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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1IM6
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WASHINGTON.—Farmer* of the
United States are operating a 100
billion dollar business, it is revealed
in a report of the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.
Total value of the nation’s farm
plant, including all assets held by
farm owners, amounted to 101.5 bil-
lion dollar* on January 1, 1940,
the bureau estimates. The valua-
tion of net worth of agriculture
showed a gain of nearly 12 per cent
over the estimate for January 1,
1945, and about 90 per cent since
the beginning of 1940.
The increase since January, 1945,
was attributed largely to price in-
creases for agriculture’s physical
assets and accumulations of finan-
cial assets, resulting from a large
volume of sale*. Comparatively lit-
tle of the increase came from im-
uneasily, shaking it every now and
then and putting it to his ear.
Alice considered a little and said,
"The Fourth.”
"Two days wrong!" sighed the
Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn’t
suit the works,” angrily looking at
the March Hare.
"It was the best of butter,” the
March Hare meekly replied.
Although Middleton’s comparison
between Dodgson and Ehrenburg
was probably well-chosen, I doubt
if the censor would have passed the
comment had he ever read "Alice
in Wonderland.”
provements to the farm establish-
ment, the report stated.
Real Estate Gain*.
Of the total value of the nation’s
agricultural plant at the beginning
of this year, farm real estate ac-
counted for 56.6 billion dollars, com-
pared with 50.3 billion dollars on
January 1, 1945. Other physical as-
sets made up 24.9 billion dollars,
compared with 24.4 billion dollars a
year before. Financial assets of
farm operators totaled more than
20 billion dollars compared with 16.2
billion dollars a year earlier.
The value of holdings of farmers
and other owners of farms account-
ed for 93.2 billion dollars of the
total value of the farm plant. This
compares with holdings estimated
to be worth 81.3 billion dollars on
January 1, 1945. In addition, cred-
itors’ claims were calculated this
year at 8.3 billion dollars, a decrease
By BAUKHAGE
Vnn Analyil «nd Commentator.
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showers, went to Diana Miehal,
21-month-old Baltimore girl,
through public response to an ap-
peal. Rice Is needed in special
diet for the youngster, suffering
from a rare kidney ailment.
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By Paul Mallon
cruitment of teachers, improvement
of working conditions and higher
salaries, has renewed its effort* as
a result of action taken at the or-
ganisation’s convention thia July. A
slogan which they have adopted
runs: “We must have federal aid be-
fore we can have equalization of op-
portunity." But federal “interfer-
ence" in America's school system
has always been a bogey.
Cheat Pupil* Out
Of Proper Education
Meanwhile, as Charles Harris
says in the previously quoted Coro-
net article, “we are cheating our
boys and girls of their right to the
kind of an education they desire,”
by permitting this teacher short-
age which has closed more than 7,000
class rooms and over-expanded
classes so that individual attention
to pupils has virtually vanished.
Many vital subjects have been
dropped.
The worst phase of the situation is
the turnover. As is evidenced by
the number of “emergency certifi-
cates” issued, the standard has fall-
en sharply. Harris mentions one
school which permitted a convict
to be released from jail because no
one else could be found to teach the
pupils. I was told of a case where
a teacher teaching sixth grade pu-
pils had never had more than a
fourth grade education herself.
Low pay is, as it has always been,
one of the chief difficulties. It is a
strange paradox that the business
and industrial groups, who are most
anxious that the principles of de-
mocracy and free enterprise be thor-
oughly taught, are the greatest com-
petitors of the schoolhouse.
Here in Washington the minimum
wage of teachers is below that of
lower grade clerical assistants and
file clerks in the government. In in-
dustrial centers, the gap is wider.
In business, there is more of a de-
mand today for college-trained per-
sonnel. Many teachers, both male
and female, who went into the serv-
ices. held college degrees, and when
discharged were eagerly snapped
up by businesses requiring higher
education.
Chambers of commerce, di»-
turbed by the threat of untrained
minds in their communities, have
appealed to the government to pro-
mote special teachers’ programs as
a part of the veterans’ re-training
programs but here again the fed-
eral government would be treading
on thin ice. That isn’t in the law.
