J A Rm National Topics Interpreted National Press Bullding Te — Pt Washington.—Almost before its operation is well started, the new federal crop law appears to be bog- ging down. From what I hear around the offices of senators and representatives at the Capitol, there is plenty of rebellion against the law which is supposed to plan ag- riculture on a scientific basis. In- deed, if one reads some of the let- ters, the conclusion is inescapable that Secretary Wallace and his ‘‘sci- entific planners’ are going to have more troublé than a one-armed pa- per hanger in administering that law. It is difficult to provide a clear analysis of the trouble because of Crop Law Bogs Down the confusion as to what can and can not be done under its provi- sions, the varying attitude of the farmers who are its ‘‘beneficiaries"’ or its ‘‘victims,"’ views. The problem of telling what is wrong is made the more difficult because practical people seem to be unable to get anywhere in their ef- forts to get the ‘‘scientific planners” to recognize human nature as well considered in farming. I have talked with a number of Department of Agriculture people; individuals who are supposed to un- derstand the crop control law. They are most convincing; the pen-and- ink sketches that they have made leave only the question as to the reaction of human beings. The de- partment propaganda surely is suf- ficient to smother any criticism. It is formidable. But it, also, leaves that question of human relation- ships, wind and weather, to be de- termined. Even in that regard, ev- ery now and then Secretary Wal- lace issues a statement or makes a speech which seems to do away with any possibility of trouble from those influences. In the meantime, however, the cotton growers of the South went into a rebellion about the acreage allotment. They succeeded in get- ting, rather in forcing, Secretary Wallace to obtain congressional ac- tion allowing for an increase of 2,000,000 acres of production this year. He went after that legislative action as an emergency, and there was plenty of sentiment in congress for it, because as a matter of cold fact there is a very large majority in the house and senate who doubt that the new crop control law is go- ing to work. To the request for ad- ditional acreage, therefore, there was only a little objection since ad- ditional acreage meant an obvious increase in general production with the chance for increased return to the farmers who grow the cotton. Only lately, another tidal wave rebellion developed. It came from the corn farmers. ceived their allotments of and, like the cotton farmers, found themselves between the per and nether millstones. rebellion surely lent statements in debate when congress was considering the bill that it con- ferred more power on a federal agency than ever ought to be con- ferred in a free country, and that there was no possibility of this pow- er being exercised wisely since none knew its scope. The corn revolt, therefore, would seem to support assertions in the senate that the two chief sponsors of the bill, Senators Pope of Idaho and McGill Kansas, had no under- standing of the measure they were fighting for. At least, of of I s wri] ar a une expliana- permeate what I am pleased to re- fer to as my brain y * ® The corn protestors made their first concentrated move only recent- ly at Macomb, I1l., and the sum and substance of that neeting seems to be that those farmers have had their bellies full of compulsory crop con- trol. They called it un-American: they described it as ruinous and pledged united action against its continuation. Cf course, no one in Washington can tell exactly how many farmers are in sympathy with the position taken at the Macomb meeting. There are 5668 counties in what is designated as the corn area. Wheth- er there is a large majority against the compulsory, dictatorial type of law, or whether there is only a siz- able minority can not now be ac- curately stated. It can be stated as a definite fact, however, that farmers do not spend their money to go several hundred miles for a meeting of protest unless they are being badly damaged. Communists and other radicals would go dashing anywhere to hold a protest meeting, but farmers are not built that way. So the Macomb meeting must be taken seriously. It must be given additional weight as well because it followed on the heels of heated pro- tests from the cotton growers. As to the number of farmers rep- resented in the Macomb meeting; that is to say, the farms and farm- ers represented by that protest, it might be enlightening to quote here the published statement of Claude Farmers Protest R. Wickard. Mr. Wickard is a di- visional AAA director and one of the really close advisors to Secre- tary Wallace. Said Mr. Wickard: “Complaints have come against the corn allotments as high as 1,100 from one county.” Obviously there could not be that many complaints from more than a limite@ number of counties. But even if there are only half that num- ber of protests from any considera- ble number of counties, the repre- sentatives and senators who voted for that legislation are bound to get plenty of kicks in the pants next November. And the plight of those members of the house and senate appears to be made worse by the statement attributed to the Depart- ment of Agriculture by Represent- ative Andresen of Minnesota. Ap- parently, Mr. Andresen had been getting baskets