Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1933, Page 21

i CONGRESS ATTACKS FARM AID PROBLEM Both Houses Aim to Clear| Way for Roosevelt Program. By the Associated Press. Both branches of Congress concen- trated on farm relief today so as to clear the legislative pathways for the vapidly-developing Roosevelt program now beginning to pile up in committee. A campaign to add some inflation 1 to the administration's farm m:um was taking shape in the Sen- ate, the sponsors coming from both | Democratic and Republican ranks. But no definite measure for currency expan- sion had been agreed upon. While this talk of inflation was heard, the farm mortgage refinancing bill was before the House to be debated under a special rule excluding all amendments except those presented by the House Agriculture Committee. Democratic leaders were hopeful that a final vote in the Senate on the farm relief bill copld be had by Thursday or Friday, thus making way for the bank- ing, securities control, Tennessee Valley development and urban refinancing leg- islation that is being rounded out by committees. Approved by House. The House already has approved the price-lifting phase of the administration farm relief program. Consideration by it now of the farm mortgage relief sec- tion will make for a speedy conference with the Senate on the entire proposal— a settlement President Roosevelt wants &00n 50 as to benefit this year's crops. In his formal report to the House, submitted late yesterday, Jones of the House Agriculture Com- mittee said the purposes of the farm mortgage bill are: . To enable the Federal Land Bank | and | tee stem to secure ne capital M. W. Locke In soft, fine kid, perforated and stitched, 5-eyelet. §10. M. W. Locke B shoe in smart oxford style, $9. 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To refinance the short-term in- | debtedness of the farmer, to provide him with a working capital when nece: sary and to help him redeem or re- purchase his foreclosed farm home.” ‘What form the currency expansion proposals would take in the Senate had not definitely been decided by their sponscrs, but one under consideration was to permit issuance of currency against the $2000,000,000 bond issue | proposed to finance the mortgage pro- gram. . Borah Is Interested. This was a subject in which Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, was made | interested, while Ser.ator Wheeler, Demo- crat, of Montana, weighed the thought of proposing remonetization of silver as an amendment, and Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, considered sub- mitting an outright inflation proposal. In its report the Agriculture Commi included a section 1 ‘Thomas and unanimously lpfrmed by | his committee colleagues. It recom- | mended inflation, ccntending “no just. substantial, reliable or permanent relief | can be provided agriculture or any other | industry until the money question is considered and adjusted.” Acceding_to a request of Senator Copeland, Democrat of New York, thé Senate yesterday made the base period | of prices to which it will be sought to raise milk 1919-1928, instead of 1909- 1914, as provided for all other com-| modities except tobacco. But just as the Senate concluded its day’s work, Senator Bankhead, Demo- | crat of Alabama, entered a motion to reconsider the vote by which Cope-, land's amendment was adopted. Senator Borah., announcing his ap- proval of the Roosevelt program for refinancing farm mortgages at 4's per | cent, said he would support the bill only because of that, He remarked that he fell the price raising sections will be “just as disastrous and unhappy an event for the farmer of the United States as the farm marketing act.” Would “Dry Up Trade.” Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican leader, contended the “arbi- trary powers” conferred by the bill on the ~ Secretary of Agriculture would written by ! make the price level so uncertain if would “dry uj B-7 | the channels of trade. qu insinuation that I am trying %o|bushels in 1931, and average production Provisions for permitting a lowering | block Jegisiation looking toward the re- | of 589,000,000 over the five years from of the processing tax he labeled as|lief of those for whom I have spent | 1924 to 1928. | “perfectly impossible, unthinkable and |all my official life. impractical.” Republicans have a sub-| “So far as the pending bill is con- stitute, proposing to strip away the cerned, I am going to let it take its broad powers given Secretary Wallace, " course, hoping and praying that it may on which they will seek a vote within | bring about the result which those who the next two or three days. drafted it and are putting it through Answering McNary, Senator Robin-|hoped it might, but if I do not be- son of Arkansas, the Democratic lead- | Meve it will, I am not going to sub- er, asserted that to impose a_ process- |ordinate my convictions to those of ing tax without power to change it|anybody else. would be dangerous, and that for the| “I am not throwing monkey wrenches bill to accomplish its purpose, some into the machinery, but I am not going such provision had to be in it. to attempt to extol that which I do Expressing determination not to bow | not think worthy of being extolled, or to “windowsill agriculturists,” Senator to advocate that which I do not believe | Smith set the Senate aright on his po- | will do the work which the poor farm- sition toward the Roosevelt farm pro- |ers need to have done.” gram. Abbarently irked by cloak room gossip | Nature Takes a Hand, that his opposition to many phases of | Meanwhile nature has taken a hand the administration bill might lead to|in solving the farm overproduction his being removed as pilot of the meas- | problem. ure, Smith intimated that so long as Alternate freezes and thaws have ‘he was chairman of the Agriculture cut Winter wheat and rye harvest ex- Committee he would be in charge. Not Blocking Legislation. “I do mot want the impression to g0 out that I am opposing legislation in reference to the occupation in which |since 1904. It figured this year's I and my forbears have been cngaged.” | crop at 334,087.000 bushels, compared he said. “I do not want to be met with | with 462,151,000 last year, 787,393,000 pectations to the lowest point in years. The Agriculture Department yester- day estimated the April 1 condition of Winter wheat at 50.4 per cent of nor- mal and forecast the smallest crop One thing’s clear at forty! 