Show BOTH SIDES OF THE TH CAMPAIGN A NO 5 and on Farm Program Lauded As Seeking Market Protection u Editors Editor's Note Tote Official slew les of the Republican and Demo Democratic national committees are then toda today In the fifth fIfth- of 01 a series serles of 01 12 articles 1 Republican and Democratic views Mews will null be presented on alternate days das By REPRESENTATIVE FRANCIS D D. D CULKIN Assistant Director Farm Division Republican National Committee The constructive farm policies offered to the electorate by Governor Alf M. M Landon Republican p presidential eside candidate are simple and clear He proposes an effective soil sOlI conservation and erosion control program in connection with national national national na na- na- na land use and flood conservation He proPoses proposes proposes pro pro- poses protection of the farmer in the right to all f of t the he home market he can supply without creating creating creat creat- F ing injustices to the consumer He proposes prow protection protection pro pro- w of the family type of farm in in this country by such cash benefits as are necessary to cushion f 11 American farm families against the disastrous eff effects effects ef ef- of price fluctuation and to protect the American American Amer Amer- ican icon standard of living He proposes r relief lief to sufferers from the drouth and economic depression Contrast with this straightforward expression of what the Republican party is ready to do for forthe forthe Wk the farmer the inhuman and obstinate of the new dealers who destroyed food while millions millions mil mU- lions were starving who plowed under and restricted restricted restricted re re- re- re crops in pursuance of a policy declared Culkin unconstitutional by the United States supreme court and who broke their heir solemn pledge to conserve the domestic market for the American I n farmer famer Under the new deal there nas has nas been an incredible increase in the importation of foreign farm products products products prod prod- and a startling decrease in the sale of American farm products to for foreign ign markets Since President Roosevelt took office importations of crude foodstuffs have increased 41 il per cent and manufactured foodstuffs foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs 49 per cent Importations of wheat rose from bushels to more than bushels while importations of foreign foreign foreign for for- eign corn jumped from bushels bushels bushels bush bush- els to more than bushels In the meantime exportations of American wheat to foreign countries countries coun- coun tries ries dropped until in 1935 they were only a hundredth of what they had been before the new deal while exportations exportations exportations ex ex- ex- ex of flour decreased 42 per percent percent percept cent meat products dropped 19 per percent percent percent cent and lard 82 per cent Effects Continue According to the Republican candidate candidate candidate can can- himself even before the theA theA theA A A A was ruled out by the supreme supreme supreme su su- su- su preme court it was rapidly disorganizing disorganizing gan zing American agriculture Some iome of its worst effects continue Governor By its policies says Landon the administration has taken aken the American farmer out of foreign markets and put the foreign farmer armer into the American market The he loss of markets both at home and abroad far outweighs the value of all the benefits paid to farmers Worse this from the standpoint of the public is the fact that hat the administration through its program of scarcity has gambled with the needed food and feed supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies of ot the country It overlooked the fact that Mother Nature cannot cannot cannot can can- not be regimented The time has now come when we must replace this futile program with one that is economically and socially right Record of A A A AAs AAs AAs As in other Instances the farm record of the new deal administration tion speaks for itself In the summer of 1933 the government paid farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers under the A A A to plow up 10 acres of growing cotton or 25 per cent of the total acreage The Bankhead cotton act of 1934 later repealed by the new deal congress set a limit of bales of cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton to be marketed by farmers from the 1935 1934 crop The A A A re retired retired retired re- re tired approximately acres of lof corn wheat cotton and tobacco from cultivation or tenth one-tenth of the theland theland theland land in cultivation in the United States In the fall of ot 1933 the A A A destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de pigs and slaughtered slaughtered slaughtered prospective mother sows at a waste exceeding The total live weight of the pigs and sows slaughtered was 38 pounds Of this only pounds of food products were ob ob- The rest was converted into inedible grease or fertilizer and was buried On Thin Ice Commenting on the criticism which destroying the pigs aroused President Roosevelt told a group of farmers in Washington on May 14 1935 that the crocodile tears shed shedDy by Dy the professional mourners of an anold anold anold old and obsolete order over the slaughter of little pigs and other measures to reduce surplus agricultural agricultural tural ural inventories deceive very few thinking people and least of all the farmers themselves That the president was skating on thin ice when he made this argument is proved by government figures showing that America is faced aced today with sharp increases in inthe inthe the he importations of both live hogs hogsand hogsand hogsand and pork products Importations of these hese commodities for the first five months of 1936 were about eight times imes greater than those for the first five months of ot 1935 Foreign producers are reaping the benefit of Mr Roosevelt's wholesale hog slaughter Governor Landon says Our farmers are entitled to all of the home market they can supply supply supply sup sup- ply without injustice to the con con- sumer We propose a policy that protects them in this right |