Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 27

“PRIVATE TRADES" HIT FARM SUBSIDY Fear Various Schemes Pro- posed. for Benefit of Agriculture. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo, December 21 A)—Why do flour millers,; y eclevator oberators, large grain | hants and others marketing farm i ly oppose all plans vernment in meas- oppose the agricultural eting act, parucularly its stabiliza- d price insurance features? Why oppased to the debenture plan, equalization fee plan and the domestic | allotment plan? Arc they so selfish and so blind to the tragic state of agriculture that they have willfully set up their own desire for profit against the well-being of ag- Ticulture and the country? These questions were asked of Rob- Sterling, editor of the North- ‘western Miller, a publication recognized as a world authority on subjects con- nected with flour milling and the trade rain and flour. Mr. Sterling has | vigorous critic of the many | adopted to _restrict world d its products by exchange | es £s the marketing act in the DUnited States and the British wheat ct. Hits “Economic Tricks.” _ In his opinion, agricultural prosperity will be recovered in the United States only through realization by farm lead- ers and politicians that continued ef- forts to play economic tricks with the world's food can mean only recurring disasters, that the inevitable result of price control is further price disaster and that the more experimental these efforts the greater the penalty. “It is unfortunate,” said Mr. Sterling, “that public opinicn has so widely in- | terpre the warnings of the trades against these measures as wholly in| their own self interests. Flour milling | and the grain trades have suffered equally with agriculture. can profit handling 25-cent wheat and | 10-cent corn and oats. | e from owners of large eleva- | whose profits were for two years | | enhanced by the action of the Federal [ where Il Duce has his offices, to the | 1 5 Ofld | A Farm Board in buying millions of bushels of wheat and creating unprece- dented demand for storage space, the trade is in as low a stage as any Iine. Millers selling flour for $2 2l it difficult, if not impos- | margin to cover | ger to . even theoretically od slightest. the level of prices on other evils more Opposition Explained. “Why do they oppose these measures? | They know that most, if not all, of the | schemes for agricultural inflation have | littie back of them, save the ardent wish they will be helpful. A group of farm leaders, many en- . but others merely job and false prophets fattening off of ure by sclling quack | T up a price-boost- | ing scheme ve thought nists, more of the exchange of ; in the trades. | had any actual ex- e in h g seasonal crops, them, financing them until re- | for consumption and malnum-| 1g that secure balance and adjustment | in both domestic and world trade which insures the grower a free, open market. “These men propose an excise tax of 50 to 100 per cent on flour, base of the most staple food, and pass off the ef- fect upon consumption as of little or | | They dismiss world | | no consequence. in agricultural preducts, from W ave derived most of our and say the way to clvotion is producing rothing into cconomic hiberna- h £ men, scores of whom ve seen a field of wheat. never o cotton ond rarely a hog. is mized in the phrase, ‘something be done about it.’ Domestic Allotment Plan. “The scheme now being most discussed is anomalous one of placing an un- | precedented consumption tax on com- modities of which we have the greatest surplus and are producing most, and giving the already over-producing grower a direct subsidy. This plan has | been pictured 25 having almost un- | limited virtues. The sponsors have en- | elling things to the farn ding them taxing const agriculture Similarly. 7 elp of owners of farm > cbtained ortzages by business or industry remotely connected with handling and converting the prod- ucts of agriculture. All are as flat on their backs as agriculture itself. But they are keeping the machinery in mo- tion and the farmer’s market open when all the forces of government are striving vainly to take over the whole system and put in its place somethin which, it is hoped without much real confidence, will work better. | “Speaking particularly of 3 there is today enough promise in the situation to bring about material im- provement in prices except for the threat_of new legislative experimenta- tion. It is conceivable this year's wheat production may be sufficiently reduced to account for all the surplus of the last four seasons. “There doubtless are ways Congress can aid. It can use our credit balances with other countries for trading pur- poses in the interest of wider markets. It can help the farmer over the rougl Toad of old-value mortgages on new- value land. It can relieve inordinate taxation upon agriculture and upon consumers of agriculture's products. ““The cultural trades and con- verters belleve in these fundamentals: “Attempts to influence prices by sub- sidies and stabilization schemes will fail with greater ultimate disaster than any transient benefit realized. “Consumption taxes will reduce de- mand more than the value of any bene- fits from temporary subsidy. “Subsidies to the land will so un- settle land values as to destroy the last remaining vestige of credit to owners of unsubsidized acreage. “Subsidies to production will result in its further extension unless under such restrictions and bureaucratic con- trol as to be prohibitive in both cost nd organization, ry ideal of freedom of the farmer. “The only safe road out for agricul: ture is such financial reconstruction as can be supplied by Government agen- cles, absolute non-interference with normal price influences by political ex- perimentation, every possible aid to Testoration of domestic_consumption of farm products and utmost concentra- tion of government upon the final solu- tion—restoration of world trade for our products. “The American farmer's troubles are the result of world-wide economic dis- turbance surpassing the effect of all man-made laws. 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Ten millicns of these are unemployed and hundreds of thou- | sands are dependent upon the Red Cross_for the bread it is proposed to tax. We have heard from no proponent of the plan whether Red Cross flour is to be subject to the $2 per barrel tax. “It is to these things members of the The “As You Like It” Box idea A C: gift than this? Dusting Powder-Soap Ensemble and repugnant to | selected © . . ! in all, they are.most exceptional if we do not have the exact one to fit . and here are the results! THE GO, MORRAY WIS FRENDLY HOE Oklahoma Executive Fails, However, to Control State Senate. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 21— Militant Gov. W. H. Murray, who h | threatened to resign if the next Legis. lature opposes his policies, friendly House, but apparently has failed by one Democratic vote to organ- ize the State Senate. The Legislature will convene Janu- ary 3. Organization of the House to suit the QGovernor's desires was accomplished with ease. 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A bitter campaign resulted, but Stew- art's friends obtained 20 Democratic signers, one more than a majority of Democrats in the chamber, on Stewart’s call. A caucus was held immediately and Btewart was nominated for Presi- dent pro tempore and committees were appointed. Refusing to concede defeat, the Gov- ernor urged friends of Chamberlain to attend a caucus called by that Senator that Senator Stewart’s election “will mean my defeat in the Senate.” Sena- tors supporting Stewart, however, say they will not oppose any Murray-spon- sored legislation that is “reasonable.” “The fight of the Governor to both Houses with his friends in charge came as the result of activities of the last Legislature. The. House, friendly to “Alfalfa Bill,” passed virtually all of the many measures the Governor placed be- fore it. A more independent Senate, however, drastically amended some and ref: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932. CANADA IS URGED TO MARKET WHEAT Growers Want Government Agency, Created and Claim Regular Trad- ing Channels Destroyed. charged that established trading ma- | chinery through which Canada’s wheat | crop moves to world markets has| broken down and declared the first step to remedy the existing situation lies in & Dominion marketing agency. The ] reiterates its request for a national wheat marketing board. The statement, in part, follows: “Between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 bushels. of wheat belonging to western growers were sold under stop loss or- B—1 daily average since the beginning of December. “The whole situation is of such grav- ity that international, as well as na- tional, action is required. At home * ¢ ¢ the first step lies in a Dominica markeling agen Lo R Fraternity House Looted. GREENCASTLE, Ind. (#)—Alumni planning to visit the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity House at Depauw University for January 2. 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