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Noted Author is Certain Nation Won't Go Hungry

against l8 cents i'm very rough
figures without regard 10 grades
than pork. but a SOW will pro-
duce three times more pound
age-and these figures are only
approximate and subject 10 'critl-
clsm--in one year than heifer
will in three
That is. f there is plenty Of
feed There happens 10 be plen-
~ of feed,
The Improvement Of farming
IN this country over the past 20
years iS-one looks for the word
and the word is not there-but
incredible comes closest. But
the figures speak for themselves:
with fewer resources in power
and personnel than in 1918 the
American farmer achieved his
greatest output last year, and
broke the figures of 1916 by 40
per cent, under good conditions.
but none that we're significantly
improved over those OF 1918.
This country will never 60
hungry, unless the Gestapo takes
its food. The very providence
Of food has made us impatient
about any direction in provision
Rationing, ceilings. question
naires, temporary shortages IN
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-20

creased their hog production
tremendously, they began the
year before Pearl Harbor. Iowa,
which usually leads the country
in hog production, increased its
brood sows 30 per cent last year.
In terms Of food. there are not
quite half as many hogs as peo-
ple-again including armed for
ces-in the United States. A
brood sow that does not produce
three or four tons of potential
pork year is not esteemed. Ten
years ago hogs were sold at 200
$50 pounds 10 get the best price,
but now they are sold al 350-up
so sow that averages a litter
and a half a year will furnish
the sprouts for about the ton
mage mentioned.
(Of course, a good many old
stays and lard animals are sold
at weights running up to a ton
or more. The prize winning boar
at the Iowa State Fair in 1892
weighed just about the same as
my Plymouth sedan
The cattle situation is some
what the same. as far as the eco
nomic incentive is concerned
AT the moment, beef sells about
one-fOurth higher. e., IA cents
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-20
Proud Farmers Seek to Best
~ Record, Says Phil Strong

Justly so, of their record last
year when they produced sub
stantially more foodstuffs than
ever came out of the American
land before. With nine per cent
less manpoWer and IA per cent
less horsepower (animal and
motor than they had in 1918.
they produced 40 per cent more
food than they did in that prev
ious war year.
They expect to produce still
more this year, though the re-
suits are subject to some unpre-
dictables--the weather in 1912
was almost miraculously favor
able; the machines were one
years wear better than they will
be this year; most important of
all, perhaps, there was no seri-
Gus shortage of experienced
farm labor.
There is no serious shortage
now, in the Corn Belt, but as the
banker in Keosauqua, Iowa, told
me, Were not hurt yet, but if
they take just one more farmer
out Of the county we will be-"
With even moderately favor
able conditions there will be
more pigs, fattened cattle, wheat
and foodstuffs in general in this
country next December 7th than
there were on the day of Pearl
Harbor There will not be as
many cans in the grocery stores,
of course, but as far as bread and
meat are concerned, the country
will be amply provided to feed
its people, in and out of the arm
ed forces. and to make increas-
ing contributions to its allies.
IL there had been no war the
Shortage of foodstuffs in this
country would be one of the
most catastrophe SURPRISES the
farmer has ever suffered. The
wheat surplus is expected TO in
crease this year. Nearly 7.000,-
600 hogs were slaughtered last
December, the largest number in
history. and about one for every
fourth family in the country, ev-
en- counting the part Of the fam
lily in the Army or Navy or Ma
rines or WAACs, etc.
Nebraska and Kansas have in
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so than il docs al 35.
The details can be considered
later. but we can work from one
fairly evident conclusion-Am-
erica will win the war and it Will
adjust the peace with the
greatest food resources and de
pots the world has ever known.
The gold reserve is a speck-
the conservation OF our land
('paylng farmers not 10 farm"
as they called il few years ago.
our great grain reserve, our
potentialities for the production
of beefSteaks and pork chops.
our success in replacing palm
oils with SOY beans and other
ollS-these preparations have
made the housewife and the gro
Ger impatient. but they have
made the nation secure for the
war and most secure for the
peace.
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ling, on the street and, wishing
to express sympathy, as Mid
wcsterners do, without blowing
his top off about it, slapped
Thad on the shoulder and said,
Hi. fcllow-how things going?"
Fine said Thad. fine. had
breakfast, and it amt time for
dinner yet"
This. | found last week in
travelling through what is vari-
ouSly known as the American
Food Bowl" and The Bread
basket, is about the attitude Of
everyone concerned with agri-
culture, from Staff Headquarters
in the Department of Agricul-
ture down to the shock troops
on the individual farms. with re-
gard TO both the problem Of food
production and the related
problem of farm labor.
The farmers are proud, and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-20

