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TUESDAY, JANUARY li. 105.°. _______!

Trade Peace Basis j

j secretary ot < ommerce occupies one of the most important positions in the cabinet. It is his responsibility to promote trade with other nations on a world-wide basis. However, this department does not have full control of its policies since the State Department and Congress can cir cumscribe its activities. Trade relation ships and development of world trade are important bases for prolonged peace, and may be the wedge to soften the Russian at titude. It must be remembered also that keen competition is growing. The West Germans recognize the im portance of trade relationships and have made long strides toward coaxing the Mid dle East nations into a developing German economy. Egnon Kaskeline, in a special report to the Christian Science Monitor, details Ger man influence in the Middle East nations. An increasing number of German technical, military and economic experts have been invited to till the places of departing Brit ish and other foreign experts. In Egypt. German advisors are said to have prepar ed General Naguib’s plan of action and his rpform program. Head of the German group is former SS General Dr. Wilhelm Voss, who headed the Central Armament Supply Board of the German Army. When he arrived two years ago .'50 of his top as sociates accompanied him. Other nations in this area are accepting German aid. Syria has called upon a form er general of the German Army, H. von Stutterheim, to reorganize its armed forces. Germans have become prominent in Middle East air traffic, many planes being flown by former pilots of the Luftwaffe. German exports to the Middle East— Egypt. Syria. Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia.

and Iran—have increased from $.“>8,:!0l),000 , to an estimated 81,000,000 in 1952. Last year Germany succeed in regaining 75 per cent of its pre-war trade with Turkey, and in Egypt exports have increased three-fold since 1950. Germany controls approximate ly 25 per cent of Iran’s foreign trade. Though a conquered nation Germany has wisely directed her commerce to the sta tegic area of the world. It is an indication that Germany will rise again in thi* family of nations. Incidentally, this activity hy the West German government pi ay play a part in curbing communism, or breaking the (’old War plotted and executed by the Kremlin. Underlying causes of the present world crisis are economic. When world trade among free nations becomes prosperous, those people under communism will be made to see the folly of their position. Here is a real cold war in which the tree people of the world can call tin1 plays and take the lead again. World trade can be the key w hich will open the door of peace. The posi tion of the United States and her principal ally, Britain, is important in this rebirth of economic stability in a world now torn into two parts. Canada has recognized the possibilities and Canadian trade is being developed throughout the world, not only by increased exports but with an increase in imports. Trade is a two-way relation ship. a fact we must recognize and include in our policies. No doubt the subject will be high on the agenda as Prime .Minister Churchill, President-Elect Eisenhower and the old sage, Bernard Baruch, confer. We hope that our future policies will bring a period of prosperous world trade and world peace. .Much depends upon the decisions ol the incoming administration and Congress.

Future Farm Homes

11 ore than half of the farm families in all 1 1 sections of the country except the Northeast prefer a one-story house with a basement and two porches. This pref erence is made clear in a report based on rural housing surveys just issued by the V. S. Department of Agriculture. In gen eral, American farm families are more alike than different in the kind of home they want. The report compiles results from the Northeastern, Southern, North Central, and Western areas of the nation surveyed by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics in Cooperation with ,‘M Statu atrricultural experiment stations. Home makers of about 4,000 farm operator fami lies in 42' states were interviewed about household activities and housing prefer ences. The statistics show which housing features are likely to suit farm families best. In all regions, most families who pre fer a house more than one story high want a bathroom and at least one bedroom on the first floor. Bedrooms also rank as first choice in rooms to be added when and it expansion of present quarters can be start ed. A separate dining room, plus eating space in the kitchen, is almost universally deaired. Seating space for more than the number in the family at tables in both din ing room and kitchen is wanted since halt

the families in the Northeast. South, and West serve extra people at family meals as often as once a week. It was found that more than DO percent of the farm women preserve food for family use, most of them preferring to do this in the kitchen. However, almost 00 percent of Southern women would rather use a porch for part of the work. The fact that at least DO percent of tlyc farm families interviewed do all or most of the family washing at home emphasized the need for laundry space. Most of the women like a basement area or work room for this although one-third of the Southern women favor an outside building. And, ex cept in the South, the kitchen is the pre ferred place for ironing, especially in the winter. Sewing is an activity in which over three-fourths of farm women engage. A separate room for sewing is on the desired list for about half of the North Central. Northeastern, and Western women who sew. However, almost half of the Southern farm women would rather use a bedroom as a sewing room. Farm products are prepared for mar ked in the houses of about one-half of the families in the Northeastern, North Central and Western States, and one-third of those in the South, generally in the kit.’hen or basement.

