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Wheat Belt Calls On Women
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Dodge City. Kan., — Farmers in the Wheat Belt,
where the labor shortage may be acute at harvest time
because of the drain of war and war industries on the
young men, will depend on women and girls rather
than on enemy aliens. The proposal that the Pacific
Coast’s Japanese be sent to the hard wheat area to meet
the labor shortage has received a cold welcome. Farm-;
ers says they would rather get along with whatever
emergency labor they can obtain. They are suspicious
of all Japanese since Pearl Harbor and some of the
beet raisers who usually employ migrant labor say they
will draw the line at Japanese labor this season.
1. W. W. Is Recalled
Objection to foreign labor in the Wheat Belt ante
dates the present war. Kansas farmers, at least, have,
been suspicious of migratory labor since the I. W. W.
tried to organize the harvest hand army thirty years
ago, when most of the wheat was cut by binder and
required imported labor to gather the bundles. The
I. W. W. was accused of sabotaging the crop then in
its effort to have wages increased. The migratory,
labor need in this area has decreased with the coming,
of the combination harvester thresher and a normal
crop is handled by the local labor.
The harvest this year, however, will find the farm
labor reduced to the proportions of the first World
War days. The prospect would be more serious if this
great rural area’s women were unskilled in the use of
power machinery. But this is not the case. There is
hardly a farmer’s wife who cannot operate a tractor or
combine. In normal years when the labor supply is
adequate the younger girls on the farm drive wheat i
trucks to the elevator and often the crops is harvested
and threshed without extra labor.
Emergency Measures
Th is year as the farmers contemplated a labor short
age they reported their plight and throughout the,
wheat area high school classes, club women, Legion
auxiliary* members and other women in the towns or
ganized labor battalions for the emergency. The farm
ers welcome this labor because most of the women and
girls have come from, the near-by farms and harvest
routine is not new to them.
Because of this labor supply the wheat farmers at
'east show scant, interest in proposals to bring city
reared young women into the fields. They continue
to be puzzled over the failure of city folk to realize
that farm routine calls for special training and say
that if the local women labor supply is not adequate
in a pinch they can take boys and make them worth
their salt in a few days. They doubt if farmerettes
would be helpful and do not intend to encourage a
mass migration of young women to their farms unless
conditions become worse than they think they are
going to be.
—Bv A. R. Buckingham
\ Possibility
Although Alaska has been assured for the time be
ing that there will be no rationing of sugar in the Terri
lory, the picture is vastly different in the States. Soon
only so much of the sweet stuff per person will be al
lowed per month. Whether or not sugar rationing ever
will come to Alaska is a question that can’t be answer
ed yet. And whether or not the rationing of sugar in
the States will reach a point where the lack of it will
cause discomfort and going without, also is something
for the future to decide.
The curtailment of sugar imports to the United Stat
es. plus the war need for sugar from which to make
pure alcohol for high explosives are the two main rea
sons for the apparent shortage. If this shortage becom
es realh acute, it looks as if the prohibitionists are go
ing to have something to argue about, and the first
thing we know we’ll be arguing again over the ques
tion that the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment was
supposed to have settled.
It seems inadvisable to us that America should have
to fight this thing out again, especially right at the
time that we’re fighting a war. Nevertheless, sprink
lings from the non-alcoholics are beginning to appear
in print.
It is pointed out that it would be perfectly feasible
for the government to take the hard liquor which is
now in storage, redistill it and use the alcohol for
lor war production. It is also pointed out that rather
than to curtail the us6> of sugar, it would be fairer to
curtail the sale of liquor.
It is estimated that we have approximately 2,375,
000,000 gallons of 100 proof alcoholic hard liquor in
storage at the present time. There is no question but
what the pure alcohol in this amount would contribute
sizeably to the war program.
NEW ORDER GIVEN
FOR PRODUCTION
WASHINGTON — Production
of most consumer durable goods
will be stopped on May 31. Don
ald M. Nelson disclosed, declar
ing there will be a “drive to cur
tail civilian industries and con
vert them into war production, j
Nelson said the h gh point of
the program was reached a few
days ago with issuance of or- i
dors halting most of the private
binding construction and prohib
iting the use of iron and steel ]
and hundreds of other items in j
a goal for “sound but lean civ-1
ilian economy." i
Nelson added that “no one yet]
knew how lean th:s economy will |
be but it will get leaner and |
leaner as the war program goes j
on.’’
NOTICE OF FORFEITTRE
To GEORGE H. THOMAS
HENRY MEEGAN. JAMES H
KENNEDY. PETER McINTOSH.