Private institutions and the com-
munity itself are responsible for this
type of effort, and congress always
puts its foot down when there is any-
thing that even hints at federal ac-
tivity in connection with the public
school system. The office of edu-
cation leans over backward to keep
away from anything that might be
labeled "interference.”
Not only poor pay but also lack
of social life drives many prospec-
tive teachers into other fields. That
is something that only the commu-
nity can change.
If the teacher's position is not
changed for the better and the pub-
lic school system is not restored to
its normal place in our democracy
we will have lost the one thing with-
out which democracy cannot grow.
LARGEST FAMILY REUNITED . . . Largest family to arrive in
Japan aboard the transport Monterey recently was that of Lt. Col.
Amel T. Leonard of Dallas, Texas. Here is the family after reunion
in Yokohama.
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WHEN COLDS STRIKE
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DRAFT:
Modify Plan
In modifying its postwar draft
plans for teen-agers, the army im-
proved the prospects for eventual
congressional adoption. The state-
ment of Rep. Dewey Short (Rep.,
Mo.) that he would consider a modi-
fied draft after having been con-
vinced of its necessity by General
Eisenhower indicated which way the
wind was blowing.
While the new plan calls for the
induction of 18-year-olds, it differed
from previous proposals in that it
confined intensive training to six
months and gives the draftee a num-
ber of alternatives in completing the
remainder of his service. He
could:
—Continue his specialized mili-
tary training for six months.
—Enlist in any of the regular mil-
itary services, national guard or re-
serve corps.
—Enter West Point or Annapolis.
—Enlist in the reserve corps and
take up an approved college course,
including R.O.T.C. training, or a
technical course in an authorized
school.
Inductees would not be subject to
military law but a special code of
conduct and receive a monthly al-
lowance of $30 plus subsistence, de-
pendents’ benefits, insurance and
disability compensation, if eligible.
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RECONVERSION:
Steelman Reports
The wartime economy of the U. S.
has reached a fork in the road. Re-
conversion Director John R. Steel-
man declared in his quarterly re-
port to the President and congress.
In one direction lies unprecedented,
stable prosperity; in the other,
boom and bust.
Steelman pleaded with business,
labor, agriculture and consumers to
avert an inflationary spiral. He
asked business to hold down prices;
labor to refrain from
sound wage demands;
to continue to produce
clip, and consumers to
spending freely.
Despite record employment of 58
million and an annual production
rate of 172 billion dollars, many key
commodities remain scarce, Steel-
man said. Accumulation of inven-
tories at a rate of 6*4 billion dol-
lars yearly indicates there is some
speculative hoarding, he added. The
meat shortage promises to worsen
this winter and supplies of fats,
oils and sugars will remain tight for
many months. Up 23 per cent from
1943, clothing prices are expected
to go up another 10 per cent by the
end of 1946.
Wwtera Niwipaper Union
MEAT ANIMALS WILL RETURN
TO MARKET WHEN PRICES RISE
WASHINGTON.-It is not difficult
to find out what made the meat dis-
appear.
The farmers, according to my
best farm experts, have entered
upon a practical boycott of the
market as a result of the OPA price
ceilings. Some increased ceilings
were allowed a few weeks back, but
not enough to lure cattle or hogs
into the market. Pau) Porter’s
group, operating OPA, increased
cattle from $18 to $20.25 a hundred
pounds, and moved hogs up from
$14.85 to $16.25 a hundred. Since
then, packing supplies of meat have
dwindled steadily until the cities
have gotten around to horse meat.
Butchers' shelves are empty near-
ly everywhere except for slim al-
lowances of sausage, cold meats and
other inferior substitutes for nor-
mal supplies.
The farmers are simply taking a
gamble that prices will go higher.
The feed situation is conducive to
holding meat on the hoof. Excel-
lent crops of com and grain, and
good pasture conditions, have afford-
ed opportunities for feeding and
fattening now to sell for a higher
price later.
JUST PROTECTING SELF
This may seem to the consumer
to be a rather selfish arrangement,
but the economic management
which the government has built up
over the past few years has prac-
tically required the farmer to do
what he is doing. He sees inflation-
ary prices all around him. Strikes
for tremendous increases in wages
running as high as 30 per cent are
being conducted in the large cities,
and in a price inflation period, nat-
urally he would assume his own
right to strike.
