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High-domed Herbert W. Parisius, a man who believes the food situation is too serious to permit fooling with politics and pressure groups, last week threw up his five-week-old job as Food Boss Claude Wickard's Director of Food Production...
...Parse" Parisius had a good and tested idea: to draw a million small farmers into the nation's critical food production battle by providing them supervision and credit for needed equipment, feed and fertilizer. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to change his mind in the knowledge that the big farmers' lobbyists insist production increases can come only through higher prices...
Blandly Claude Wickard named as Parisius' successor M. Clifford Townsend, onetime Governor of Indiana and a man acceptable to the farm bloc...
...from the White House came another significant appointment. To be his adviser on food problems, Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes picked Federal Judge Marvin Jones, onetime (1931-40) chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Jones last December refused to become Food Administrator as long as Claude Wickard remained Agriculture Secretary. Now Washington wiseacres speculate that Marvin Jones is again being groomed to be food boss, on his own terms...
...Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard has listed it as a vital war crop...