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HOG PRICES NOW 10 TIMES
THE 1900 AVERAGE FIGURE
A CALLER was reminiscing a bit
about his boyhood days around the
turn of the century. At that time he
was assisting his father, a hog and
grain buyer, in an Illinois town. On
one occasion the farmers had been
withholding their hogs in hopes of se
curing a better price. That increase
came suddenly. Hogs jumped to
$2.85 a hundred, up from $2.40. The
result was a flooded market As he
related the incident, it recalled to
me the statement of an Illinois farm
er friend, made to me last October.
He had some 400 hogs ready for
market when meat controls were
lifted. For those hogs he received
slightly more than $27 a hundred, or
about 10 times the average price
around 1900.
The two instances caused me
to look up a few figures that
might have effected the differ
ence in price. The first thing
that makes a price is demand.
In 1900 the nation had a popula
tion of 76,094,131. To feed that
" number we then had a total of
62,868,000 hogs. In 1933, when
we had 62,127,000 hogs, Henry
Wallace issued his death sen
tence for all the little pigs in his
effort to increase the price of
their parents. Two years later
we were down to a low of only
39,066,000 porkers. From that
low figure we climbed, under
stress of war necessities, to a
high of 83,852,000 in 1944.
Through government meat pro
duction control, high ration point
values to the consumer, a high
price for corn and the directed
regimentation of American
farms, (hat 1944 top was reduced
to 59,739,000 in 1946, when we
had a total population of 139,-
621,431 to feed. The population
had increased more than 75 per
cent since 1900, but the number
of hogs had increased less than
20 per cent during the same pe
riod. A part, at least, of that in
crease in price was occasioned
by a demand that could not be
met.
EXPENSIVE CORN
The price of’com was another fac
tor in upping the price of hogs. In
1900, 22 to 25 cents was considered
about tops. In 1945, $1.50 was about
an average price. As hog fattening
feed went up, hog prices soared with
the feed.
Still another factor, representing
a considerable item of increase, was
the difference in money values. In
1900 our dollars had a world stand
ard gold value, and our total stock
of dollars amounted to $2,366,220,000.
In 1945 our dollars were worth only
what they would buy—there was no
standard value—but we had a total
of about $48,000,000,000. A very con
siderable part of that difference, be
tween $2.85 in 1900 and $27 in 1945,
for hogs, as well as in the price of
com, was inflation. We had billions
more dollars, but each dollar bought
much less of both corn and hogs.
The farmer was not doing as well
as the prices seemed to indicate.
Govem>- ent regulation had not
made 1 im rich overnight.
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ARMY’S CIVILIAN WORKERS
SENATOR BYRD teUs us the
army has practically the same num
ber of civilian employees as it has
officers and men and WACs in uni
form. The WACs—they are In uni
form—do much of the stenographic
and secretarial work of the army
and a considerable portion of the
hospital nursing. Officers—in uni
form—are the executives of the
army at Washington and at the
widely distributed army stations.
Soldiers—in uniform—perform the
clerical work of the army from com
panies up to brigades and divisions.
Army supplies are largely provided
. from privately owned plants, not
from govemm*-nt-owned, civilian-
operated arsenals. Army organiza
tion usually has about two men—in
uniform—back of the lines to each
one actually carrying a gun. With
such conditions why should there be
more than a million civilian em
ployees for the army? What can
they find to do? It would seem that
some of these expensive civilian ad
juncts, costing an average of better
than $2,500 a year each,, could be
dispensed with without sacrificing
anything in our national defense. It
Is the man with a gun who protects
us.
• • •
SINCE PEARL HARBOR the cost
of living has increased more than
30 per cent; wages have increased
■bout 65 per cent; rents have in
creased less than two per cent. The
landlord seems entitled to some con
sideration.
Annual Army Day Observance
To Emphasize Peacetime Role
Nation Will Honor
Achievements at
Programs April 7
WNU Features.
Dedicated to “The Ameri
can Army in Peace,” Army
Day will be observed through
out the nation on April 7 with
parades, community celebra
tions and addresses by prom
inent army and civilian lead
ers.
The observance has been pro
claimed by President Truman and
by governors and mayors. The
army’s role in the observance, on
orders of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, will be keynoted to securing and
maintaining the peace.
In addition to the traditional Army
Day, the war department this year
will observe Army Week during the
period April 6 to 12.
Army day customarily is ob
served on April 6, anniversary of the
declaration of war in 1917. The ob
servance was postponed for a day
this year because Easter Sunday oc
curs on April 6.
Started in 1928.
