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2 ree el ME, 2 7e Cold fp Yardstick of i Za. <q: - CM Km, Te WASHINGTON Dany NEWS, gems BREE a1, 194 allace’ s Fitness: . ALL wes oNTANEA CCOMPLISHMEN T tevenee ce Giud LASOTFE ED PATE 5]! /® - BYSPIask TO 2Ok303 Already we cee signs of a terrific battle between the Liberals and the Conservatives. Such a battle is personified by the actions of the Conservatives in Congress who are doing everything with. - in their power to prevent the confirmation of the nomination of Henry A ‘Wallace for the position of Secretary of Commerce. rn What is there about Wallace to cause some Senators to fight him with such venom? Mr. Wallace’s sin is that he has’ never knuckled under to special interests, He has been more than fair to them when their interest coincided with the public good, but merciless in his fight against them when they were pushing some measure against the general welfare. Take the Ever Normal Granary which Mr. Wallace fathered. Some of the grain interests did not like this. But it was an es- sential step to take on behalf of the farmer and the consumer. The American people are thankful for the extra 100,000,000 bushels of wheat and 450,000,000 bushels of corn which * * * made the difference between crippling hunger and efficient work- ing and fighting for many millions in England and Russia. In Apri] of 1939 Mr, Wallace was responsible for initiating the trade with England of 600,000 bales of cotton for 90,500 long tons of rubber * * * enough to make 18 million average automobile tires. Both the automobile user and the war effort . were served by this far-visioned action by Henry Wallace. Baruch Repeatedly Lauded Wallace The Wallace farm program in the thirties almost doubled the farm gross income and almost trebled the farmers net income. There was nothing incompetent about the way Wallace got the cooperation of the farmers, the Congress and the administrators in the executive branch of the government to do a difficult job. Mr. Bernard Baruch has repeatedly said that Mr. Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture did a superb job of administration. Under the Triple A, which became law in May of 1933, Mr. Wallace had to pick the men who would build an organization which would contact county by county and state by state the majority of the 6 million farmers of the United States. The -chief* responsibility was placed on the county committéz? elected by the Farmers themselves. This annoyed a few politidans, but ‘it was sound ‘administration to decentralize what otherwise would have heen an impodsible task. Mr. Wallace, as Secretary of Agriculture, was responsible for the Food Stamp Plan. * * * It was almost as difficult an adminis- trative job to come into effective touch with several hundred thousand distributive outlets as it had been to work out the Triple Ain cooperation with several million farmers. But the job was done and it was done efficiently and effectively. Said Mr. J. Frank Grimes, President of the Independent Grocers’ Alliancey—“My experience with him, when chairman of the i important food and grocery conference Committee, has earned my deep respect for bis ahilty and integrity.” He Saved Millions Take the story of how Mr. Wallace saved $874,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury, which otherwise would have gone unjustly to enrich certain processors who had done nothing whatever to earn the y money. ** * In justice to the processing trades, it should be said {hat the majority of them recognized the justice of the action taken by the Government under Mr. Wallace's leadership. The courts sustained the Government in 92 per cent of the cases contested: The overwhelming majority of the ‘cases were settled out of court because the justice of the Government's position was 80 apparent. Wallace it was who used Presidential backing to force Mr, Jones to give the farmers 4 percent instead of 5 percent money, He it was who insisted on safe storage facilities at reasonable rates. He it was who insisted that the Commodity Credit Cor- . po no b f poration be transferred to the Department of Agriculture 80 that the product could be ‘stored more economically, The only Vice President who ever did any work in the Exeou- tive branch of the government was Mr. Wallace. * * * He was serving as Chairman of both the Board of Economic Warfare and SPAB — later the War Production Board — when Pearl Harbor was struck, and he broke bottle necks which nobody else could have broken except the President. No wonder the forward looking people of the United States, and ths esmmon people of the world, believe in Mr, Wallace. AS A PUBLIC SERVICE we present this excerpt from the address of Senator Joseph F. Guffey, given at Erie, Pa., February. 17, 1945. _ {INTERNATIONAL LATEX CORPORATION x PLAYTEX PARK” *. DOVER, DELAWARE - PAID ADVERTISEMENT... -BUY MORE WAR BONDS oye 23 PEL / - 7