The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-11-11
Politics Seen as Key in
Farm Subsidy Problem
Acceptable Compromise Lacking; Presidential
Veto Forecast for Any Bill Banning Use
OF Economic Stmuant.'
By BAUKHAGE
Netus ANALYST and Commentator.

purely political. They say the Re-
publicans naturally take the side OPP
posite to the administration because
they can win some farm votes as
champions of higher prices to farm
ers if they take this stand. On the
other hand, they believe that the
anti-subsidy bill will be vetoed
eventually and the Democrats say
the veto will be sustained. II SO,
the Republicans will not be criticized
for supporting measure which is
defeated. And the Democratic sup
port in the house agriculture COM
mittee, subsidy supporters say, was
bought by allowing the present
subsidies. for the products grown in
districts of the congressman who
supported the bill, to stand
The administration followers say
that it seems strange for the Re-
publicans to raise cry against SUBJ
sides when tariffs are subsidies.
They mention the sugar subsidy"
AS for complaint that the subsidy
on agricultural products would not
reach the farmer, they call attention
to the milk subsidies at present in
operation where the man who milks
the COW gets the subsidy direct.
Meanwhile, we know that the cost
of living has already gone up. We
know that we need full production
of foodstuffs. We know that many
farmers cant get the feed required
| to raise the stock or to fatten 1t to
its most efficient weight for slaugh-
ter.
| Payment Of any money out by the
treasury does mean more money in
circulation but the subsidy pro-
ponents point to the kind of imitation
we get when prices aren't controlled.
| The administration says it is better
| to control few professors and dis
tributors. even il Uncle Sam has
to snoop into their books to see he
isn't cheated, than to let that vicious
spiral Of prices and living costs start
to mount.
/
a lot more of these arguments. :
Food Contribution
The other day Wnen I stepped into
the broadcasting studio just as the
Farm and Home Hour had ended,
found some cookies, some Brown
/ pn++v ord !. ~, 0at Joof r,rI,,v rn ,.v.s+
ing. These samples had been saved
from a more elaborate layout of
good things made with soy beans
which had been the subject of the
F & Fl broadcast.
/ ate them with pleasure. AL
though the meat loaf was rs per cent
soy grits, it tasted exactly like meat
to me. The cookies and the Brown
Betty were excellent.
Soy flour and soy grits-the bread
had some soy flour in it--are both
on the market ready to contribute
vitamins, mineral. protein, vim and
vigor to our food, reducing the con-
sumption of scarcer and more ex-
pensive products. A saving of from
20 to rs per cent in meat and still
having almost identical food values
is nothing to be sneezed at.
Soy, 1t is pointed out, is not a
substitute but supplement to other
foods and you would be surprised
how many tasty dishes can be pro-
| duced with it. The Bureau of HUI
man Nutrition and Home Economics
has a handy little pamphlet contain
| ing recipes, and you can get one by
writing to the bureau, care of the
| department of agriculture, Washing
| ton, ID. G.
There are recipes for mint loaf,
chile con carne, suggestions for use
of soy with vegetables when they are
served as main dish; soy in sauces
and mixed with cereals to give a
richer protein >diet-many sugges-
tions for making what you have go
further and accomplish more.
A Letter
Frankly, when | get letter that
makes me real mad, | sometimes
mention it on the air. | shouldn't
ever do it, suppose, because I usu-
ally get flood of sympathy which
perhaps | don't deserve but one of
the best replies | ever had was from
a man in Spearfsh, S. D., who wrote
4 m mo &C fo1lourc.
Each morning at II a. m. MET, 4 tune
you in Noiu, | may be mistaken yet il
seems to me that at times you think some