Into the nations mid west
food bowl" on assignment
from NEA Service. went Phil
i, StOng to talk to farmers and
farm leaders-and to report
their wartime problems. This
Is the first of series OF six
dispatches from the author
famed for his novels of farm
life.
BY PHIL STONG
Author of state Fair"
written for NEA Scrvice)
Very early one morning soy
eral years ago, Thad Shcrod S
store in Kcosauqua Iowa. burn
cd 10 the ground. With the
splendid timing that accidents
usually show, Thad had neglect
ed TO renew his fire insurance
for a few days.
Later in the morning neigh
Dor tradcsman met Thad, Whist
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the local grocery store provoke
people who were accustomed TO
buying anything when they had
the price, and who find now.
when they have the price and
the greatest amount of food IN
history, that a purchaSeable
steak is hard to discover.
ITS going to the Army is no
answer. The Army ration and
that of the other forces Is big
ger and better than that the av-
erage militlaman ever enjoyed
before, but the dlfferentiai
doesn't account for a shortage
in our most productive year The
boys weren't living on oxygen IN
all the years before they put on
uniforms.
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EVEN EXPORT
ISN'T ANSWER

"Lend-lease is another and
better explanation, but a glance
al the shipping tonnage figures
available so far during this war
as compared with the foods nor
mally exported by the United
States, does not subtract 10 a
shortage
The civilian population cats
more because il works harder
An automobile uses more gas at
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time of Showing
Stage,

Stage.
National-"Arsenic and Old Lace"
with Boris Karloff: 2::30 and $50
pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Salute to the Marines" ,"
Mr.. Beery in uniform again: 1045
am, 1:35, 4:20, ITO and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $40, 6:25 and
9:15 pm.
Victory. Through Air
power" Disney interprets De Sever
sky: 11:40 am, 1;25, $40, 4:55, $40,
8:25 and 1910 pm.
Earle-"This Is the Army" the
almost -all-Army show: II a m, las.
4:30, ITO and $50 pm, Stage shows
ITO, 4, 6:35 and 9:2O pm.
Keith's-"Mr. Lucky" another
love in bloom: 1875 am, 1:35, 3:35,
5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Little-"Duke of West Point" with
Joan Fontaine: II am, las, 4:25,
ITO and 9:55 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
Berlin" spying in Maitland: Ills
am, 1:20, 3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40
pm.
Palace - Heaven Can Wait" a
fantasy for Ameche: HAS am, 2:l0
4:40, 7:05 and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"Lucky Partners" Ginger
Rogers oldster: Continuous from
2 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-09-01