Originally proposed by the Mili
tary Order of World Wars in 1928,
Army Day at that time had no gov
ernmental inspiration. From its be
ginning, however, the observance
received full and active support of
other veterans’ organizations as well
as civic groups. In 1937 the house
of representatives and senate, by
joint resolution, designated April 6
of each year as Army Day. Since
then it has expanded to a national
project and is observed on a major
scale annually.
As in the past. Army Day and
Army Week this year will call upon
the nation to honor the wartime
army in peacetime for a job well
done and to pay tribute to all serv-
HATS OFF! . . . The flag is passing by in an Army Day parade in the
nation’s capital. Scenes like this will be reenacted throughout the
nation April 7 on the annual observance of Army Day.
Icemen, those who survived as well
as those who fell on the battlefields
of all wars.
Parades Scheduled.
Throughout the nation. Army Day
will be marked by community cele
brations and parades. In communi
ties where army units are located,
uniformed troops will participate in
the parades and new army equip
ment will be displayed.
On the second observance of Army
Day since conclusion of the greatest
war the world has ever known, the
nation has come to recognize the
army as an instrument of national
security both in war and peace.
Army achievements, both military
and scientific, have played an instru
mental role in America’s advances
ever since its early days as a small
federation of newly independent
states.
In the fields of medicine, construc
tion, transportation, communicatior
and allied endeavors, army re
search and developments have aid
ed the nation's growth and wel
fare.
At Army Day celebrations added
recognition will be given the nation's
armed forces as peacetime instru
ments as well as wartime necessi
ties.
FBI SCOBES A6AIW
Science Proves Aid to Crime Detection
WNU Features.
Science has established it
self as one of the strong allies
of crime detection. Equipped
with more than a million dol
lars’ worth of scientific appa
ratus and staffed with spec-
cialists in various scientific
fields, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation crime detection
laboratory in Washington has
proven an increasingly potent
factor in detection and appre
hension of criminals through
out the nation.
Facilities of the modem scientific
crime detection laboratory are at
the command of every duly author
ized law enforcement agency
throughout the nation, both in large
cities and in small communities.
During the last fiscal year the vol
ume of work received from state and
municipal law enforcement agencies
increased 73.7 per cent over the pre
vious fiscal year.
Services of the FBI laboratory
have been expanded phenomenally
since its modest beginning in 1932.
In the early 1930s it became ap
parent to John Edgar Hoover, FBI
director, that his organization as
well as all local law enforcement
agencies needed the assistance of a
crime detection laboratory. This
need was given concrete expression
on November 24, 1932, by founding
of the FBI laboratory.
Solve Sheep Theft.
Indicative of the widespread use
being made of the laboratory’s fa
cilities is a recent case involving
theft of 270 sheep in Big Horn coun
ty, Montana.
Investigation had disclosed that a
suspect was selling a large number
of sheep whose wool bore evidence
of efforts to obliterate brand mark
ings. Specimens of the brand paint
remaining on the sheep wool and
samples of the brand paint, used by
the true owner of the sheep in mark
ing his animals, were forwarded to
the laboratory.
A spectrpgraphic examination
conducted by FBI technicians re
vealed the presence in all the sam
ples of Prussian blue paint, identi
cal in both color and texture. In
addition, it was found by checking
with the manufacturer that only one
shipment of this particular lot had
been made to Montana. After being
tried and found guilty, the accused
was fined and sentenced to serve
three years and four months for the
theft.
Another case in which findings
of the FBI laboratory aided lo
cal officers In their investigation
Involved a mule-riding thief in
a southern state who had pil
fered a number of articles from
a private home. Packing his
stolen goods on a mule belong
ing to the victim’s next door
neighbor, James Henry Brown
nonchalantly rode off. But when
the mule later was found aban
doned, someone remembered
seeing an individual who looked
like Brown riding it down the
railroad tracks.
Picked up by local officers, Brown
was held as a suspect while his
trousers, together with a sample ol
hair from the side of the mule, were
submitted to the FBI laboratory.
There, the mule gave Brown away.
Hair, bearing characteristics of the
equine family, was found on his
trousers and in his trousers cuffs.
When this hair and the hair from
the side of the stolen mule were
compared under the microscope, it
was determined that the two speci
mens strongly resembled each oth
er. When Brown was faced with
this evidence he confessed and later
was sentenced to a term in the state
penitentiary.
Adopt War Methods.
The knowledge acquired and tech
niques developed and perfected by
FBI laboratory technicians through
the war years in defeating espio
nage, sabotage and related wartime
cases are being adapted to postwar
crime problems. Kidnaping, bank
robbery, hijacking, murder, auto
theft, robbery and many other types
of crimes handled in prewar years
now are being afforded the latest
and most comprehensive attention in
the laboratory.
