PA herr] } ( ‘Tes by William National Press Bullding ed CIO Bruckart TTL <Twer Tl Washington, D. C, a Washington.—Farm leaders have gone before congress again to press a new agricultural Urge New program. Like Farm Program several that have come through in the last half-dozen years, the new proposition is based on a subsidy. The current program, like the old AAA, is predicated on agreements by which farmers will not do some- thing and be paid for not doing it. To obtain the subsidies from the federal treasury contemplated in the new farm legislation, farmers will have to sign contracts agreeing to curtail their acreages up to twen- ty per cent of their average cultiva- tion for the last several years. If they fail or refuse to sign these contracts, the legislation describes them as not co-operating and, there- fore, they would be denied the right to obtain loans from the federal gov- ernment and they would not have a guarantee of ‘‘parity prices,” as a penalty. Moreover, those farmers who failed or refused to co-operate in this manner would be subjected to prohibitive taxes on the sale of products grown in excess of limits on totals to be prescribed by Secre- tary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture. The announced basis of this new program is for ‘‘conservation of the soil.”” Further, its sponsors contend that it will mean a gradual upbuild- ing of the fertility of the soil so that, in the end, fewer acres will have to be cultivated to produce the same volume of corn or cotton or wheat or whatever other crop is grown. But I think there are few individ- uals who will say that the above reasons honestly constitute the basis for this new farm legislation. I think it must be admitted that the plan is only a subterfuge; that, while it may help some farmers by giving them cash, it is pure politics with cash as a sop. I am not one equipped to say that agriculture does not need a subsidy even though prices of farm products are now almost double what they were in 1933. It is entirely possible that farmers throughout the nation still need help in the form of cash. It may be the better part of wisdom to vote such payments as are con- templated in this new legislation. On the other hand, however, if there is that need then let us be honest about it. President Roosevelt lately has signed a new law which provides subsidies to shipping companies in order that America may have its own merchant marine, but those payments are to be called subsidies. They are not disguised nor con- cealed. It seems ridiculous, there- fore, that the farm leaders should not be frank with the members of their organizations. If they feel that a subsidy is needed, why net put it up to congress that way so that those farmers who believe in sub- sidies as well as those who want to see agriculture left alone for awhile can understand what is go- ing on. fr . * » 1 imagine that the farm leaders who are sponsoring the new legisla- tion could scarce- Chose ly have chosen a Bad Time presentation of their program. I mean that, in presenting this type of legislation when congress is undergoing a wave of economy, the program is likely to receive scant consideration. It always has been the case that legis- lation goes through several stages of hauling and filling in congress with the result that after much de- bate a bill satisfactory to the ma- jority emerges. In presenting their program at this time, therefore, the farm leaders are not doing a very good job of leading. There will be much agitation on the part of the farm leaders that will get just no- where at all because of conditions in congress. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Feder- ation, recently was quoted as saying that the new plan would not require any payments direct from the treas- ury; that is, it would pay its ewn way through the medium of taxes if it “works perfectly.” That is the rub. I find doubt in nearly all quar- ters that the plan can “work per- fectly.”” It is so complex and re- quires such a bureaucracy for ad- ministration of it that to expect it to “work perfectly,” is virtually to expect that legislation will control the weather. I think everyone will agree that congress and the admin- istration has not yet been able to find the formula for controlling the weather. I believe it can be said fairly that many farmers are dissatisfied with the soil conservation program adopted as a substitute for the AAA which the much criticized Supreme court held unconstitutional by a unanimous vote. Even those offi- cials of the Department of Agricul- ture who are frank will admit that the soil conservation is not an effec- tive means for controlling produc- tion. It does have merit as far as it goes in conserving the soil. But there is another phase: It has been pointed out too often almost to need repetition here that the soil con- servation law, as occurred under the AAA, results in millions of dol- lars being paid to individuals and corporations who are in no way par- ticipating in conservation activities, Now, while Mr. OlNeal thinks