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Washington, I). C.
FARMER PRICE VICTORY
Louis J. Taber, National Grange
president, and other farm leaders
didn’t come away empty-handed
from their conference with the Pres
ident on price control.
While he would not agree to their
proposal that wages be included in
the price control bill drafted by
Price Administrator Leon Hender
son, Roosevelt did make one impor
tant concession. He said he would
have no objection to a “parity aver
ages formula” being put in the bill
to limit the dumping of government
owned wheat and cotton when the
prices of these commodities threaten
to soar out of bounds.
' Under this formula, to insure
farmers an average parity price for
the full crop year, restrictions would
be placed on the amount of wheat
and cotton that could be sold. Also,
the dumping could not begin until
prices reach certain above-parity
levels, to be worked out by Hender
son and the department of agricul
ture.
Taber and his colleagues had to
do some fast talking to sell the Presi
dent on this plan. At first he seemed
in no mood to accept any changes
in the bill and told his callers that
if they had come to debate the ques
tion of controlling farm prices they
were wasting their time.
“We have simply got to head off
inflationary trends,” the President
declared grimly, “or face the worst
depression the country has ever
known after this emergency is over.”
The farm leaders finally won him
over to their plan with the assurance
that they would not oppose Hender
son’s system of selective price con
trols, providing the parity gains won
at this session were not lost.
Taber pointed out that though the
prices of wheat and esMon are now
only slightly below parity, and live
stock above it, farmers get only 43
per cent of the consumer’s dollar
spent for farm products, as against
CO per cent in 1917, when defense
production was geared to the peak
it has reached today.
• * •
NEW LABOR HEADACHE
Strikes are still a serious problem,
but the big labor headache currently
harrying defense chiefs is the com
plex and mounting difficulty of em
ployment dislocations.
Almost every day brings new re
ports of workers let out due to lack
of materials, forced curtailment of
production or other defense causes.
Official estimates of such dismissals
put the number at between one and
two million.
And the end is not in sight. Some
experts anticipate that in the auto
industry alone 200,000 workers will
lose their jobs.
Aware of the serious economic
consequences of such dislocations,
OPM heads are making strenuous
efforts to overcome them. So far
only partial answers have been
found.
Originally, OPM tried to handle
such dismissals by local absorption.
This worked all right in towns with
industries engaged in defense work.
They could use the displaced hands
and gladly took them on. But in
communities where this condition
did not exist, other solutions had to
be found.
Various methods have been used.
In some instances defense orders
have been granted to reopen shut
down plants. In other cases, where
conversion of a plant wasn’t pos
sible, an entire new defense plant
has been erected in town. In still
other instances, workers have been
given “retraining” instruction and
hioved to places where labor was
needed.
Defense chiefs count on Floyd Od
ium’s reorganized subcontracting
division to take up most of the slack
on defense dislocations.
Odium originally estimated it
would take two months to set up
administrative machinery, but OPM
chiefs are urging him to turn his
attention to getting subcontracts now
and rounding out his organization as
he goes along.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
The American Association for Eco
nomic Freedom has reprinted an ad
dress made more than 10 years ago
by Federal Judge Robert N. Wilkin
of Cleveland on “A New Social Or
der” in which he advocated a union
of the English-speaking countries to
resist the totalitarian aggressors.
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis,
soon to be drafted, is tackling what
he describes as “the biggest fight of
my career.” He has sent a circular
letter to every member of congress
asking them for help to raise a fund
for a movement to improve the eco
nomic condition of Negroes.
It isn’t advertised, but the army
now has a regular military air serv
ice across both the North and South
Atlantic, operating on schedule, just
as punctually as any commercial
airway in the U.S.A.
Good news for the troops eaten by
chiggers in the Louisiana maneu
vers; Denton Growl of Toledo had
just discovered a chemical which
will make them as scarce as Amer
ican heavy bombers.
