Show 0 national topics interpreted by william bruek Bruel sart national press building Bull Alne washington D C washington the wide apprehend slon over the increasing cost of food and the prediction new problem by secretary wal for AAA lace ia of 0 the department of agriculture that food prices will ascend something like 11 per cent more before july 1 has given rise to a new problem for the agricultural adjustment administration tra tion it threatens to be serious as food questions always are serious sint and as this aspect of the situation becomes better understood its political importance Is becoming greater there can be no doubt that the new deal program for raising prices has had its fullest effect on the food prices and therein lies iles the basis for the trouble now brewing to make the problem more ser serious lotis from the political standpoint increased food prices are felt first and most extensively in the metropolitan areas it Is in these same areas that the greatest number of unemployed live and must be cared for it becomes plain then that increased food prices are directly interwoven with the problem of relief and it Is difficult to predict what mass psychology may be developed from such a circumstance there are two sides of the problem from the political standpoint one of them relates directly to the plans for providing food and affects directly those persons whose employment has been small and who have only limited amounts of money with which to maintain life the second phase involves the future of the agricultural adjustment administration and affects directly the political situation that has for some time revolved about the focal point of the principle of attempting to manage prices as is being done under the AAA connected with the latter phase and likely to suffer from hard bard riding politicians ti tic ians Is the movement within the AAA to broaden its power it nill be recalled that last year prof rexford guy tug tugwell well undersecretary of agriculture and a leading brain truster sought to force through congress a series of amendments to the adjustment act which in the view of many observers would make the regimentation of farmers a compulsory instead of a voluntary proposition ts as Is now the case in other words according to critics of the tugwell plan the amendments that were offered and defeated in clon congress gress last year would make the department of at A agriculture rl culture a veritable dictator over tile the agricultural industries in this country although mr tugwell does not figure in the picture so much this year the same amendments have been put forward ward and a considerable amount of pressure Is being exerted to obtain an enactment as law having defeated them last year critics of the program headed beaded by senator byrd dem va are mustering in full strength to squelch the amendments again while it Is yet too early to hazard a guess concerning the results of ill this 1 S battle attention may be called at this time to some of the potentialities or of such a le legislative Isla tive fight in these debates lies iles real daner danger to whatever good there is in the adjustment act according to the best information I 1 can got get the danger Is to be observed in this direction those who criticize the tugwell amendments though they do not now bear his name are not going to confine their verbal fire to those proposals they will go as they did last year considerably beyond the lie scope of the proposed legislation they will attack any and all features of the whole adjustment program and it Is not unlikely that their criticism will result in tearing down some of the admittedly good features of this phase of the new ueal deal I 1 have heard considerable comment to the effect that if the brain tr usters who are now question Quest lon ins ing the new or re of politics AAA amendments would use good political judgment they would not press for action on their pro proposals pos at this time in other words political commentaries ore are to the effect that tile the brain tr usters are diving headlong into a whirlpool in which they may flad find themselves unable to swim it Is plainly a combination of circumstances with which they are confronted those were enumerated above to many observers therefore it appears most foolhardy for the supporters of this extreme legislation to go further in their attempt to strengthen the adjustment act at a time when plainly mr roosevelt does not have complete control of congress and at a time when the strong strongest gest tide of opposition to regimentation Is running it Is to be remembered with respect to the legislative situation that there will be opposition as indeed there already has been opposition developed from among the processors it should be explained that tile the revived amendments would place ill all of the processors under licenses from the department of agriculture without such licenses they become the equi equivalent vale n t of bootleg bootleggers ers in the prohibition days and no do one can foretell what the reaction would be to this