WILLIAM H. PACNWOOD, W
J SOMERVILLE. ,1. G. GALVIN,
W. A. BOWLES, KNTTTE
DRANGE, and ALASKA HOME-1
STAKE GOLD MINING COM-j
PANY. A Corporation. and to
your and each of your heirs, re- :
presontatives and assigns:
You and each of you are here
by notified that the undersigned
CHARLES V. OLSON is a Co- j
owner of each of the following
gold nrning claims located :n the
vicinity of Bluff. Alaska, to-wit:
Esquimo Chief. Eskimo Chief |
No. 1. Eskimo Chief No. 2, Es
quimeaux No. 3, Idaho, Idaho No. !
1. Idaho No. 2. Idaho No. 3, Sea \
Gull. Sea Gull No. 1. Sea Gull
No. 2. Sea Gull No. 3
That for and during each of the
annual mining assessment years
ending respectively July 1st.
years 1935, 1936. 1941, the said j
Charles V. Olson expended in
work, labor, imnrovements and
money at least $100 00 on and for•
the benefit of each of said min
ing claims. That said expondi-1
hires were made for the purpose
nf complying with the mining ass
essment laws relative to said
clrms and for the years herein
stated.
And vou and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days of the completion of,
the publication of this notice'
(said publication being for- a !
period of ninety days) you fail,
or refuse to contribute to the !
undersigned Charles V. Olson j
your proportionate share of said I
expenditures, as a co-owner, your I
interest in said claims and each!
of said claims will become the
property of Charles V. Olson co
owner, who has made said ex
penditures.
DATED at Nome, Alaska, this 1
14th d;*y of March, 1942.
CHARLES V. OLSON.
Co-owner, j
Bluff. Alaska.
Publish March 16. 23. 30. April
6. 13, 20, 27. May 4 11 18 25;
June 1, 8. 1942.
Says one pro-prohibition maga
zinc: “Why deprive the house
wife of sugar white this im
! mense quantity of liquor is on
hand?"
! Well, it’s a possibility. But it
seems to us that it depends more
; or less on how you like your
sugar — in your coffee, or in
nightcap. There are probably a
great many persons who w'ould
I rather go without sugar in their
coffee than their liquor. There
are also probably a great many
persons who would rather go
without liquor. At any rate, this
is no time to fight about it. If the
; government thinks that it is nec
essary to cut off the liquor sup
ply, it will probably do so with
out any help from the prohib
itionists.
Typical of some of the argu
ments which hinge on the war is
this bit;
‘‘A few weeks ago we heard
that the German government
was reversing itself, and supply
ing each soldier on the Russian
front with his flask of liquor to
help keep up his morale. Then
came the Russian break through,
and the Germans began to be
forced back.”
Wc don’t believe that our Rus
sian Ally woud swear to the au
thenticity of this yarn, neither
do we believe that Hitler has
that much liquor.
Marine War-Risk
Insurance HR 6351
The authority of the Maritime
Commission is now in process of
being enlarged through the bill,
H. R. 6554, which was passed by
the House without a dissenting
vote on March 19. This bill pro
vides for marine war risk insur
ance by the United States Mari
time Commission, the authority
to be vested in the Administrator
of the War Shipping Board, the
present Administrator being Ad
mTal Emory S. Land, Chairman
of the Maritime Commission. Un
der the bill, authority is given to
furnish insurance or reinsurance
on all marine transportation “at
normal or other rate basis” as
would be of material benefit to
the war effort, or, after consult
ation with the Office of Price Ad-!
ministration or other agencies, to
the domestic economy of the Unit
ed States, or. after consultation
with the Secretary of the Navy
or the Secretary of War, advis
able for military or naval rea
sons. Insurance may be written
not only on all types of vessels,
including fishing vessels both
documented and undocumented,
but also on the masters, officers,
or crews of such vessels and
other persons transported on
such vessels and also their per
sonal effects, as well as insur
ance against internment. While
this bill has not yet been passed
upon by the Senate, there is good
ground to believe that the Sen
ate will accept it in substantially
its present form.
With the enactment of this bill,
facilities will be available for in
sura nee by the Government of all
types of property in the United
States, including the territories
and possessions, against war dam \
age.
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The enactment of H. R. 6564
will not immediately or even ev
entually give complete relief,
with respect to steamship rates,
between Seattle and Alaska. The
increased rates were based not
only upon increase in marine in
sura nee but also upon increased,
wages in the way of bonuses nec 1
essary to be paid to sailors. Mor
over. the bill gives authority to
the Administrator of the War
Shipping Board to use his own .
discretion and judgement as to
the premiums to be charged fori
such insurance, but it gives him
much broader authority than he
possesses at present because it
permits him to take into consid-;
eration military necessity and ec
onomic conditions, and it is not j
required that every piece of in-,
suranee must stand on a self-1
liquidating basis.
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Defense Savings SUB DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS
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To aid the National Defense, I pledge that, (CONFIDENTIAL)
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