Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], July 01, 1951, Page 12, Image 12

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SEVEN LIVESTOCK men con
vinced President Truman that the
beef rollbacks originally scheduled
for Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 were a mistake.
They negotiated a White House "un
derstanding" that the rollback plan
would be dropped, as gracefully as
possible.
The men who personally gave
the president the facts on beef
were M. J. Flynn of Kansas City,
ex-Gov. Hoy Turner of Okla
homa: C. T. Guseman, Hereford.
Tex.: John Hayes, Mission, Tex.:
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12—July I. 1951
Keeping m Tomb With Washington
Negotiate 'Understanding'
I To Drop Rollbacks
J. C. Newby, Plattsburg, Mo.; Joe
Jarboe, Tulsa, Okla., and C harles
Skinner, Lexington. Neb.
The cattlemen went quietly to the
White House and sat down with the
president. They proved to him that
When You Move
Please send both vour old address
and your new and notify us at
least two weeks before you move.
Montana
Farmer-Stockman
tiie order not only was unfair to pro
ducers, but that it would hint con
sumers in the long run through less
production of beef. They showed
that he has been misled by Price
Stabilizer Mike DiSalle.
No announcement was made of a
truce for the simple reason that Di
Salle was out on a limb and had to
be helped down with as little em
barrassment as possible to him and
the administration. The president
reasoned that if the administration
didn't protest too much congress
would take off the rollbacks any
way. That would get both DiSalle
and the administration off the hook.
HOW MUCH INFLATION?
Hottest Washington argument
this summer is over how great
the threat of inflation really Is.
Official administration position
is that unless price control dikes
hold the country will be flooded
with greenbacks by fall or early
winter.
Supporting this gloomy side of the
argument is the plan to spend $40,
000,000,000 for defense and another
$32,000,000,000 on civil programs and
foreign assistance in the next 12
months. That is nearly $30,000,000,
000 more than during the past year.
On the face of it inflation looks
hke a sure thing. But there are argu
ments on the other side. The govern
ment tax bite will be close to $10,
000,000,000 more than in the past
year. Credit controls will be a brake
on spending-before-you-get-it. More
people will be paying off debts they
contracted when they went on a buy
ing spree after outbreak of the war
in Korea.
1 These who see no great danger of
inflation point out that the inflation
howlers were wrong last winter
. when they predicted 10 percent
higher prices by spring. Prices, on
the contrary, declined. They suggest
that inflation talk could be another
buildup for controls.
REALISTIC MEASURES
The council of economic ad
visers, the top government eco
nomic agency, got into the infla
tion argument recently in a man
ner that didn't please the While
House a little bit. In fact the
president was so displeased that
he stopped publication of the
report.
What the council said was that
while there was some danger of in
Ration, that only fools would rely
on price controls to stop it. Price
controls, the council pointed out in
the secret report, are at best a tem
porary expedient for holding down
inflation until more realistic meas
ures can be taken.
The council suggested that if the
controllers really want to stop in
flation they will adopt a program
for (1) encouraging maximu m pro
duction, (2) stiff taxes to finance de
fense on a pay-as-we-go basis, (3)
practice strict non-defense govern
ment economy, (4) restrict personal
and business Credit for projects that
dd not lead to increased production.
1952 #ARM GOALS
The agriculture department al
ready has begun to worry about
1952 farm production. It is draft
ing production schedules for
next year, but not at all sure that
farmers will get enough ma
chinery, labor, fertilizer and
other production essentials to
even maintain the 1951 rate.
The department wants 80,000,000
acres of wheat, 90,000,000 acres of
com, 27,000,000 acres of cotton, at
least as much beef and 5 to 10 per
cent more pork in 1952. But it has
no control whatever over supplies
of any of the production essentials.
The hfibor department has charge
of distributing ; the labor supply and
it has been hostile to USDA requests
for farm workers. There are 500,000
fewer workers on farms this year
than last and by next year the gap
may increase to 1,000,000.
The national production authority
continues, despite farm pleadings, to
insist that steel for farm machinery
and tools be cut 30 percent in the
last half of this year. Let 'em repair
their old machines, says NPA. Fewer
workers and fewer machines don't
add up to increased production.
Secretary Brannan says we need to
increase fertilizer, especially nitro
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evicted."
gen, if farm production goals are to
be reached. NPA, however, so far
has turned a cold shoulder to USDA's
pleadings that fertilizer manufac
turers be permitted to expand pro
duction of nitrogen by 500,000 tons
percent) next year,
ARNOLD RESIGNS
How long can a Republican
hold a government Job that a
Democrat wants? As a rule,, in
a Democratic administration,
that isn't very long, but an en
durance record may have been
set by C. R. (Cap) Arnold, for
mer production credit commis
sioner of the Farm Credit admin
istration.
Arnold came to Washington from
Oregon bjr way of Ohio in 1933 to
help Henry Wallace set up the Pro
duction Credit association which has
loaned farmers hundreds of millions
of dollars to finance production. He
became the first, and until recently,
the only PCA commissioner.
The ink hardly was dry on his ap
pointment when Democrats discov
ered that be was an "enemy," po
litically. But, because he was a good
administrator, farm leaders stood be
tween him and those who wanted to
boot him out of Washington.
That went on for 18 years until,
finally, Cap got his belly full and
sent in his resignation. It became
effective on July 1. It was a sad day
for Ivy Duggan who, as governor of
the Farm Credit administration, has
tried to keep politics out of farm
credit.
Bloated animals should be kept
moving. Get them to belch if you
can. A bit or stick placed in the
mduth will stijniilate belching. Keep
the animaVs \ front feet on higher
ground than the back feet. Veter
inarians Recommend sticking with
the trocar or knife only as a last
resort. Use of the stomach tube is
better than sticking the animal