full of kicks about the department to find out the facts. He returned to tell his colleagues on the floor of the house: “The administration (AAA) will not yield an inch. The allotments have been made according to law and the farmers can take them or leave them.” In that statement, it seems to me, there is unbounded arrogance and Mr. Andresen did the country a service when he repeated it to the house of representatives. It is an attitude of the dictator, of the worst sort of regimentation and it bears out the very thing which Senator Borah of Idaho predicted would hap- pen when he opposed the legislation. Senator Borah's blast in the debate was, of course, branded as the criti- cism of a Republican, and it was his colleague, Senator Pope, the Ida- ho New Dealer, who was running about the country last year as the chief member of a committee of senators which was drumming up sentiment for the legislation before the extra session of congress called last November. By way of prediction, I think there can be no doubt that the wheat farmers will find themselves shocked, instead of their wheat, when they get their acreage allot- ments later. They will find that the law is compulsory, not one of free co-operation as advertised when the bill was being debated in congress. » ® * What is the reason for these con- Why is there rebellion among the farm- Why the ers when, accord- Rebellion? ing to Secretary Wallace, there was a great majority for applica- tion of the crop control provisions? Frankly, I believe there are sev- eral factors to be considered as hav- ing influenced the passage and sub- sequent application of the compul- sory regimentation. In the first instance, it is quite apparent now that many represent- atives and senators were subjected to red hot steam from professional farm lobbyists, from Secretary Wal- ditions? of farmers who wanted something, anything, that would cause the government to pay them money. That belief is predicated upon a knowledge that the vast ma- jority of the farmers are too busy with their own affairs to be active in politics. The legislators thought they were doing what the farmers wanted them to do. In the second place, there surely was much misrepresentation about the legislation. At all times and on all occasions, Secretary Wallace and those who were seeking to put over the legislation vigorously stressed the statement that the pro- visions of the plan were voluntary. There was to be no compulsion in it; the farmers themselves were to decide; the department here in Washington would do exactly what the farmers wanted. All of which is very well and good, except that the farmers were not informed how much pressure could be exerted to make them volunteer. They either had to “volunteer” without being penalized. What is the result going to be? the year, and there is no liklihood is the result of the fall elections. If the revolt that is represented by the protests of the cotton and cern up in the votes at election time. Those who fought so hard for it in congress will meet trouble in pri- maries and in the election as well. To me, however, there is an added significance. These protests reveal a growing sentiment among farm- ers, a resentment, against having the federal government bureaucrats run the farms from Washington. © Western Newspaper Union. Puerto Rico a Flower Garden The tropical island of Puerto Rico is a veritable flower, with 3,353 va- rieties of brilliantly colored flowers Stowing on its mountains and coastai Pp WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—Meeting Francesco i Malipiero at a party in the Roy- al Danielli in Venice, soon after the World war, I thought he was one of the most charm- ing and brilliant, and, at the same time, most cryptic men 1 had ever seen. There was in the company another Italian musician, a famous conductor, who was the lion of the evening. I have forgotten his ap- pearance and his name, but every- thing about Signor Malipiero is viv- idly remembered. On the way home in a gondola, I asked the conductor for an apprais- al of Signor Malipiero as a musi- cian. There was considerable con- descension in the reply. Malipiero was gifted but er- ratic, it was even hinted that he was “unsound,” in some deeply subversive sense. But my Virgil eagerly agreed that the signor was a most extraordinary hu- man personality, As recently as four years ago, a Malipiero opera threw the Royal opera house of Ror into a tumult of howling and cat-calls. Mussolini banned it as ‘inimical to the faith and sound teachings the new It- aly.” But, by this time, Malipiero had become a w musi- cian, and he was soon restored to favor. This status is unquestioned as his symphony, ‘‘Elegiaca,’’ was given its first performance “Outlaw” of in New York, with Music Now John Barbirolli Is Lionized conducting. For many years, criti- cal opinion discounted him as some- what of an outlaw and disturber. Now it has caught up with as it did with Stravinsky and Richard Strauss. Both the ‘Fire Bird" “Salome’’ were with cat-call when they were first produced. Critics note some mysterious * ervatin Malipiero's new symphony. It may be an after- thought, but the explanation seems clear as I recall my conversation with him. His face saddened and he seemed ten years older when I mentioned the war, For his ballet, “Pantea,” he had written of “‘the struggle of a soul huorling itself into the struggle for liberty, only to find