The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

l
 surplus marketing administrator.
 Only 41, he was born in Milwaukee,
 went to high school there, then be-
 came 8 bag, salesman and nanu-
 facttrer in Texas. It was from this 1 job that he was called to the De-
 partment of Agriculture.
 One of his pet beliefs is that the
 challenge of this generation is to learn to distribute what we have
 learned to produce. Perkins has
 been doing something about that
 through his work in AAA and SMA,
 but what he does about it on a
 world recovery basis will have to
 await his own personal, physical
 recovery.
 DESIGN FOR DISTRIBUTION A new pattern for a planned post
 war economy was dropped into the
 laps of students at the Southern
 Farm Bureau training school in
 Hot Springs, Ark, when Assistant
 Attorney General Thurman W. Arn- old made a talk down there on Monopoly and the South" Main theme of Arnold'S speech was Shat for the last 20 years the industrial east has been exploiting the south | and the west as raw material col onies. He paid his respects to cap- ttalists and labor unions which by monopolieS bar farmers and coz sumers from advantages of modern efficiency.
 Suppose" he said, ''that list of civilian necessities were select ed. Clothes, a minimum standard house, the essentials of diet, drugs and fuel. Suppose we should say to the consumers that the govern ment would do its best with price ceilings on commodities in general, and in addition would standardize particular products and see that | they get around at the lowest avail- 1 able prices.
 "This would involve, in the case of a suit of clothes, the use of prior | ities to aid those who are willing to i manufacture a Serviceable article | at low price. It might involve en- couragement of the manufacturer 1 through government financing. It 1 would certainly involve elimina- tion of all restraints of trade which l stood in the way of distribution 1 of the minimum standard house ur l the minimum suit of clothes.
 If the Amercian people can be 1 sure of the minimum necessities, | they will be more willing to go without the luxuries. Here is a technique in which the farmers of America, who have to go without luxurles anyway, should be inter- ested."
 The New Deal, as you can see. isn't dead yet.
 BAD NEWS FOR DUCKS
 With practically everything else in the world running short, duck hunters will get some consolation this fall from the fact that instead of being held down to a daily bag i limit of three canvasbacks and 1 ruddyducks, the quota will be 10. | But the use of cattle, horses CT mules as blinds will be prohibited. And it's none other than Hard Boiled Harold Ickes who lays down these regulations, in his role as boss of the fish and wildlife ser- vice. s
 PANTY WAISTS
 The War department, faced with 8 shortage of qualified Army in- instructors last year, put into pro duction a series of training films, Hollywood cooperating, to show how to ski, how to care for trench mortar, hows and why's of saluting, dangers of venereal disease, and so on. Sound films were made on the horrors of war-dive bombers, ex- ploding shells, machine gun fire = to season and sychologically con- dition the troops.
 Some of these films were given a preview in Washington the oth- CT night. Everyone took the hor- TOTS of war film all right, but when one of the other films was shown, 3 lieutenant colonel and sailor tainted dead away.