from which the Colbert countenance
Is not reflected. not merely without
cosmetics, but with such substitutes
as crankcase oil, Bataan mud, brack-
lsh water, and everything else that
might be exploded in the features
OF nurse-including the most
deadly kind of fatigue the script
writer's could imagine.
Miss Goddard, who occasionally
has been presented in a rumpled
condition, but never more than that,
is equally frank and completely
satisfied glamourless person in nu-
merous stretches of the film. So are
the seven or eight other feminine
players in this story of nurses, but
since they are less well known, their
cases have less significance.
so Proudly We Hail." for all its
devastation of the beauty of its
leading feminine characters, Is
merely beginning. Still to come is
another picture, Cry Havoc" which
deals with the same subject and is
being made by Metro Goodwin
Mayer. In it, eight of the most CLAM
orous girls in that big studios
employ go through two hours of
looking their physical worst in order
to look their moral best. Among
them are Margaret SULLIVAN and
Marsha Hunt, to mention but cou-
pie who usually are illustrated to the
best advantage.
The old sergeant never was more
right about it being a dirrrty game.
He was merely a war ahead of his
time.
In view of the fact that the Ma
tional closed only sporadically dur
ing the summer, T. P wants to know
why Elmer Rice's "A New Life" is
announced as opening the 1884
season.
The question is valid one, and
we hope the answer is equally so.
1t is that Mr. Rice's play is the
first new offering of the season,
play bound for Broadway instead of
one bound away from it? The latter
has been the case with regard to
Junior Miss" and Arsenic and Old
Lace"
1t is all rather arbitrary and tech
nical but it is the best answer that
can be mustered on such short no.
tice.
X
Because there are so many slips in
this world, official announcement
still is to come, but the odds are
strongly in favor of a road COM
pany of oklahoma" for Washington
and elsewhere within the next so
days. Already the Theater Guild is
hard at work on casting a second
company, an easier task than would
appear on the surface since the first
company contains no names that
were starrish before Oklahoma"
made them So Rehearsals are
scheduled to begin on September 13,
Evening star., 1943-09-01

glamour RlTS instead OF 10 SOlQleTS
learning how to carve their opposite
numbers in Axis armies.
Whether they use the old ser
geant,s phrase verbatim or have
thought up refined paraphrases of
their own, directors are getting some
of Hollywoods prettiest ladies to
forget they ever were pretty. They
are bringing the feminine stars down
to earth, or the earth up to the
stars, on a scale that is virtually
incredible.
In so Proudly We Hail" for
example, two of the screens most
pristine ladies play for more than
two hours in a lack of makeup
that would do credit to short
order cook who had stopped giving
a darn 35 years ago. The glamour
girls in question are Claudette Col
bert and Paulette Goddard.
Miss Colbert is the real surprise
in this story of Bataan nurses. For
years she has been one of the
cinema's most sensitive creatures on
the subject of photography. Every
one above the age of 10 is familiar
with the story that Miss Colbert
will have only her left profile
photographed The other in which
there is no apparent difference to
the most searching eye, Miss Col
bert is reported not to like. The
story, or legend as it has virtually
become, has made Miss C. sound
like the most sensitive lady of the
screen.
She is quite over it in so Proudly
We Hail" There is no angle of her
face that is not caught by the
camera in the course of the excite
ment. Moreover. there is no angle
Evening star., 1943-09-01
in Sherwood

Returning to the location where
he made scenes for some of his
most successful pictures, among
them robin Hood" and Elizabeth
and Essex" Director Michael Cur
stiz has gone to Sherwood Forest
with his Passage to Marseille" COM
pany. The site was named in honor
of the original Robin Hood" made
by Douglas Fairbanks. Humphrey
Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Michele
Morgan and Claude Rains head the
cast of Curtizs current Warner
Bros picture.
Evening star., 1943-09-01

sequence Of his Jean Arthur John
Wayne feature, "A Lady Takes a
Chance"
Peggy registered 50 we'll that her
one dance sequence was heightened
into good part and studio execu-
tives opened their eyes. RKo-Radio
offered her term contract with
chance for stardom in the future as
a possibility.
Evening star., 1943-09-01

this departments information goes,
which would be ample time to per-
init kind of gala Washington en-
gagement by the end of October-a
first anniversary party with Okla
homans here participating to the
hilt.
But no one is saying so officially,
understand. Especially not this de-
partment.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
She Is No Longer
A Pair of Legs
HOLLYWOOD

