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Show THE BULLETIN ON BEING SINCERE The Administrations New Hope Washington. It haa been several month aince the administration farm relief program, tiie Memory Lingera On agrlrnltnrai adjurt- - mnt act, was dead, but like the word of the song, the memory llsgera on." And It la quite apparent that miatakea aa well aa memories of the AAA will continue through the heat of the coming Presidential cam- paign and probably considerably longer for it la only necessary to recall that the stepbrother of the AAA. the federal farm board of the Hoover administration. still la the butt of much criticism and many pointed paragraphs. One of the main reasons why the memories linger on, where those memories Involve AAA. Is Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur II. Vumlen-ber8enator Vandenberg never did get enthusiastic about ihe merits of AAA as they were exNiuinled by Secretary Wallace, Administrator Chester Davis and other New I teal sisikesmen and when the Supreme court of the United States threw out the processing taxes npon which the law was predicated, Senator Vandenherg was In a delightful apot from a political standpoint He has not found It necessary Co say I told you so" and has had, I imagine, a great deal of eraona fun in limply hinting to or reminding other! of hla previous stand. But it was not until the Michigan senator began pulling figures out of hla senatorial bat. showing bow benefit payments from the AAA bad gone to great and weulthy cortorntlnna In auma aa high as a million dollars or more, that be held a key to the New Deal skeleton closet. They know now, however, exactly what he meant when he announced In the senate several weeks ago that no such plan as the AAA could he administered without vast auma being distributed In what he termed unwarranted payments unwarranted from the standpoint of help for the smaller fanners. Secretary Wallace stalled off Senator Vandenherg's demand In the senate for a complete list of beneficiaries who received checks from AAA In excess of one thousand dollars for quite a while but there were too many senators who believed as Senator Vanden-herdid, that the truth ought to be known. Of course, as the procedure usually goes In Washington, many thlnga are done without actual force being used. It was thus In the cnae Democratic of the AAA payments. senators who foresaw their Inability to prevent a senate vote demanding a Hat of AAA payments persuade) Mr. Wallace to make public the Hat voluntarily and It was done Just In advunre of senate action. So, we now have for the first time, at least, an Indication of the grotesque results of the agricultural adjustment administration program that was hailed from the Atlantic to the Tactile aa an Ideal plan. g. corporations which received AAA checks among the big bounties paid to Induce curtailment of basic foreign crops. This would not be ao bad except for the tact that the brilliant planners of the AAA continuously stressed Its value to the amnll. debt ridden farmers Throughout the time the law was under consideration and 1 through the two years of Its opera-- S tlon. never did Mr. Wallace or Mr. fall to point ont In their how great sums of money, IDavla In processing taxes, were being dlatrihnted to thousands of farmers and that these payments were In time going to pnt agriculture on Its collective feet. Now, however, the truth of their statements has been proved but when the whole troth had been exposed on the floor of the aenate. It was found to go far beyond the small, debt rid- -' den farmers The whole truth disclosed. In fact, that several million dollars had been paid even to corporattana chartered by the British government and with borne office In England. Wall Street, that home of "entrenched greed received Ita share and Its share was substantial. On top of all of this there lately has mme a disclosure that a great wheat farmer In Montana received something like $50,110(1 for agreeing not to plant wheat on land which he had rented from Ihe Indians through the Federal Department of the Interior for the specific purpose of raising wheat. The list of huge benefit payments Is much too large to Include In this letter but the fart remains that It showed bow even the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray, even when those men are brilliant bruin trustera who themselvea claim to know all there la available for human under standing. Beyond that, the Vanden-ber- g disclosures have set In motion discussion that will come pretty close to continuing Into every farmhouse in the land. UuIpss I miss iny guess, and I am no Doctor Tugwell, thousands of farmers are going to bitterly resent the fact that their payments were mail, whereas gigantic corporations received Dynamite in - r . it friends. It Is probable his one great fault la Insincerity. Wherein the Fabulous Past of Lonisiaaa Lives Again sums ranging from ten to a thousand times as large. Napoleon iii, In behalf of the AAA otfiilals, II must be said that there will he a. there has leen Unfair already, considerable nnfalr criticism. The I Criticiam criticism to which I refer Is of this type: that they should have discovered In advance of the payments that funds