Jesse Jones is angling to get John
Hertz, original king of the Yellow
Taxis in Chicago, appointed to the
Maritime commission
THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE
TURKEY
Dear Ma.—
I got your clipping about 200,000
jeeps two be released by Christmas
and you are no more anxious
about me being one of them than
I are. I wish I had helped out
more at home so I could claim
somebody was dependent on me
without laughing. I have checked
and double checked to see if I
couldn’t dig up some evidence of
what a help I was to you and pop
but I did not have no luck to
speak of.
* • ♦
All I could get down on paper
was these three cases:
1. —Once about three years ago
when pop was sick ten days I took
care of the furnace and chipped in
about $4 to help pay family expenses.
(This is subject to error. It may
have been $4.50, but I kept no pa
pers.)
2. In 1938 or 1939 I forget witch
when he was on a auto trip we had a
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the fritz just when
~ you and dad want
ed to hear some favorite program
and I fixed it for you. Also I went
to the delicatessen store for you a
couple of times when dad was two
tired.
♦ • ♦
I do not think this is enuff to get
the army to send me home as a
dependency case, so if you can think
of anything let me know and you
better make out a affedavits and
have it sworn by a notarery public
as the officers is very suspicious.
* * •
The paper says some units will
lose 30 per cent of their men through
releases but if all the boys in my
unit who are trying to get out are
successful min'* will lose at least 99
per cent. Otto Bixby’s folks have
dug up evidence that he is over 28
years old and that they put him
down as 26 because they lived two
years in Brooklyn witch don’t count.
* * *
Otto also says his family is suf
fering without him as his mother
can’t carry up —-m
also says his sis- \
ter has arthuritus | \
and can’t mow i J
the lawn, wash fvV- 1 JL ■ M
the flivver and do L— *
all the washing and ironing. Al
together his being away from home
leaves the family in a awful fix he
says.
• * *
Another boy in my outfit says he
is needed right away at home as
two new saloons have opened up
near his house and his old man is
less a help than ever. I am still
trying to get out on the ground I
am a hardship case and two new
things happened byway of evidence
this week. First I had two front
teeth pulled the same day that we
had steak for dinner. If that ain’t
a hardship 1 don’t know what is.
Next I am innoculated so many
times that to look at me you would
think woodpeckers had been work
ing all over me. And Nellie Peter
sen ain’t wrote me in over a hole
week all of witch makes me feel
more like a hardship case than ever.
* • *
Of coarse if I was married 1 could
get out of the army in the Christ
mas releases and I am now con
vinced that eaxdy marriage is a good
thing for every boy. Not that I wood
be such a heel as to get married to
dodge the draft, but I just wish I
had got married to a nice girl four
or five years ago when I had some
fine chances. If I had my life to live
over again I wood get married by
the time I was 18 and no later.
* * *
If I was anywhere near 28 I might
stand a show of getting out, but un
less you made a mistake in the
berth certifficates there is no hope
that way. Could you check up all
over again and be sure. I always
used to hate to think of being as
old as 28 or 30 but after a year in
a army no age seems so swell, in
fact with the world as cockeyed like
it is today I w r ould have no com
plaint if I was 50.
Well this will have to be all for
now and do not worry as I am beef
ing just because it feels good and
life in a army is not so bad when
you get used to it.
Love,
Oscar.
P. S.—l hear Mildred Donaldson
has moved back into our neighbor
hood. Do you know her address?
• •' *
ONE RESULT
Though “War Is Hell” one thing I
see:
It has taught us geography.
—Edna G. Groskin.
• * *
Due to priorities, drug stores will
have to cut by 15 to 25 per cent
many of the items they now carry,
it is predicted. Well, that’s okay
with us. We’re tired of dropping into
an apothecary shop for a pill and
coming out with a roll of linoleum, a
percolator, a wrist watch and t new
naintinp for thp hall hpHrnnrrv
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
Navy’s Muscle Man
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“put ’em up” to the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
Tunney (left) prescribes for the ! Swimming is a required part of
“bay window” acquired by a rookie ) the recruit’s training. This item on
sailor, who will soon become j the curriculum meets with unnni
“streamlined.” I mous approval.
