FARM YOUTHS EXCEED JOBS, SAYS WITNESS
Farm Youths Exceed Jobs, Says Witness WASHINGTON, D. C.—A picture of what lies ahead for American agriculture was painted before the Monopoly committee as one witness after another discussed trends...
...Administration insiders are commenting wryly on the...
...Farm Youths Exceed Jobs, Says Witness WASHINGTON, D. C.—A picture of what lies ahead for American agriculture was painted before the Monopoly committee as one witness after another discussed trends towards mechanization, concentration, and commercialization...
...Idea is to eliminate duplication and to discover whether funds requested really are necessary...
...fact that...
...The increased use of farm machinery over -he past 25 years has added 600 million dollars to the annual cost of farming, according to Louis Bean of the bureau of agricultural economics...
...They now are more suspicious than ever and have persuaded the president to warn labor law administrators that there is to be no relaxing of restrictions at this time...
...Lorimer states that only half of the young people now coming of age on the farms can remain there, and added: "We are faced with an immediate problem in the coming of age of nearly 400,000 farm youth each year at a time when there are already more people in agriculture than can be supported at a decent level of living without a perpetual subsidy, in a nation which has not achieved the means of employing its natural wealth and human resources effectively in servicing the needs of its people...
...New Dealers refer to the "unseemly haste" with which they say American industry rushed in Co demand labor law changes at the first sign of a war preparation program...
...Frank Lorimer of the National Resources board told the committee that in the decade 1930-40 there were over four million persons on farms between the ages of 15 and 64 over and above the number needed to replace the ranks of those dying or retiring...
...21.01 7.13 WASHINGTON WHISPERS From Washington Whispers m the United States News: "Tom Corcoran wrote the administration bill to give RFC power to use the government's credit for any purpose that may be determined upon, from building factories to buying up huge stocks of raw material AH of the old legal requirements that RFC loans be amply secured are removed if this bill becomes law...
...18.61 6.44 1939...
...S. Cash Farm Income Going to Machinery and Farm Wages Machinery Wages 1910 5063% 9.13^, 1915 7.87 9.01 1920 11.66 10.56 1925 12.33 8.46 1930 ______ 18.28 9.43 1935...
...In the midst of a rush of work over the national defense program, the senate has found time to pass a house-approved bill to protect the bald eagle as the 'emblem cf freedom of the Unied States' and to pass a senate joint resolution to declare June 22 of each year 'Doctors' Day' in honor of the medical profession...
...Legislators balked in aUempts to create a joint congressional committee on appropriations figure this compromise will turn the trick: The senate committee on expenditures in the executive department is asking $25,000 for employment of a permanent staff to investigate budget requests and appropriations and expenditures...
...With industries in the cties absorbing fewer farm youth, a backlog of unemployment is being created on the farms, particularly the larger ones, are becoming increasingly mechanized so that less labor Is required...
...Nye introduced a bill to issue a special 3-cent postage stamp "hi commemoration of the nine consecutive years of default by certain European nations in payment of their pbligations to the United States...
...Percent of I...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