Now the government on the
OPA side of the matter has pro-
duced figures showing much
less cattle than last year are
going into the midwest feed lot*
for fattening, and in other ways
excuses itself and refuses to
look the situation in the face.
Seeing the consumers* side of
tt alone in OPA, it ha* fixed
ceilings for what It calls anti-
inflationary purposes, wholly
unmindful of the truth of the
matter, which is—the ceilings
themselves have become purely
theoretical and the meat cannot
be obtained at any price.
The government is empowered to
keep up this stalemate until OPA
expires next June, but with the
election coming on, its position is
becoming more and more embar-
rassing politically every day. My
guess would be that the White House
considers it is being pressed closer
and closer into a political predica-
ment from which it will extricate
itself in the usual—if not the nor-
mally intelligent—way, by lifting the
prices again. By “the normally in-
telligent way,” I mean going thor-
oughly into its whole mismanage-
ment of the intricate machinery,
from the time a calf is born until
it reaches the butcher shop, and
then revise the regulations so as to |
produce meat supplies at fair prices
in common justice.
A BID FOR FARM VOTE
So as I say, my guess is that per-
haps a week or two before election
the price ceilings will be relaxed in
order to get the farmer vote. How-
ever, this does not seem to me to
be even particularly reasonable pol-
itics, as congress wanted to relax
the OPA restraints considerably
more in the beginning and congress
is the agency facing election this
year, not Mr. Truman or his OPA.
So while a further boost in prices
would perhaps relieve the pressure
on the White House, the majority
of congressmen facing re-election
(up to nearly two-thirds of their
number) have a record more favor-
able to the farm viewpoint—and the
obtaining of meat.
Incidentally, Agriculture Secre-
tary Anderson, who was originally
brought into the picture by Mr. Tru-
man to take charge of the food sup-
ply situation and to straighten it out i
by this time (he had distinguished '
himself in congress by making a
report which was generally ap-
proved as showing some common I
sense in the matter), ha* been ill in
New Mexico for the past several
weeks. His friends have been
doubtful as to when or whether he
would be able to return, an inside
factor which may have contributed
to the demoralization of the admin-
istration meat machinery again.
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WHAT DID STALIN MEAN?
Stalin said he had no fear of war.
but he said nothing about the size
of hi* army, which was put at six
million men in the last public an-
nouncement last June. Certainly the
atmosphere has not been cleared as
much a* an announcement by Stalin
would have eleaied it, if he had said
he was cutting the size of the Rus-
sian army to the size of our*. Thus
also, be accused'agents of the other
nations of waving war flags for prop-
aganda effect on the conference.
One of the few joys left to a news-
paper correspondent in one of the
foreign cities where censorship still
prevails is trying to beat the censor.
One of the most amusing “beats” of
this kind was scored by Drew Mid-
dleton writing from Moscow for the
New York Times.
Perhaps it fooled many American
readers, too. It reads:
“Ilya Ehrenburg, writing in Izves-
tia, continued his long series of arti-
cles on the United States, a group
of articles which for depth and un-
derstanding are superior to anything
written on these lines since the
works of Charles Lutwidge Dodg-
son.”
The dispatch was passed by the
censor who didn’t know that Dodg-
son was the real name of Lewis
Carroll who wrote, “Alice in Won-
derland,” some of the most delight-
ful nonsense ever penned.
I do not know whether Ehren-
burg's articles as published in Mos-
cow differed from those which he
published in the United States, but
I must say that some of them re-
flected life in America as truly as
the scene at the Mad Hatter's tea
party followed the pattern of an
ordinary tea party in England. You
remember that there was a table
set under a tree in front of the
house and the March Hare and the
Hatter were having tea at it; a
Dormouse was asleep, and the oth-
er two were using him as a cushion,
resting their elbows on it and talk-
ing over its head.
“Very uncomfortable for the Dor-
mouse," thought Alice; “only it’s
asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.”
