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- A4 # “MARCH" SUCCESS. ELATES FARMERS 4,500 Here Hail President’s Pledge That Aid Will Continue. (Continued From First Page.) that the President “must have been talking about Tugwell and Wallace.” Past Suffering Recalled. Encouraged by the friendly attitude of his hearers, President Roosevelt continued: “You remember, and I remember, that not so long ago the poor had less food to eat and less clothing to wear, and that was at a time when you practically had to give away your products. Then the surpluses were greater, and yet the poor were poorer than they are today, when you farm- ers are getting a reasonable, although still insufficient, price. “It is your duty and mine to con- tinue to educate the people of this country to the fact that adjustment means not only adjustment down- ward, but adjustment upward. “It s high time for us to repeat on every occasion that we have not wastefully destroyed food in any form.” Eager to see everybody, the farmers at the end of the talk set up a cry “the lady of the house.” “Fetch out the lady of the house,” they called. President Roosevelt turned back to explain Mrs. Roosevelt was in Hyde Park, Speech Widely Praised. The hearers, many of whom had traveled 2,500 miles in hopes they might see the President, were full of praise this morning for his ‘speech. “He's the only fellow we ever had in thar (the White House) that ever gave the farmer any consideration,” sald Loss Starnes, a cotton planter from Smith County, Tex. “Yas, suh, he’s going to do this job right,” spoke up Thomas D. Harlan of Marlin, Tex., who sat on a sofa in a hotel room crowded with dozens of farmers waiting for a railroad official to adjust their tickets. “During Republican administrations we rubbed all the cloth off our coat sleeves running close around corners Jooking for prosperity,” said Harlan. “But old Roosevelt, he's fine, and he’s going to keep his job as far as the South is concerned.” A picked group from the 4,500 to- day Iaid plans for a new Nation-wide farm organization to act in unision with sectional lines wiped away. “We have several national farm groups now, but they don't work to- gether,” they said. Hastings Reply Sharp. In a sharp reply to President Roose- velt's speech to the farmers Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, asserted today “the President invites criticism and then shows that he ‘can’t take it.’” | Hastings said that four times in | yesterday's speech the President | “spoke sarcastically of those who have criticized the A. A. A. program as ‘the high and mighty.’ *He described them as persons with ‘special axes to grind,’” the Dela- ware Senator continued. “He spoke of them as ‘lying about the kind of & | farm program under which this Nation | is operating today’ He warned his audience not ‘to be led astray by the solemn admonitions and specious lies of those who in the past profited most when your distress was greatest.” “He spoke of ‘the crocodile tears shed by the professional mourners of an old and obsolete order.’” Hastings said critics of the New Deal heretofore have been called “Tories” and “traltors,” and added “but now we are called ‘liars’ and everybody understands just what that means and 1t comes with little dignity from a man who holds the high position of Presi- dent of the United States.” “The President’s speech reminds me of the small town bully, who boldly and courageously calls his opponents foul names when he has his own crowd about him to protect him,” Hastings concluded. Lewis Lauds President. Not long after Hastings had issued his statement, Senator Lewis, Demo- crat, of Illinois, took the floor in the Senate and congratulated President Roosevelt on “having found it agree- able to use the commanding words” in referring to those whom Lewis de- clared have been misrepresenting con- ditions during the past two years. “The President may not have been as polite as on ordinary occasions,” Senator Lewis declared, “but the short and ugly word was the appropriate one in describing these misrepresenta- tions.” Some in overalls, some in mail- order Sunday best and some in busi- ness suits, the tanned farmers idled in hotel lobbies and paraded the pavements this morning. Scores of sightseeing busses prepared to take them around the town. Many made plans to stay until the end of the week, although most got ready to leave for home tonight, ‘Will Get Money’s Worth. “We're going to stick around. We got to look this town over for a while yet,” laughed B. J. Wilson, Smith County, Tex. “It cost us'a lot of money to get up here, and we might as well get something out of it.” In the sweltering auditorium of Constitution Hall, the tobacco-chew- ing agriculturists all day yesterday loosed loud yippees, sang songs and cheered “for the folks back home” at the opening of a radio program. A parade of speakers, headed by Secre- tary Wallace and A. A. A. Chief Chester Davis, assured them the ad- Justment program was here to stay. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1935. President Addresses Farmers ‘The text of President Roosevelt's address yesterday before the farmers convened here for the purpose of sup- porting the administration’s agricul- tural adjustment program follows: I am glad to welcome you to the National Capital. We can think of this occasion as a kind of surprise birthday party, for it was just two years and two days ago that the agri- cultural adjustment act became a law. And I well remember the fine group of representatives of farmers from around me on that occasion when I signed the act. In record time you and thousands of the machinery to control your own affairs and put the new law to work. 1 remember, too, the many high and mighty people who said you could not do it—that it was no use for you to try—intimating clearly that their only remedy to improve your situa- tion was to let the sheriffs’ sales go on. ‘That was the old and very familiar way—the high and mighty balanced farm production with demand. Those people did not understand and many of them do not understand today that, if the farm population of the United States suffers and loses its purchasing power, the people in the cities, of necessity, suffer with them. One of the greatest lessons that the city dwellers have come to understand in this past two years is this: Empty pocketbooks on the farm don’t turn factory wheels in the city. Goes Back to Spring of '33. Go back for & minute to the Spring of 1933—when there was a huge carry-over of almost 13,000,000 bales and a price, because of that carry- over, of 6 cents a pound. You and I know what 6-cent cotton means to the purchasing power of the Cotton 1t. There was & huge carry-over of tobacco and the price of tobacco during the preceding six months was the lowest on record for many years. ‘Wheat, with a carry-over of nearly 400,000,000 bushels, and a price of 35 cents on the farm; corn, with & price of 15 cents a bushel on many farms; hogs, selling at 3 cents a pound. You and I know what that meant in the way of purchasing power for 40,000,000 people. When we came to Washington we were faced with three possible pro- grams. The first involved price-fixing by Government decree. This was dis- carded because the problem of over- production was not solved thereby. The second was & plan to let farm- ers grow as much as they wanted to and to have the Federal Government then step in, take from them that portion of their crop which represented the exportable surplus and, in their name, on their behalf, dump this surplus on the other nations of the world. That plan was discarded be- cause the other nations of the world had already begun to stop Yumping. ‘With increasing frequency they were - Removes & and Hunouncznwn’cs' e Our new styles gf ecu n ":Azravmg Cf are modn::c o cost to meet present demands ..o ‘Brew®D &nd Fine Printers 6i) TWELFTH STREST uons Digraior 4008 A that follow dishwashing. 