Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 7

WELOUTLNES NEW FARN BL Establishment of Parity In- come Necessary for Prosperity, He Says. Legislation bringing greater pros- perity to the Nation's farmers will mean comparable benefits to the con- sumers and the Nation as a whole, Benator George McGill, Democrat, of Kansas declared last night in an ad- dress in the National Radio Forum Arranged by The Star, the forum program was broadcast over a Nation- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937. Outlines Farm Aid Plan wide network of the National Broad- easting Co.. It was heardl locally' through Station WMAL. | Senator McGill, in conjunction with Eenator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, is author of a farm bill pending in the Wenate, their measure having the fol- | lowing four main objectives Parity prices to farmers for normal supplies of cotton, wheat, corn, rice ' and tobacco; parity income in a fixed relationship to non-agricultural in- eome; establishment of an ever-nor- mal granary, and conservation of soil resources. Text of Address. 1 The text of Senator McGill's ad-| dress follows: | Permit me to express to The Wash- | {ngton Star Radio Forum and the Na- | tional Broadcasting Co. my high ap- | preciation of the opportunity afforded me this evening to speak on your pro- gram Problems affecting American agri- culture should be. and I believe are, of vital interest to ali of our people Agriculture is our basic industry and the economic welfare of every citizen regardless of vocation is affected by | the degree of prosperity enjoyed by the | tillers of the soil. Due to the various programs during the past four years, | following a time when agriculture to ouite a degree by reason of a large rurplusage had sunk to its lowest level | {n the history of our country, the con- dition of the farmers, except probably | tn drought-stricken areas, has been | materially improved It is a fact recognized by every fair- " orsee.. SENATOR GEORGE McGILL. —Star Staff Photo. in years of plenty and which would also take care of profitable exports during such periods. It is also con- templated that the ever-normal grenary will protect the consumer from abnormally high prices. The fourth objective is to conserve our national soil resources and to deter | | production of a surplusage for which | there is no adequate market, present or praspective, a surplusage the pro- | duction of which deprives the sofl of | its fertility without producing com- mensurate income to the farmer or benefit to the public. | It is among the purposes of the bill | to assure the farmer substantially & | | parity return for normal supplies of major agricultural commodities based | | on the theory that such a return is| fair to all our citizens and that na- | tional prosperity cannot exist unless those engaged in agricultural pursuits share in that prosperity. The bill re- | do with the administration nition as will promote efficient meth- ods of marketing and distribution, Acreage diversion is to be carried forward through the supervision of the local associations of farmers or producers. Follows Farm Group Idea. The measure in many of its aspects is similar to a measure containing the provisions of proposed legislation re- cently outlined in hearings before the Committee on Agriculture and Fores- try of the United States Senate and before the Agricultural Committee of the House by representatives of vari- | ous farm organization groups The junior Senator from Idaho, Mr. Pope, and I have included in this measure provisions different from pro- visions in other measures of a simi- lar character, which chiefly have to of the | program, and which provide for the | | holding of a referendum each year of Representatives and that all in- terests may be fully and properly heard at such hearings, including rep- resentatives of the various farm or- ganizations of the country, and that they will present any suggestions they or any of them may have in order that the Congress may be prepared to enact a well-considered and adequate measure in behalf of the farmers of the country. One which will look to taking care of such a situation as likely will occur in the event of a large surplusage and such as we have experienced in the past in major ag- ricultural commodities. Natural economic laws cannot be suspended, set aside or abandoned, and nature has decreed that in this country in particular agriculture is basic in our industrial system, a fact which has been recognized by virtually all historians, statesmen and econo- mists throughout our national life. The welfare of labor, the welfare of other industries and the welfare of the basic industry, agriculture, go hand in hand. Statistics from the Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Depart- ment of Labor, disclose that each year the annual