First-Hand Knowledge General eiseniiower has told his friends that he believes the trip he made to Korea and the Far East was a great help to him. The trip probably helped Eisen hower more than it did prospects for an im mediate cease-fire, but in the end the two amount to the same thing. Ike returned with no formula for sud denly ending the war, although he is go ing to try to do just that. He has said that he sincerely believes that the final solution of the Korean thorn was speeded by his trip—and this may well be true, in view of the added knowledge and information gain ed by the man who must direct the national effort in Korea for the next four years. The progress of every community de pends upon public-spirited, unselfish lead ership.

i'nfort unately the world is not interest ed in your good excuses for not doing; any t hing. Most people are quick to listen to, and believe, gossip, unfortunately. Only about 80.000. or 85,000 people will be killed on highways this year. The churches remain our most beneficial organizations, despite any complaint that they are imperfect. It never pays to tell other people now to live their lives; if they don’t have as much sense as you do they won’t take your advice and if thov do, they, don’t need it. _'_ I Never take yourself seriously. The I world is too vast. Life would tie a lot simpler without so many organizers.

On School Report

My dauphter hrinps her school reports And shows them all to me: And when she pels a h>t of A's I'm proud as 1 can lie. I’m proud of these pood marks she pets I>ecuuso it’s plain to see That all this smartness that she has She pets mostly from me. She pets her looks from her mother. And lor this 1 am plad ; , Hut all her traits of beinp smart She pets from her old dad. 1’. S. If looks and smartness were reversed I know I would feel sad: Fur if my dauphter looked like me 1 \ sure would lie T(X) had.

Ktfotistiically yours, 3L 1). Whitaker

Babson Discusses WEATHER Babson Park, Mass. —- During my recent trip through the Cen tral West I heard much complaint ciue to the drought. Some sections of Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas have not had a drop of beneficial rain for six months. EFFECTS OF DROUGHT Good pasture and good crops need sunshine and lain, as well as good soil and cultivation. Especially. without sufficient lain, the crops fail. This, in turn, means less feed for the cattle, j hogs and other livestock, forcing them to market at lower prices. Furthermore, the long e r a drought lasts, the more serious are the results. ■ Hence everyone is asking: I' How long will the drought last'.1" • Statistics indicate that no one I can answer with certainty. Some I droughts last only, six months: j others have lasted three years. ; Due to the many recent fat years .which the Central West lias en ; ioyed. it is logical that a drought ' is now due and that it may last ! longer than we all hope. Certain ly. our new President cannot j make clouds: even scientists ean , not make lam when there are no clouds.

CHANGING (TIM ATE AND TEMPERATURE Businessmen are not only .catching the rainfall for lack of it', but also the temperature. Whether traveling in the United States or Canada, people tell me that both the winteis and sum mers are getting warmer. This is true with the exception of Florida, and more rain. Believing the above is a permanent change. ; some investment counselors are l advising their clients to sell out ! their fuel oil businesses, woolen factories and even certain stores - -but to re-invest in air condi tioning. synthetic Iibies and soft drink stocks! While in Gloucester. Mass., last summer. I found the fishermen much disturbed because the fish had gone farther north and forced the vessels to go much farther to fish. This, they claim, is one reason for the higher price of fish. In some places—-off the coast of California—the fish have left altogether and scores of great canning plants are idie. Also, fish which heretofore were found only in southern waters are now being caught off New England. WHAT ARE THE FACTS? Without doubt the temperature of certain portions of the ocenn Has increased. This, however, does i.ot justify the common belief that this change of warmer weather will be permanent. It is true that the meal' temperature of the United States and Canada and adjoining waters has increas ed 3 during the past 100 years. But this is nothing for us now to get excited about. This 3° is not llie cause of fish going north, nor a cause for you to change your business. The changes in temperature from year to year which you. the cattle and the fish recognize are due to the changing winds. What causes these changes in the direc tion of prevailing winds is debat able. It may be sunspots, but I believe Gravity is the basic cause of the warm winds blowing over the Northern Hemisphere. The lact that more cold winds are. at the same time, blowing over the Southern Hemisphere should in terest every farmer in the study cf Gravity. In the meantime, don't believe (hat v.-e will not have more early frosts. .Il'SUS AS A WEATHER