oblivion and death.” e war had been to him a tragic and devastating experience. He said it had profoundly shaken both his art and his life. Never again would the suave flu- encies or banalities of music have meaning for him. He was impelled to a deeper search. This disillusionment mated in irony. Malipiero Was Person to Remember orld-famous him not met en- influence” in was subli- He was suspected of slyly sabotaging Suspected of te grandiose Be Sabotage in state. It New Opera was in March, 1934, that his op- era, “The Fable of the Exchanged Sons," with the text by Luigi Piran- dello, all but caused a riot in the Royal opera house. So far as I could learn at the time, there was no brash heresy in the work, bat, as elaborated by the text, a subtle hint that ultimate truth is forever elusive and supreme power dead sea fruit. That, of course, is dangerous doctrine in a totalitarian state, and it was quick- ly and savagely resented. The next day, Il Duce forbade another pre- sentation Malipiero is a poet and a mys- tic. Of dominant presence, with sharply cut Roman features and hair brushed back in a thick pompadour, he is at the same time extraordinarily gracious, friendly and unassuming. He lives in a quaint stone villa, forty or fifty miles from Venice, centuries old, rambling and tumbla- down. Cut in the stone door lintel there is a Latin text, “To the ob- scene, all things are obscene.” That was his answer to the critics of one of his operas. The art of living engrosses him as much as the art of music and he . studiously main- Has Gift for tains a relation- Friendship ship of courtesy, With Animals dignity and friend- ly intimacy with the creatures in his retreat—he has a gift for friendship with animals and thinks that much of the trouble of mankind is due to its insensi- tiveness to the subhuman and su- perhuman. His music is apt to range into those zones. He was born in Venice in 1882, beginning his violin studies in his sixth year. His father was a politi- cal exile and the family was in Germany for many years. Wagner was a crashing strain of modernity which profoundly affected his work. © Consolidated News Features, WNU Service. 18 talian Quarrel or Fight “Many a man seems to enjoy a quarrel,” said Uncle Eben, “on de theory dat it's better dan a fight.” 8 East 30th Stree F ALL the nutrition probl Noted Food t, New York City Are You Over weight 7 You can REDUCE Safely. Surely. Comfortably Send for This Free Bulletin Offered by C. Mowston Goud iss Readers of this newspzper are invited towrite to C. Houston Goudiss, at 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for his scien- tific Reducing Bulletin, which shows how to reduce by the safe and sane method of counting calories. ® The bulletrn 1s complete with a chart sthowmg the caloric value of all the commomly used foods and comiams sample menus thal you can wie as a guide to comfortable and healthful weight veductsom, ems that challenge the home- ily’s need for iron. This mine fe How Blood Is Constructed If you should examine a drop of blood under the micro- scope, you would observe that white cells. there are about 25 cles. owing their color bearing hemoglobin. They 4 . the body and remoye the rarbon dioxide during the of body ormed ombustion uel. A reduction in oglobin in the blood may cause short- ness of breath, guickened respiration and an ac- celerated heart action. Lack of appetite, weakness, and a slowing of all vital functions may also re- sult from the diminished supply of oxygen to the tissues. sfpmen Lack of Iron May Lead to Anemia In many young peo does not function normally, frequently parents : that anything is wrong scold them for being lacking interest their wo never heeding the things you them, when the real trouble is du to iron starvation continued, may lead tc The person who has toward anemia usually tires ily and lacks pep: complains o cold hands and feet: worries ove trifles, and may have a ¢ mplex- ion that is anything but rosy. The great danger of an iron deficient diet is that it deprives the body of its chief defense against disease. For when the quality of the blood is poor, one becomes an easy prey to infection. Moreover, if a serious illness oc- curs, lowered resistance makes it difficult to fight it off, ay Two Forms of Anemia Anemia may be due to loss of blood, deficient blood in in in the body. 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But there | enough to prevent nutritional ane- mia, for the body cannot convert iron into blood pigment unless copper is also present. Therefore, in order to obtain the full bene- fits of iron, the diet must contain sufficient copper. Foods that s ply copper in abundar uts, dried beans an 4 v yO) re and poultry I shall gladly send to every homemaker a list of foods rich in both iron and copper, and also sample menus showing how to plan a balanced, blood-building diet. § fr rget TES the stan. that good blood is form of life insurance. Questions Answered Miss B. T.—For a 1 sufficient vitamin / vided by the generou itter, and green le Mrs. A. C.—One cheese, br iy Mrs. B. A. ommend of re the age Mrs, M. Mrs. R. B. C.—Y« H 3 eget lescence through the eighteenth | year, : ; 4 pe Iron-Rich Foods To maintain top health and pre. vent the possibility nutri anemia, the homemaker learn to meet the daily iron quirement of her family and leave this vital matter to chance. 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