35¢ every part of the Union who stood | other farmers took hold and set up | OFFER ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO HBeautify THE FINGERNAILS MANICARE President Roosevelt shown yesterday as he addressed a meeting of 4,000 farmers from 25 States, who came to the White House after holding a demonstration to show thelr faith in the administration A. A. program. . P. Photo, Text of Roosevelt’s Speech Cites Benefits to Farmer of A. A. A. Program and Urges Aid in Spreading Adjustment Education. | raising their tariffs, establishing quotas and clamping on embargoes against just that kind of proposition. Adjustment Plan Adopted. Therefore, we came to the third plan—a plan for the adjustment of totals in our major crops so that from year to year production and consump- tion would be kept in reasonable bal- ance with each other, to the end that reascnable prices would be paid to farmers for their crops and to the end that unwieldly surpluses would not depress our markets and upset the balance. We are now at the beginning of the third year of carrying out this policy. You know the results thus far at- tained. You know the price of cotton, of wheat, of tobacco, of corn, of hogs and of other farm products today. Further comment on the successful partial attainment of our objective up You know. I want to emphasize that word | “adjustment.” As you know, a great many of the high and mighty—with special axes to grind—have been de- | liberately trying to mislead people who { know nothing of farming by misrepre- | senting—no—why use a pussyfoot word—by lying about the kind of & |farm program under which this | Nation is operating today. | A few leading citizens have gone astray from ignorance. I must admit |it. For example, the prominent city banker who was driving through up- State New York with me four or five years ago in the late Fall. Everything was brown. The leaves were off the trees. We passed a beautiful green fleld. He asked me what it was, I told him it was Winter wheat. He turned to me and said, “That is very interesting. I have always wondered about Winter wheat. What I don't understand is how they are able to cut it when it gets all covered up with snow.” The other was the editor of a great metropolitan paper. He visited me down in Georgia when the cotton was nearly grown but before the bolls had formed. Looking out over the cotton fields he sald to me: “What a great number of raspberries they grow down here.” Raspberries was right. At 4! cents & pound for cotton his mistake was, perhaps, a natural one. Adjustment Upward. I was speaking of adjustment. It is your duty and mine to continue to educate the people of this country to the fact that adjustment means not only adjustment downward but ad- Jjustment upward. If you and I agree on a correct figure for a normal carry- over, it means that if we have a UR MATTRESSES, SPRINGS AND BEDS ARE THE FINEST Specialists in this line—Modest Prices H.A.Linger,925 G St. AN the Cuticle Without Scissors or Acids . . By means of a new discovery—MANICARE—jyou can now bring added lustre and glamour to your fingertips. No more expensive manicures, no more last-minute rushes to make your nails look right. 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A. contemplated the destruc- tion of an acre of food crops in the United States, in spite of what you may read or be told by people who have special axes to grind. 1t is high time for you and for me to make clear that we are not plowing under cotton this year—that we did not plow it under in 1934 and that we only plowed some of it under in 1933 because the agricultural adjust- ment act was passed after a huge crop of cotton was already in the ground. - It is high time for us to repeat on every occasion that we have not wastefully destroyed food in any form. 1t is true that the relief administrator has purchased hundreds of thousands of tons of foodstuffs to feed the needy and hungry who are on the relief to this time is unnecessary on my part. | rolls in every part of the United States. Farmers Not Deceived. The crocodile tears shed by the professional mourners of an old and obsolete order over the slaughter of little pigs and other measures to reduce surplus agricultural invento- ries deceive very few thinking people and least of all the farmers themselves. The acknowledged destiny of & pig is sausage, or ham, or bacon, or pork. In these forms millions of pigs were consumed by vast nuthbers of needy people who otherwise would have had to do without. Let me make one other point clear for the benefit of the millions in cities ? | who have to buy meats. Last year the Nation suffered a drought of un- paralleled intensity. If there had been no Government —if the old order had obtained in 1933 and 1934 that drought on the cattle ranges of America and in the corn belt would have resulted in the marketing of thin cattle, immature hogs and the death of these animals on the range and on the farm. Then ‘we would have had a vastly greater shortage than we face today. Our program saved the llves of millions of head of live stock. They are still on the range. Other millions are today canned and ready for this country to eat. I think that you and I are agreed in seeking & continuance of a national policy which on the whole is proving successful. The memory of old con- ditions under which the product of a whole year'’s work often would not bring you the cost of transporting it to market is too fresh in your minds to let you be led astray by the solemn admonitions and specious lies of those who in the past profited most when your distress was greatest. * Asks Support For Program. You remember, and I remember, that not so long ago the poor had less food to eat and less clothes to wear and that was at a time when you had to practically give away your products. Then the surpluses were greater and yet the poor were poorer than they are today when you farmers are getting a reasonable although still an insufficient price. 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