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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-08-19
NOTICE

NOTICE
In pursuance of an order of Ernest B.
Raughley. Register of Wills, in and for
Kent County, Delaware, dated Aug. 2,
A. ID. l943 notice is hereby given of the
granting Letters Testamentary on the
estate of Sarah 7. M. Farrell on the End
day of Aug. AID. 1913. All persons having
claims against the said Sarah T. M. Farrell,
decd. are required to exhibit the same to
such Executor within one year after
the date of the granting of such Letters, or
abide by the law in that behalf, which pro-
vides that such claims against the said
estate not SO exhibited shall be forever
barred.
CHARLES H. LeFEVRE,
Executor of
Sarah 7. M. Farrell, decd.
John P. LeFevre, Esq, Atty.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE
Thoroughbred Poland China Boar
Hog, year old, with papers. Fine
boar.
SAMUEL McNATT,
Near Woodland Beach
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BABY CHICKS

Baby Chicks for sale every Tues.
day and Friday: New Hampshire
Reds, Barred Rocks, White Leg.
horns and Rock-Red Cross. Place
your order early; satisfaction guar.
anteed; prepaid to your mail box
Write, visit or phone 437.
SCARBOROUGH HATCHERY.
Milford, Del
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The
What Not Shelf
BY Louise Hoffecker Burslem

HAVE YOU NOTICED =
1. The Girl Scouts BUY Jeep'
poster in the window of Jones
Drug Store, and the wonderful job
the girls are doing with war bond
sales?
2. People talking about rumor
that there will be a new, modern
theatre built here after the war?
8. The increased number of sold
iers that invade the town over
week-ends?
a. The almost constant drone of
airplanes overhead, and how groups
of them seem to be playing tag in
the clouds?
5. That summer is almost over
with Labor Day only three weeks
away?
6. That ice cream here is as
scarce as hens teeth, and that
when you do find. some, you are
tempted to say Jake sent me.
How's about a half pint of choco-
late-money no object. And no
questions asked?
7. The nifty new uniforms on the
women war production workers
here?
s. That the young men in town
are getting fewer and fewer?
Yesterday, when little Tony
Francis stopped by the office win
dow for his daily visit, we asked
him if he had heard from his broth
er Jack (Aviation Cadet John R.
Francis).
NAV" replied Tony, his mouth
crammed with chocolate cup
cake. "EIe doesn't write to me
very much"
"You have nothing on me-" we
replied bitterly, "but I bet he sends
you messages in letters to your
mother.
"Sure," Tony replied with dis
gust, "but he doesn't send me any
money"
The insults that the small fry
have to put up with theses days!
One of the soldiers who visited
the u. S. o. Recreation Center here
Saturday night entertained us with
his boogie-woogie piano playing. A
Canadian youngster, he was very
obliging, in spite of the heat, and
promised to visit the Center again.
He, like most of the other new
soldiers at Dover who came in the
Center, said they found Smyrna a
trif1e dull.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
| Nothing but Excuses. Buck Passing

One would not utter complaint about sacrifices to
feed soldiers if this necessity But it need not
have been This frightening condition has about only
through bungng and total lack of all intelligent planning
The all responsibility for this shocking condition
must be borne by the administration itself
There is open evidence of sensible plan for food
production having been considered.
There is evidence whatever any plan in the
testimony being given by Food Administrator Wckard
before the House investigating committee. There only
and buck passing and feeble suggestions about what
might have been done.
Secondariy the responsibility for the awful muddle
rests with Mr. Wckard secretary of agriculture and later
so-caled food car with Paul McNutt of the War Man
power Commission who after than year of futity in
office decided last week to get tough with the American
people, and General Hershey director of the seecVe
ice and inventor of the meaningless buckpassng directive
which passes all responsibility to other bureaucrat
or agency
Mr.. Townsend here tonight food production chief
only called after the food production scandal could
no longer be concealed. l wish him luck.
1t is interesting to note that all these gentlemen
Democratic politicians from the state of Indiana and two at
least known to have prodigous political ambitions
These gentlemen either deliberately through lack of all
foresight destroyed farm labor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Millions Of Pounds Lost

