Evening star., 1942-11-14
Roosevelt Stresses
u. ). Food Needs in
Message 10 Grange
Form Group Hears AttocI
On Synthetic Rubber
Production Program
By the Associated Press.

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WENATCHEE, Wash, Nov. IA
President Roosevelt told the Nation S
Grangers today, in special message
to their 18th national convention,
that 'in unis war, the need for
American food and other farm prod
ucts is almost without limit"
This year American farmers
made magnificent response to the
demands upon them," the President
said in message to the Grange
master Albert S. Goss. Those de-
mands are increasing: so are the
obstacles in meeting them.
THE rural families of the United
States face many sacrifices, many
difficulties. The Nation looks to
them to produce the food we need
to win this war, and to fulfill all
their other wartime obligations as
citizens. AS in the past, the great
farm organizations have large
place in helping farmers work to-
gether for victory
In a message as one Granger to
enother-the President has been a
member of the Chapel Corners
Grange in Dutchess County, N. Y,
for 27 years-the Chief Executive
expressed the belief that in all its
long history, the National Grange
never has met at time when the
Nation depended more upon its
farmers, and farmers faced so many
{vN tn
knowledge that the Grange was born
in the very shadow of the Civil
War. ="
Rubber Program Criticized.
The. Presidents message shared
convention interest with a sharply
critical report on the synthetic rub
ber situation by E. IT. Taylor, chair
man Of the Oranges potent trans
portation committee.
Denouncing what he charged were
obstacles placed in the way of syn
thetic rubber development by selfish
interests, Mr.. Taylor, master of the
Idaho State Grange, reported that
q new and secret miracle process
had been devised.
He said the process was Gust about
as simple as dropping some potatoes
wheat or beans in a kettle, adding
some gelatin, cooking it while, and
then putting on your new tires and
driving away"
The secret process, Mr.. Taylor
said, has been offered to the War
Production Board and would elimi-
nate even the necessity Of making
alcohol in the process, but so far we
have had no encouragement"
Proposal Outlined.
He stressed these contentious:
One bushel of wheat, currently
selling for about 81, could make two
6O0x16 tires. or seven recaps, or 81
gallons Of alcohol.
The process would produce syn
thetic rubber at less than 10 cents a
pound.
Production from farm products
could be started in one third the
time it would take under the petro-
leum process. The cost and the use
OF critical materials would be only
half as much.
The California Winery Association
has offered It's idle plants and ma
chinery, with an annual capacity OF
100,000,000 gallons of alcohol, to q
non-profit organization to bring
about production Of synthetic rub.
ber.
The Tri-State Industrial and Syn
thetic Rubber Association, a new
organization Of farmers, civic, indus
trial and education groups, Is ready
to start production whenever the
Government gives go ahead" sig
nal.
Mr.. Taylor charged that "the
greed of the rubber, petroleum and
industrial alcohol industries" fear.
ing postwar competition, was block.
ing development Of the synthetic
rubber processes.