The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-09-19
SATURDAY. sEPTEMRER 10. 1874:
GOVERNMENT FARMERS


GOVERNMENT FARMERS
Like the Packages-for-Congress
rbe, the Georgia Social Circle plan
for making the pursuits Of sgricul.
ture prohtahl-, is creating stir
in Washington
The plan, originating withNalton
County cotton growers advocates
making every farmer government
employe Il proposes that the gov
eminent should take all farms on
per.acre basis and give the pres.
ent growers steady joins as farm
foremen with regular government
pay checks.
Little attention would probably
Re given the plan II 1t were not
for the active inteT- ~ which 1t has
received from Georgis's agriculture
commissioner, Tom Under. He has
criticised Secretary OF Agriculture
Claude r WiCkard for recommend
M what he calls fake" parity and
has loudly demanded that the Score
tary he impeached.
Linde- ran his mimeograph not,
and put his entire stan to work,
mailing copie Of the Social Circle
plan 70 senators, onzresssmen,
state officials and farm leaders, who
he thought might be interested
II just goes to show what fake
parity il doing to our farm srs.'
Under says. The law SAYS cot
ton parity ought 10 be such that the
returns from a bale would buy the
same amount OF the things farm
or needs as It did in the l909.li
period II We had just parity a.
the law provides. the parity price on
cotton would be 80 cents pound.
But Wickard sets Il al Is cents.
No wonder those Social Circle
folks want 10 ent their farms"
Under. bacing his parity calcu'
Iations on old catalogues. says.
Its very simple. These catalogues
from 1903 TO 1914 show what the
farmer paid then They show the
price OF oyeralls. and wagon
tongues. and hoes and cream seps-
rators everything that farm folks
need and buy. ] don't know what
method Wicksrd uses 10 compute
his parity II h. uses a crystal ball.
he needs new one His answers
come out wrong
Under says the per capita farm
income in Georgia j. $500 per
month. II he is correct in this
statement he IL right in asking for
better prices or for changes some
where along the line that will in
crease that average income. Even
in Georgia il must he admitted that
man can't give his family much
in way Of luxury on $3.50 ? month.
Buy More war Bonds -
HOW RUSSIA VALUES EN-
How Russia evaluates German
lives Is roughly summed up like
this 152-l54. only sheepskinllned
leather jacket bur for 309 you are
entitled 10 full-length raccoon
coat.
Such seems 70 be the unofficial
rating according 70 awards given 10
Russian snipers by members Of the
Internationsl Fur and Leather
Workers Union, Go. before whom
the feats Of two men and one wom-
an Soviet soldier were disclosed IN
Russian. Yiddish. Italian Creek
End English.
Lieut. Vladimar PCheiintsev who
has a record Of 1872 Nazis downed by
stootinE only l54 Red bullets and
A,!ccNa4 Krasaavchenko. who led the
civilian defenders Of Moscow. we're
presented with the fur lined leather
Jackets At special union rally be
fore which they appeared
The ragcoon coat was ziyen 70
LirU' Liudmifa Paylicaenso gtrl
sniper who has 30 dead Germans
% her credit 80 addition. she re-
ceived a large floral piece Of red
wh.'e and Blue flowers pre- e1'en
tva group o. American servicenon.
former members n ne union
NAV Mora war Bonda