that the proposed law can be operated without expense to the federal treas- ury, there is yet the conviction in some quarters that it probably will cost about six hundred million dol- lars a year to pay the subsidies and pay for administration of the law. Six hundred million dollars a year is a large sum at any time and it bulks much larger at a time when there is a nation-wide cry for a balanced budget for the federal government. It is a sum that, if the budget of the federal government otherwise were balanced, would be sufficient to frighten thousands of holders of United States bonds. It would seem then that the farm leaders ought to take into consid- government's financial that will live. tem of farm subsidies. jected to being placed in the cate- gory of relief clients. is also advanced destroy culture. ers feel about receiving money gra- ington, it cannot be said that agri- footing by politicians and political farm leaders whose sele objective is to loot the treasury. Farmers would not permit it to happen to the governments of their states or number of them apparently have been persuaded that the govern- met at Washington is something else, . r » The Department of Commerce which has supervision of airplane . . traffic has an- Air Pilots pounced that it Out of Races will not permit American pilots to participate in an air race that was proposed for this summer. The race was to have taken place from New York to Paris, but the Department of Commerce has vetoed the plan unequivocally because it considers the race as nothing more than a stunt. It may occur to some that such a ruling by the Department of Com- merce constitutes an interference with private business beyond rea- son. I cannot share that view. The of benefit for aviation nor any ex- perimentation that would lead to more scientific flying. a danger involved for those pilots who are foolhardy enough to under- take the three thousand two hun dred mile flight across the ocean. Its position is further fortified with the argument that if any of the pilots should lose their lives in that type of aviation, it will cause many the airplane as a means of trans- portation. thinks that there are only disad- vantages and no advantages in the prospect. with the position the department has taken, it is heartening to those of sible federal agency charged with to do. ticular respect to its aviation di- vision, has been in a state of tur- moil. There were wide differences of opinion and in consequence little in the way of permanent develop- ment was sponsored from Washing- ton for the aviation industry. In criticizing the government's in- activity, no observer would be fair unless he also called attention to the frailties and the failures of the in- dustry itself. It is true that some of the larger lines lately have made sensational improvements in the equipment they use in the air and in the operations part of flying. It is true that larger and better planes have been built and are building. But it is likewise true that a number of airlines have adopted penurious, penny pinching policies and have refused to re- place worn out and obsolete planes because they did not want to invest additional money. Until the air in- dustry awakens to the necessity for spending monéy and until the De- partment of Commerce becomes a smooth functioning supervisory agent, the air travel of this country will not even approach the limit of its capacity. © Western Newspaper Union, ‘Way Back When By JEANNE DICTATOR ONCE DEPENDENT ON CHARITY OU may not agree with the prin- ciples advanced by Adolf Hitler, or you may be an enthusiastic ad- mirer of his. In ejther case vou will be interested in looking at the man and his life to see what les- son we may learn. Perhaps the greatest inspiration to be drawn from the German dictator's life is a word of encouragement for those whose early lives may seem fail ures. Adolf Hitler was born on the Ba- varian frontier of Germany in 1889, the son of a customs official who had political ambitions for him. The boy developed a desire to be an artist. His father opposed him, so Adolf refused to study in school. He was the despair of his father and mother. When he was eight- een, he went to Vienna and applied for admission to the Academy of Art. His art was too poor to qualify and they directed him to the archi- tectural school, but his loafing in early grades made it impossible for him to pass entrance requirements there. For three years he slept in a cheap men's hotel in Vienna, get- ting his meals at a monastery and occasionally begging from passers- by. In the winter he shoveled snow to make a living. Whenever he earned a few kronen, he stopped work and went to some cheap cafe to deliver political speeches. He painted poor water colors which a friend peddled for him, he painted picture postcards, and when hungry enough was a house painter. Dur- ing the war he was a corporal. Here was a man in his thirties who had never shown any real promise in anything he did. Then, Adolf Hitler formed an ideal of government. » = » FATHER DIVINE WAS