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Good morning, friends. The House has had a busy week, largely with appropriation measures, beginning with the Army appropriation bill of $71 billion, which passed unanimously. This sum, earmarked to finance a fighting offensive army around the globe, is the largest appropriation bill ever passed for any purpose, by this or any other nation.

The House showed its disapproval of some of the addicts of the Office of Price Administration by chopping down its appropriation from the 165 million requested to 130 million. It likewise registered an effective protest against some of the methods and policies of the Office of War Information by wiping out and refusing to allocate one penny of

The $5.5 million asked for domestic operation. The Federal Crop Insurance Program was retained over-stiff opposition, and $50 million was set aside for a continuation of the proper and helpful school lunch program. Without calling the Farm Security Administration by name, $80 million was voted to carry on its activities and supervision of this sum and responsibility therefore was put upon

Chester C. Davis, the War Food Administrator. Restrictions against a continuation of homestead projects and similar socialistic activities that brought the Farm Security Administration into distrifute of recent date were written into the bill, and henceforth the The activities of this agency will be limited solely to come into the help of small farmers.

Four hundred and sixty-four thousand of whom have already been able to improve their standard of living and to increase production by means of loans from this agency. And this brings us down to the all-absobing question of organized labor, strikes, and the menace of the arrogant John L. Lewis.

Where criticism is made of labor in general, recognition must be given of the tremendous job it is done in the war production program. Unition's production is now proceeding at a rate six times greater than the rate of production in November 1941.