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...imports between July 1934 and July 1937 was $699,000,000. Of this, $252,000,000 was in tea, coffee, rub ber, silk, bananas and other items noncompetitive with U. S. products; $141,000,000 was in imports required to supplement items affected by the 1935-36 drought-corn, wheat, barley, fodder, butter, etc. But these imports, Mr. Hull can show conclusively, did not displace U. S. farm products; they supplemented the U. S. supply, prevented a shortage. Further, they came in because farm prices were high, and their only effect on domestic prices was to check a rise...
...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...vomiting in school because he had had only tea for his breakfasts; six destitute children shivering in an unheated room, waiting for the moment when their mother lighted a brief wood fire and cooked their one meal of corn bread; a mother and eight children living in one room in the house of a friend; a nine-year-old boy, stricken last year with spinal meningitis, without underwear, clothed only in a cotton blouse, a pair of pants; a mother recovering from childbirth, still confined to her bed, living on black coffee and cereal...
...farm implement companies their lesson. Barely two years ago the industry greeted Depression II with a 4-5% price rise. So catastrophic was the kickback that, later in 1938, the increase was given back, prices on heavy machinery were slashed up to 12%. With dollar-plus wheat and 72? corn, the industry has not guaranteed its customers against a price rise in 1940. It always prefers rosy spectacles...
Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...