A HEDGE TRIMMER V HAT are the limits of human credulity? To what heights may not the spell-binding orator rise? For thousands of simple answer to those questions is ‘God! Only God is the Limit!" For George once a Baltimore trimmer and dock worker, who is reported to have served 60 days on a chain gang, is the negro who claims to be God. been found and George Baker, who God, will not talk. It is known that he came from the South, and more in 1889, day School teacher, he established with a few followers who believed him to be God. New disciples joined him and were provided with food and lodging, while he found jobs for them and collected all their earn- ings. In 1919, he changed his name to Father Divine (God) and con- ferred the title of Angels on all who turned their possessions over to him. Thousands of dollars be- came his in return for new, more glamorous names, such as Ruth Rachel, Hozanna Love, and Frank Incense. Today Father Divine's An- gels number about 1,000 and there are 3,000 “Children” or followers who retain some of their posses- sions, living in apartment houses and flats of Harlem. Heaven is his headquarters, where meals are served and where about 75 Angels Jersey City, ; he . pkuubaiobokodohabobels bo ube STAR DUST Movie + Radio * *%% By VIRGINIA VALE k&* Jou BENNETT is so home- 320 2 20 2 20 2 2 2 2 has signed up to work with a summer for a few weeks. Some of the motion picture producers who have planned busy sum- mers for their players wish that she wasn’t quite so thrilled at the prospect. Her infectious enthusiasm has sent half of Hollywood scurrying to their bosses to ask if they can't have leave of absence too. Bette Davis wants to go, but Warners have big plans for her. Josephine Hutchinson wants her annual fling on the stage. And Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are acting mighty mysterious, reading plays and time tables. ann Add one more picture to the cur- see. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer's ‘Captains Courageous'’ is one of the finest pictures of all time. There isn't a woman in the cast, but even the young girls who think any picture without torrid love scenes is a washout, confess that they never even miss the romantic angle in this one. It is a story of the Gloucester fishing fleet in which Spencer Tracy and young Freddie Bartholomew do the finest acting of their careers. Indeed, it is the first picture in which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show that he is not just a sweet and handsome lad with pa- thetic eyes. He is a grand actor. want As soon as Ernst Lubitsch finishes directing Marlene Dietrich and Her- bert Marshall in “Angel” he is go ing to turn actor for a few days. Long ago when he was an actor in Germany, his great ambition was to play Napoleon, and just now it happens that Cecil De Mille Is searching the highways and byways for a man to play Napoleon in “‘Bue- caneer.” Lubitsch got into costume Freddie De Mille, and was hired at once. celui Executives at the Twentieth Cen- tury Fox studio are disappointed that the public hasn't made more of a fuss over Simone Simon, so they are going to put her in a comedy and They are teaming her with Jack Haley, who made such a hit in “Wake Up and Live,” in a fast-moving comedy called “Love at Work." J. Motion picture studio officials al- ways change the subject when any- one asks if their stars really sing or if some singer substitutes for them, but radio listeners can ree- Jack Haley's singing, that Virginia a Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has de- better, after all. While he was in to the countrymen who backed him that he thought he Coming “The Prisoner of Zenda,” afin Warner Brothers have arranged busy for weeks find- ing stories to which she won't raise a violent objection. Scheduled to appear with Errol Flynn in “The Perfect Speci- men,” she flatly re- fused. Instead she will make a tearful little romance called “Episode” supported ters’ with Kay Francis. as lfinn ODDS AND ENDS . . . Joe Penner doesn’t mention ducks even oncs in “New Faces.” which is being fimed by RK O, and furthermore he. black H i i | i a : | h if £ fi ! | ¥ : V ACATIONING they will Vera, Mom and Flo. And they will enjoy themselves the because their wardrobes Sew-Your-Own are just right. Mother in this model will be after mistaken for daughter many a time because her design and dots 80 She will various frocks in various developed on this one of then ill be red. are youthful have materials theme, least, very and in the Dates for Dancing. 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Endangered Man Man is never watchful enough every hour.—Horace. | High Finance It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. Sir { Philip Gibbs, Kills Chewing Insects such as the Mexican Bean Beetle Cucumber Beetle Potato Beetle Does Not Contain Lead, Arsenic or Fluorine Harmless to Bean Foliage or that of other Crops on which we recommend its use LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher
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