were going to these corporations. Assuming that they could bava discovered that tact In advance, there was no alternative for them except to pay the checks authorized by law. Congress made the law, or rather congress passed It under the lash ot the administration, but It was on the statute hooka and administrative olfl dale are nut auppnaed to disregard such provisions. If there Is to be criticism It should be directed at the Initial framing of the statute that brought about the condition. The remits that have attracted so much attention since Senator exposure constitute one of the curious coincidences and queer quirks of plnnned economy. And a further word ahout the criticism. A great many people are likely to forget that while their cla-cwas in three figures and some corimrallon received one In nix figures, the condition results wholly from the fact thnt one owned more land than Ihe other. You may properly say this should have been foreseen and I believe you will be making a correct statement. But surely this Is a fact : the AAA official! cannot be blamed for sending out the Workers Must Contribute to checks when the law said they should Campaign Chests, Say do It regardless of the name or nature New Dealers. soleIlea of the beneflefary. The fault ly and completely with those who, from their- - professional desks, conWASHINGTON, D. C. Chairceived the whole scheme and gained man Jim Farley of the DemoPresident Roosevelt's spprovsl for It cratic National committee is going k Charge Coercion by Relief Heads g The dynamite In the situation Ilea in the fact that there were dozens. even hundreds of If a man with few faults haa few' . to breathe a lot more freely when the primary battles now. raging within the New Deal in . half a dozen states are out of the way. Development of the vulnerable spots In the AAA crop curtailment program probably will prove Vulnerable beneficial to the - country ss s whole Spots eventually. For one thing, these disclosures have forever choked off proposals of that kind. They may result ae well In strengthening the new proposition for crop con-tro- p through the medium of soil conservation.' In other words, since the bulk of the congress' thinks through legislation only In the terms of administration arguments, they will likely be leas prone to enact legislation without knowing what results will be obtained. . It teems to me that the new farm-aiplan likely will be stronger and probably more workable and certainly Ipss extravngnnt than waa the AAA because the AAA weaknesses have been exposed. These exposures ought to have an effect also among thinking fanners who hereafter are unlikely to accept dogmatlr statements snd rainbow pictures (minted for them by political demagogues and professional farm leaders without examining the prac- Personally, tlcahlllty of the scheme. 1 am convinced that a great many farmers were led to believe that AAA waa their only salvation and they gained this conviction solely because the other aide never was told to them. are now being hurled by candidates against their New Deal opponents for state offices that the 5 billion dollar relief fund Is being naed to Influence those on relief and In the administration of relief In Charges New Deal d . Iu - While we are talking abofit mistakes and about the results obtained by brilliant theorists, I hear Fletchers more and more distrain Trust cunslon ot the latest move hy Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and his Republican national committee. Mr. Fletcher has hired ten university professors to head up whnt he calls the coininittee's research staff snd In announcing their appointment he stressed s declaration that "the division la not s brain trust. But "brain trust It Is going to he called notwithstanding Mr. Fletcher's assertion that they were practical men and women of experience. They are going to he a brain tmsr In exactly the same sense that Mr. Roosevelt's "brain trust has been denominated. And how else could It he? There actually seems to be little eholce between the type of men Mr. Fletcher has chosen and the Tugwells. Hopkinses and other doctors and professors who have constantly had the ear of the President These men will hare Mr. Fletchers ear and undoubtedly will pour Into It their own theories of government and their own Ideaa of approach to the problem thnt confronts the Republican national committee, namely, the defeat of Mr. Roosevelt. I have observed political battles for a good many years and I have observed the management of governmental responsibilities through a parallel period The conclusion la Inescapable, as fur aa I am concerned, thnt practical men always have done a better Job, always have been better administrators and better planners, than the men and women who have spent their llvea lecturing from a university classroom ros from. I once criticized Professor Tug well by saying that hla qualification for the post of undersecretary of agrlcul tore consisted of tending flowers In a window box and I am wondering now whether Mr. Fletchera new brain trust Is any better equipped for Us Job. However, we must not forget, the country now haa one brain trust trying to find out what la wrong with another brain trust Wcvtani Nwwip Union the primaries. Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia, a strong Roosevelt adherent In the campaign of 32 and since, charged, from the eenate floor, that not a person In West Virginia "could get on relief without an O. K. from a county boss. Relief applications were sent to the bosses to be "sorted snd approved or disapproved, according to the bosss appraisal of tbelr value to tlie party, Sen. Holt says. He also charges that political appointees administering Ihe fnnds are being paid more money than they ever earned before. The salary increase granted to 27 appointees would care for 82S unemployed and their families. Same, Situation in Illinois. The state administrator of relief, he declares, expects to be made governor "because 55,000 men can make anybody governor snd they know where they get their jobs." publicized tban the West Virginia situation, although equally disturbing to the Roosevelt forces, is the open warfare that has broken out In Illinois, where the Incumbent Democratic governor Is being opposed for renomination by the notorious Kelly-Nas- h machine of Chicago. Roth faction claim to be anient Roosevelt supporters, but Gov. Horner la making his renomination campaign on the premise that the Kelly-Nas- h organization la whipping relief workers Into Une to oppose him. Gov. Horners allegations have been partly substantiated by relief supervisors, 15 of whom sent a telegram to Administrator Harry L. Hopkins of the WPA, complaining that In District 5 relief employes are being assessed $10, $5 snd $2.50 contributions to tbe Kelly-Nas- h war chest. The chargee are denied by the district administrator. President I gnoree .Pretests. Pennsylvania conditions have been laid directly it tbe door of the President In a series of telegrams from Gov. Gifford l'inchot, once an ardent supporter of the New Deal. Plnchut's demands fur an Investigation, which he supKirted with documentary evidence, have been Ignored by the President. and white evidence sup(ortlng the l'inchot charges Is found In tbe letter of Harry W. Fee, chairman of the Indiana County committee, to Mary C. Shearer, au employe of tbe relief administration, In which she Is advised that unless she contributes $27 to the Democratic caiupulga fund "It will be necessary to place your name on the list of those who will not he given consideration fur any other appointment after the termination of the emergency relief work. k ! Small Income From AAA Washington, 1. C. Cash income of farmera, as reisirted by the detriment of agriculture, was 550 million dollars for the month of January, 1936; this Included only ahout one million In benefit payments. For the ante month a year ago, the farm Income waa 520 million Uollnra, of which 70 million was In benefit payments. The bulk of the Increase waa In farm products not under AAA control. messing with the n war, an experiment in arrogance that cost him lis crown, annihilating the Second Empire, while making a Franco-Prussia- on German soil, halted at tbe house of a farmer and put up for the night, occupying the guest room. Came the dawn. Out rolled hi majesty, crying aloud for coffee, which the granger. Herr Cook himself, served, courteously declining nil offers of French gold in payment. Thereupon, the visiting Emperor drew from his waistcoat n silver watch, made a sedate bow and handed It to his host. Following Sedan, Napoleon III abdicated. The German and his fran sailed for the United States, settled In Wisconsin and raised a family, consisting of two sons and one daughter, removing to Morehouse parish, Louisiana, while the children were yet In shorts. Allien the eldest eon. famous as one of tbe finest horsemen and best pistol shots of bis time, died in his twenty-sevent- h year. Hermann, the second son, after running the gantlet of frontier activities through his early youth, finally went Into the lumber business, penetrating regions where virgin forests of Cyprus, until his coming, swamp-gunrdeagainst Invasion, finally fell to his ax and saw. PRESSURE! Apply New Do Luxe Dr. Scholl's Zino-pad- s on any sensitive spots on your toes and feet, or on com callouses or bunions. Za one minute discomfort will be gone I Nagging shoe pressure or friction ia topped. New or tight shoes wont hurt or cause sore toes or blisters. Get a baa af that tab color, velvcty-aaf- t, waterproof pada today at your Dmmm Zino-pa- d d UNCLE SAM COUNTS LOSS Washington, D. C The United States government, which hold on about 1,000,000 mortgagee homes, has begun counting up its losses in the floods which havo caused so much destruction In the East Officials estimated that several hundred homes which had been financed by the Home Owners Lean corporation were badly damaged or wept away. Moat of these cases represented total losaea; no flood inauranca was carried, because none had been obtainable. Demands Look at AAA Books Senator Says One Farmer Got $219,825 for Not Raising Hogs. WASHINGTON, D. C The federal government paid one hog producer $219,825 of the taxpayers money for not rasing 14,578 hogs. