The people's voice., 1942-02-27
Yours truly,
o. ]. JOHNSRUD.
lditor, The Peoples Voice:

Editor, The Peoples Voice.
Answering Mr.. Joe Kindred's letter
of Feb. 20, 1912 will agree with him
that, The Peoples Voice has been
very liberal with their space by
carrying on these discussions which
from my point are intended to be
educational. I have been very much
surprised at the number of business
men that have approached me on the
subject-also as equally surprised at
the number of farmers who have not
I voiced any consideration. l have
asked my brother farmers to stick
their necks out by asking questions
| in reference to the all-crop insurance
program. My experiences have been
that when farmer begins to ques-
tion the upper brackets of the ad-
ministrators of the different A.AA.
programs he is sticking his neck out
and is liable to get rabbit punch
that is intended to quiet him forever
1t seems that Mr.. Kindred has
answered most of my questions ex-
NNPc tiiO luOot inpOl ldul Ou0. ludL
being, who and where is the person
or persons with authority to make
bushel allowance per acre adjust
ments, that would be more repre-
sentative to actual yields? Now 1
don't want the answer to be 1.-THE
County Committee"-for know that
the county committees as they now
function are just rubber stamps.
Just now we have another subject
think more vital and important than
crop insurance. That is the produc-
tion of agricultural commodities for
Victory or Victory Food It has been
stated many times over, and correctly
stated, that agriculture's welfare is
the backbone of the nation. Example,
the United States population is some
l3O million people. Each person is
supposed to eat 8 meals per day
and supposing that tt ey do, that
would equal 390,000,000 man-sized
meals. Now that is just one day, and
there are only some 6 million farms
in the nation. Dealing in averages
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some 65 meals every day. The greater
part of the commodities that go into
those 800 million meals per day are
produced from family-sized farms.
And it is from these family-sized |
farms that farm boys are being taken
by the war cause. They make good |
soldiers quick.
1t seems that in time of war the
rations necessary to feed an army
increases per man unit,
md that likewise is true of those not
n the army but in the war. The extra
efforts extended by all persons must
)e fueled with more food if the energy
S to exist any great length of time
we all have certain amount of
nergy in reserve for some emergency
ace we should not use that reserve
nergy, but fire up the boiler and ac-
uire greater reserve than ever be-
ore. We may need it! To do this
With less farm help will require bet
er and faster farming by more family
lZeu ulllLS. Inc AAA SQOulQ look
bout and see what it has been doing
0 the family size farmer, and dras-
ically revise some of its practices.
We are at war! Our nation needs
80 million meals per day and should
roduce about an equal amount for I
ur allies. We have the land, we t
armers are willing to do the job and
ill do 1t, providing we are allowed I
D., and we can get the necessary
loney to finance the purchase Of the l
quipment necessary to this produc-
on at reasonable rate of interest c
nd in manner which will not jeop- G
rdize our existance for the next 40 Q
: SO post war years. CA reasonable
lte of interest should not exceed 800
er annum)
The traditional business practices
our private and national banking
vstem do not fit into the picture of
national emergency, but acts as o
ndrance OF the welfare Of the ma s.