WHY SUPPORT POTATOES THAT WILL BE DESTROYED?
White, Honoria
Why Support Potatoes That Will Be Destroyed? From HONORIA WHITE RECENTLY I came upon an article about the dumping of 50,000,000 bushels of potatoes acquired by our Government under its...
...But let us "Hot permit food destruction while men hunger...
...I was impressed because it was something...
...It is quite possible that in this form overseas relief agencies- may be placed in a position to All their needs from our surpluses...
...Frank Merriwell Fan Asserts His Rights From ABRAHAM WIENER THANK YOU for publishing the letter by Sidney H. Reiss protesting the Leslie A, Fiedler article...
...While papers like The New Lender have devoted themselves hitherto to discussing economic issues, they should realize that nobody's economic ideology, be it Marxian or non-Marxian, can dominate this world before A-bombs or H-bombs begin to explode—that is, unless the political differences of our world's two remaining great powers can somehow be adjusted...
...They live on an island in history...
...It just does not make any sense...
...People are tired of war and war expense...
...Shades of Burt L. Standish and his Tip Top Library...
...They took me into their storeroom and showed me the shelves of medical supplies and CARE food packages sent by the International Solidarity Committee...
...Fiedler was confusing our hero with Jesse James, or John Dillinger, or Al Capone?—or maybe with Hitler, or Mussolini, or Joe Stalin...
...There is something we all can do: 1. Contribute for CARE packages...
...I think that-Seidman's evaluation was practical and to the point...
...It is as important for agriculture to adequately solve these problems as it is for labor to avoid featherbedding and jurisdictional disputes, which the American public properly declares not in the public interest...
...This seems the logical step to strengthen the hand of freedom...
...These, also, help to stabilize our economy, upon which it is generally acknowledged, the world depends today...
...That "Quick and the Dead" editorial was highly commendable, even if inspired by Bernard Baruch rather than by Dr...
...I was very much impressed by the materials which I saw there...
...These are self-reliant men", these Spanish exiles...
...Seidman Praised From MARK STARR 1 THINK you did wisely in using Joel Seidman's "Labor on the Campus" in your issue of February 11...
...As to providing industry with this present potato surplus for the manufacture of products, the price of which (to the ultimate consumer) will surely again include a charge for these potatoes, already once paid for from the public moneys, the question of whether such clear subsidy to industiy be extended without public consent may well be raised...
...While I was in Toulouse last spring, I visited the headquarters of the Solidaridad Democratica Espanola—the relief organization of the Spanish exiles...
...bag of No...
...Such an action will be a vote for democracy and a source of encouragement to these veterans in the fight for freedom...
...Is it asking too much that our Department of Agriculture provide, wherever perishable foods are stored by them, facilities for dehydration and other known methods of preserving such commodities...
...Thanks to the great prestige of Einstein, who, incidentally, Congressman Rankin, the reactionary" crackpot", wants deported from this country, the importance of world federalism, or supra - national government, finally made the front page of the New York Times and other American newspapers...
...Schneciady...
...World Union Seen as Answer To H-Bomb From HERBERT M. MERRILL IrS A Oil EAT PLEASURE to observe that The New Leader's February 11 issue put "first, things first...
...The futility of mere pacts, suOh as agreements not to use certain weapons of mass destruction, should be obvious...
...But is it surprising that he feels ftthere is something very wrong in the present situation and others like it that arise from time to time...
...I have been trying to suggest to Dr...
...Subsidies under certain conditions are admitted necessary but NOT FOR PRODUCING FOOD THAT IS DESTROYED...
...The FAO might suggest some world center for storage of food surpluses, to be used in times of famine and for other human emergencies...
...Could it be that Mr...
...Here the democratic Spanish exiles have established their trade union and relief centers...
...But it was not enough...
...From HONORIA WHITE RECENTLY I came upon an article about the dumping of 50,000,000 bushels of potatoes acquired by our Government under its farm price support program, at "an average cost of $1.25...
...The letter was just the thing to cool me down, because as another one of that legion of ex-Frank Merriwell readers, I too was fighting mad...
