Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 7

* “The differences between the Hitler + “The Life of Christ.” VAT ke POTATO IS PLACED UNDERA.A.A.RULE Spud Output to Be Curtailed in Move for Higher Prices. BY BLAIR BOLLES. The humble potato, staple food of | rich and poor and one of the most | abundant crops of the United States, eaten at least once a day by practi- cally all Americans except reducing dieters, will be thrown this week to| the mercy of the A. A. A. The output of the spud will be severely curtailed, the price will be increased to please 3,000,000 potato farmers and the tuber may join the | now costly pork chop in a rise from | pauper to prince. i The potato became a basic com- | modity and therefore suitable for A.| A. A. control last week after a spirited 1 House floor fight resulted in the in- clusion of the Warren potato bill in | the adjustment act amendments. Lyonnaise, rissole, French fried, | Julienne, O'Brien, baked, boiled, au gratin, mashed, hashed brown, | creamed—they are all potatoes and all | subject to the production restriction first proposed by Representative Lind- | say Warren of North Carolina, and urged by Senator Borah, who finds | little good in most New Deal experi- | ments. Bill Squeezed Through. The potato bill just squeezed through | the House by a vote of 174 to 165. It was denounced by Democrats and up- held by a few Republicans, such as| Brewster of Maine, who called adjust- | ment of the potao crop “a simple act of justice.” The potato output failure, which in ¥reland almost a hundred years ago | caused the first large-scale Irish emi- | gration to the United States, “is ex- | pected to be above average this year,” according to the Department of Agri- | tulture Bureau of Economics, but there | is little market for much of what has | already been grown. | The total potato crop figured for August 1 was 377,000,000 bushels, a 3 per cent increase over the July esti- mate and 4 per cent above the aver- age for 1928-1932. There are millions too many, according to Representative Boileau, Progressive, of Wisconsin, a leader in the potato-protection fight, who says: “The trouble with the potato in- dustry has been that the farmers have produced such a tremendously large surplus of potatoes that they have | been forced to sell the potatoes for the | cost of sacking and the cost of trans- portation. There has not been a profit in it for the farmers, and I be- lieve the potato producers are en-| titled to just as much consideration as the producers of tobacco, cotton, wheat, corn, or anything else.” Secretary to Set Quota. ‘The legislation, to be signed this| week by the President, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to set a po- tato quota for the country and then | figure individual quotas for each grower. Any potatoes marketed in | excess of the quota are to be sub- | Jjected to a tax which will be high| enough to discourage overproduction. In this way, as has been done in cotton and tobacco, it is hoped sup- ply will more closely approximate de- mand and the price will go up. The first five bushels marketed by any grower are exempt from the tax. The bill is in effect for the coming | crop year. Affirmative votes of two- | thirds of the potato growers are nec- essary to continue the control for an- other year. | That the price of potatoes is on | the skids is attested by the report of the Department of Agriculture, which states: “The United States average price ! to producers of potatoes advanced | slightly to 52 cents by July 15, but was | still 15 cents less than the average| returns of the same date last year and about 30 cents below the July average for 1910-1914.” The average Nation-wide retail | price for potatoes on July 1 was 21| cents a pound, almost half of what| it was in 1929. | Warren, the father of potato pro- | tection, calls the plight of the grower “one of tragedy and bankruptcy,” and said: | “Five million bushels of potatoes | were dumped on the ground in the State of Maine last month. Potatoes were selling up there for 10 cents a | barrel when it cost 35 cents to buy | the barrel to put them in. Every- where they are selling far below the | cost of production.” BIRTH CONTROL HELD MURDEROUS MENACE| Archbishop Thinks Advocates Are on Par With Dillinger Mob—Decree Prepared. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, August 17.—Archbishop John Gregory Murray charged today that birth-control organizations were like the Dillinger mob, as both, he said, were “organized to commit mur- der.” “I see little difference in killing an unborn child and a living person,” the archbishop asserted in an inter- view replying to criticism aimed at him by Margaret Sanger of the Na- | tional Committee on Federal Legis- lation for Birth Control. He made his charge on the eve of an official pronouncement throughout the archdiocese ordering all Catholics to renounce membership and employ- ment in organizations advocating birth control or sterilization. It af- fects physicians, nurses and social | ‘workers as well as laymen. Declining to reply specifically to Margaret Sanger’s opposition argu- ment, Archbishop Murray added: government and the church at Rome are essentially the same as the differ- ences between the Catholic Church and the birth-control movement here.” Sails for Holy Land. NEW YORK, August 17 (). —Edwia Carewe, motion picture producer and director, sailed today for the holy land to begin work on a screen version of [ sea_depth. THE Battlefield for U. S. Ma TH 2o{DIVISION S vew york 0 Map shows area of New York State in which New York, New England and Regular Army troops yesterday began the largest scale maneuvers since the World War. Two armies arrayed as shown are testing military strategy in record concentration. The exercises will last through August 31. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. : Below: Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, left, and Maj. Gen. Fox Connor, in charge of operations, looking over map of vicinity in which 56,000 troops will play war. —Wide World Photo. Whale Research Ship Home. 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