VI>S AND DOWNS . . . It. Commdr. Tunney supervises one of the
exercises of his program here. Instructors are college trained physical
experts tvho will carry out the new program inaugurated by Tunney at
the various naval training stations.
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u/e, Tunney goes through all the exercises himself before asking his
charges to do them.
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Tunney watches Uncle Sam’s new sailors turn out, make up their
beds and put all their eear in order.
THIS matter of expecting even the
stronger football teams to win all
j of their games or most of their
games is a point all of joint—if a
point can have a joint. Even the
Yankees and Dodgers, good enough
to carry off a pair of pennants, won
only two-thirds of their starts, and
football should be judged in much
the same manner.
There are too many strong teams
in the field today for old grads to
keep expecting one victory after an
other. Many have now even reached
the point of tossing out teams that
happen to have lost a single game.
On this basis where would the
Dodgers have been last spring when
: even the Giants beat them three
straight to open the season? As Bob
Zuppke once said, “Out in that
Big Ten I can lose every game and
still look good.” And that might be
true.
Accidents, tough breaks, injuries
and other details can often make a
difference of two or three touch
downs in a game. The psycholog
, ical setup has wide ranges.
The main answer is that any team
playing a first-class schedule can
look back on a good season if it can
win a majority of its starts. Last
season, for example, Minnesota won
every game—yet Minnesota had the
closest possible calls against Michi
gan, Northwestern and Ohio State,
! with whom just a slender flop in luck
the other way might have brought
the gallant Gophers three setbacks.
That’s the way football is. One or
two breaks, especially in the passing
game, can raise an abnormal
amount of old-fashioned Cain. It has
been that way every season, and this
should be no exception.
The 6 Next Year Job
Messrs. MacPhail and Durocher
of Brooklyn’s Dodgers are not think
ing at the moment of any revenge
on the Yankees next fall. Their first
move will be to stall off the Cardinal
charge.
Sam Breadon and Branch Rickey
both believe that said Cardinals will
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be much harder to hold in check next
spring and summer with so many
: crack young pitchers on hand.
Against this Wyatt, Davis and Fitz
simmons of the Dodgers have a com
bined total of 107 years—or 108
years by 1942.
“You might also add that we can’t
be expected to have another such
run of terrible luck,” Rickey said.
“That will make a terrific differ
ence.”
The 1941 World series is now back
with the dust-gathering archives,
but they are still talking about Joe
Gordon, the Oregon Flash.
Gordon did something more than
bat .500 in the series and reach first
14 times in five games. He killed
infield drives that would have whis
tled safely throlgh Dodger de
fenses, and this makes a major dif
ference to any pitcher.
The Yankees slipped at least four
hits to the right of second that Gor
don would have been waiting for—
or at least would have handled with
out breaking his neck.
The Yankee star is remarkably
quick starting in either direction,
and he is even quicker with his
hands. As a freshman at Oregon he
was the most promising-looking
young football player the West coast
had seen in years, but abandoned
the gridiron for a diamond career.
Joe McCarthy wants none of his ath
-1 letes playing football.
Gordon has less tension on big
days than any other ball player in
the game. There is no situation
that can tighten him up. And the
game can’t show you a finer sports
man.
A Call for Help
“Now that the World series is
over,” writes a fan, “how about
j helping out a few of us duffers?
j Some time back you wrote some
thing about ‘live hands’ in golf. How
do you get live hands?”
Dead hands and dead wrists are
usually the result of leg and body
tension. This tension tightens up
both hands and wrists, and leaves
nothing left but a shoulder or a body
lunge.
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How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, 6 ronchitis
What Now?
“You should work hard and get
ahead.”
“I’ve got a head.”
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, with
Ease for Stomach, too
When constipation brings on acid in
digestion, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy
spells, gas. coated tongue, sour taste and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
“crying the blues” because your bowels
don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels,
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach in taking. For years,
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell’s
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and muscles
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation. And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this Icxative so com
fortable and easy on your stomach. Even
finicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
well’s Laxative Senna at your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too.
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