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FOOD FOR DEFENSE
IS NATIONAL NEED
AND AFFECTS ALASKA
“The American farmer is be
ing called upon to produce the
greatest crop in the history of
American agriculture in order
that there may be no shortage of
•food for defense.’
This statement was made by
Lorin T. Oldroyd, director of the
Experiment Stations and Exten
sion Service, who recently return
cd from a trip to the States.
Mr. Oldroyd represented the
University of Alaska at the con
vention of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges at Chicago
and then went to Washington. D.
C., to report to officials of the
Experiment Stations, Extension
St'rvice and Soil Conservation re
garding the work now being car
ried on in Alaska by these three
dvisions.
“There appears to be a great
deal of thought given by leaders
in the Department of Agriculture
and many of the large educa
tional institutions to the sub
ject of human nutrition.” Mr.
Oldroyd said. “For long years
we have studied the nutrition of
farm livestock in relation to
health and proper deve’opment
of a good animal. Only recently
have we even car ful thought to
the importance of vitamins in the
human diet.
"Dr. M. L. Wilson, direc'or of
the Extern: n Service, is 1 ling
cut in a program of ‘Nu’rition
f r Defer.: ' and the Ex’ n.-ior
workers in every rural county
in the nation arc carrying to t’r
peop e of America a prow
fo 1) '1 r heal h. For many v
the H which stands for health 1
the 4-H program has been giv •
special prominence.
4-H Health Project for Alt 1 '
“The health project for mem
bers of 4-H clubs in Alaska ha
been stressed ever since this
work was commenced in 1930.
“We are just new realizing
that for many years we have
been removing the most import
ant health-giving element from
wheat and feeding it to
hnd hogs in the feed lots. We
need to return to a more substan
tal diit similar to that u-ed when
most of our people lived on tbm
land and prepared their o.vr
f od. The tntire kernel of wheat
should b? placed in our flour
and we should demand that all
bread be made of whole wheat
flour."
After listening to many dis
cussions on the importance of
vitamins in the human diet, Mr.
Oldroyd states that praetica’h’
ell -of liie most necessary vita
r ;ns ran b - provided through
the use of f irm crons and other
food'produced in Alaska.
“We vaste much of the food
value of potatoes when we peel
them, and it is a good practice
to boil potatoes in their jack
ets,” he said. “The peelings of
potatoes contain health-giving
vitamins and are not unpleasant
to eath when either boiled or
baked. Try them out.”
Mr. Oldroyd is of the opinion
that local potatoes are "tops” as
far as food value is concerned
and according to present prices,
local potatoes can be purchased
for about 18 percent less than
potatoes from the Outside.
“Farmers throughout the na
tion are responding to the call of
increased food for defense, and
there is not likely to be a food
shortage in America,” Mr. Old
royd asserted. “Conditions are
favorable for winter wheat.
There is plenty of good grass for
livestock on the ranges, and the
granaries are fi led with corn
and other grains. Dairy men and
poultry men are increasing pro
duct; n 15 percent.
Fanners Accept Challenge
“Farmers have accepted the
challenge to increase production,
but are demanding in return that
they have protection from the
danger of farm prices going into
a tailspin at the end of the war.
Through the great farm orgnniz
a'i ns. the National Grange and
the Amercan F.rm Bureau Fedor
ation, they arc demanding a par
itv p-ico for agriculture. No 'ong
t r are they wilhng to pay ‘boom
■ / f.-,. v.-hat they rru-t buy
and accept 'depression prices’ for
■ fo H they jjrc'duco.
“Many of the officials of the
Dcartment of Agriculture ar" in
terested in the development of
multure in Alaska, and many
of them feel that we should b'
producing more of our own food
than we are now doing. Delegate
Dimond has given the matter of
food production in Alaska care
ful thought and is interested in
further development of farming
in the Territory.”