PROPHET When discussing the winds with n famous weather expert, lie refen d me to Jesus's comments i.n the winds of 2000 years ago. In the Eighth Verse of the Third Chapter of St. John we find Jesus saying: "The wind bloweth where it will and thou hearest its sound, but dost thou know from where it comes"—or a better translation is "why it comes." Jesus discouraged ilis followers from depending upon the weather or other material things, urging them to “be born again”—this time to be born "of the Spirit.” This surely is the advice America needs today. Only by a spiritual rebirth can we forge ahead—as did the" founders of our nation— ! irrespective of weather, stock markets, businesses or even for eign nations.

Double Check The New-NEW Administration in Washington is sain to outdo all previous advertising campaigns (‘veil Proctoi and Gamble are pushed back g*f the side line! Most spectacular is the personnel writeup—it s .going to be a job just living up to tlie advertise ment. Much of the cost in the set up can be charged to the capture and convictions of Democrats they not only bet 'em but track 'em down and convict em. This two party plan is a WOW—it'll be the Democrats time next, that's polities that's the way it always works -fin ain't it.' Just plain old Harry Truman is being lambasted with everything from the day he took over they fail to discount the last four years - HST spent them in the dog house. As we approach the great Tues day. January 20th, the procession ■ grows and it will be the largest 1 and most gorgeous funeral pro cession ever to be set —the Re publicans preside over the burial | of the Democratic Party. | Eggs Prices will slide off—no Harry to throw 'em at,- Ham ! and bacon will cost more—more j people will be able to eat it I mostly GOP—Demociats better j plant and raise theirs, i No tax cuts soon if you want ■ to know how the Nation stands ask your banker for a loan once in a while—betternn Babson. Thanks *for the many cards re ceived from Maine to California. , Thanks for reading the E ARM VII.E HERALD. Yours, J Marvin Brown i

V A Announces Lower Disability Income Rider on XSLI The Veterans Administration has announced a 1 eduction m premium rates charged for total I disability income rider on five year term National Service Life Insurahce policies. This benefit provides monthly ; income for the insuied nnd con tinues his insurance in effect without the payment of premiums for so long a period as the insured 1 is totally disabled. At some ages the reduction in the charge for total disability in tome coverage is more than 50 per cent. The reduction resulted from a new method of computa tion put in effect following Con gressional action providing in definite renewal privileges for term policies. The new rates are on a gradu ated scale, becoming increasingly higher with each renewal <as the insured grows older), but they are not as great as the previous rates until the insured reaches the age of 55. That is the last renew** in which the policy can carry the total disability income feature, as this rider becomes inopeartive at age 60. A comparison of the old and new annual rates per $1,000 of in surance for the total disability income rider are: Age Old Rate New Rate 30 $ 3.55 $ 1.07 35 4 44 1 42 40 4 38 2.01 45 5.56 3.31 50 7.10 5.56 55 9.12 9.12 56 9.59 9.59 57 10.06 10.06 58 10.54 10.54 59 11.13 11.13 Any holder of a participating plan of National Service Life In- , surance may have this provision added to his policy by passing a physical examination and paying the additional premium.

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1952’s,Extremes Expected To Shave Ten Cents of Net Farm Income Dollar

Tlie year 1952 rail lo extremes for the Virginia farmer, the aver- j age at the center probably sliav- ' ing 10 cents from each dollar of net income, the Stall Department of Agriculture figures. Virginia’s traditional diversit> brought di verse fortune to individual farms, bui saved the overall agricultural economy. On meat animal... the fair haired children of Southern agri culture. farmers took their first shellacing since the war. Poultry forged ahead to become the num ber one source of income, but turkey growers, who have doubled their bird numbers twice in three years, took a beating from the law of supply and demand. Cash crops recovered remark ably or beliefitted in price from a summer drought anci racked up a 5 per cent increase in total

