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Everyone Loves Singing
Cowboy Songs at Parties
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Songbook Starts the Fun Going
A GOOD old cowboy songfest to
make everyone friendly! Unit
ed round the songbook, bashful
guests are soon roaring “HIDIN’
DOWN THAT OLD TEXAS
TRAIL’’ with great relish.
“Oh my darlin’ stay at home
Please don’t go on the roam
Don’t be ridin’ down that old
Texas trail!”
If you know any better way of
having fun, we have to be shown!
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Regulation of Farm Prices
Proves to Be Tough Job
‘Parity’ Is Goal of Agriculture Department;
Uncle Sam Is Busy Figuring Out
His Current Family Budget. Bl
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
“Runaway horse!”
It’s a long time since I’ve heard
that cry that used to bring boys out
of the barber shop and the livery
stable on Main Street and send the
buggies to hugging the curb. Then
down the street he’d come, head-up,
wild-eyed, mane flying, the driver
hat off, jaw set, feet against the
dash-board and the wagon bouncing
on one wheel.
Well, you may hear that cry again
soon for there’s a nervous animal
with bit in its teeth right now that
has some of the folks in the depart
ment of agriculture pretty worried.
Its name is “farm prices” and it
has been pretty skittish of late.
By the time this appears in print
Uncle Sam may have a curb in its
mouth.
I talked with the government s of
ficial wild-horse tamer, Leon Hen
derson (administrator of the
OPACS, Office of Price Administra
tion and Civilian Supply) this morn
ing and right now he is inclined to
let farm prices have their head and
see if the farmer himself cannot
keep them in control until they ad
just themselves to parity.
Legislative Teeth.
If he can’t Mr. Henderson will
take a hand and the way things
look now congress will probably
give the OPACS legislative teeth. If
that has not happened by the time
you read this, put it down in your
book that it is coming: a law that
will mean fine or jail for the people
who do boost prices beyond any
figure the OPACS sets.
Right now all the department of
agriculture is doing is begging,
pleading, imploring that the farmer
keep his shirt on.
“Don’t set your sites any higher
than parity!” is the message an
official asked me to carry to you.
“You are going to get parity,” he
added, “with conservation payments
plus the 85 per cent parity law. And
for heaven’s sake don’t go into an
orgy of land-buying the way you did
in 1917 for if you do the old cycle
will be here again: inflation, defla
tion and disaster!
“Os course part of the trouble
which the farmer hasn’t anything to
do with, is caused by the specula
tors,” he said. “Since speculation
in wheat and corn futures is now re
duced to a minimum the idle hands
of the produce gamblers have found
other work to do. They have turned,
to cite one example, to the humble
soy bean, now $1.40 a bushel. If
you go to Chicago and look at the
Exchange you’ll find more brokers
crowded into the little bean pit than
there are in the corn pit.
Supply and Demand.
“Shortage of ships, and high ship
ping rates are legitimate reasons
for the increase in soy bean values
because the supply of fats and oils
which we have to import is reduced.
But the farmer can help in this case
for the department of agriculture
has taken off the restriction on rais
ing soy beans for sale instead of
plowing the unripened plants under
for conservation purposes. Harvest
the beans. Supply will ease the de
mand pressure and help keep the
prices normal.”
That supply-and-demand factor is
one reason why Leon Henderson has
not been so concerned over the farm
price situation. The threat of Cur
tailed supply in farm products does
not compare with the threat of cur
tailed supply in other lines, like
aluminum, copper and other essen
tials for defense.
Henderson lists the reasons for
general price rises this way:
1. Ocean freight rates—that ap
plies to coffee, cocoa, shellac, rub
ber and a lot of other things we
don’t grow in this country.
2. Wage rates. Even if they are
not always a genuine cause for
boosting prices they are excellent
excuses.
3. Pressure to get food for Brit
ain. Incidentally this has caused
cheese prices to go up because a
lot of cheese is being hoarded for
higher prices. It is one of the chief
needs of Great Britain.
4. Then, the thing we have men
tioned before, the extraordinary in
crease of money in the wage-earn
er’s pockets due to re-employment.
I asked Henderson what the big
gest obstacle to keeping prices down
was and his answer reminded me
BRIEFS • • • by Baukhage
<[ There are 30,000 buttons cm the
pants of each graduating class of
Flying Cadets. The holes in the
buttonholes would provide the cen
ters of enough doughnuts to feed the
class for a week.
