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F The By PAUL MALLON the News w VI WASHINGTON J A JS S HINGTON March 25 5 25 The new deal agricultural adjusters adjust adjust- ers now minus Chester Davis are much worried much worried about the very vey way th the new farm program Is Js being received They will vIII never admit it for lor a minute but various little things they have h heard ard from the farm belt havo indicated that the substitute A A A program is nowhere nowhere nowhere no no- where near as popular as the original In fact the reflective personal feeling within the farm bloc in m congress Democratic as well as 83 Republican is that the on agriculture may turn out to be a slight misdeal It was dealt too fast After Arter the supreme court decision invalidating invalidating invalidating ing the old A A A the new deal farm hands and professional farm organizers r rushed hed together and started the reshuffle without counting the cards carefully Many a loyal Democratic farm authority will will now now tell you off the record that President Roose Roosevelt velt would have been in a better political position if he had tossed up his hands at the court decision decision deci deci- sion said Bald he had done the best he could worked out a careful plan to take into the campaign with an idea of instituting it next year Note The Note The basic farm displeasure ure with the new plan seems to tobe tobe be hat the soil erosion excuse for benefit payments fails taUs to measure up to the farmer idea of sound sound- ness Also gre great t administrative difficulties arc are anticipated As long as the benefit payments are kept rolling In In whatever guise no sizable farm revolt is ex ex- t Sprouting Figures Greatest ballyhoo hoo agency of the new flew deal has been the federal housing administration Its re recent recent recent re- re cent annual report devoted three and one-half one pages to to disclosing disclosing- how it had educated the pub- pub lie Any student of the fine art artof artof artof of promotion will find those pages indispensable to an appreciation of the tho subject But it will require a n. housing Expert to dig out the untold promotion promotion promotion pro pro- motion In the report itself For example the report says that of mortgages was accepted accepted accepted ac ac for insurance by P F H A in 1935 It docs does not mention tho fact that this was only 10 per percent percent percent cent of ot new mortgages made that year In other words the private private vate ate mortgage market stimulated itself nine times as much as lUJ the government stimulated it Worse than that a statistical beagle will vill find in an obscure figure listing premiums paid on insured mortgages that the F H A collected on only of ot in insured insured insured in- in loans instead of the claimed The confessions of the educators educators tors tars of the public do not disclose how one can make a figure into in order 40 to impress the public with the work you are doing Note Note Far Far more serious Is the tho figure in the report showing that only 35 per cent of the mortgages accepted for Insurance were new mortgages mortgage The other ether 65 per percent percent percent cent was refinancing of at old mortgages mortgages mort mort- gages which did not put a man manto manto manto to work or cause a single stick of new building The name of ot the federal housing 0 administration thus appears to tone oe e a misnomer It appears to have helped the I mortgage markets more than the I builders Lobbying Lobbing When the house howe first considered considered consid consid- ered the tho bill exempting R F C O owned investments from local taxation taxation tax tax- Chairman Jesse Jones Jone of the R F C was almost constantly in the house press gallery The bill was defeated The other day a similar senate bill bm was put before the house Jones stayed away The bill was wu passed What really happened on the them them- In Inside side to change the attitude of at the house was some very effective lobbying performed upon upon the head of at Congressman Patman The house followed him In de defeating defeating de- de tho the first bill but hut both he be and the house found out that they were wrong after being properly educated There is a movement under foot toot to require Mr Jon Jones to register under the Black lobbying bill Also a rumor is afloat that Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Black will subpoena Jones Jones' telegrams Neither suggestion will be carried out W Washington hington has a a double standard for lobby lobby- Lobbying is a public service if It you happen t to be for tor the bill the lobbyist is for tor It is is' a vi vicious practice if you happen to be against him Political Lawyers Unobserved jot joker r In the new newhouse newhouse house houe Smith lobbyist bill is that political 1 lawyers rs are arc omitted They are not required register id-register r and andare andare andare are not subject to the to-the th provisions of the legislation Thus the top class cIa of V Washington hington lobbyists es escapes escapes es- es capes including all members of ot the club lawyer r politicians politicians who accept no tee fee below that sum Senator Black will try to hit them with his senate bill bill but the house will remain adamant Those boys have a drag with congressmen en Limit Consistency is a jewel only technically That is why the federal federal fed fed- ed- ed eral reserve board was able to kick out heads of federal reserve banks over 70 years of ot age and yet 10 days das later appointed Mr Roosevelt's 73 year old uncle Frederick Delano as chairman of the Richmond b. b bank ni l' l Copyright Copyright 1936 1936 J for fOi r The Tele Telegram grain gram M 1 |