Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1937, Page 16

HEARING LAUNCHED ON TENANGY BILL Wallace to Give Views to Jones Committee to Curb Problem. BY BLAIR BOLLES. The House Agricultural Committee today started ahead of the White House in the race to eliminate farm tenancy and share-cropperism from the Na- tion’s rural economy. The congressional group opened hearings on a farm tenant bill writ- ten by Chairman Jones of the com- mittee, while a special board named by President Roosevelt was still deep in study of what legislation would best meet the question. Jones, how- ever, was asked last September by the President to frame some sort of leg- islation. The presedential experts are ex- pected to make their recommenda- tions February 1, by which time the House Agricultural Committee may have completed consideration of Jones’ $500,000,000 Farmers’ Home Corp. proposal. The members of the committee ex- pect an immediate revelation of the attitude of administration officials toward the measure, for Secretary Wallace, who is ex-officio chairman of the President’s Committee on Farm Tenancy, and M. L. Wilson, Under- secretary of Agriculture, are to be the first witnesses. Same Objectives. The ultimate purpose of both | Jones and the White House is the| same—to reduce as much as possible the high pereentage of tenancy. The 1935 agricultural census disclosed that 421 per cent, or 2865155 of the country’s 6,812,350 farms, are run by tenants. The rate of increase in tenancy is 80 rapid, however, that Wallace has expressed doubt in the past whether the $50,000,000 a year for 10 years Jones would spend on its elimination would do more than slow down the upward trend. ‘The Jones bill “to encourage and promote the ownership of farm homes and to make the possession of such homes more secure” would transfer all the functions now carried on by the Resettlement Administration, which is combating tenancy in a limit- ed way, to the new Farmers' Home Corp. Would Buy Land. In outline the function of the cor- poration would be this: It would buy land farmed by ten- ants and turn it over to farm tenants, share-croppers, farm laborers or per- sons recently fitting those categories, with preference for “applicants who are married or have dependent fami- lies.” The beneficiaries would be desig- nated by three-member county com- mittees. They would be put on av- erage size farms carved from the corporation’s land as renters with op- tion to buy, and the rental payments in the first five years would aggre- gate 25 per cent of the purchase price. When the lessee decided to exercise his option to buy, after paying 25 per cent of the purchase price, title | would pass to him, and the corpora- tion would take a lien on the balarnce, with the loan to be paid off in 40 QVERLAND \\Ti g years at the rate charged by the Federal Land Bank in the neighbor- hood. Tenancy is a sore spot chiefly in the South, especially in the one-crop cot= ton areas, with 70 per cent of the cultivated land in Mississippi operated by farmers who own none of this acreage. It is lowest in Massachusetts, 6 per cent, and low in Maine, New Hamp- shire and West Virginia, while through the corn-growing mid-West States of Illinois, Jowa and Nebraska the figure rises to more than 70 per cent. How far any program now under consideration might go toward elimi- nation of tenancy is made probleme atical by the President’s suggestion to Jones last Summer that the Gov- ernment should aid “tenants who have demonstrated their ability to manage land.” Opponents to the general theory of tenancy eradication contend that a large percentage of the non-owning operators are shiftless and unable to manage land wisely. SOLDIER GETS MEDAL FOR HEROISM IN FLOOD Bravery of Last March in Pennsyl- * vania Rewarded—Another Private Also Honored. Two awards of the Soldier's Medal, on- for heroism in the Pennsylvania flood disaster of last year, were an- nounced today by the War Depart- ment. Pvt. Charles S. White, Medical De- partment, was honored for his action in repeatedly crossing a raging chan- nel under hazardous conditions and rescuing several persons from flood waters at Jersey Shore, Pa., March 18, 1936. He discovered a fire in one of the houses, extinguished the flames “with utter disregard of his own safe- ty,” and brought the occupants to safety. He is a native of Jersey Shore and now is on duty at Rock Island Arsenal, II. The other award is to Pvt. Thomas W. Treloar, Battery E, 62d Coast Ar- tillery, Anti-aircraft, for heroism in rescuing a comrade from drowning at Fort Totten, N. Y., last Summer. Pvt. Treloar, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., now is on duty at Fort Totten. THE EVENING STAR, D.C. BARELEGTING OFFIGERS FOR 1337 Results of Ballot Today to Be Announced at Meeting Tonight. The District Bar Association will choose officers today for 1937, and the results will be announced at the as- soclation’s annual meeting tonight in the Mayflower Hotel. Balloting was to begin at noon in the south room of the Bar Association in the District Court Building and close at 6 p.m. Voting is secret and modeled after the system used in na- tional elections. The race for the presidency has been three-cornered with each candi- date forecasting his own victory. Gertman, King, Quinn Compete. Presidential candidates are George C. Gertman, for 17 years secretary of the association; Milton W. King, who expects to draw much strength from the younger lawyers, and Henry I. RESORTS., ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. HOTEL DENNIS ATLANTIC CITY Winter weeks and week-ends are de- lightful at the ‘Shore . . . doubly so at Hotel Dennis. Attractive Amen- can Plon Rates. MIAMI BEACH, FLA. TEMPERATURE IN 8 00 Miami Beach YESTERDAY WAS STEAMSHIPS. MEDITERRANEAN and all Earope—De Luxe service on famous express liners via the smooth Southern ITALIAN_LINE. 624 5t ._Ne BERMUDA VIA FURNESS, $60 u trip. with private bath on Monarch Bermuda _and Queen of Bermud quent sallings. Ask your travel ag More popular every day— this fine old Blatz Milwau- keeBeer. Rich, full-bodied ~ it has a flavor all of its own that no other beer has been able to g match! Order by the bottle orby the case today. Distributed by CAPITAL BEVERAGE CO,, INC. Phone North 6267 617 Rhode Island Ave. N.E. Washington, D. C. Quinn, a member of the Board of Edu~ cation and Federation of Citizens’ As- soclations, All have been indefatig- uable workers for the association. Ef- forts by Gertman for passage of the bill liberalizing the District’s divorce laws brought him the public thanks of the association a year ago. Another close race has developed for the first vice presidency, with two former officials as opposing candi- dates. - They are Leo A. Rover, imme- diate past United States attorney, and ‘E. Barrett Prettyman, who re- cently resigned as corporation counsel. Rover has the backing of the self- styled “Fifth Ward,” an organization of attorneys with offices on Fifth street, near the court house. Mem- bers of the “ward” for weeks have been wearing campaign buttons bear- ing Rover’s name and the name of Assistant United States Attorney Samuel F. Beach, who is a candidate for director. Cusick Battles Kane. Two men are running for second vice president and both represent the so-called younger element. ‘They are Ralph A. Cusick and Al Philip Kane. Candidates for secretary are C. Chester Caywood and Wilbur L. Gray. Bolitha Laws, treasurer, is candidate to succeed himself. He is opposed by F. Joseph Donohue. ‘Three directors will be elected. Nine candidates are listed, but voters have been instructed to vote for only three. The names offered are Charles 8. Baker, Jerome F. Barnard, Beach, R. Aubrey Bogley, Charles T. Clayton, Ringgold Hart, Jo V. Morgan, Daniel . O’'Donoghue, Arthur J. jr, and C. U. SCHOOL ADMITTED Social Work Unit Accepted by American Association. ‘The Catholic University School of Social Work was accepted as a mem- ber of the American Association of Schools of Social Work at its recent meeting in St. Louis, it was announced today. 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