manufacturers’ pay roll to its laborers is approximately the same in amount as the gross income from agricultural production, and that, therefore, as the agricultural income increases in like proportion the wage pay roll increases, clearly disclosing that labor in every form of industry as well as industry itself and the welfare of the laboring class all go hand in hand with the welfare of the farmers of the Nation. Let all our people strive earnestly toward providing an adequate agri- cultural program. SALVATION ARMY ASKS RESPONSE TO APPEAL ‘The Salvation Army is faced with the prospect of curtailing its activities unless the public responds immedi- ately to the call for discarded clothing, furniture and other articles, Adjt. Al- | bert E. Baldwin said today. The in- stitution’s pay roll, on which there are 90 persons, 40 per cent of them local men, would have to be slashed drastically in such circumstances, he | said | The adjutant announced comple- | tion of reconditioning work on the VETERANS PRESS FOR BUND PROBE Commanders of 35 Posts Back Call for Federal Investigation. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., July 27.—Thirty- five commanders of New Jersey war veterans’ posts sought action today on resolutions asking Federal and State investigations of the German-Amer- ican bund and indorsing demands by Representatives Dickstein and Dmsi and a C. L. O. regional director for | & congressional inquiry into alleged | un-American activities at the bund's New Jersey camp. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, whom W. J. Carney, New Jersey C. I. O. director, called “lax in the investigation of the | Nazi encampment,” said he would consider “specific instances of law violations.” Recalls C. I. O. Stand. Carney charged in a telegram read | before the House of Representatives | yesterday that Hoffman ‘“condemned | the C. I. O in banning sit-down strikes several months ago, then added: “It is significant that Gov. Hoffman had no word of condemnation for un- American goose-stepping Nazis.” Speaking in behalf of Representa- tive Dies’ (Democrat, of Texas) reso- lution for a congressional investiga. tion of “un-American propaganda.’ Representative Dickstein, of New York told the House *% A—7 Sent s new consur generl nere, in| PAGEANT THURSDAY the State of California.” Dickstein identified the official as Von Killinger and said he was re- sponsible for the “amalgamation of the united front of German Nazis and Italian Fascists.” Hoffman said at Newark he wouldn't “‘pussyfoot” on the issue Charges could be laid before him, he stated, or before the prosecutor of Sussex Cournty, where the bund's New Jersey camp is located. Urge Prosecution. One of the veterans' resolutions asked the Department of Justice and Congress to ‘“ascertain the sources and extent of subversive activities in this country, to be followed by crim- inal prosecution.” The other requested New Jersey's attorney general, David T. Wilentz, and the State Legislature to investi- gate the camp and “prosecute leaders of the German-American bund wher- ever criminal acts are uncovered.” The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Irish War Veterans, Order of the Purple Heart, Jewish War Veterans and Sons of Jewish War Veterans were represented at the meeting in Newark last night which adopted the resolutions, RECEIVES EARHART GIFT Niece of Lost Avmm':Gns Birth- day Present From Bombay. MEDFORD, Mass, July 27 (& — Little Amy Morrissey, niece of Amelia Farhart, lost in the Pacific while flying around the world, yesterday recelvad a oirthday present which was mailed by Amelia when she was in Bombay | —six Oriental bracelets made of gold and spun glass. Groups Co-operate for ‘“Our Con- stitution” Presentation. A pageant depicting the drafting of “Our Constitution” will be presented Thursday night at McKinley High School, Second and T streets north- east, under auspices of the McKinley- Langley Community Center and four citizens’ associations. Approximately 150 men, women and children of the community will take part in the pageant, which is directed by Miss Pauline Oak. The cast has been selected from members of the various groups sponsoring the project. The Brookland, North Capital, Rhode Island Avenue and Trinidad Citizens' Associations are co-operating. JOIN FO’CSLE cLUB By passing a quiz based on rarely- used nautical terms compiled by Navy Department experts, six officials of | the Corinthian Yacht Club were initi- ated into membership in the Fo'csle Club at a luncheon meeting at the Harrtington Hotel yesterday. The new members and their posi- tions in the Corinthian Club are Sew- ell Shreve, captain; G. B. 