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan declared, when he introduced a senate resolution demanding front Secretary of Agriculture Wallace the names of all AAA beneficiaries who received In excess of $10,000 In any one year. "These records are not oiien to InSenator Vandenlierg said. spection, "I suppose it la the only existing secret disbursement of premiums, bonuses or subsidies. We know something about tbe average benefit payments; but the Information ! entirely abstract, and except as we know to what extent the general averages are weighted down by large Individual payments It la impossible to Interpret these statistics. 1 am not questioning the Integrity of the disbursements. I am asking only for Information bearing upon tbe public policy Involved. The senator said that the Information would be valuable lu connection with study of the new tax bill to raise $300,000,000 a year for benefit payments and $230,0U0.(KKMo pay off commitments under the outlawed farm benefit program. Tbe average corn-bo- g in Iowa was nnder $400, Senator Vandenberg said, but an unnamed producer with hogs on 445 seres In another state received the $219,825 for not raising hogs. He said that the average cotton contract was under $1,500, but one producer received $168,000 for not planting 7,000 acres ; and that while the average wheat contract In Kansas was approximately $SOO, one producer received 65 checks totaling $78,638 In two years. TIIE CRACKER BARREL d Bra vs Pioneer Days. Here In llouma. In the midst of hla family, enjoying the well earned repose that Is his due, I came upon the conquerer of the Cyprus swamps, heard hla stories of the brave old days when the pioneers trekked Into new places and grappled with nature In the raw and roarveied that so dramatic ah era could be reviewed with such casual unconcern. Indeed, Hermann Cook, for all the emotion he displayed, lolling on an easy chair, recording those heroic yesterdays, might just as well have been chatting about a new way to boil eggs. But to me it was like having an Interview with Marco Polo or Daniel Boone. "When my brother Albert and I were kids up In Morehouse parish, he said, It was a country set In a wilderness not yet explored ; a dominion crawling with wild game of every sort Indigenous to that zone. The men were giants In stature and In spirit and the women fit matee to share with them the ordeals of life. We shot deer on our front porches, bear In the backyard, squirrels, quail, fox, coons, possum sod the like, by the cartload. Horsemanship and the use of firearms was secoud nature. My brother Albert, mounted, could run down a deer at full gallop, eelze the creature by the antlers and cut Its throat. No better pistol or ride shot than he ever lived. Without apparent aiming, he was deadly from any position. Gigantic Wild Boars. "The swamps In Morehonse parish were literally alive with wild hogs. I have seen razor backs In countless numbers wallowing and swimming the bayous, tbe surface of the water broken as far as the eye could reach. Some of these animals, esiiecially the boars, weighing close to 730 pounds. In my boyhood, I saw one that weighed at least 1,500. It Is a curious fact that a swimming wild hog. If suddenly stricken with panic, will lash out Its front feet with such violence and rapidity as to cut Its own throat Into ribbons, and bleed to death. Many tlmea I have witnessed this swamp I know of nothing more tragedy. terrific than a stampede of terrified, snorting razor hacks through underbrush. It was sure death to be caught In their path, even when mounted. Not, however, until engaged In lumbering cypras logs did 1 come to appreciate the mighty forces of nature or the vastness of the outdoors With a crew of negroes numbering eight or nine hundred I felled and brought out of Morehouse and Terrebonne parishes. 12,000,000 feet of logs per annum for a period of 11 years, building hundreds of miles of canals and clearing endless bayous; a continuous battle with the omnlverous swamps Cypress Kings Loss On one occasion, while hauling 80 trees through the swamps on a 3,000-foo- t cable running over a drum under steam power, the logs stuck and started to sink. Powerless to save either the logs or the cable, there waa no alternative but to let go all holds and give up. AVIthln the hour, those 80 logs and 3,000 feet of cable, the latter weighing about six tons had completely disappeared, the end vanishing Into the mud like a mighty angle worm returning to Its lair. Total loss $2,000l That whs In Terrebonne parish where I cleared a Cyprus stand 17 miles long by three wide. It was there thnt we captured with the steam shovel a loggerhead turtle from which ten men over a period of five days hnd three meals a day. We didn't know the monster waa concealed In the muddy depths until he ciitue up In the Jaws of the scoop. Some fishing, IH say. And those were days when one man could stow two pounds of meat at every meal, which means 300 pounds of mammoth terrapin out of one shell." 60-fo- We think we know now what Harry Hopkins meant when he said that critics of New Deal relief spending would never understand the "finer thinge of life." TS" T3S isr In Chicago, ihe head of a uoman'i ,heller supported by relief fundi replaced a 75 cent dinner bell with a Taylor gong, coiling 56 M0, She explained lhal the dinner bell grated on iho women's nerves. 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