...To those of us who remember those bleak years when farmers could toil unceasingly, yet never be sure of a "living" (for what they got for their work did not permit them to buy the many things that they needed, outside of food), a well-considered farm commodity price support program is as necessary and permanent an aspect of our national economy as are the minimum wage law (for those workers not covered by upion contracts), and the social security system (still requiring ^extension to cover .those not yet benefited thereby...
...They prefer to make these available to industrial users...
...they live in the hope that soon their years of struggle and sacrifice will make it possible for them to return to a free, democratic Spain...
...The only alternative seen (and the cheapest way, since no further expenditures are required) is dumping...
...But the circumstances of their lives, the years of exile and struggle demand that they depend on others...
...Atlantic Union Front C. C. WILSON Congratulations for publishing Harold Urey's article for Atlantic Union (The New Leader, Februry 11...
...Incidentally, adequate crop outcomes from year to year are not certain...
...We will be glad to send you a name, address and full , shipping instructions...
...2. "Adopt" a family and send food and clothing directly...
...No contribution is too large...
...none too small...
...The national Potato Council are quite correct when they declare that "dumpinn places the entire farm program in an untenable position...
...What is this business of calling the exploits of our immortal Frank "underhanded aggressions...
...Neutrons scattered by a tritium bomb destroying New York might create so many radioactive isotopes that a great area could be rendered uninhabitable for centuries...
...Yet there remain these 50,000,000 bushels which the National Potato Council very naturally does not want "dumped...
...The layman is aware of the technicalities involved at fixing a "right" support price and a good method of achieving the valid purposes of the act under which such matters are considered by our agricultural experts...
...Albert Einstein who told us again on Lincoln's Birthday to either stop fighting or die...
...Proper publicity can get us Atlantic Union now...
...Thus reduced in bulk and weight storage and transportation costs are correspondingly lowered...
...This, after the Department of Agriculture had "attempted to dispose of its potato surplus through school lunches and local and overseas relief and by diverting some of it for livestock feed and the manufacture of alcohol and starch...
...The British experiment is being followed with considerable interest by many, and it may be admitted that it is difficult to picture English destroying good food...
...E. E. Day, ex-Chancellor of Cornell, that "mutual education" has its own d*ngers...
...It is recognized as a waste of effort (the farmers') and a wrong use of moneys from the common treasury...
...But these men and women, refugees from their own country, live neither in Spain nor in France...
...1 potatoes is $3.85—it may be somewhat less in the chain stores), cannot countenance such "economic solutions...
...Perish the thought...
...And a Senator like Tydings of Maryland was as much a 'crackpot" in his way as Representative Rankin in opining that nations would ever agree to reduce armaments to men carrying rifles...
...They must depend upon us more than on any other people...
...If by some peculiar process of oblique reasoning we can call the perfectly innocent exploits of Frank Merriwell "underhanded aggressions," then, by a similar topsy-turvy process, we had all better come to the conclusion that the underhanded aggressions of the Soviet Union today are really only the very quintessence of sweetness and light...
...To achieve this, the item goes on, would require a further governmental investment of $15,000,000 presumaoly for transportation and other costs incidental to their disposal to such purchasers, at, undoubtedly, a very low price...
...Women whose special job it is to adequately feed their families in these times of high prices (today's cost for a 100 lb...
...The transformation of the UN into the supra-national government called for by Einstein will alone insure nan's and civilization's survival...
...He believes that, on the whole, these men know their work and do it well...
...CARE packages range in price from $4.00 to $10.00...
...It is not the purpose of this letter to debate whether any figure set by our legislature to support any particular commodity is adequate or \oo large or not large enough...
...They appeal to us, not only for CARE food packages and medicine for those in exile, but also for the families, the widows and orphans of their comrades in arms inside Spain—the men who were arrested and executed by Franco...
...And in the current attempt to "sell" Americans our "profit economy," these incongruities require real consideration if our system is to retain the wholehearted support of our people...
...It is immoral and well past time that such things be permitted...
...Americans are sold on all these valid devices to maintain, even in difficult times, a minimum income for all segments of our population...
...N. Y. Remember Spanish Exiles — Send Them CARE Packages From JAMES T. FARRELL TOULOUSE IS a very colorful and beautiful old city in the south of France...
...Is it not wise to keep on hand some of these surpluses, for, are we sure that there will be no lean years...
Vol. 33 • February 1950 • No. 8
