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...House he has plugged a theme dear to cattle-State politicians: protect the U. S. livestock industry by keeping out South American meat. His amendment prohibits use of any part of the appropriation for food or clothing produced outside the U. S., thus applies to Australian wool as well as to Argentine beef. Says Congressman Scrugham: "I come from a district dependent almost entirely on beef and wool. I'm sent here to protect the interests of those growers. If I don't, they'll kick my -." To Good Neighborites, purchase of Argentine canned beef...
...isolated cases but in every way they can. They believe in tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner...
...masthead Wright put up an invitation: "Farmers, Write for Your Paper." He campaigned hard for many a rural benefit (free schools, State fairs, crop rotation, a law to keep livestock from roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...
...Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...
...position would do--have taken what they need and left the others to make out as well as they can with what is left. According to the Black report "the Germans have surely taken possession of the reserves of breadstuffs in the occupied countries--have requisitioned or purchased considerable livestock--have purchased much of the dairy and poultry output--." The relief shipments would be the margin between malnutrition and a relatively healthy subsistence, for the people from whom this food is being taken. Since it is to the interests of Germany that the occupied areas be not cesspools of spreading...