value. Potato and apple income nearly doubled. Drought Hits Corn But a dry July took one fourth of the state's corn crop to put a $18,000,000 dent in total crop value and blacken the feed pic ture for livestock. Cotton yielded neatly a bale to the acre, small grains made near record yields an ' peanuts made a phenominal 1.800 pounds to the acre average, but corn, potato and some commercial vegetable yields skidded badly. Cattle, sheep and itog growers were caught between a 10 to 15 per cent [trice drop and heavy ex tra costs from drought-shrivelled pastures and soaring hay prices Cattle marketings were up 5 per cent over 1951, but as the build-up of the last few years moved to market the price plum meted. from a drop of $2 a hun dred in July to $9 a hundred, or 25 [ter cent, in Decembei. Calves did a little better. About half the calf crop was marketed m the first six months of the year when prices were a little above 1951. but a 15 per cent price drop m the last half of the year can celled this out and mote. Even with higher marketings, total value of eat tie and calves was down $4,000,000 from the year before, with the loss to •armors multiplied by lower gains on dry pastures and high feed prices. Hog growers took their big licking on the Spring market, w hen 00 per cent of the hogs were sold and the price was off 15 per pent Two or three per cent more hogs were sold in 191)2, but total value was down 10 per cent. Re acting to the market and to the shortage of farm corn, growers indicated they had cut the 1952 fall pig crop by 4 per cent and were planning to cut then- spring crop 22 per cent. Sheep ran into a 12 per cent price drop, but highet marketings kept total value close to last year's $4,800,000. although as with all animals, costs were much higher.

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Meat Animal Totals In round figures, all meat ani mals marketed this year were worth a gross of $111,000,000. compared to $120,000,000 last year. With increased production, poultry moved up from Sd 15.000 - 000 to almost $120,000,000 in gross income, but in this small margin industry, price drops put many growers in the red. About the same number of eggs went to market, but the ^jrice was off 11 per cent, cutting gross income by about $0,000,000. Chickens, mostly commercial broilers, showed a 5 per cent m "crease in marketings and a year end rise brought a 3 per cent in crease in price, adding about $4 000.000 to total gross income. About 55 per cent more turkeys

went to market, and ran into a 11 per cent price drop. Although gross income was up about $6 000,000. very few turkey growers made money. Biown pastures in summer cut overall milk marketing slightly, but the price advanced nearly G per cent to lift dairy products into third place in gross income, with $100,000,000. The cost of maintaining high class feed for dairy cows, however, cut heavily into the $3,000,000 additional gross over last year. Although the individual live stock farmer would hardly be impressed, increases in poultry and milk brought ^ross income from livestock and their products to about $330,000,000. $3,000,000 under last year. 'ro''acco Recovers For crops, the pictuie was dif ferent. Production was down G per cent,because of the lost corn, but net income proLaoly will be up. Cash corn counties were not. as hard hit by the drought, so that most of the coin loss was

shifted to livestock farmers who fed it. For most other cash crops, i hr drought either came at an ideal tune in their grow ins cycle or caused national shot tact's which were more than compensated tor in price. 'tobacco, which looked like a one-third loss in July recovered remarkably to make the largest crop on record and .1 cash value only a fraction under last years $92,300,000. Apples were favored with pro duction. quality and price, and total value jumped from $11. 000.000 last year to nearly $21. 000.000 The heat that burned the corn was ideal lor harvesting small grains, and these crops held tin-s own or returned farmer: a little more than last yeai.

Vepctatilt' < rops Potato and vegetable growers had a good year after several lean ones, following the usual cycle of these crops. The Virginia potato crop was small, but so was the nations, and the crop value in Virginia jumped from $8,700,000 to $l4,0(lt).000. Sweet potatoes held their own in total value with $5,700,000. . Fresh tomatoes hit a price more than twice last years. With 40 per cent more fresh tomatoes to sell, farmer's made a gross Hits year of over $11.000.000 compared to SHOO.000 last year. r\t sr \i. \<< im:\ r Syracuse. N Y. 0. hue Robert ,\1 alary .18. was removin ' the ur bolts from lus car to ii\ a flat tire, the bumper jack clipped, hit him on the head and knocked him i ut. After being revived by lus friend, who was accompanying ! him (in the ride, tin;.' finished changing the tire lit lure drive. ■ I To a hospital where Malar?. . held v. as examined. Theodore Roosevelt, ai 4? v • the youngest president ever in augurated.

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