<L Men in the army eat better than
they do in civilian life, according
to the government dieticians. They
also grouse more about their food,
according to the army cooks.
that he started out with the New
Deal in the NRA. His answer was
“chiseling.”
It was harder, he told me, to con
trol prices in a field where there
are a great many different concerns
in the industry. The majority might
agree but the chiselers would start
edging up prices and the rest would
follow in self-defense.
Greed. That is what is back of
most of the trouble of human society
—not to mention animal society. If
you try to get all there is in the
dish by pushing everybody else
away you may knock it over and
get nothing.
Don’t let that horse get its head
or there’ll be a runaway!
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Your Uncle Sam
Figures His Budget
This is the time of the fiscal year
when Uncle Sam sits down and fig
ures out his family budget. If he
did it by the calendar year instead
of every first of July it would have
been easier because he has planned
a lot of new expenditures since Jan
uary.
Harold D. Smith, director of the
bureau of the budget, handed your
Uncle a piece of paper with this
written on it:
Army 20
Navy 14
Other agencies 2
Lend Lease 7
43
Forty-three! Not such a big fig
ure except that Mr. Smith left off
nine ciphers from force of habit.
Forty-three billions are the appro
priations, authorizations and pend
ing recommendations of expenses
for the government for the fiscal
year beginning on July 1. Not all
of the things undertaken during this
time will be completed in the com
ing fiscal year, but it is estimated
that $22,169,000,000 will be the year’s
actual expenditures.
Another figure which Uncle Sam is
gazing upon hopefully is $9,402,000,-
000. That’s the amount that Uncle
Sam expects to collect from the fam
ily—in other words the income from
the taxation and borrowing. Secre
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau
thought earlier in the year that two
thirds of this figure would be met
through taxes and the other third
through borrowing. But with in
creased defense expenditures chang
ing the picture he is no longer sure
of this distribution of the source of
income.
And then comes the last figure—
sl2,B67,ooo,ooo. But why bother?
That’s only the expected deficit for
the coming fiscal year.
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Farm Labor Problem
Vexes U. S. Agencies
Farm labor is still a problem that
is vexing government agencies as
well as the farmer.
Pressure is being brought on the
selective service system to allow
some of the boys already inducted
into the army to return home to help
with the harvest. I asked selective
service officials if any steps had
been taken in this direction. But
they told me that so far the figures
seem to indicate that it is not the
army that has robbed the farm —it
is the defense industries.
“In agricultural areas,” a defense
official has just told me, “where
seasonal demands create a serious
situation induction may be delayed
60 days. And if congress feels, the
same as it seems to at this writing,
nobody 28 years of age and over
will be called.”
That suits the selective service
system —they predict that they can
get all of the 800,000 men they need.
Although from the first they have
felt that men 28 and over should be
deferred by statute, they do not
want these men removed entirely
from the lists.
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Other Labor Trouble
The farm is not the only place in
America where labor shortage is
evident. Here in Washington the
telegraph companies are having
trouble getting messenger boys, and
both the biological survey and the
forest service are complaining that
they cannot get the help from the
CCC they used to. The CCC boys, of
course, get jobs in factories that
pay them a lot better than the S3O
a month they get in the camps
<L Now that we are cultivating the
friendship and consuming some of
the products of Latin America, re
member that a Spanish onion a day
won’t keep a neighbor away.
C I am informed that the highest
observatory in the United States is
on Mount Evans, Colo. But a lot
more earnest public observation is
going on at sea level now the bath
ing season is here.
THE BULLETIN
WgE^SCREEIEwIO?
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
IT’S characteristic of Metro
that “The Yearling” was
abandoned, after all the money
that had been spent on the two
million-dollar vehicle for Spen
cer Tracy. Some studios —we
won’t name them—would have
gone ahead and shoved it through,
and then tried by ballyhoo to con-
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Spencer Tracy
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Appearing in an Orson Welles pro
duction seems to bring actors more
luck than rubbing dozens of rabbits’
feet. Five of the players in Welles’
superb “Citizen Kane” have picked
up RKO contracts, and now Anne
Burr, leading lady of Welles’ Broad
way play, “Native Son,” has signed
with the same studio. She was a
fashion model for eight months, an
extra in “Quiet City,” then did radio
work and a year ago played in stock.