This meant loss of from 100 to 800 pounds per head
Of good meat which created-a loss OF many
millions of pounds in the total of meat production 1t also
accounts for the strngy quality of beef which is now
coming into the market at excessively high prices,
The ceiling regulations, combined with the acute
shortage of skilled dairy labor forced into the hands of
the butcher many thousands of good milking which,
this time of desperate need for dairy products
eating shot dogs"
With them to the butcher went many thousands of
heifer calves which will be born to grow into
which might have produced milk, cream, butter and
cheese.
No. time goes on, it becomes and more clear
that Leon Henderson goes down history at ALL it will be
of the most tragic mudders of the time.
There many things about farming which city people
do not understand.
One of them is that just anybody cannot be farmer
and food producer Dairy poultry and stock raising prof.
ecs, well many other things cannot be left to
unsked labor without rskng disaster not only economi
cay to the individual farmer but to the whole field of food
production
dairy herd cannot be raised in six weeks by green
hand poultry project of many thousands of hens
be wiped few days the hands of volunteers from
Mr. Wickards dream army of 100000 land workers.
Expensive and complicated machinery of the kind now
farms cannot be entrusted to unskied workers,
especially at time when it is difficult impossible to
obtain repair parts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
America Can't Feed Half World

think fair to say that nothing practical whatever
has been done to help the farmer to produce On the
contrary obstacle after another has been placed in
his way
And the American people find themselves faced with
food situation which the House of Representatives agri
cultural committee chairman himself describes des-
perate'
And at this very moment there is in Washington new
and expensive bureau being organized under the able drec
ton of Ex-Governor Lehman of New York whose task it
will be feed within the three years the sarv
ing population of half the world.
With what? When not even feeding ourselves
and soldiers.
You may well ask
How can such condition come about in the rich
est agricultural nation in the wOrd-a nation which
had the finest of agricultural equipment"
The is very simplethat food production, like
many other vital phases of the the home front,
has from the beginning been ignored and passed over.
There has never been any authentic coordinated food
production program and there is none now.
Skilled labor and unskilled labor and machinery have
been taken away from the farmer his fertilizers have been
curaed their contents aduteraed they have been taken
away altogether.
Now dairy and poultry feeds and the vital protein and
mineral supplements going the same way.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Don't Dare TO Issue Statistics

In many where farm machinery existed last
stood idle because there not enough skilled labor to
operate stood idle while crops froze and rotted in the
field The government has issued statistics about these
conditions It does not dare to.
But labor is not the only farmers problem
If he wants much small repair part he is forced
to fill in nnumerable forms and drive miles precious
rubber to put in an application for the part.
weeks months while bureaucrats enangle themselves
red tape he will be told that he cannot have the part
The piece of machinery itself will stand broken and idle
while crops go unharvested.
The farmer has under these conditions, time to
waste yet he bombarded with questions and rating forms
which take from two days Of precious time to fill out
He threatened by prison terms and heavy fines decreed by
$3000-ay year bureaucrat in Washington if he does
not do
At the present moment he is the victim of monumental
questonnares regarding labor and machinery Very likely
Senator Byrd discovered it will go to Washington and
never even be opened
IF that QUESTIONABLE should have been sent, it
should been months before Pearl Harbor and
when full in the midst of desperate food crisis
And the farmer is told that he cannot have any vital
nitrogen fertilizer The strength of all other fertilizers has
been Some is unavailable. His vital protein and
mineral feeding supplements cut down altogether
unavailable Yet he told by the bureaucrats of Washing
ton to work harder and produce more
1t is not surprising, then, that you hear good hard
working, honest patriotic farmers say:
my family and are all right We will eat. When
the city folk haven't enough to eat maybe something
even a little, will be DONE"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Last Years Crop Still in Fields

