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Subsidies
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Jones took over the job Of managing
the Nation food production.
Judge Jones, former chairman of
the House Agriculture Committee
with long record of support for the
policies of President Roosevelt, is
known as price rollback and
subsidy advocate. He replaced
Chester Davis, St. Louis banker.
The subsidy restriction. designed
to end the subsidy rollbaCk on retail
prices OF meats and butter. was
written into Gill giving the Com
modify Credit Corp. two more years
OF life and adding S75O,000000 to its
present S265O,O0O.000 lending power.
While the Senate measure would
have transferred subsidy powers
from the Office Of Price Administra-
ton TO the War Food Administrator,
the conferees' version emphasizes
and reasserts' present provisions Of
law requiring payment of the limited
subsidies only when the food admin
iStrator considers it necessary to
stimulate production.
The administrator also would
supervise what the ConferecS called
a buying selling system which would
permit a Substituting agency to pur-
chase food at a loss from the farmer
or on the open market as an in
centive to production.
Commitments Would BE Paid.
Congress would have to pass on
any move to pay subsidies above the
sl50000,O00 ceiling. but administra-
ton commitments for the rollback of
retail meats and butter prices would
be paid and Government agencies
allowed until August l to liquidate
accrued obligations.
Continuation of incentive pay
mentS on canning and specially
crops and Of the price support pro-
gram on domestic vegetable oils and
fats would be permitted, as we'll as
payments authorizing sale of wheat
for feeding purposes.
Only conferee refusing to sign the
report was Senator Maloney, Demo-
crat, Of Connecticut, who declared
that he COuId not cOnSclentiCuSiy
agree to tho measure because of a
conviction that the Subsidy-rollbaCk
program IS necessary TO ward OIL in
f1atiOn
Senator Butler. Republican, OF
Nebraska. another member of the
conference group. expressed belief,
however. that the measure would
strengthen the anti-infation pro-
gram
The housewives crusade to halt
imitation. meanwhile, sent Mr..
Roosevelt a telegram today urging
that he make a "fireslde chat" to
the Nation and explain the need
for subsidies if the fight against in
fation is not to be lost
The organization also made public
An open letter to members of Con-
Gress opposing the subsidy program
in which it said that unless they
reverse their stand and enable the
common people to buY food at rea-
Scnable prices" the legislators will
send themselves into oblivion at
the confessional elections CT 1874"
New Powers Doubted.
Any food shortages, Judge Jones
indicated in taking over as food ad-
ministrator. will be only relative
since the American people today
are eating more and better than
ever before"
LAS war food administrator I eX-
pect to do the best job I can with
the tools at hand" he said.
His statement was accepted as
evidence that he went into Office
without any enlargement of the
powers which his predecessor con-
tended were insufficient to meet the
responsibilities of the post.
Mr.. Davis resignation was ac-
cepted by Mr. Roosevelt Monday
after long discussion of Mr.. Davis
bid for more authority, particularly
in relation to prices, and a direct
disagreement over the administra-
tlon'S program of food subsidies.
Judge Jones assignment to the
food post was taken as assurance
that the price issue would continue
to be paramount one in food poll
cies. He said he would gear his
administration to the idea of fair
return" to farmers, relative to other
price levels.
Saying that food is not produced
in Washington" he announced he
would seek aid and ideas from heads
of farm organizations and from the
food industry as well.
Full use should be made" he
said, of State, county and COM
munity organizations. = No pro-
gram can be effective unless it has
the support of the American people
on wartime basis"
He said talk of food shortages
has created fear on the part OF
some of our people that they ano
their children may go hungry. We
may not throughout the war have