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{ DAILY MEDITATIONS
| Blessed is the man who
! walketh not in the counsel of
\ the ungodly, nor standeth in
! the way of sinners, nor sitteth
in the seat of the scornful.
T But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in
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Korean War Scare Makes
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Farm Policies Uncertain
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—Korean war scare has
thrown a lot of uncertainty into the outlook for U,
S, farm policies and consumers’ food. Chairman
Harold D. Cooley of House Agriculture Committee
has scheduled new hearings on price supports and
farm surpluses, Department of Agriculture officials
will be principal witnesses. They are expected to
review situation in light of recent developments,
In the background, one reason for the hearings is
that some Democratic congressmen want to get off
the hook on the Brannan plan. They would like to
get the Truman administration to lay it aside, at
least for duration of the present emergency, or pro
duce a substitute.
Farm Bureau Federation spokesnren will testify
that the present farm program is all right as it is,
to produce what's needed for war. So let it alone
and give it a chance,
Lift That Bale—Tote Those PFaxes
Sharp rise in cotton prices will save government
a lot of money, or at least prevent losses from run
ning so high, Commodity Credit Corporation had a
lot of money tied up in'loans on about 3,000,000
bales of cotton, Growers have now redeemed loans
on about 2,000,000 bales, to sell at present high
prices, :
Prior to 1938, CCC could sell cotton and keep
profit if market advanced. Then law was changed
so that government has to bear whatever losses are
incurred, while all profits are held for the growers’
account. This is just another of the slick legislative
tricks which prevent taxpayers fronr ever getting a
break. X
Sheep Shortage No Cheap Shortage
Where U, S, consumers will feel the pinch worst
is on agricultural commodities which depend heav=-
ily on imports to meet American demand. U. S. po
sition on wool, for instance, is bad. CCC stocks built
up during the war have been allowed to decline.
U. 8. sheep numbers have declined and the Ameri
can clip is low, U. S. stocks are now under 200,000,~
000 pounds, Russians have been buying heavily in
Australian wool market, Recent wool gloyl advan
«-ces announced by American mills indicate what's
ahead,
51 Will Be Sweeter
SUGAR. Worries over what looked like a world
surplus are rapidly disappearing. Department of
Agriculture hag just increased U, S. quota for the
year from 7,500,000 to 7,850,000 tons. This is in line
with increased Amrerican consumption during first
half of year, There is no shortage, Department of
Agriculture experts insist. There is no need for
hoarding. -
Easier Swallowing Coffee Than Cost ‘
COFFEE. Don't expect prices to come down for
some time. Department of Agriculture estimates
total exportable world supplies at 30,000,000 bags,
as against 31,860,000 bags a year ago. Visible stocks
were 6,000,000 bags on June 1, as against 7,500,000
a year ago.
What coffee men mean when they say there is no
shortage is that supplies will be available, if buyers
are willing to pay the price.
: Cocoa Nuts When It Comes to Prices
COCQA. Price has jumped all over the market,
driving candy makers crazy. Prewar price was 10
cents a pound, OPA ceiling was 19 cents. Price
jumped to 80 gents in 1947, dropped to 19 cents in
1949, is now around 32 cents. Where price will level
off, nobody knows until supply and demand are
stabilized. .
Little Pepper o Salt Away
PEPPER. There is still a world shortage. OPA
ceiling was nine cents a pound, but U, S. had ac
cunrulated a stockpile of several years supply. That
is long since gone, Since the war, prices have gone
ag high as $2 for white pepper, $1.40 for black.
Prices broke in June, apparently under a belief
that Indonesian supplies were again becoming am
pla. While Netherlands East Indies were out of pro
duction, India became a big pepper producer. But
gupplies are-still uncertain and fluctuating. prices
vefiect the shortage.
