Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-01

and very offensive to professors.
Another authority says:
'The packers don't know where the.
stand. The price ceiling on cattle may have
the same effect on cattle production that the
ceiling on hogs has had-discouraging pro-
duction and making the small producer hasten
to get cut a. quickly As possible"
Such testimonials might be cited in =
definitely. They show how helpful the gov
eminent interference is in cutting down pro-
ducton and driving producers out OF their
minds or out of their business. =,
The administration is determined to prove =
that subsidy is salvation. Business men call
it poison. One prominent packer wrote: e..
Subsidies are not good regardless OF who
receives them. 1t will take years for the small
packer to recover from the subsidy method
of doing business -
Thus the aircraft industry, the oil in
dustry and the meat industry are all agreed
that the government agencies are not only
slowing up and confusing production in the
midst of war, but threatening the future OF
these big and vital industries on whose pros
perity so much of the problem of employ
ment will hang.
All know about raising and packing meat
is the art of raising it fork and packing
we'll So | asked one of the big men in the
industry TO give me brief picture OF the
scene as he sees il. This is what he wrote: ~
I'VE don't know from regulation to
another where we'll be. Authority is being
transferred from one agency to another, but .
the OPA still keeps its fingers on the prices.
The latest talk Is of putting out selective
subsidy, which only certain packers will get.
Out West here they are making up a diff
ferential that will store up more dynamite
than anything yet
I'VE have a great abundance Of lear
cattle The feeding conditions are such that
they can't be put in feeding lots. So big
numbers are coming To market. but only
small percentage of them are well enough
fed 10 be really fit for meat The ranchers
so short of feed they don't know what
to do.
'sWe wept on the shoulders of the OPA
and hollered at them but 1t didn't do any
good. The chaotic condition that exists today
WAS brought about by had and unnecessary
regulations which discouraged the feeders
AS a result we will have for a time .
great abundance of undesirable slaughter
cattle thrown on the market. and a little later
great scarcity. The men who have had the
livestock and meat situation under control
through the quotas and ceilings have been
honest In their opinions but they have been
men who were not practical meat and live
stock men, and In most instances have had
no experience whatever in the industry"
So ends the letter for an eager patriot
The general manager of the National Live
stock and Meat Board sees in the actions Of
these so-called economists "a threat to the
health of the nation"
The theorists in power are, some of them,
actually planning 10 revolutionize the eating
habits of both the four-legged and two-legged
cattle they have in hand for experimentation
while the opportunity lasts. One of them has
actually proposed elimination of the whole
business of raising livestock for meat
Another wants 10 stop the feeding Of
grains to cattle. He wants the people to eat
the grains without bothering the cattle 10
turn it into meat for them. This could be
called cutting out the middle-meat. Thel
want 10 train the cattle not TO live grainS1
and train humanity not to live on cattle.
II they are determined to feed us on MOTH
ing but corn and beans. couldn't they al least
wait till the war is over. While the soldiers
were overseas in the last war we put over
prohibition. When the boys come marching
home from this war and ask for thick juicy
steak or a lamb chop in panties we'll faint
with horror and gasp:
"Oh. you brute! How the war has coars-
.7,,ru you. rva oaa Vim. ~ ,war choirt WI
spinach or rhubarb: And now that the war
to end war has ended In the vegetarian peace,
wen celebrate with golden dandelion salad"
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