Many times findings of the-labora
tory experts will clear the name of
innocent individuals suspected of In
volvement in a case. A woman in
Wilmington, Ohio, when arrested for
issuing a worthless check, protest
ed that the store manager to whom
she had given the check agreed to
hold it. She stated she had writ
ten the words, "Hold this till I pay,"
on the face of the check. Submit
ted to the FBI laboratory, the
questioned check was examined un
der ultraviolet light and found to
contain this message. The case
against her was dismissed.
Whether it is a request for iden
tification of suspected bloodstains,
matching of hairs and bits of fibers,
classification of various body fluids,
handwriting, paint and soil compari
sons, bullet identifications, restora
tion of obliterated serial numbers
or any other type of examination,
technicians of the FBI laboratory
stand ready to offer reliable, scien
tific analysis.
NO CLUES OVERLOOKED . . . Science engages in painstaking and
exhaustive effort to aid crime detection, as indicated in this photo
showing experts at the FBI crime detection laboratory collecting dust
and debris from clothing for microscopic study.
Perfect Care for Insomnia—Eating Crackers in Bed
PEACE has been signed for, but
not delivered, in Italy and the Bal-
kan countries.
• • •
KIND words can produce
more smiles than bestowed
dollars.
• • •
IT IS MUCH EASIER to devise
plans for what we call social wel
fare than to provide the money t«
finance their operation.
• • •
TOO MUCH of either rain or sun
shine is not desirable.
CHICAGO. — Eating crackers in
bed is the “perfect cure” for insom
nia! That unconventional advice
emanates from J. P. Fanning, sleep
expert for National Association of
Bedding Manufacturers.
Your wife won’t like it. Fanning
admits in discussing his proposed
cure, but you’ll be too sleepy to hear
aer angry words. He also prescribes
four or five “good hot cups” of black
soffee to wash the crackers down.
Some other methods Fanning has
found effective in his years of try
ing to put the nation to sleep com
fortably include:
Watch goldfish swimming about
in their bowls for a few minutes be
fore retiring. They’ll bore you so
thoroughly you'll fall asleep the
minute you hit the bed.
Run several miles every night. If
that’s too much for you, just go
around the block at a slow trot.
Eat a head of lettuce to quiet your
nerves. Don’t try celery as a sub
stitute. It’s too noisy.
Drink a quart of beer. Or, if you
don’t like your malt mixed with ah
cohol, try munching malted milk
tablets.
Sip a cup of hot milk with a lump
of butter in it If that doesn’t work,
add black pepper.
Put an extra pillow under youi
feet or stomach.
PREPARE FOR INVASION . . . These ragged ex-servicemen again
are preparing for an invasion—bat this time of the bleach-heads in
stead of the beach-heads—as they study intricacies of coiffure design
technique at the Post-Graduate Hair Styling School of William in
Chicago. Eighty-five per cent of the students are ex-G.I.s.
OVER THE TOP
Ex-G.I.s Set for Invasion—
Of Bleach (Not Beach) Heads
WNU Features.
CHICAGO.—Curling irons and hair nets are supplanting
rifles and bayonets as peacetime equipment for a group of
burly, rugged veterans of World War II. Taking unusual ad
vantage of the G.I. Bill of Rights, these ex-G.I.s have enlisted
for peacetime training in the ultra-pacific field of coiffure de
sign at the Post-Graduate Hair Styling School of William.
William, internationally - known <S>-
Crop Yield Doubled
By Soil Treatment
Two Applications Have
Decided Advantages
Although the Corn Belt states pro
duce nearly 60 per cent of the na
tion’s food, crop yields in this area
average only about half of what
they could be if the soils were pro
vided with enough raw materials
such as lime and fertilizer elements,
according to Prof. Emil Truog, head
of the soils department of Univer
sity of Wiscohsin.
On most of the soils of the Corn
Belt, a heavy initial application of
fertilizer and lime is needed right
now to make up the deficit of avail
able nutrients in the soil, he de-
Thirty-six bushels per acre corn
yield shown at left. Heavier fer
tilizer application brought 70 bush
els per acre crop shown at right.
dared. This deficit, he said, always
has existed in the poorer soils
and has been created through ex
haustive cropping on many of the
better soils.
Truog pointed out that “heavy ap
plication of fertilizer” means in
many cases the use of four to five
tons of lime and the equivalent of
1,500 pounds of 0-20-20 fertilizer per
acre.