would like to give you picture at first hand of what
the average farmer is up against today.
He and his wife and children working as they have
worked before in the fields the poultry house. the
dairy Mr. McNut says all labor must be hired through the
United States Employment Bureau-a bureau long since
discreded with both employer and job-seeker under
stated underpad and inefficient If he asks for farm
labor the is universally there is nonenot even
cripple, alcoholic
farmer, according to the size Of his farm, must lay
about this time of year from 5000 to many thousands
dollars for seed and fertilizer for this crops You
blame him for refusing to put this with the
prospect of running himself and his family if there is no
labor in prospect for the harvest. And there is aid
provision is being made for any.
Many a farmer perhaps most farmers, have not yet
gotten his last years crop out of the way They still
in the field.
One has only to look out Of the train window any
considerable journey through the Middle West to hun
the and mud, Observation-Disclosures Of acres of
potatoes frozen and rottng in the ground
Yet last year the army which, far more than industry
responsible for the dearh of skilled farm labor refused
furough to help with the harvest If it continues
its present attitude it will refuse again this year.
This is nearly the end of February. Flowing for next
years begin next month Yet most farmers still have
some of last years crops rotng the field Can blame
him he does not rise to Mr. Wckards endless speeches
about putting out crops and producing more?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Henderson Produced Chaos


To the War Production Board must be assigned the
responsibility for taking away from the farmers their
machinery Farm machinery production cut to % per
cent production and the big machinery factories taken
by the WPB.
Recently grudgng per cent of this % per cent was
restored but of this will be available in this crucial
yearAnd the total of steel required for the pro-
ducton of farm machinery involved in the key problem OF
food only tiny fraction of the gigantic steel production
of the nation.
To the theories of Mr. Leon Henderson, another bureau
crat who in his day got tough with the American people
must be assigned the responsibility for the appalling
fusion of meat supply, distribution and production.
BY series of erratic and painless ceilings he pro-
duced economic chaos in the field of farm production.
BY putting ceiling processed meat and none upon
beef the hoo of packing houses had
which permitted them to somehow The smaller
houses had choice but to close down.
Because the price of live beef allowed to skyrocket
hundreds of thousands of cattle dumped upon the
straight from the field without being fatened out
At that time there ceiling upon 1t better
business to send lean and sngy cattle to the butcher
rather than feed them out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
You Can't Eat taxpayers Dollars

The only aid he has received have been vague affairs
like Secretary Wckards dream army of 100000 voun-
eer workers and subsidies of $00000000 taxpayers money
which no farmers want not even the farm lobby.
Subsidies of vast of taxpayers money cannot be
planted and harvested
Dollar bills cannot be used fertilizer dairy feed
nor they milk and tend chickens feed hogs
Subsidies astronomical Secretary Wckard
proposes and the President supports do not provide labor
and the materials which unattainabe.
No, that proposition is too much like the bureaucrat
administration tactics in the pastuse taxpayers money
avshy 10 up your mistakes and dig yourself of
the hole which you have yourself dug.
The farmer does not want and cannot use 100000
subsidies dream armies of 100000 green club
and children. What he wants and in about this order
skilled labor machinery fertilizer and semiskiled labor
High wages in industry have drained away very nearly 100
per cent of his unskilled labor
The army and Mr. McNutts manpower commission
continues take what remains of his skilled abor-tha
vital and rreplaceable skilled labor without which food
cannot be produced at al.
There have been all sorts Of vague directions issued
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Millions Of Lives a Stake

