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U. S. Acts to Encourage
South American Market |
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Endeavor to Prevent German Trade Foothold;
Famous Men Mingle in Washington;
Railroaders Neglect Annuities. W 3
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—The other day
rumors began to spread around the
capital that the United States had
declared a war that nobody knew
anything about—a war marked “pri
vate and confidential,” the kind that
nobody must talk about.
So everybody talked about it. At
cocktail parties, in the Press club,
in the corridors of the solemn build
ings with the “dtosed doors.” You
have heard of them—the closed
doors behind which all the real
things happen that are not supposed
to.
Finally, since this was a highly
private and confidential matter it
soon got into the papers, labeled
“economic war.” Immediately the
idea was roundly denied, dispar
aged, and generally abused.
So I started out to try to locate
it. There was smoke. Where was
the fire?
Since economic warfare is dollar
■warfare, I went to see the man who
has a whole arsenal full of dollars
which could be used as ammunition
in such a battle, namely, Jesse
Jones, federal loan administrator
and secretary of commerce.
I found him in his office. The
tall, good-natured, hard-working
Texas multi-millionaire was friend
ly, helpful, sympathetic, as he al
ways is. But what he did not say
about economic warfare would have
filled a volume.
Visits Leading Economist.
So I went to another man, who if
such a war is going on right now is
sitting on the board of strategy. I
must not mention his name, but he
knows the terrain perfectly. He has
been all over the ground which, I
might mention here is South Amer
ica. He has served as a govern
ment representative and as a busi
ness representative, and in other
capacities which I cannot catalogue
without identifying him.
“Economic warfare,” he said, “is
impossible, without war.”
What he did not say was that un
declared economic warfare is im
possible without wartime conditions,
and right now, we seem to have
enough of those to make possible
some early skirmishes. This is the
situation as it was “un-revealed” to
me (officially) by a certain official.
In the first place, experts here
are convinced that even if he takes
Africa, Hitler cannot feed and clothe
Germany and its acquired domain
without a strong trade foothold in
South America.
As one German economist recent
ly put it to a former American rep
resentative in Berlin:
“South America is a natural com
plement for the expansion of indus
trialized Germany in the field of for
eign trade.”
Africa has raw materials but it
will take a long time to exploit them.
The Nazis cannot wait. Hence, South
America becomes the goal of their
triple threat: economic, political and
military.
Now what are we going to do
about it?
Three Methods Open.
There are three methods which the
United States can use to keep the
totalitarian businessmen, the totali
tarian trade methods, the totalitari
an politics out of the Western world.
We can deal with South America
by means of:
1. Voluntary co-operation.
2. Enticement.
3. Pressure.
Number 1 is not warfare. Nor is
it the old-fashioned “dollar-diploma
cy” which exploited South and Cen
tral American countries for the good
of the few and made us hated as
the Colossus of the North. It is,
however, “dollars PLUS diploma
cy.”
This method is already at work.
It consists of loans to South Ameri
ca; cultural activities and good will
propaganda, genuine co-operation
in finding complementary outlets
which will encourage a north-and
south flow es goods.
When we come to number 2, we
must be very careful. This method
will never be mentioned in any
official statement. We have to fight
fire with fire, or to be more literal,
fight marks with dollars.
In plain unvarnished language, a
large part of method 2 is “graft.”
You slip a few well-chosen “gifts”
into the right palms. It is not nice
but after all we are talking about
war-time conditions and it is far nic-
BRIEFS ... By Baukhage
C The government has set a goal of
15 per cent more young chickens by
July 1. I suppose that the hens will
all lay double now that they know
Uncle Sam is egging them on.
* * *
<L Official reports say that the dic
tator nations have been getting al
most half the cotton exported from
the United States. Pretty soft for
the dictators. I’d say.
er to shoot a man with a silver or a
golden bullet than with a steel-jack
eted one.
Method number 3 is also unpleas
ant, but still it is far this side of
“shooting” in the literal sense. It
is, to give one example, refusing
to buy from a country unless you
can buy on certain terms—-one of
which would be that that country
would not sell to any other country
whose methods you did not care
for.
This in a very small nut-shell is
economic warfare, and if it were
not still marked “private and confi
dential” I’d tell you that it has al
ready started.
♦ * ♦
Famous Men
Mingle in Capital
“A pony will be a dollar, sir.”
The voice that spoke was soft, in
gratiating, with a foreign accent.
He seemed a little surprised at the
price. So was I. For the “pony”
he was getting for a dollar was an
oversize thimbleful of brandy.
In a moment a group of men
came in, one’s face familiar. The
gentleman who had purchased the
pony rose beaming.
“Well, how are you general?”
he said.
For just a second there was a
blank look on the general’s face.
He put out his hand and said with
all the warmth of a good politician:
“Well, well, well, how are you,
Mr. Jones, and how’s the missus?”
Jones beamed again, mumbled
and sat down satisfied. He had
been greeted by one of the great.
Not, however, by a high officer of
the army as the title he used might
indicate, but a former cabinet mem
ber.
Just then a headwaiter answered
the phone at the dining room en
trance. “Yes,” he said, in a voice
quite audible, “table sixteen for Mr.
Rockefeller.”
A group of ladies tried not to look
impressed and ware so loudly silent
that I could not help noticing them.
One was a little bit more human
than the others. She wore a perfect
red hat and a little less con
descending air.
