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4 { FARM BOARD GAINS FRIEND OF TILLER Sam H. Thompson Brings Problem of Representing Commodities. By the Associated Press. 'Sam H. Thompson will bring the|g Farm Board & new problem when he walks into the office to take his place ts newest member. "A{l of its members, except himself, have been designated to represent some one or more particular agricultural commodities. The announcement yes- terday of his appointment specified no product that he would repre: Chairman Stone said today no information of the commodity Thompscn would represent. He fills the place vacated by Alexander Legge, the former chairman, who representcd no one commodity. Stone's Position Changed. Stone, who originally represented tobacco, has been elevated to the chair- manship and now takes the position that he represents all commodities. He | expressed the opinion that it would be better if all members were named | without commodity designation. The agricultural marketing act, under { which the board was created, provides | that the major agricultural commodities | | shall be represented. There was little comment in Wash- n regarding the appointment. Most | I of the leaders of the agricultural group | in Congress were away from the city Seen as “Gogd Man.” Representative Jones of Texas, the | ranking minority member of the House . Thompson as “a Agriculture Committee, looked upon ood man,” but ob- © served that “whether his ability and experience are such as to enable him to cope with the tremendous problems which he will be called upon to handle can only be determined after he has | been tried.” Chairman Smith of the House Irri- | gation Committee said he believed the t equalization fee bill. appointment would be accepted as “a very wise selection.” Back in 1924, Thompson appeared before the House Agricultural Commit- tee to speak for the McNary-Haugen s right to repre- sent Illinois farme: challenged. He left town, and in two days returned | from Chicago with 67,000 signatures on a petition asking the bill be passed. He testified. The app: was elect atment of Thompson, who o presidency of the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation for three terms wes announced at the White House after President Hoover had de- parted for Caribbean trip. The President, however, had signed the commission before he left, so Thomp- son’s job begins immediately. He fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Alexander Legge as chairman and the appointment of James C. Stone to that position. Ever a champion of the sofl tiller, Thompson contends the present condi- tlon of agricultural is largely responsible for the depression. If agriculture can perity, he said, in work, business in He is & farm ng the new will be rejuvenated. nist of co-operative organizations. For seven years he urged passage of the marketing act and other legislation he thought remedial. His theories were based on cxperience, since he was born in Adams County, I, in 1863 and started with an 80-acre farm, which covers 500 acres and is being run his supervision son. vears ago Thomp: live stock co-operative Illinois County, and he boceme g ter member of the Illinois Agricultural Association. Besides these positions he has been a director of the Naticnal Live Steck and Meat Board and of the Farm Board's subsidiary, Na- tional Grain Corporation. “The full development of our na- tional policy on agriculture, laid down by the marketing act and being en- by the Farm Board, holds great promise for equalization of the economic position of our farm people,” he sald in ccepting the appointment. To succeed Thompson as president, the American Farm Bureau Federation elected Edward A. O'Neal of Montgom- ery, Ala. Charles E. Hearst of Des Moines, Towa, took O'Neal's place. organ- Food Specialist to Speak. FAIRFAX, Va., March 20 (Special). —Miss Janet Cameron, State food specialist from Blacksburg, will come to Fairfax County tomorrow to address a meeting of the leaders of 4-H Clubs throughout the county, to be held in the 4-H Club room at the Fairfax Wore Annoying M Co-operate with é ROACH DEATH RACK-SHO O Dear—Will | Get EVCI’ . Home!" & She wouldn’t have believed uc|| weariness coul be cauzed by shozs that “FEEL” comfortable! j Torally exhausted! Yet shopping needn’t be drudgery. Often kill- #ng fatigue comes from shoes—that “'feel” comfortable. Are you wearing ordinary, improperly designed shoes? Shoes with vicious steel arches that torture the delicate nerves and muscles of your feet—throw the body structure out of line? Feel the differ- ence when you step into a pair of FLEXIBLE ARCH Cantilever Shoes. Feel your whole body relax—the glorious relief after the straining, unnatural posture that ordinary shoes compel you to assume! 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They are managed locally at present and our Years of experience have taught us how to NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1931. only participation is in seeing that they are handled competently.” Detalling disposal of the newspaper properties formerly owned by the paper and power company, Graustein sa that the interest in the Chicago Daily News went either to the News or News executives. Other Papers Sold. He testified that stock and securities in the Chicago Daily Journal, which has now ceased publication, went to the Market Properties, Inc., adding that he thought this concern was organized in the interest of Bryan, Thomason Newspapers, Inc. An interest in the Albany, N. Y., Knickerbocker Press and the Albany Evening News, Graustein said, went to Frank E. Gannett, as did holdings in the Ithaca Journal News and the Brooklyn Eagle. He testified that stock and securities in the Boston Herald and Traveler were sold to “old interests” which had managed the prpers before. Food Sale for Fairfax dhurch. FAIRFAX, Va, March 20 (Special). —The Parsonage Ald of the Southern Methodist Church will kold a food sale tomorrow aftenoon in Fairfax at J. E. | Nickell's store, beginning at 2:30. Cak | pies, bread and other provisions for ‘Sundny will be on sale. The ladles are raising funds to pay for improvements to the parsonage. —- Saloniki, Greece, will hold its inter- fonal fair in September. d | 'SUSPENSION OF WAR DEBTS IS PROPOSED Senator Lewis Would Relieve Generations Which Suf- fered in Conflict. By the Associated Press. Suspension of payments on interna- tional war debts was proposed today by | Senator Lewis, Democrat, Iilinois, 83 & cure for business conditions. | Lewis said he did not agree that re- ducing the tariff, dissolving combina- ! tions of corporations and investigating power monopolies wculd give relief. “I propose,” he said, “that Amerlca | Three Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road | Reasonable Rentals suggests the debts due to the United States as war payments be suspended except interest and provide that these debts be transferred to the generations that did not fight the war and exempt from immediat: payment the genera- tions who did fight and suffer the war. “Then these nations could use the money of the present generation t> buy from America the needed supplies to re- vive their general business. “I propose the United States should say to these nations—England, France and Italy—that they give the same sus- pension to Germany on her debt that we give them. “This is the remedy I see that would immediately awaken trade and revive prosperity in America.” Senator Lewis predicted a third party URE DRUGGIST: The PRIDE MARK of a Really Independent Druggist See page C-2 of this issue balance of power in this country. 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