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AS SALES MANAGER FOR CENTURY OIL BURNERS AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS BOILER-BURNER UNITS & g . among the producers of a commodity jects the philisophy of scarcity to me}m determine Whether the program advantage of both the consumer and | | sleeping quarters located at 526 First minded citizen that for many years | | street. Approximately $10,000 has prior to the program carried forward | FUEL OIL SERVICE | shall go into effect as regards such under the agricultural adjustment act, | American agriculture had been on an | economic decline. We had witnessed | . the building of & great surplusage, the | continual faliing of commodity prices the weakening thereby of industry, business and of our financial institu- tions. This materially aflected the purchasing power of labor and in- dustry for the products of tne farm and depreciated in value the products " ©f the farm In comparison to their exchange value for other commodities and thereby seriously affected the or- derly exchange of commodities | The varied adjustment and soil eonservation programs co-operatively | carried on with the farmers have been | for the purpose, first, of reducing and | disposing of the previously accumu- | lated unsalable surplus of farm com- | modities; second, to enable the farmer | to attain a reasonable return for his labor and on his investment, and,| third, to conserve the soil not only to | this generation but to generations to | . gome, The programs referred to were spon- | sored by many of the farm organiza degnced by the facts. In 1932 the gross income from American agricul- | tural production was $5.337,000,000— the lowest it had been when we con- sider the acreage under cultivation. | In 1933 the gross income from agri- | eultural production was $6.406.000,000. In 1834 it was $7.276.000,000. In 1935 1t was $8508,000,000. In 1936 | # is estimated this income was $9.- | $30.000.000, and doubtless will prove to | be much greater for the year 1937. Surpluses Predicted. A situation in all probability will develop in the near future with which | many of the members of the Congress | foel we should deal, or at least with | which we should be prepared to deal. | " For instance, it is estimated that this | year’s production of wheat is 240, | 000.000 bushels more than will be our | domestic consumption. From the ex- perience of the last several years it | would appear we will not be able to dispose of more than from 25.000,000 | to 40.000.000 bushels in export mar- kets. This would mean at the end of | this year we would have a surplus in that commodity of 200.000,000 bushels. If a like surplus should occur next | ¥ear we would have the same problem eonfronting us we had in 1932, when | the surplus was 397.000.000 bushels, Depressed prices would almost in- - evitably result. Due to the decision of the Supreme €ourt of the United States, the agri- eultural adjustment act, of course, is no longer in operation, and in my Judgment the provisions of the soil | eonservation act are inadequate for | the farmers to deal successfully with | such a situation as I have described. With this situation confronting the | #armers of America, the junior Sena- tor from Idaho, Mr. Pope, and I on the 15th of this month jointly in- troduced in the Senate of the United States a measure looking to the enactment of necessary laws to deal with an anticipated surplusage and ,thereby provide for a program to Insure complete rehabilitation of American agriculture. The bill has been introduced in the hope of at- tracting the members of Congress to a #erious study of the problem and with the further hope of resultant adequate Jegislation. The bill in its entirety eannot be dealt with within the allotted * time provided so generously on this broadcast, but I shall attempt at least b0 explain it in general terms. The bill eontains four major objec- Pives, ‘The first is parity prices to farmers for normal supplies of the five major bgricultural commodities — cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco. Parity prices are those which would give these ajor agricultural commodities at all mes the same average purchasing power with regard to the articles Sarmers buy, which prevailed in the jod from 1909 to 1914. As to to- cco, however, the period would be from 1919 to 1929 The second objective is parity in- eome for the farmer, or a net income ‘which bears to the income of the non- agricultural population the same re- lation as prevailed during the base period. Ever-Normal Granary Plan. ‘The third objective is without inter- fering with perity prices to establish an ever-normal granary for each of the five major agricultural commodi- ties. Under the bill the ever-normal granary is designed to make available domestic consumers reserves which would provide adequate supplies at fair prices in years of drought, flood or other adverse conditions as well Ld N # | mal, or 20.900.000 bales; corn, 10 per 1 000,000 pounds, and cigar tobacco 10 | 000,000 