For four busy months redheaded,
curvesome Peggy Carroll had been
dancing with Fred Astaire, but be-
cause her face never appeared on
the screen studio executives didn't
even give her second look when
she passed by.
Then, having finished her duties
as Astaire's assistant in working out
the choreography of his dance num-
bers with Joan Leslie in "The Sky's
the Limit" Producer Frank Ross
borrowed her to be Charlie VIM
inger's dancing partner in a comedy
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Fanaticism Deleted

international Zone" will be the
title of RKO-Radio's picture hither-
to announced as The Fanatic of
Fez," with George Sanders heading
the cast. 1t concerns an American
agent fighting in Morocco to gain
possession of a new oil formula dis
covered by an American scientist
who hates his native land for per-
sonal reasons.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
War Films Deglamourize
The Screens Fairest Faces
BY JAY CARMODY,

One OF our favore stories OF World War that of the old Irish
whose bit of advice
It's dirrry game men, and must
Apparently the old
banded directors with the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27

the Gestapo, according to the
Anti-Nazi League.
TAKE NOTE OF. NAZIs
Inasmuch as Hitler often discrib-
ed the Negro as an inferior race"
OF "half-ape" type, it is not sur
prising that he should now reach
the point where, with the labor
shortage in the Reich growing
more acute. he is willing to revert
to complete barbarisn 10 gain his
ends.
Prof. James H. Sheldon, adj
ministrative chairman of the Nom
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, COM
menting upon Himmler's decree. is
sued statement urging the Negro
people Of America to take note
OF what Nazi victory would mean.
THE Axis has been attempting,
unsuccessfully, Of course, to make
Negroes believe they would be bet
ter off under the New Order Hit
ler's latest step in enslaving those
unfortunate Negroes who remain in
Nazl- dominated territories indi-
Gates just what their fate would
be if the NaZis were to win the war.
or If their appeaser friends were
TO be successful here in America.
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peared. He was not conscious of his
body now; he could not feel him
self at all. He knew only that he
was lying here with a gun in his
hand, surrounded by men who
wanted to kill him. Then he heard
a hammering noise near by; he
looked. Behind the edge of a
chimney he saw trapdoor open
"All right, boy!" a hoarse voice
called. Were giving you your
last chance. Come on down."
He lay still. What was coming?
He knew that they were not going
to shoot, for they could not see
him. Then what? And while Won
dering, he knew: a furious whisper
Of water, cleaning like silver in
the bright lights, streaked above
his head with vicious force, pass
ing him high in the air and hitting
the roof beyond with a thudding
drone. They had turned on the
water hose; the fire department had
done that. They were trying to
drive him into the open. The
stream Of water was coming from
behind the chimney where the
trapdoor had opened, but as yet
the water had not touched him
Above him the rushing stream
jerked this way and that; they
were trying to reach him with it,
Then the water hit him, in the
side; it was like the blow of a pile
driver His breath left and he felt
a. dull pain in his side that spread.
engulfing. The water was trying
TO push him off the tank: he grip
ped the edges hard, feeling his
strength ebbing. His chest heaved
and he knew from the pain that
throbbed in him that he would not
be able to hold on much longer
with water pounding at his body
like this. He felt cold, freezing; his
blood turned to ice, it seemed. He
gasped, his mouth open. Then the
gun 1oosened in his fingers: he
tried to grip it again and found
that he could not. The water left
him; he lay gasping, spent.
Throw that gun down, boy!"
He gritted his teeth. The icy water
clutched again at his body like
giant hand; the chill of it squeez-
ed him like the circling coils of
a monstrous boa constructor. His
arms ached. He was behind his
curtain now, looking down at him
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27