—& —
Samuel Goldwyn feels that Gary
Cooper, after “Sergeant York” and
“Meet John Doe,”
has been serious
long enough. So
he’s slating the tall
star for a comedy
role in a story about
a college professor
and a burlesque
showgirl. It will be
the second of the
Goldwyn produc
tions to be released
by RKO Radio. The
first will be' “The
Little Foxes,” with
Bette Davis—it should be one of
her best. The third will be another
Gary Cooper production, “The Sing
ing and the Gold,” a story of the
original Dutch settlers on the Hud
son.
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For the first time in her career
Claire Trevor will appear under the
banner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
She has the second romantic lead
to Lana Turner in “Honky Tonk,”
in which Clark Gable is to be
starred.
—
Harpo Marx, who has just finished
“The Big Store,” with his brothers,
is planning a nation-wide tour of
army camps. That should be good
news for the men at many of the
camps, who bewail the fact that
their only diversion is Grade B
movies, old ones, the best that they
can find at near-by towns.
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Recently when Carole Lombard
had to rehearse a radio sketch,
Clark Gable drove to the studio to
take her home. Autograph seekers
besieged her, but they missed him.
He was sitting 10 feet away in a
station wagon, and had been for
half an hour —with a two-day growth
of beard, and dressed" in the old
work clothes he’d been wearing on
his ranch.
—
Louisiana seems to be a favorite
setting for the movies right now.
The revamped “Sunny,” in which
Anna Naegle stars, offers mild en
tertainment with that background.
Paramount is getting “Louisiana
Purchase” under way by rounding
up Hollywood’s 12 most beautiful
girls for the screen version of the
highly successful musical. The
same studio announces that Ellen
Drew and Robert Preston, who were
teamed in “The Night of January
16th,” will be paired again in
“Mardi Gras Murder.”
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Mickey Rooney and Sidney Miller
roll a piano onto the set when they
begin a new film together and start
writing a song. They’ve done six
pictures so far, and written and had
published five songs. Now they’re
at it again.
* —
The new two-violin arrangements
Fred Waring is featuring are plot
ted by Eric Siday, who studied to
be a concert violinist and won an
award as the best amateur violinist
in England. Swing enthusiasts rave
about them, as played by Siday and
Feme. But Siday’d rather have ap
preciation for his skill at table ten
nis—he’s an expert at it.
* —
ODDS AND ENDS—That recent appear
ance of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt’s on Bess
Johnson’s radio program, “The Story of
Bess Johnson,” aroused such interest that
the First Lady may play a repeal per
formance . . . The new Dr. Kildare film
will be called “Mary Names the Day” . . .
Craig Wood, winner of the 1941 U. S.
Open Golf championship, will be featured
in an RKO Pathe Sportscope . . . Kay
Kayser will play a Shakespearean ham
actor in his next picture .. . Seems Greer
Garson’s hair is “Florentine red”—see for
yourself in the technicolor “Blossoms in
the Dust”... Don’t miss Abbott and Cos.
MUO in “In the Navy” if you like to laugh
vince the public
that it was all it
ought to be. It’s
said that $500,000
had been spent on
the production be
fore it was called
off for the time be
ing. Maybe it will
really be made
“next year,” may
be it won’t. But if
it is to be produced
then, it’ll be done as
well as it can be.
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“I have found the meanest man
at last.”
“Why, what did he do?”
“He’s deaf—and he never told
his barber!”
Time is money, they say. Bnt
burglars prefer cash.
Quick Shift
On his way to work, he stopped
and turned against the wind to
light his pipe.
He walked on, and soon, some
what to his surprise, found he was
home again.
“My!” he exclaimed, knocking
out his pipe, “this day went fast.”
Up to Her
(Lady (after operation)—Oh, doctor,
Will the scar show?
Doctor —Not if you are careful.
Same Effect
“I could die dancing with you.”
“It’s about to kill me, too.”
Recalling His Own
“I think we met at this restau
rant last month. Your hat seems
very familiar.”
“But I didn’t hava it last
month.”
“No; but I did.”
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While New York has the tallest
buildings in the world, that city has
no monopoly of skyscrapers. The
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land has 52 stories and towers to
a height of 708 feet, which is only
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The chief ingredient of a good
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