“But couldn’t this defense pro
gram have been much better pre
pared for?” asked a beautiful child
of 20.
The Red Hat smiled.
“Oh, perhaps,” she answered,
“but things are going rather well.
Os course so many of my hus
band’s friends come down here to
talk to him about priorities.”
The others were obviously too
polite to ask what kind of socialistic
thing a priority was or whether it
meant more taxes. And after all
their husbands were only million
aires. Mrs. Red Hat was obviously
the wife of a dollar-a-year man.
I left this colorful corner of the
emergency scene. “If Uncle Sam
pays a dollar a year for a man,” I
mused, “the friend of the general
ought not to object to paying a dol
lar for a pony.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Railway Employees
Neglect Annuity Benefits
Have you “been working on the
railroad” and forgotten all about
it?
Strange as it may seem 308,000
railroad employees who were em
ployed before 1937 have failed to
file statements which would entitle
them to full annuity service when
they retire.
The railroad retirement board in
Washington has been sending out
notices and writing letters, urging
everyone to spread the word and
still a long list of names remain
without the check mark against
them that shows they have sent in
their statements.
Congress authorized the board to
determine in advance of a railroad
employee’s retirement the amount
creditable to his annuity. The ma
chinery to do this was created and
already nearly a million cards have
been filed.
In this day and age when so many
people are anxious to collect money
that is not coming to them it seems
a shame that people who have
earned an honest credit are not tak
ing advantage of it.
Just to help matters along, I shall
be glad to forward any letter sent
to me in Washington, to the proper
persons. So if you were working
on the railroad before 1937 drop me
a line.
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PAGES ATTEND SCHOOL
There are many schools of many
kinds in the capital. In the many
schools there are many books which
have many pages. But there is one
school which consists entirely of
pages. But not the kind in books.
These are the pages whom you see
darting about the floor of the house
and senate, carrying message, whis
pering to congressmen, bringing a
forgotten pair of glasses or finding
an important document.
The school in which these boys are
trained was founded in 1930.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941
Cotton Under Loan
Will Benefit From
85 Per Cent. Parity
Growers with cotton now under
government loan will gain the bene
fit of new 85-per-cent-of-parity leg
islation if the Commodity Credit
I Corporation takes title to loan cot
ton when nots mature July 31.
The CCC, charged with the ad
ministration of the Department of
i Agriculture’s crop loan programs,
has announced that producer will
be paid ‘‘any amounts by which the
redemption cost of their notes
(which includes principal, interest,
and earring charges on pledged
cotton) are exceeded by a fair
value for the cotton at the time”.
Fair falue would be terminated by
the secretary of agriculture onthe
basis of the then prevailing average
I market prices for differences in
grades, staple lengths, and loc
ations. This should net producers
a minimum of 13.5 cents a pound,
less interest and carrying charges.
“With this assurance from the
CCC,” T. R. Breedlove, Georgia ad
ministrator of th? Agricultural Adj
ustment Administration, said this
week, “there is no need for any
farmer to sell his equities in 1938,
1939, or 1940 loan cotton for less
than the full market falue.”
The CCC at present holds title of
6,170,663 bales of cotton, mostly
from the 1934 and 1937 crops.
Because of this, Breedlove said, the
increase in the price of cotton will
not in any way adversely affect the
i defense program,
The Department of Agriculture
' has announced that should the
Government take title to any of the
stocks of loan cotton, at least 10
days’ public notice of such action
would be given through the news
papers.
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Menlo News ?
Mrs. S. T. Polk, Mrs. C. A. Wyatt
*and Ves Polk spent Tuesday in
Rome.
Little James Kennedy, of Sum
merville, is spending this week with
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Kennedy.
Mrs. England Emerson, of Spring
Garden, Ala., is spending a few
days with Miss Mildred Lawrence
and Mr. Jim Lawrence.
Mrs. Henry Norris and daughter
spent last Friday with Mrs. J. E.
Kennedy.
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Shrieber, of
Caldwell, Idaho, came Wednesday
to spend several days in Menlo.
They will be at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Kling and
daughters, Kathryn and Nell, of
Grand Stone, Pa., are spending
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their vacation with Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. Kling.
Rev. Henry Norris spent Tuesday
in Calhoun attending district con
ference.
Mrs. Phil Jackson and daughters
spent Sunday at Round mountain.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Kling, of Chat-
■ tanooga, spent Sunday with Mr. and
• Mrs. G. W. Kling.
; Charles Brooks, of Chattanooga,
is spending this week with Mr. and
Mrs. P. A. Brooks.
I Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Polk spent
: Saturday in Dalton.
Mrs. Porter Thomas, of Hixson,
I Tenn., is spending a few days with
: her mother, Mrs. J. A. Kennedy.
> Miss Helen Webster left this week
, for Milldgeville to attend summer
I school.
Mrs. J. H. Jett, Harold and Gus
. Jett, of Savannah, spent the week-
■ end with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mur-
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Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Day and
children spent the week-end in Ma
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. Mrs. J. W. Murphy.
: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Thomas and
family spent a few days this week
visiting relatives in Evergreen, Ala.
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and children were guests Sunday
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Mr. and Mrs. George Verden and
Miss Loraine Espy, of Rome, were
visiting relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Duke Espy and son,
of Gadsden, Ala., were visiting rel
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Mrs. Graves Myers, Misses Alma
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Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kennedy, of
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