This is the immediate picture If that all, it
would be horrible enough-he waste the laundering, the
suffering But this scandaland by next autumn it will be
of the greatest scandals in American hstoryaects
the whole future history of ourselves and of the world
It's repercussons will destroy the future of the Demo-
cratic Party for years, the future of liberalism the
future possibility of decent peace
And throughout the world millions of people will scken
and die and generations of children will grow up stuned
and sky because frivolous and incompetent bureaucracy
the richest country in the world did not do its job
The whole question has been handled most of the
New Deal has been handled
There hasbeen program but only giant improvisa-
ton carried from day day. from week to week. at the
expense of the taxpayer In the most expensive
laboratory in The world few theorists have been allowed
to carry out expensive and disastrous experiments seeing
if this would work that hoping always something would
turn up to justify their improvisng
The American people have paid the bills They will go
paying for several generations. Only this time
than bank notes involved The life death of millions
of people, the future of the world itself, is at stake
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
BY LOUIS BROMFIELD

Democrat Author. Address
Hail. New York City in Americas Town Meeting the Air"
think it well to establish two three points regarding
the speakers before going to the subject of the evenings
BY profession, I a writer and a farmer--a dirt
farmer living upon LOO of land which produces for
the food market beef veal eggs capons broiers lamb
Putton WOOL hogs and dairy products party Demo-
crat in politics.
am not running for any office and have intention
of doing in the future. have been concerned deeply
and at first hand in the problem of food production since
five six months before Pearl Harbor.
am here speaking to you tonight because fright
ened by the gravity of food problem which the chairman
of the House agricultural committee described only few
days ago desperate" 1t is, if anything, than
desperate
The Office of Price Administration issued statement
about week ago that butter would not be raoned because
there not enough butter to merit ratong There is
prospect of there being butter in the future the pros
pec that there will be less And what is true of butter
is true of other things all the way down the line.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Bad Situation Will Grow Worse

Secretary of Agriculture Wickard tells that we shall
have sufficient food during the coming year. ne does not
say what that food will be- Perhaps it will be than
mere stuffing.
Of one thing am certan-that the American people
WILL way another be fighting for butter pork beef
dairy products eggs and many other commodities.
There already many metropolitan and industrial
where for days and weeks few of these things
are available today. The situation will grow
rather than better.
There is use.n attempting to deceive ourselves Up
date the American people have not been allowed to know
how bad conditions really The officials in Washington
responsible for the situation have told nothing of the
truth.
They have only made speeches saying that the farmer
who with his wife and children is already working sixteen
and eighteen hours day. must work harder
They have contented themselves with speeches
telling the American people, who already doing without
that they must learn to undergo further deprivatons and
hardships.
Nothing constructive has been done The emphasis
has been entirely upon doing without Perhaps because
that is the easier way out for those officials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Boost Newsprint
Ceiling 81 a Ton
Increase, LIST in S Years,
Takes Effect March

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81 CUP).
An increase of 81 ton in the
maximum price which United
States and Canadian producers
may charge for standard news
print was announced tonight by
the Office of Price Administration
and the Canadian Wartime Prices
and Trade Board.
The increase first in five years.
becomes effective on March !. II
brings the new port ceiling price
of newsprint 10 S5i ton. with
zone prices adjusted accordingly.
The two agencies said in a joint
statement that a 81 increase had
been agreed upon al this time. but
that this would not prejudice fur
Their review of the price situation
at a later date.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
StdebIer Starts
Jackson Term

Carl J. Staebler. graft-conyicted
aide of ex-Sherif Thomas c. Will
cox, has surrendered az Jackson
Prison 10 begin serving a three TO
.hve-year term.
According 10 information 10 the
Times Saturday, Staebler entered
the prison February - while VIII
cox and Duncan &. McCrea. for
mer prosecutor, were mapping an
appeal 10 the United States Su-
preme Court.
The state supreme court up
held the conviction OF the trio
November "a, two years after
their indictment with others by
Judge Ferguson s one-man grand
jury. They were found guilty OF a
conspiracy 10 protect vice and
gambling in Wayne County.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Terrific Production Damage