Alaska Farming Problems
Delegate Dimond and Mr. Old
royd met with official of Farm
Srcurity and the Experiment S‘a
tions for the purpose of discuss
ng the problems of farming in
Alaska. D legate D mond has
born interested in securing the
hen fits of Farm Security for Al
askan farmers, and at a meeting
wi.h Dr. Mitchell of the Farm Se
curity Off;?? at Washington sug
g sted that this branch of the
fr Jeral servee be made apnlic
ab e to the Territory. Dr. Mit
■lv 11 seemed favorable to such p
plan, and this service may b
provded early in the spring.”
Mr. Oidryod is enthusiastic
CUTTING THE PHYSICAL
ABILITY LINE TOO SHARP
MAY HURT THE ARMY
By. GEN. HUGH. S. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON — Among the
shortages rapidly developing in
materials for defense is a short
age in defense man-power. Like
so many other problems of the
draft this also is not new. In the
'ast war it was found that, in
the early regulat ons, no discrim
ination had been made between
the kind of physcal qualifica
tions required for fightng in the
front line trenches, for rolling
oil's in a medical supply depot
and for tens of thousands of
other jobs that could have been
handled by men with slight phys
ical d’squalifications.
On the great re-classification of
December, 1917, men were classi
fi d physically as between those
who were fit for any kind of com
bat service and those who, while
not so generally fit, were fully
competent to hande the ordinary
tasgs of life of which there are
many c'assifications in the army.
Sometimes the other qualifica
tions so far out-weigh the pure
ly physical one that the d ffer
ence is grotesque. We once fill
ed a requisition for pigeoneers
(experts in handling carrier pig
eons) and, more as a joke than
otherwise one army detachment
rejected one of these specialists,
not because he had a wooden leg
hut because it had a knot-hole
in it. Bvt that time the principle
of making common sense use of
our military material had been
=o generally recognized and ap
proved that, when wooden legs
didn’t interefere with the special
duty desire, it didn’t interfere
with acceptance.
Th:s whole subject is rapidly
becoming a very serious one to
day. The Navy, which has not
looked with favor upo conscrip
tion, and did not do so at the
heginnng of the last war, is be
ginning to feel a pinch that will
=oon cause its acceptance, altho
this will require some change in
! the law.
The need for various types o!!
.kills, both in the Army and the
Navy as well as in industry, will
very soon require the use of wo
men and gr’s in many such jobs
as moulders and pattern makers
where they frequently do better
than men.
If carefully aoplied this prin
ciple alone wil- release many'
thousands of highly skilled work
men. Too rigid physical require
ments and application of the 28
I year ru e may deprive the arm
| ed services of men that will be
come absolutely indspensible in
1 this highly mechanized war. The
changes made through what ap
ivmut agriculture in the fertile
valleys of Alaska and feels that
.vo can produce muefi of the
food necessary for good health.
We can produce all of our po
tatoes, much of the meat we
need, including pork, mutton,
and some beef. We can produce
m: ny dairy and poultry products
e'ables and small friuts. It
- not too early to “sound off”
or a garden on every farm and
| n every vacant lot. Seed orders
ould be placed at once.
pcared to be expedient at th'e
time when the revised plan was
adapted are now appearing not
to have looked far enough for
ward. These matters are too ser
ious to permit pride in a hastily
made decision to stand in the
way of correcting it.
To sum this whole matter up.
the whole subject of classifica
tion for the purpose of making
the maximum use of available
man-power is even more import
ant than priorities and other
very drastic action taken to
make the greatest available use
of availbie supplies.
For the present time, and for 3
considerable time to come, this
battle is one cf machine produc- '
tion on the one hand, and the or- •:
ganization of very highly skilled }
mcchan zed war organization on 1
the other. i
•j
We will soon find that we can- •>,
not afford to waste a single skill ^
ed man on an unskilled job or *i
not to utilize every person of -j
either sex available for training .j
for skilled jobs whether in uni- j]
form or not. |j
The matter of using women •:
can be carried to extremes. They !j
have no appropriate affectiveness \
in actual'y bearing .arms or in ^
the heavier ta^ks of truck driv- H
ing and the like. But there are
plenty of places where th? daft
ness, accuracy and speed of their
fingers, hands and minds ar°
more useful than those of men.
—HUGH S. JOHNSON
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