The Hatter was the first to break
the silence. "What day of the
month is it?" he *aid, turning to
i Alice. He had taken his watch out
| »f his pocket and wa* looking at it
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Nation Suffers Scarcity
Of Competent Teachers
TURTLE:
Long Jump
The big, blue, two-motored “Truc-
ulent Turtle” circled in a steep bank
at 2,000 feet and one engine sput-
tered. The crowd at the Columbus,
Ohio, airport watched anxiously in
fear that the plane’s tanks were
running dry. Then, Comdr. Thomas
D. Davies, 32, leveled off the ship,
the motor picked up, and he made
a safe landing to complete a rec-
ord-breaking 11,236-mile flight in 55
hours and 17 minutes.
The temporary engine trouble at
the airport was not the only anxious
moment the “Truculent Turtle”
caused on the long haul from Perth,
Australia. In the Bougainville-New
Guinea area, the crew rode out heavy
weather; 200 miles off California,
they ran into thick clouds and flew
on instruments; north of San Fran-
cisco, ice formations on the wings
cut speed to 150 m.p.h.
Although Commander Davies and
his three-man crew were not fazed
by the mechanical rigidities of their
flight, they intimated that the 35-
pound baby kangaroo they carted
as a gift to a Washington, D. C.,
zoo was more than their match a*
he fussed in his cage.
of 700 million dollars from the year
before.
Assets Listed.
Financial asset* of farmer* in
January thia year were estimated
to include nearly 14 billion dollar*
in deposits and currency, compared
with 11.3 billion dollars the year be-
fore; about 5 billion dollars in war
bonds, up 1 billion dollars from a
year earlier, and about 1 billion
dollars invested in co-operatives,
a slight increase during the year.
The large increase in holdings of
cash and government bonds during
the war years, the bureau said,
probably reflected some deteriora-
tion of the farm plant. Failure to
maintain farms and equipment at
prewar levels contributed about 800
million dollars to cash holdings of
farmers in the period 1942-45, which
will need to be reinvested now.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C —Less than
a year and a half after the question
of which would
triumph, naziism
or democracy,
was settled, the
United States is
being forced to
meet a crisis in
its competitive
struggle to main-
tain its way of
life.
Two years ago
the prediction,
based on trends
of that moment,
was made that Baukhace
“our school sys-
tern faces one of the greatest crises
in its history—American schools
■ have lost 200,000 competent, well-
prepared teachers since Pearl Har-
bor.” (That was in June, 1944.)
• At that time only one out of a hun-
dred school teachers held “emer-
gency certificates’’—certificates is-
sued to persons admittedly not in
the “competent, well-prepared”
class.
Today, according to an estimate
made in an article in the October
issue of Coronet magazine, one out
of every eight hold such certificates
and out of the 200,000 teachers lost
to war industries, the draft and oth-
er wartime activities. Coronet finds
at least 75,000 of those teachers
“lost” for good. Stuart Chase, econ-
omist, sets 500,000 as the number
needed before the present teaching
staff of the nation is brought up to
what he calls “adequate.”
Ralph McDonald, executive sec-
retary of National Educational as-
sociation in Washington, who has
been busy trying to wake the edu-
cational world to its danger, quotes
reports that Russia today is spend-
ing 20 per cent of her comparatively
low national income on education,
while we spend only two per cent of
ours for the same purpose.
And not satisfied with what is now
being done, the Soviets are demand-
ing still higher standards of "ideo-
logical and political” knowledge for
their teachers. The party paper,
Izvestia, announced in a recent arti-
cle that students from Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia and other Slav coun-
tries were being brought into the in-
stitutions of higher learning in Mos-
cow, Leningrad and other cities.
The office of education of the
United States government is fully
aware of the danger facing our pub-
lic schools. Its functions are strict-
ly limited, however, to the acquisi-
tion and distribution of information.
Actual promotional activities are
forbidden and improvement of con-
ditions rests fundamentally with the
states and local communities. The
office of education is doing all it
can. Full co-operation in the gath-
‘ ering of data is provided and for
the last six weeks or so special ef-
forts have been made to bring in-
formation on this subject up to date
for distribution. Actual statistics of
the varying needs of various com-
munities now are being compiled.
National Education association,
which began an intensive campaign
two years ago to assist in the re-
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Navy Sets Flight Record
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