Lots of Grease—ls Peace
FATS AND OILS, The situation is analyzed by
Department of Agriculture as no over-supply, no
lh_ortuc, more than enough when it is remembered
that this is the end of one season, the beginning of
| @ new erop year. Export demand will be less than
| Ilast year, leaving larger supplies for the domestic
| mariket. A bumper crop of soybeans will make up
| ang deficlenoy in sottonseed oil, But since glycerine
for ammunition nranufacture requires a lot of
grease, & big war effort could produce a tight situa
tion on fata and olls supply. '
Butter Both Sides
‘, BUTTER. There are 182,000,000 pounds in storage,
an increase of 80,000,000 pounds over a year ago, so
there is ne shortage there. Margarine supplies are
{'h . (w in Column Eight.) :
Truman Preparedness Program
Is First Step in a Larger Plan
From President Truman’s preparedness proposals
to Congress it's evident we are planning to garri
son the U, S. and the free world against far wider
dangers than war in Korea. He wants sharply higher
taxes, a whopping $10,000,000,000 more for our own
defense, and more money to arm friendly nations
abroad (estimates on this run up to $5,000,000,000).
1f it actually comes to that, it will be a stiff dose.
And with it gay go rationing and price control in
the event the new program drives prices steeply up
ward,
Yet there's no help for it. These demands should
have been made a long time ago. They amount to
belated = adnrinistration recognition that you can’t
match a toothpick against a telephone pole.
For many months Mr, Truman clung to a decision
not to let defense grow so big as to interfere with
“life as usual” in this country. During this period
Louis Johnson, his defense secretary, repeatedly
asserted we could successfully counter Russian ag
gression should the need arise, The Korean war
demonstrates forcefully the irresponsibility of those
claims.
Now, under the shock of Soviet action, we seem
to be waking up. A {few extra billions might be
enough to win in Korea. The President’s plans for
perhaps $15,000,000,000 additional money show we
are at last thinking in the big terms the situation
requires.
Mr. Truman’s more immediate requests, plus
action taken where new laws aren’t needed, are log
ical parts of the basic deternrination to get this
country on a really sound security footing while
there is still time,
It was obviously necessary to give Johnson power
to call up reservists and National Guardsmen as the
military outlook dictates. The bid for removal of
existing limits on the size of the armed forces (2,-
005,000) fits into the same bracket.
Curbs on consumer credit, priorities and alloca
tions for vital raw materials, devices to block indus
trial inventory hoarding, loans to stimulate defense
output, all these are inevitable steps on the path
toward industrial mobilization, .
As far as they go, the proposals are satisfactory,
But the President should have in mock-up form all
the legislation he would need for complete mobil
ization, If a big war came, we'd be badly strapped
without plans ready for instant use. ;
On the whole the President’s program is a defi
nite stride toward acceptance of the fact that the
United States is engaged in the most punishing con
test for survival we have ever faced—the two world
wars excepted. Let’s hope it guides the people to
greater awareness of the danger,
Douglas Really Means It
Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois is engaged in his
annual effort to save the country some money. As
usual, he isn’t: getting anywhere.
Except, of course, that he’s proving once mere
that the lawmakers who shout so loud for economy
don't really mean it.
Douglas does mean it. He doesn’t stop with wild
flailings of the arms and vague exhortations to save,
When, as now, a big appropriation bill hits the
Senate floor, Douglas marches in loaded with facts
and figures. Item by itenr he shows where reduc
tions can be made, and gives reasons why.
For this embarrassing persistence, Douglas is not
rewarded either by success or the love of his fellow
senators, But he is honored by people outside who
welcome his display of energy and integrity. And
some day, if the embarrassment gets heavy enough,
his gadily tactics may really pay off.
Population is growing and the nation’s produc
tivity is growigpg, too. The outlock is good. — Leon
Keyserling, President Truman’s top economic ad
viser,
Properly generated and effectively expressed, the
moral power of more than 630,000,000 people united
for peace can tip the scales , . . against war and in
favor of peace.—General Carlos P, Ronrulo, on peo
ples of free Asiatic nations.
We are as sure as ever can be in this uncertain
world that we have a good, clean, loyal outfit.—
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, .
As a nation, we need have no fears so long as the
actions of those residing within our shores are
“open and above board.”—Fßl Director J. Edgar
Hoover.
1t is high time Socialists stopped nagging the
Americans and denouncing them as capitalists.—
British }.abor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips.
There is not a shred of actual evidence that big
ness has been an evil force either economically or
socially, ~ President Charles Wilson of General
Electric. .
Those who claim that competition does not exist
between giant firms do not know what they are
talking about.—Commerce Secretary Charles Saw
yer.
