all food required
by the American aviators.
Tennis Stars Meet
Four world’s tennis stars partici
pated in tennis matches at Haver-
ford, Pa. Above, Alice Marble,
America’s No. 1 champion, and Mary
Hardwick, England’s No. 1 cham
pion, shake hands. Match was held
in interest of selling more war
bonds.
’Chute Doesn’t Open
When his ’chute didn’t open, a
paratrooper at Camp McArthur
grabbed at the chute of his buddy.
Both paratroopers hit ihe earth hard
but were not seriously injured in the
faU.
German War Youth
This “baby-faced” Nazi youth
captured by Allied armies at Cher
bourg, although only 16, is a finished
product of Nazi schooling and ideolo
gy and well taught in the art and sci
ence of war.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
T'HE coming All-American goH
•*- tournament at Tam O’Shanter U
Chicago promises to be one of th»
greatest sports spectacles of tht
year.
The world’s top-flight golfers will
shoot for a tournament purs<
amounting to $42,587.50 in war bondi
and stamps. That is sufficient in
centive to draw the best of the field.
Some of the top-ranking pros will b<
unable to leave their posts in th«
tervices, but as many as possible
srill be on hand for Mr. George >5.
Hay’s extravaganza.
Slated for August 21-27, the annua!
ilassic—Open, Amateur and Worn-
sn’s Open—will be played in accord
pith United States Golf associatioa
rules. The top prize for amateuri
of both sexes will be $100 in wax
stamps. May would be more than
pleased to increase that latter fig
ure for the simon pures, but the pow
ers that be of the association frown
upon such a procedure. So May do
cided to accept the edict.
IVorld Champion
The winner of the All-American
Open will be (somewhat gloriously)
acclaimed world champion golfer of
1944. He will receive $6,800 in war
bonds as first prize in the All-Ameri
can Open plus $6,662.50 in war bond*
JUG McSPADEN
as world champion—a total of $13,-
462.50, maturity value. That com
fortable little nest egg is the sll-
time record first prize.
“The world champion golfer of
1944” will have won that title in the
equivalent of a playoff, inasmuch as
the eontestants in the All-American
Open, last big tournament of 1944,
will include all winners of the year’s
major meets.
Other prizes in the Open will range
downward from $5,000 in war bonds
for second place to $1,000 for tenth
place and $331.25 for twentieth place.
Prizes in the Women’s Open will in
clude awards of $500, $400, $300 and
$200 in war bonds and many smalV
er prizes in war stamps.
1943 Winners
Last year’s All-American tourna
ments drew entrants frem 37 states
and set an all-time record for golf-
meet attendance with a thundering
herd of 67,000 spectators. Sales o!
war bonds and stamps at the tourna
ment totaled nearly a million dob
tars. Winners were Jug McSpaden
in the Open, Dale Morey in the Ama
teur and Patty Berg in the Women’s
Open. McSpaden, after tying with
Buek White at 282 for the Open lead,
won the playoff, ousting the defend-
ing double ehampion, Byron Nel
son, who won the tournament in 1941
and repeated in 1942, after a play-ofl
with Clayton Heafner.
It’s going to be a tough touma
ment. The winner will have earnec
his victory. The prizes awarded sc
lavishly by May, president of Tan
O’Shanter, are an ample guarantet
of a rugged field.
All three tournaments will be 72
holes medal play. Fields will bt
reduced to 24 in the Amateur, 24 h
the Women’s Open and 80 in th«
men’s open (plus ties) after 18-hol<
qualifying rounds to be played thi
first three days of the tournament
SPORTS SHORTS
fl. Bill McKechnie says he never ha.
bet a penny on a baseball game.
4L The Sacramento ball club i
owned by 210 stockholders, includ
ing laborers and street car conduc
tors, who bought shares in the clul
for $50.
4L Only 13 of the 72 players in th«
1943 opening day lineups answerec
the call in the Southern associ
ation’s 1944 opening games.
41. Pitchers Hal Newhouser, Diz^j
Trout and Walter Beck of the Detrfii
Tigers are three of the best p4>
players in the major leagues.
4L The sad state of the heavyweight
boxing situation is evidenced by th«
headlines given Lou Nova in som«
of the bigger cities.
C Post favorites in racing win abou
30 per cent of the time.
41. Manufacturers say that the bal
used by the major leagues this yea;
is from 8 to 10 feet “longer” that
the 1943 product.
41. Adam Walsh, new assistant foot
ball coach at Notre Dame, woi
four Maine championships and tiet
for three others in eight years a*
head coach at Bowdoin.
4L The football game betweei
Pennsylvania and Duke next
September 30 will be the first meet
ing in the history of the two uni
versities.
Indeed, Brotherly Love
fa a Wonderful Thing
The young window-cleaner was
rery much in love, and his sighing
Ind moodiness got on liis friend’s
nerves.
“For goodness’ sake, ask the girl
to marry you and settle the mat--
ter,” snapped Bill. “You. can’tj
keep yofar mind on your job while
you’re so unsettled."
Jim promised to propose that
bight and to tell Bill the result the
text day. The following morning
lim looked gloomier than everJ
“She said she was very sorry,
but she couldn’t dream of marry
ing a window - cleaner,” he
groaned. “She’s in love with an
other chap, but she’ll regard me
as a brother, and wants my broth
erly help. They’re going to elopa
tomorrow night, and I’m lending'
them my ladder!” /
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