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FARMER'S FRIEND
Two southerners sa^. near me
in a crowded day-coach recent
ly and carried on a heated and
revealing conversation. Both
men were farmers, but their
similarity ended there. They
were not at all alike. One seem
ed to be about 70 years old. He
spoke with a soft ‘‘Deep South’*
inflection. He had attended col
lege, was well dressed and had
lived in several big cities.
The other man was near 30,
spoke with the accent of the del
ta country and was abviously a
practical dirt—farmer with very
limited schooling. The conversa
tion was about rice. The older
man insisted that rice was not
grown in Arkansas. '‘It would be
foolish,” he said scornfully. “So
long as Asiatic labor is cheap
there will be no money in rais
ing rice in this country.*’
YOUNG MAN WAS RIGHT
The old gentleman almost
persuaded the young man that
he had been calling something
rice that was not rice at all. I
didn’t intrude to say that I drive
trrough miles of rice fields every
time I make a trip from Searcy
to Memphis, although I hated to
see a man in possession of the
truth so crushed under courteous
language and ideas that havg*
been out of date for 25 years.
Workers in the Arkansas rice
fields are relatively well paid,
They earn more than cotton
as farm hands are compensated,
choppers and pickers; draw wag
es more like a California orange
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grove worker. Just the same, ,
Arkansas rice is priced right. ;
Our growers could ship it to Ja
pan in normal times and sell it
there at a profit in competition
to Chinese rice, Coolie raised.
CUSTOM-BUILT
ECONOMY
It sounded quite familiar
when the cultured gentleman
farmer txplained, ‘‘The biggest
part of the cost of anything is
labor.” The statement used to be |
made often and used to be al
most true, but America’s vol
ume production by machinery
has disputed the idea with suc
cess for years; longer than the
younger man could remember.
Rice in Arkansas, a new indus
try, is tooled up well.
Trat’s exactly why our rice
workers are well paid. They pro- i
duce a lot of rice per man. An !
American worker, with modem
tools, can produce 59 times as
much rice as a China boy with
a heavy hoe. Allowing liberally j
for machinery expense, he can
earn 30 times as much as the
Chinese, and does. At the same
time, the rice costs less per!
bushel and can profitably sell
for less. That’s America.
PARENT OF
PROSPERITY
Shorter hours and higher wag
es for people who work, lower
prices and better merchandise
for people who buy, are univer
sally popular ideas. The same
people want all four, because
working people buy the biggest
part of everything that’s sold. It
is strange however that all four
of these benefits come from the
same source (investment) which
is not a popular idea.
Good equipment costs some
thing. It calls for investment.
With good equipment, workers
increase production per man and
get their pay raised, also in
crease production per day (or
per acre) and shows the investor
a profit. Good equipment also
increases the available supply
■■nrr. TUfitttttlPr and _thus_ lowers
prices. What America needs, not
to mention China, is to encour
age investment.
"Around the World News In
Pictures" appears regularly in
The Nugget.
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HERO —For a single-handed
,attack in the face of heavy fire
from a Japanese bunker. Rifle
man Tul Bahadur Pun (above)
of the 6th Gurkha Rifles was
awarded the Victoria Cross. He
is the 17th Indian to win the
empire’s highest military medal. |
‘PORKY’ PET
IS BIG SHOT
WITH G.I. JOES
TUNNEL, Alaska — Almost
every unit in Alaska has a dog
for a pet, but a group of 714th*
Railway Battalion men stationed
at this outpost along the Alaska
Railroad, can claim the mos^ un- ^
usual pet in Alaska—their pig, j
‘‘Oskie”.
Oskie was discovered by the
men one morning last summer,
apparently having slipped
through the open spaces between
the boards of a ventilated freight
car. He was only a few days old
at the time.
Careful waching by all the
men aided the porker in passing
the 100-lb. mark and he is gain
ing all the time. One of the lead
ing caretakerr was T-4 Harold R.
Vittum from Oskaloosa, Iowa,
the heart of the pig raising
1 country. It was only natural that
the new pet should be christened
‘‘Oskaloosa” and from that evol
vel the shorter name of “Oskie.”
Asked when they planned to
test Oskie for sugar cured ham
quality, the men looked at each
other until Sergean^ Vittum vol
unteered the information, ‘‘well
maybe next spring.’’ But by
I watching the men’s expressions
SUCCUMBS _ Death
claimed Judge Kenesaw Moun
tain Landis (above), high com
missioner of baseball for a gen
eration. Pending naming of a
successor. Ford Frick, Will Har
ridge and Leslie O’Connor were
chosen to administer the office.
when the question was asked it
was easy to see that there was
about as much chance of them
butchering this pet as there was
of any one of them turning down
an Army discharge.
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