Tests in Wisconsin,' he added, have
proved the value of such heavy initial
soil treatments. Thereafter, main
tenance applications are made.
In following this system, half of
the fertilizer is applied and disked
in before plowing. The other half
is spread and disked in after plow
ing. Thus the whole plow layer is
uniformly treated from top to bot
tom, creating a much better con
dition for crop production than when
the fertilizer is applied in one dose
and not thoroughly incorporated
with the soil for five or six years
afterward.
Farm Milk Cart
This milk cart was fabricated of
channel iron, one-inch angle iron, a
length of % inch pipe and front
wheels from a lightweight car.
General method of construction of
framework is shown in above sketch.
Location of welds also is indicated.
Other shapes, if more readily avail
able, can be substituted for the one
shown.
Topping Vegetables
Saves Food Values
Root vegetables—carrots, turnips,
beets, parsnips, radishes—will be
fresher and have more food value
if you trim off their tops before stor
ing them in the refrigerator or vege
table bin. And they will take less
storage space.
Although the tops of these vege
tables make them appear more at
tractive in the grocery stores, off
with them, say plant scientists of
the department of agriculture, for
the tops draw nutrients and moisture
from the vegetable.
Plant scientists point out that
while the vegetable is growing in
the ground, the leaves or tops manu
facture sugar, starch, protein and
other foods which go down into the
roots for storage. But when the
vegetable is taken from the earth,
the situation is reversed and the tops
draw on the foods stored in the roots.
Young tender root vegetables will
keep better in the vegetable com
partment of the refrigerator than
in an open bin in the kitchen be
cause the warm air - soon dries and
wilts the vegetables.
Crops Grown Without
Soil Require Skill
Hydroponics or chemical farming
has been successfully carried out on
large and small scales, but only by
those who have a working knowl
edge of plant chemistry. Poorly
tended cultures—the iron, fertilizer
salts, nitrate of soda, potassium sul
fate, gypsum, epsom salts and other
elements—must be added to the
water to meet the plant’s need. It
should be started on a small scale,
as a hobby.
hair stylist, lecturer and author, is
the chief instructor of what has
been termed "America’s most ad
vanced and unusual school” for the
teaching of master coiffure design
technique.
Since establishment of the school
a few months ago, 85 per cent of the
classes have been comprised of ex-
servicemen eager to re-enter the
beauty field they deserted for the
battlefield, William reveals.
Following army precedent, the
training course has been stream
lined for completion in only four
weeks. In the basic courses of wet
hair shaping, dry hair shaping, pin
curling methods and artistic hair
combing, however, the ex-service
men find slight resemblance to rifle
practice, grenade launching or 15-
mile hikes.
One of the distinctive features of
William’s school is the use of live
models on which the ex-G.I.s prac
tice coiffure design artistry—alto
gether dissimilar to the straw-filled
dummies on which they practiced
rudiments of bayonet artistry.
In fact, any similarity between
the basic training course at the hair
styling school and the basic training
course at any army post is purely
accidental. But the tough ex-G.I.s
don’t seem to mind. They remem
ber how their army training pre
pared them for beachhead inva
sions. Now they don’t want to be
lacking in preparation for bleach-
head invasions.
Blind People Ask
To Be Considered
As Human Beings
WASHINGTON.—“The blind ask
no more than to be treated like hu
man beings,” insists Herbert Yan-
Vaes in a booklet, “V.’hat Do You
Know About Blindness?”
Contending that would-be benefac
tors often do more harm than good,
the author lists 10 rules for aiding
sightless persons:
1. Speak in a normal tone of voice;
a blind man is not deaf.
2. Don’t express sympathy for a
blind person within his hearing.
3. Use the word “blind” without
hesitation; it won’t offend him.
4. Don’t be over indulgent in help
ing a sightless person find a seat
In a vehicle or to climb stairs. Plac
ing his hand on a leading object is
enough.
5. In lending assistance when
walking or crossing an intersection,
offer your arm instead of grabbing
his. Proceed in a straight line if
possible.
6. When entering a room where
there is a blind person, say some
thing to herald your arrivaL The
same when you depart.
7. Address a blind person directly,
not through another individuaL
8. Avoid gushing over the usual
things which a blind person can do.
9. Refrain from talking about an
“extra sense” or “providential com
pensation.” •
10. Be natural and kind, but never
patronizing.
Tall Corn Grows
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF.—Not
all the tall corn grows in Iowa, Cali
fornia Polytechnic college students
have proved by growing stalks 17
feet high.