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Farmers’ intentions to plant Spring wheat last month showed a reduction from Jast year's acreage, but this may be sharply revised in later reports. From some Winter wheat sections came reports that the Winter crop has been abandoned, the soil reworked and prep- I arations laid for replanting it to Spring varijeties. A survey of farm areas by the Asso- ciated Press shows planting is moving ahead at an increasing pace with the northward march of Spring. It is esti- mated 15 per cent of the Spring wheat, 10 per cent of the cotton and 8 to 9 per cent of the corn has been planted, with sowing activity well advanced in most parts of the South. ‘The planting activity complicates the administration’s farm relief plans. One of the means for curtailing crops, con- tained in the bill now before the Sen- ate, provides for the leasing of lands to take them out of production. 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This week there will be a cherry blossom display, professional models gowned In charming silks, lingerie dresses, voiles and lnens, o North Capitol | " AS PARLEY HURDLE Solution Is Held Necessary Before World Economic | Conference Opens. | BY GEORGE H. MOSES, Pormer United States Senator from New Hampshire. The Disarmament Conference, which has already given many Americans an official vacation by the lovely shores of Lake Geneva, looms up as a hurdle to be mounted on the way to the World Economic Conference, which is to meet | at a date and place not yet definitely selected The Disarmament Conference is now scheduled to reconvene on April 25. The conditions under which it will meet are pretty definitely settled by the agreement which was reached last December, when the “Big Three,” as the then existe namely, Great Brit- ain, France and Italy, decided, in exact form of words, that there should be granted “to Germany and to the other pow- ers disarmed by treaty equality of rights in a system which would pro= | vide security for Geo. H. Moses, 2l nations, and { that the principle should itself be embodied in a conven- tion containing the conclusions of the | conference for the reduction and limita~ tion of armaments.” Germany, it will be remembered, had | flounced out of the Geneva Conference, | but, to quote again from the agreement, | “on the basis of the declaration Ger- many has signified its willingness to | resume its place at the conference.” John Sherman, as Secretary of the Treasury in the Hayes administration, was once discussing the resumption of | specie payments. “The way to resume,” he sententiously remarked, “is to re- sume.” Germany's “resumption” of “its place at the conference” can hardly be given so compact a definition. To begin with, the Germany of De- | cember 11, 1932, is not the German which will “resume its place” on Api 25. Last December Adolf Hitler (now chancelior of the Reich) was only a cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand, on the German sky. Today he filis the whole Teutonic firmament. He is not coming to Washington, but his repre- sentative is; and the chances are that the dissociation of Geneva at April 25 and London on a date not yet fixed, will hardly fit into the Hitlerite scheme of things. The Nazi chieftain knows that he now ranks in that small group of dic- tators wherein he and Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and Soviet Dictator Josef V. Stalin—perhaps, in view of the progress of events in the American Con~ gress, we should add President Roosevelt —stand forth as exercising a supreme control in all that affects their peoples. Accordingly, if our forthcoming Ger= man visitor “knows his onions”—and most Germans do—the conversation which he will hold at Washington will be likely to develop a by-product which will be interesting. At any rate, he is certain to be well grounded in the poli- cies set out in the Zeitschrift fur Politik, ‘which modestly describes itself as “the central organ of political research in Germany.” This organ now can hardly be showering the world with its special edition on sthe problems of disarm- mament” less it has the sanction of the Nazi government and unless that government has a definite objective gch envisages both Geneva and Lon- In the meantime April 25 moves on apace. It.s only five days later than the scheduled - visit of British Prime [acDonald to Wash- | ington. (Copyright, 1983.) PICCARD’S FATHER DIES Kin of Stratosphere Explorer Was 40 Years on Basel U. Faculty. LAUSANNE, April 11 .- Piccard, father of Dr. Auguste Piccard, explorer of the stratosphere, died to- day at the age of 93. He was a professor of chemistry in the University of Basel 40 years and was widely known for his scientific works. A son, Jean, twin brother of Prof. Auguste, lives in Wilmington, Del. 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