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Show DEATH TO THE AAA 'jj The summary execution of the Agricultural Adjustment Act by the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court is not remarkable when one considers the antecedent P lives of the justices, and the effect of their decision cannot P j be estimated until it is seennvhether new legislation, within tm the Constitution, can bring about what the AAA aimed at- The News is not inclined to blame a court for the opin-ion opin-ion of its judges, regardless of what that may be. Every American knows that the government is divided into three J3, divisions and that it is given to the Supreme Court to pass Y judgment upon every statute. If the judgments rendered H. do not conform to popular opinion the remedy lies in amend-ir amend-ir ing the Constitution or awaiting the inevitable alteration of iw the judicial personnel. The chief concern of this newspaper is in the effect that the sweeping judicial pronouncement will have upon the welfare wel-fare of the farmers of the United States. We have asserted time and again that American agriculture has been mistreat- ed in this country since 1921 until the recent past. The fact tnat our farmers have been bled white for years is well estab- lished. The enactment of the AAA was an effort to readjust j an economic situation that was unjust and intolerable. Whe- ther it was the best effort is an academic question but whether wheth-er the decision of the Supreme Court has rendered impossible further effort is the vital issue now. p Farmers of the United should not fail to impress upon every political candidate their demand for full economic parity, par-ity, for income in proportion io that of oilier classes, for the t, right to use the powers of government to protect them as well as industry and to give them the advantages that flow nJ to industry through production and price control. Ve are not demanding any particular plan or program. Any one scheme that works, putting dollars in farm purses. p will suit us. The national welfare requires that farm purchasing pur-chasing power be sustained at a ratio higher that that vet 'V. attained. Farmers, who vote right, can have much to 'do y- with restoring to themselves all that they have been denied ior many years. |