Show NOT SURPRISING T THERE HERE is nothing surprising in Secretary Hydes Hyde's assertion that the department of agriculture is the prize boob in the history of finance unless finance unless it is surprisingly unusual to hear an official admit shortcomings in anything anything anything any any- thing over which he wields control The secretary is openly frank in pointing out the reasons why he holds this belief belle Lending money and mortgaging the future of farmers and their children will never n ver re restore restore restore re- re store prosperity a woman in the south had written him With this sentiment he expresses expresses ex ex- presses full agreement He might have added added added add add- ed that it Is no function of the government to go into the banking business This is particularly particularly particularly par par- true when as the secretary himself declares the government through his department department department depart depart- ment has loaned more money on thinner Security se security security se- se sustaining more losses than ever be before before before be- be fore in the history of money lending in the world Perhaps the extraordinary conditions which have faced agriculture through the prolonged drouth and because of the economic economic economic eco eco- upheaval have justified the government govern govern- ment in extending credit to farmers as an es essential essential essential es- es feature of emergency legislation This belief bellef however is open to debate The congress congress congress con con- gress having enacted the legislation and provided provided provided pro pro- vided the funds though some better means might have been found there is nothing much to do about it now The conviction grows however that it is not only in Secretary Hydes Hyde's department that the government is going far afield in matters of a fiscal policy even though it be to meet an emergency We will be finding this out for a certainty before long There is a tenuous tenuous tenuous ten ten- thread of hope that what we learn during during during dur dur- ing this emergency will be a guide for the future The e situation confronting the United States is very much like that of a man in a tight place who vows that if he ever gets out he will never let himself be caught again in ina ina ina a similar predicament It may may be too much to hope that congress will profit by the dearly bought educational course this country is be being being being be- be ing forced to pursue pursue but but nevertheless this hope like all others does persist like the hope eternal that springs in the human breast |