Midwest business looks good throughout 1950
with signs pointing for its continuance into 1951.—
President Harold Berry of Hotpoint, Inc.
Emplcyment appears to have been stabilized.—
President Charles Dabney, ir., of Champion Paper
and Fiber Company.
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“It's A Hard War To Get To"
By HAL BOYLE -
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea —(AP)— Get
ting to the Korean battlefront is
as hard as buying ten quick tickets
to a hit Broadway play. ;
It is that popular. You have to
stand in line to get here.
Just why this is true I don’t
know. The people I have met so
far seem to fall into three classes,
none of which you would think
would be interested in fighting.
1. There are the old line Army
officers who have been through
two world wars and could retire—
but they are still eager beavers in
the service. They refuse to retire
while the guns are still firing.
-2, There are the brave boys be
low voting age who should have a
lifetime of peace and education to
look forward to — and yet they
willingly put their bright future
on the altar of patriotism.
3. There are young married men
with children to raise. Wouldn’t
you think they would say “my
family first, my country after
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ward?” But somehow they don't,
bitter as the decision is. .
Buck People
To get to Korea you have to
buck people from all three of
these classes who want to get
there ahead of you. There is a
backlog all along the line and it is
a kind of privilege to make the
trip over.
To tell the truth, I didn’t feel
much that way myself at first. I
thought it didn’t make any real
difference to me whether T rome
ofe week or the next. I know
enough about war to realize that it
always goes on longer than it is
expected to.
But it only took Don White
head, an old buddy from the Sec
ond World War, and myself about
49 hours to fly from New York to
Tokyo. Then, after getting our
gear and credentials, we were
stymied for 72 hours going from
Tokyo to Korea because of a ty
phoon,
That seems to me something our
people at home don’t realize—how
much a part the weather plays in
this war and how cleverly the
North Koreans timed their at
tack to get the benefit of the
rainy season.
You can fly 8,000 miles to Tok
yo in two days and then be held
up three or four days getting 800
miles from there to Korea.
Delayed By Wind
It isn’t of historic importance,
of course, that a couple of corres
ponderts were delayed three days
by a big wind from getting to their
assignment. But it is important
that for much of that time the
ground forces in Korea didn’t get
the full air support they so des
perately needed.
The plane we finally got off on
carried people of the three classes
I mentioned earlier—the boys, the
young men with families, and the
older men with eagles or silver
maple leaves on their shoulders
who won’t leave a fire while the
flames are showing.
Berause of further bad weather
and a low priority I was among a
group that was bumped from the
plane and lost an extra day on the
way. So did some of the . boys
and the young men with families.
The older brass got through,
probably for a good reason-—they
were more important,
But everyone who was held over
resented it. Sc¢ did most of the
guys who had spent as much as
ten days at that forward airbase
in Japan trying to get over. It is
a standing room only situation.
Why? I think it is because of the
magnifiéent stand made by the
lone 24th Infantry Division which
for weeks stood by itself for
America. The United States is a
funny country. Like England it
doesn’t dissolve in time of trouble.
It pulls together. Danger knits
us more than prosperity.
That is why so many today want
to pay the debt of honor we feel
we owe the so-called green kids
who held as best they could with
the little they had for the nation
that is now going to give so im
mgeasurably more to win.
A New York experiment showed
that the amount of soil lost on a
20 per cent slope seeded to a con
tinuous corn crop was over 300
times greater than on a slope pro
tected by grass.
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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1950,
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on margaine should reduce con).‘
sumption of butter. Vegetalo
eooklngoiharealsohmd.up_
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SOAP FATS. There are more
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and the price is low, There are I],
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oil. Increased use of detergents ..
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synthetics,
PAINT OILS, Linseed oil s,
plies are tremendous. There :
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last two years, and a big new cio,
is in prospect for this year,
A Cool 2,967,000,000 Pounds
COLD STORAGE STOCKS., 1,
coolers are 1,340,000,000 pounds of
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627,000,006 pounds., The total of
2,967,000,000 pounds is over 40 -
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ago. Much of the increase is qye
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and fruit juices. But meat storage
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Let ’Em Eat Cave (Food)
The surpluses of government
eggs, butter, dried milk and other
poultry and dairy products in colq
storage and in that cave in Kan
{sas could be rapidly absorbed. in
event of a full-scale war, without
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