my understanding Is that t there here are something like one hundred thou catle ain of those these processors in the lie various r ml 11 commodities corn com ing under the jurisdiction of n t be act in addition to the m essers about nine hundred th retailers handling these products subjected to control directly or erectly by AAA licenses conan we see more than a million millio a who bo do business only if 1 the Dep artrim agriculture saw fit to grant 11 and when alien I 1 say the department Depatt Depart meat mia agriculture in law it simmers sl BinertA to the secretary of agriculture tary wallaces policies and alte bonal attitude I 1 believe are not net as to give cause for alarm r resin administration of these proposed propos edt 11 ing provisions yet it has been suggested that a time may come it the secretary of agriculture w lithe ther as good nor as wise as M mr r wi win you can make your own gui al the possibilities under tinder the regimes regime m secretary of agriculture who wu big enough tor for the job these circumstances and condl I 1 in the minds of many observer point only to one thing now the act and theadro thet program r d drafta za is not as popular 23 it X before it went into operation operatic from correspondence recel veil by n and senators the ad adae ment program is actually repugnant some sections I 1 believe it only fair ai state however that the adjust program Is not blamed wholly y for far increase in prices but always in im like these and under like those to which attention bas ba directed there has to be a coati parent patently ly that goat Is going to be ft department of agriculture and ami g stepchild step child the agricultural adjust administration 0 0 9 1 1 1 while all of the ile newspaper ep illers n printing many columns column 1 in i two years of 0 th garner roosevelt overlooked tion on and much caca a alon 11 on Is being ga pain president roosevelt it seems seem to that one stalwart of the ada tion vice president john N X ga ganis being somewhat over overlooked looka it us to me also that this should not hotbed case because all observers agree agre e li mr air garner has placed the vice pa dency of the united states on sa thing of a new plane much levity always has baa been ill at any man holding the job tt of ill president it Is true that the vice x ident is seldom it ever out front the expression Is with mr 0 aint however it has been decidedly allt ent cut I 1 believe from all of the d sea alons that I 1 have heard beard since his tion mr garner has title filled d and 11 ing a very constructive post in B administration although mr garner weighs a ita the same and Is no taller while unlit 1 dresses much as he did before 1 5 his wit and humor Is much the certainly can be said that ne be if i much bigger man in the eyes of 0 avi it people of this country than he vw arab few years ago in other words e lial the opportunity mr garner has tji k formed in a way that probably I 1 record him in history as ninon if outstanding individuals who hare ilk that second ranking elective DWI I 1 t our government t it Is not generally knO known ull I 1 ala 6 how much influence mr wrier garner wi wm it k in the roosevelt t sits with mr roosevelt and the 0 alt members in the cabinet inee meetings ineetha thi t rk 1 l there Is no doubt among observers tf fc that those men lean upon the longo 1 per lence which tile the vice president ili had I 1 tl 0 0 0 i the port of baltimore k hessed an unusual sight the other H K arrival of a tw swo we import of corn from AH i it corni corn tina it was the tb T full cargo everto ever to A rive in that port and caused SOBI holmoe servers to remark that it appear k be carrying coals to newcastle this would have been true under ft editions such as we used to babela hart la 0 A at inauguration of oil lv te country before the agricultural adjustment adaila f made the it ill A lion the AAA has ence last year the AAA set s L alej reducing the corn acreage arreaga in this thier i try because it was the convictions conviction 1 t it h new deal that production had bad co car too great twenty per cent merit ment was decreed to accomplish end the AAA offered to pay for fa the rate of thirty cents per bush busts el the plan work wa f not growing corn it might natu naturally rally be supposed 10 worked and there was the W ra curtailment of production 1 ti but nature took a hand abild g drouth settled d down own over tile the vasi tt producing areas of the jiddle u ali 1 so great was this disaster that t to 0 died r tit Is not now sufficient corn requirements Impo corn resulted and the port of I 1 0 more had the novel experience cot instead d of 0 I 1 dinstell ing corn shipped in ded def iw 1 hns has secretary wallace 11 that AAA policies on the ground w were vere exceedingly flexible a and 0 L decre 50 P r used to increase or it 1 l tion as conditions required i however that corn has a habit 90 f L il ing only aurli during nm the hie cullu iler n SL and nd it the production in talat th it 14 insufficient tile the winter ill cr nion witness a shortage ai newspaper li t |