The Great Plains During World War II

Urges School
Boys to Fill
Farm Jobs


Shortening of Term
Asked by Governor
During Emergency


World-Herald Bureau.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 6.

Pinchhitting for the principal speaker at the concluding program of Organized Agriculture, Governor Dwight Griswold this afternoon urged that school programs throughout Nebraska be so arranged as to release boys for works on farms at the earliest possible moment.

The governor told the audience the state's "most available source of farm labor is the 40 thousand high school boys."

"I don't mean just the boys who live on farms," he declared. "I mean also boys who live in towns and cities. Nothing could be better for the boys themselves."

Townsend Has Cold

Griswold said it is necessary for Nebraska to "produce a tremendous crop this year and plan to do it again in 1943."

Griswold appeared on the program in place of M. Clifford Townsend, former governor of Indiana and now director of agricultural defense relations in Washington, who wired Friday morning he could not appear because of a cold. Griswold was to have introduced Townsend.

A second pitchhitter for Townsend was Francis Flood, former Nebraska and well known travel writer, who Thursday described a recent trip to England. Today he told of an airplane trip last year to every country is South America except Venezuela. Flood now lives in Oklahoma.

'Have Talked Too Much'

Mrs. Raymond Sayre of Ackworth, Ia., member of the national civilian defense committee, told the crowd "we have talked too much about defense in this country. We can't win this war except by taking the offensive with twice as much equipment as the enemy has."

After the last war, she said, this country considered the choice to be between internationalism and rationalism and chose the latter. The choice now, she declared, is "internationalism or chaos."

"You can't live in a world where a dive-bomber can go five hundred miles an hour and not have the theory of nationalism as dead as the theory the world is flat," she declared.

Mrs. Sayre urged farm people not to "drift," as was done in many European countries and in England up to the war, but to "face up to your problems. You can't win the war unless you know why you are fighting."

More Cows Needed

J. C. Nisbet, official of the American Jersey Cattle club, said 17 million dairy cows, in addition to the 25 million now on farms, would be needed to supply all the people of this country with the milk they need for minimum health needs.

Army tests have found nearly 50 per cent unfit, a high percentage of them because of lack of "protective foods" he said, and surveys have shown 45 million people in the nation living on diets "below the safety line" in content of these same foods.

Two million of the nation's 25 million cows will be needed this year. Nisbet said, to supply the milk for our lease-lend commitments to Britain.