‘Honest’ Man Returns
Lost Money in Sports
JACKSON, MICH. — An honest
man found Curtis Roe’s billfold
containing $70—but his integrity
came in spurts. When Roe picked
up the billfold at a hotel desk after
he was informed it had been found
and turned in. it contained only $11.
Since then, however, Roe has re
ceived two envelopes from the un
identified finder. One of the envel
opes held $25 and the second $34.
AIRPORT CHATTER
Aviation committees of the Min
nesota state senate and house made
a good will trip on two navy R4Ds
with stops at Duluth and Bemidji
and a flight over the Iron Range to
demonstrate “how quickly an air
plane can show a visitor northern
Minnesota." Chairman A. R. John-
ason of the senate committee re
ported the group has voted $2,500,-
000 for airport development in the
next biennium. . . Members of the
Denver ski patrol conducted a
week-long drive seeking financial
support for their rescue facilities
and services at Colorado ski sites.
The patrol has 68 trained members
who cooperate with the Red Cross
and the air search and rescue arm
at the army’s Lowry field in rescue
activities. . . Michigan’s G.I. flight
training, commenced in February,
1946, has gained momentum until it
now is an accredited course in
seven of the state’s colleges. The
state now has 7,800 veterans in
training at 200 flight schools and
another 12,000 booked for spring.
With costs underwritten by the gov
ernment, school operators have
bought new planes, built new air
ports and installed the latest train
ing aids. . . Thousands of miles of
Arizona’s scenic grandeur are cov
ered in a series of five all-expense,
personally-escorted “Airtours” in
augurated by Arizona Airways, Inc.
Flights cover such picturesque
views of the Arizona wonderland as
Oak Creek canyon, San Francisco
peaks, Painted desert, Grand can
yon, Marble canyon, Lake Mead,
Las Vegas, Boulder dam, Navajo
Indian reserve and Brahma temple.
• • •
Equipped with a bundle of
knitting and a newspaper “to
entertain myself on the way
down,” Mrs. Lavada Ava Sneed,
42-year-old Denver grandmoth
er, stepped out of an airplane
4,000 feet above Denver’s Rus-
ton field on her first parachute
jump. Mrs. Sneed, who had
rigged 3,600 and changed har
ness on 11,000 parachutes while
engaged in wartime work for
the army, wanted “to see if
they really do work.” Her re
action: *T was as thrilled as
any little old country girl on a
picnic."
• • •
NEW MODEL . . . The new de
luxe Sllvaire model 8-E, which
has a cruising speed of 112 miles
per hour and a maximum speed
of more than 128 miles per hour,
is now in production at the Lus-
combe plant in Dallas, Tex. It is
a two-place, high wing, all-metal
monoplane.
• * * S
SET SHOW DATES
The second annual National Air
craft Show sponsored by Aircraft
Industries association will be held
in November. Several eastern cities
are under consideration as the loca
tion. Emphasis this year will be on
personal aircraft and accessories,
rather than an all-inclusive aircraft
exposition such as was staged at
Cleveland last November. Col. Tod
Bates, wartime commanding officer
of Luke field at Phoenix, Ariz., ha;
been selected by Aircraft Industries
association to head its show force.
Change Your Weight
For Beauty’s Sake
Try The Mirror Test
h\/IEET the wife, boys!” Wish
IV1 that were your husband
popping his buttons with pride?
Why not shed those extra pounds
now? You can diet your way to
beauty easily and pleasantly.
And you needn’t starve in the process,
either. You can achieve a lithe, trim
figure eating three satisfying meals a day
—even desserts—if you know which foods
to choose.
* * *
You’ll find dozens of helpful hints and
recipes, a 14-day diet, and complete cal
orie charts in our booklet, “Change Your
Weight for Beauty’s Sake.” Send 25 cents
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1. What is the shortest air mail
route in the United States?
2. What is the difference between
mendacity and mendicity?
3. What does the letter C before
a date mean?
4. What are the smallest postage
stamps in the world?
5. How Ipng have the Carlsbad
caverns been in existence?.
6. What is a sea drum?
7. How old must one be to be
eligible for the presidency of the
U. S.?
8. How many Rhodes scholar
ships were awarded to outstanding
U. S. students last year?
The Answer*
1. Route No. 2001, between Cam
den and Philadelphia, a distance
of only 6 miles.
2. Mendacity means lying, de
ceiving ; mendicity means the prac
tice of begging.
3. Circa (about).
4. Those issued in 1863 by Boli
var, now part of Colombia. They
are one-fifth of a square inch in
size.
5. An estimated 60 million years.
6. A fish which makes a drum
ming noise.
7. Thirty-five years or older.
8. Forty-eight, the highest in his
tory; 32 was the previous high.
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