Show Jf f j I m mIA t IA i A Washington Daybook I J I 1 t. t By Dy RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON March 23 3 Its It's no wonder that the Republican national national na na- na committee has hIlS organized a special board of strategy to deal with the farmers Its It's no wonder that Alex Legge threw up his hands resigned the chairmanship of the farm board and went home Its It's no wonder that the committee on the progressive conference stressIng stressing stress stress- Ing the need for revival re of oC agriculture ture spent long time and ond much thought on selection of a chairman of the table round-table on the fa farm problem problem lem deciding only at the last mo mo- ment mont And it will be no great surprise If the next congress doesn't hear some louder hollering about farm relief than ever has hIlS been heard before If there has been any danger of or a 0 apolitical apolitical political revolt In the tiie farming fanning re regions so- so gions since the thc days of Populism and the first Bryan campaign n. n now would seem to be the time If there is such a thing as more than vocal resentment from farmers who are getting it In tn the neck to an unprecedented unprecedented degree the fact now threatens threatens threat threat- tens t- t ens proof FARM FAR PRICES SAG The election of Democratic senators senators senators sena sena- tors in tn such states f ns as Kansas and South Dakota last fall may turn out outto outto outto to be significant even though It has long been the cu custom tom here to believe that farmers when presidential elections elections elec elec- come are always against a 31 change I Anyway it tt made a a. neat point forthe forthe for fori the Progressives and their roundtable roundtable round- round table for agriculture that on the middie middle mid mid- die dle of last month the general level of farm prices on the farm after nearly two years ars of or the administrations administration's administrations administration's tion's federal farm board had dropped to 90 per cent of war pre-war prices as compared to what was considered considered considered con con- the pretty bad figure of per cent in February 1930 1030 The figure figure fig fit ure for February 1931 as the de department department department de- de of agriculture admitted was Vias the lowest In the 21 years since It had begun to keep such figures With about 19 per cent of the wheat crop left on the farm fanus 1 other extraordinary statistic 1 Q a f wheat prices down in the dentS dentS- a ant i I depths j there was no public V L Legge's gge's departure at at l even If it one on ceded that he had i dona th the fa far eo co ers a lot let more good than harm I The one bright spot for the who can enn afford what with dm drouth farmer fanner lp I low prices and so on to hire help is that year farm wages will i be way down too It appears that for tSE thO the spring planting sea season n there wit win about farm laborers be available for every Jobs-another Jobs statistic statistic arid and that's a 0 break government S for the ordinary farmer Y tough it itis is on the extra no 64 matter h how w j FOLLOWS SAME POLICIES I The only discernible I dIfference different thus far that the exchange S of Mr Legge for James C. C Stone the tub flew new r farm board chairman is ts make Is that Mr Stone will likely proVide i to l less s colorful newspaper 58 copy anc and ana l tell fewer people where to go go will urn Mr l be uc Stone says j thc the san same t preserved He admits th the first admission of or the kind from th the board that board that past operations will wUl re re suit In losses But the losses he as a. wUl will be small compared with iti- the benefits to 10 agriculture and the country There doesn't S seem m to bo Lx any question about the thc losses The Th board bought about of wheat at around a bushel bUhl and wheat is now selling for March delivery de de- livery at around 79 W cents Theres There's Ther s 's a a- a a similar story about cotton Stone at least does not come i in with the thc handicap of being tagged as a year a a year ear Legge's failure in the face tace of invincible in in- ible odds despite the fact tha that that- fhe he worked fiercely and honestly has both dimmed the of I year a men and scared that type tc away from such an apparently ho how hope less Job as the thc chairmanship p. p President dent Hoover is understood to have hare searched for another of Legge's pres pre tige Uge and to have failed He Hc now concedes con con can i cedes difficulty in locating another I member for tor the boards board's existing va- va va T cancy r |