Unsiled volunteer labor-poultry projects hatcheries
dairy and beef feeding farms must close down. There is
other alternative Yet the Selecve Service and the Man
Commission has consistently drained the farms of
skilled labor and despite any statement to the contrary
continuing to do so.
Also vitality necessary to food production is the whole
range of supplemental dairy poultry and livestock feeds
There special compounds, containing specialized
combinations of protens and minerals Without them egg
production drop much IS per cent Milk produc-
ton fall off 80 per cent Without these it takes twice
In other words farm producing 200 hogs year with
the necessary supplementary feeds produce only 100
without them. Multiply this by many hundreds OF thousands
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Food Shortage Imperiling America.
Says Noted Farmer. Author

of farms and you will what appalling effect the lack
these prepared foods have upon the total of pro-
duction.
1t into loss of billions of pounds of meat,
poultry and dairy products which will have to go with
Yet these foods growing and scarcer and
of the richest food producing they today
unavailable because has planned for these things
l think you begin to that food production is as
complicated the production of guns and tanks, planes
and ships Perhaps is complicated Certainly it is
just vital Yet planning done on this ter
rbly vital home front.
And is being done today. Food Administrator
Wickard keeps parroting
Food will win the and dictate the peace"
But the hollow echo asks:
What foOd?"
We not today feeding ourselves and armies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
No Real Effort
Made 10 Block
5. Food Crisis
Admitted by townsend
During 2-Day GriIIine
Before House Group
BY DAVID CAMELON
Detroit Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA
high official of the Department Of
Agriculture today admitted that
no real effort had been made 10
prevent the United States from
drifting into the worst food crisis
in its history.
That was revealed by Rep. Dirk
sen of Illinois after a two-day
Igrilling of NJ. Clifford Townsend.
former governor of Indiana, now
food distribution administrators,
before the House agriculture COM
mittee.
ATTITUDE OF DEFEATISM
Townsend's whole attitude,
DlrkSen said, was one Of defeatism
almost an attitude of:
what the hell"
Townsend admitted. he declared,
that the gravest underlying causes
of the food crisis are lack of man
power and machinery. Dirkson
quoted Townsend az saying that
no relief could be obtained from
the war manpower commission or
the war production board. Dirk
sen continued:
II asked him what had been
done by his department to win
relief for the manpower short
age. He said:
ANSWER Is NO
Nothing
II asked him II he had gone to
the White House for aid. He
said they had not. I asked him
if any effort had been made, at
the time when the manpower
situation first became critical,
, TO tell the story to Congress
and win congressional support.
He said:
NO"
ANY zeal ut albany real
fighting determination 10 pre-
serve Americas food depart
/ ment, would have taken the de-
partment of agriculture officials
right into the White House over
the issues of farm manpower
and machinery"
At first glance. Difksen said, IL
would be impossible 10 understand
thor supine attitude. would seem
utterly incredible that virtually
without lifting hand the officers
of the department OF agriculture
should permit the nation 10 drift
inevitably down the road 10 actual
food shortage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Wayne Breaks
NJ. D. Tradition

The Wayne University College
of Medicine Will break two more
of its traditions Thursday when
NJ. ID. degrees are awarded TO 50
graduates.
The ceremony Will mark the
first time in the schools history
that students receive degrees at
any time but the traditional June
date. and il will be the first time
the NJ -. degree has been pre-
Sented before the student has
finished his one year of internShip.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28

recently about farm labor But orders have been given
and because General Hershey refused to accept the spon
sbty of acting he has done since the very beginning
every draft board in the country continues to function
different basis. And skilled farm labor is at this very
moment being taken off farms to put into gigantic swollen
army which may not be able to feed Certainly it will
be fed only the expense of the American citizenry
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
Bay City Shipydrd
Gets Biz Navy Order

BAY CITY. Feb. 27.-The navy
has given the Defoe Shipbuilding
Company 4 contract for destroyer
escorts that will keep 4 900 work
men on a 81 100000 a month pay
roll busy for at least two years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-28
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