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By JOHN GROVER
AP Feature Service Writer
WASHINGTON—When a little
red hen cackles nowadays, it’s
partiotic music no less important
to U. S. defense than the clang
or of a munitions factory.
Eggs and explosives are both
key cogs in the defense machin
ery. Milk means as much as
minesweepers, cheese and can
non are co-equal in importance.
That's the word of Claude R.
Wickard, secretary of agricul- j
ture.
Wickard goes further. He says
fod from U. S. farms will win the
democracies’ war, dictate the
peace terms, and keep a perman
ent peace after the war. The de
partment of agriculture has al
ready mobilized U. S. farm pow
er to write history with a pitch- j
fork.
It’s the biggest job American
farmers ever tackled. The food
for-dfeense program calls for the
greatest farm production in U.
S. history in 1942.
There are three reasons given
for expanded food production.
First, our own consumption is
growing. Increased wages mean
increased demand for better food,
more milk for the kids, more
green vegetables. It means bet
ter national health, stepped up
arms production.
Second, we have pledged our
s Ives to supply Eritain vvi'h one
quarter of her needs in animal
protein -unieiit. ^’ggs, dairy pro
ducts. To Britain, that’s the dif
ference between adequate rations
and malnutrition, between good
and bad morale.
Third — and in the long run
most important —we’re building
huge reserves or stockpiles of
vitality-packed foods against the
day when peace comes. It’s going
to be our biggest argument at
the peace conference table. Un
dernourished, half-starved Eu
rope will listen to reason — Un
cle Sam's reason—if we control
fod supplies. They don’t shoot
Santa Claus in Europe, either.
To fill the needs of America,
Britain and the stockpile, rural
America has been organized into
a vast food factory. Dont ever
call the department of argicu!
ture a “bunch of swivel chair
farmers’’ after the job they did
mobilizing the food f. r defense
program.
Every county has a quota.
Soon every farmer will know
whafs expected of him, down to |
:he last dozen eggs.
That’s different than the last
•var. In 1917, farmers were urg
id to produce to the limit, but
weren't told WHAT to produce.
Result was uncontrolled, haph
azard output. The bottom drop
ped out of prices. Overproduc
tion then set the stage for de
pression and chaos in agriculture
in the 1920'.
“We're trying to avoid the mis
takes of the last war,” Wickard
says.
Quotas now are based on
known requirements. Bureau of
agricultural economics surveys
show we have ample supplies of
food and feed grains, cotton and
tobacco. We're short of current
and future needs in dairy pro-1
ducts, eggs, pork, lard, vegetable
oils and vegetables.
It means a sweeping change in
established farm practices. It’s no
easier for a farmer to switch ,
from all-grain growing to meat,
egg and vegetable production
than it is for a manufacturer of
sewing machines to switch to
machine guns.
The government protected the
manufacturer by underwriting
costs of his plant expansion and
guaranteeing him a profitable
market for his machine guns.
They’re doing the same thing
for the farmers. There won't be a
sudden drop in the prices of the
critical foods to leave the farm
ers holding the bag after they’ve
switched to new lines.
The government will support
the prices of hogs, eggs, evaporat
ed milk, dry skim milk and
cheese at 85 percent of parity at
least until December 31, 1942.
That means the farmer can plan
hs production step-up in safety
and be certain of a profitable re
turn.
Even with this government aid,
though, reaching the hoped-for
food goals in 1942 is going to
keep American farmers humping.
For instance, the egg quota Is
four billion dozen. Even said
slowly, four billion dozen eggs
is .iust too many for ready com
prehension.
Four billion dozen eggs, put in
simpler figures, means a line of
eggs 1,151.150 miles long. That
would reach around the world al
!i’r,t 50 times.
The government expects U. S.
:nvs to produce 125.090,009.009
pounds —roughly fifteen billion
gallons—of n ilk in 1942. That
much milk would make a lake
four miles long, a mile wide and
13 fret deep.
BRITISH ANNOUNCE LO iS OF THE ARK ROYAL
The Itritish Admiralty in London announced that the three - year - old aircraft carrier Ark Royal
(above) had bei sunk off Gibraltar by a torpedo attack. The carrier was reported sunk several
times before by the Nazis. The Ark Royal sank while being towed after tyeing hit by a torpedo.
SHARP LOOKOUT —In observance of a Chinese custom,
big eyes decorated the Alcoa Courier at San Francisco launching.
FOR Wa rns Nation
of Long, Hard War
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 </P) — i
(Delayed) — President Roosevelt
warned the nation tonight that
it is in for a hard long war ag
ainst “crafty and powerful band
its" with Germany and Italy as
much enemies of the United Stat
es as is Japan, but he emphatic
ally denied Japan’s boast that
she gained naval supremacy in
the Pacific by her lightning
stroke at Hawaii. He declared
confidently “We are going to win
this war and we are going to win
the peace that follows.”
Making the first report to the
nation on the past and future
conflict which suddenly engulfed
the country, the chief executive
starkly acknowledged that Jap
an’s initial successes have been
extensive and “many Americans, I
soldiers and sailors, have been
killed by enemy action." He said
the people must be prepared at j
any time for the announcement'
that Guam, Wake and Midway
Islands have been seized by the
enemy. .But on the other side of
the war ledger, he placed 18
months of preparation, assembly)
lines already producing a pro
fusion of war materials and of
pians for doubling and quadrpul
ing the output. The latter inelud
ed a 7-day week for industries)
and construction of new plants.
Balanced against the power and
ruthlessness of the enemy is the
determination of a united peo
ple, which he said, will be sat
isfied with nothing short of a
complete victory.
Repeatedly, with great empha
sis, he speke of Japan’s relation-1
ship with Germany. The latter,
he accused of pushing Japan into
war with promises that she will
become the master of the Pac
ific Ocean with a “stranglehold
on the West Coast of North, Cen
tr 1 and South America.”
Other production quotas of vi
‘.a commodities are in pioportion
largest in history. To reach the
goals, U. S. farmers must hurdle
uch obstacles as a farm labor
shortage, threatened shortages of
farm equipment, fertilizers, and
insecticides.
Wickard says they can do it.
M O D I S H — in this long
sleeved robin's egg blue formal
worn by Jane Wyman, graceful
front drapery is an interesting
detail. Gold kid belt ties with
wide grosgrain ribbon.
Notice of Hearing and
Settlement of Final Account
No. 268
In the Probate Court for the
Cape Nome Precinct, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
FRED LARSEN, Deceased.
No.ice is hereby given to
whom it may concern:
That the undersigned adminis
trator of the estate of Fred Lar
sen, deceased, has filed in the
above entitled Court has final ac
count and that the 30th day of
January 1942 at the hour of 11
a.m. of said date at the court
room of said Court at Nome, Al
aska, has been fixed by the order
of said Court, as the time and
place for the hearing of said final
account and objections thereto
and the settlement thereof and
that at said time and place the
Court will adjudicate and deter
mine who are the heirs and dis
tributees of said deceased.
Dated this 28th day of Novem
ber, 1941.
Peter E. Larsen,
Administrator of the Es
tate of Fred Larsen, deceased.
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