F. C.-My husband and I were
married only two months when he
was drafted in the service. Before
we were married, he had his
mother to support because she was
getting old. She lived with us
after we married. Now that he is
gone, should I remain here with
her or leave town and 60 to the
coast and get a defense lob?
Ans: Naturally, you will want
to get job and go to work but
for the present find work there
where you are so that you can
see that your mOther-in-law is
well provided for. You prOmis-
ed your husband that you would
see that she was looked after
and you must keep your word.
If you get a job, you two can
live very comfortably on the
money you receive from the
government and the money you
make on your job.
w. E. Rim very lonely as I
owe my husband. After II years of
I find I can't ever be
happy without him. The whole
own where l live think I should
never have anything to do with
him again. Help me to decide.
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Originally the unit was COM
manded by Col West Hamilton,
now located at Prairie View Col
lege, Tex. Before leaving he was
relegated to assistant commander
and actual leadership entrusted to
a white colonel Since then the
commanding officer has been white,
with Col. Leonard the last in
charge.
Col. Leonard's recent departure
to another post in Washington has
caused Lit. Col. Howard d. Queen
OF Washington, executive officer
and senior officer of the regiment.
to be placed in acting command,
Col. Queen, graduate of Howard
University in electrical engineering,
was an infantry captain IN World
War l in France and has finished
several army service schools. The
personnel of the 366th favor his as
s1gnment to commanding officer or
the elevation of 1t. Col. Alonzo
ferguson to the post.
Col Ferguson also served in
France during World War / where
he was a machine gun officer and
was wounded in the House Argonne
sector. He is now executive officer
of the 366th. Either of these two
Negro officers would be thoroughly
acceptable to the 366th which in
cluded almost the total military
product of Howard and Wilber-
force universities.
Officers and soldiers of this regi-
ment are prevented by military
regulations from open opposition to
white man as commanding officer,
but civilian organizations and in
dividualS are urged to make the
proper presentations to Washing
ton and the war department ask
ing that the 366th be placed under
the leadership Of a Negro colonel.
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Camp Campbell
SoIdiersGiyel,
Awards For Acts
Showed Bravery
In Rescue OF
Drowning Man

CAMP CAMPBELL, KY (sNs)
Soldiers Medals were awarded
an officer and an enlisted man in
o formal ceremony here Wednesday
afteroon.
Lt Murray G.. Cordin and Pfc.
Cleo I. Coleman, both of the 3R5th
Engineer General Service Regi-
inent, received the citations before
The entire regiment. The troons
were massed in formation on the
second Army parade grounds at the
post.
LII. Ccrdin is originally from Fgge-
WOOD, II. /. but now makes his
nome with his mother in Philadel-
phia.
Pfc. Coleman is from Fitzgerald.
Ga. Pvt. Jackson's home is at l1O3
Laurel Street, Texarkana, Ark.
Brig. Gen. George L.. Eberle, as
slstant commanding general of the
18th Division, presented the medals
IN the name of the President of the
United States and Lit. Gen. Ben
Lear, commanding general of the
Second Army.
CITED FOR HEROIsM
Lit. Col. Frank A. Petit. COM
manding officer of the 365th Engi-
Eeers, accompanied the general on
the formal inspection of troops
which preceded the presentation. It
was through his efforts that the
men received the awards.
The citation reads, "For haroism
display in rescuing a soldier from
drowning near Camp Campbell,
KY, on December %, 1912"
"Ihe heroism displayed by 1t.
Cordin and Pfc. Coleman reflects
great credit upon themselves and
the military service" the citation
comments.
Prompting the awards was the
rescue of Pvt. William D. Jackson,
10th Signal Construction Battalion,
who was nearly drowned when his
jeep overturned into this swirling
waters Of the Red River near Camp
Campbell.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-02-27

ask for Black-Draught. Cues. Is
Blaok-Draught economical? Ans.
Very! Only 25c for 25 to 40 doses.
Rlack-Draught is purely herbal
Tt has been a popnar selling lax
alive with four generations Many
say the new granulated form is
even easier to take. Be sure to fol-
low label directions.
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St.J!o:ES ;s|2
WORLDS LARGEST SELLER At ~
Before buying ANY laxative,
consider these 3 Questions

CUES. Does it make any differ
ence what laxative you buy? Ans.
1t certainly does; most people pre-
fer a laxative that is gentle in ac-
ton but thorough in results. Cues.
How can you know what laxative,
when taken as directed, will usual
~ give gentle, thorough, prompt
relief? Ans. One simple way is to