pounds. | frequently the farmer. It is the view of sponsors of the bill | that it will bring to pess a stabilized | market and prevent fluctuations in the | cost of feedstuffs to dairy and live | stock farmers by stabilizing the price for feed products and thereby sub- stantially aiding dairy and live stock | farmers in obtaining a parity income. A stable supply of such major com- madities would directly benefit pro- | cessors and those who provide storage | and transportation facilities, equip-| ment and materials and would provide a more uniform employment for labor | engaged in those activities | The measure includes provisions for parity payments and surplus reserve loans, acreage diversion, storage under seal and marketing quotas. | It is the theory contained in the| bill that the surplus reserve loa: therein provided for would be aval able at supply levels and will at all| times have a stabilizing effect on the | farm price. | Diversion Allowed. | Under the measure co-operators may be required to divert base acreage from ! the production of a commodity if the | total supply exceeds normal at the be- | ginning of a marketing year and it the ever-normal granery supply is adequate. Such diversion is calculated | to make effective the objective of par- ity and without interfering with main- tenance of parity prices and likewise to make effective the objective of an adequate ever-normal granary supply. In no event is the amount of diversion to be 50 great as to bring the total supply at the end of the marketing | year to less than normal. The marketing quotas as provided by the measure are important and are to be only effective under such con- ditions as I shall relate further on in my remarks. When the program provided in the bill is in effect if the total supply of a major agricul- tural commodity at the beginning of a marketing year exceeds normal by more than certain amounts, market- ing quotas are then to be placed in effect for the current crop of a com- | modity. Thus the marketing quota | level for cotton for instance is a total | supply 15 per cent in excess of nor- | per cent in excess of normal or 371.- per cent in excess of normal or 416, 000.000 bushels; wheat, other than | white wheat. 20 per cent in excess of normal or 893,000,000 bushels; rice, 10 per cent in excess of normal or | 12,700,000 barrels; dark tobacco, 10 | per cent in excess of normal or 416,- The program pro- vided by the bill being in operation supplies of such magnitude would not occur because of the vol- untary diversion which would be in effect from time to time. Such large | supplies would not likely occur in vears of extraoidinary yields. Such marketing quotas for a commodity would be 30 fixed as to make avail- able during the marketing year of at least a normal supply of the com- modity and would in no event be less | than normal. Under the provisions of the bill the marketing quota for any commodity cannot be greater than the ever-nor- mal granary supply level. Should a farmer, who by reason of flood, drought or adverse conditions, fail to produce an amount equal to the normal yield of at least half of his base acreage for a commodity, the quota would not be effective. In the administration of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture is au- thorized and directed to provide for the adjustment administration through State-wide and local commit- tees or associations of farmers ‘where- ever practicable. Co-operative associa- tions are to be accorded such recog- — KEEP YOUR HOME SAFELY GLEAN! KILLS GERMS © COMBATS 0DORS CLEANS LIKE SOAP | conservation act at commodity. Under such referendum, if for any vear more than one-third of the pro- ducers of a given commodity should vote against the program, then for that year it would not be made effect- ive as to such commodity. Should two-thirds or more of the producers | of such commodity at such referen- dum vote in favor of the program. the program for such year would then be eflective as to such commodity. It has been our purpose to frame the measure s0 that when the pro- gram is made eflective as to any commodity. its control and adminis- tration shall be, in so far as is pos- sible, in the hands of the farmers or producers. Such provisions are de- sirable, it would seem, and would make the program a co-operative one among the farmers and render the measure more certain of accomplishing ends for which it is designed other words, the desirability of the program with regard to a commodity would be a question to be determined by the producers of such commodity. It is my view that the present soil the present mo- ment is generally operating satisfac- torily among the producers and under present conditions, and such condi- tions as we have had in recent years. that act provides a good agricultural program. 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