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Show Election Reminder U. S. Senate Just Overcome With Love for Farmers By Frederick O. Othmaa WASHINGTON The United States senate Intends to keep th farmers happy or suffocate In a ailo full of big words trying. The problem is, er, simple. Th plan of Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont to hold up farm prices now la th law. It' goea into effect January 1. Charlie Brannan, secretary of agriculture, claims it's no good. He has the Brsnnan plan. Senator Sena-tor Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico used to be secretary of agriculture. He waa Charlie's boss., They were pels. Now they aren't. Clint aays Charlie's plan ia punk. He has a better one, called the Anderson plan. Clint la a member of the senate sen-ate agriculture committee. Senator Sena-tor Elmer Thomas of Oklshoma is chairman. Elmer' aays Clint's plan ia bad. He likes Charlie a. Senator Aiken, another member of the committee, approved neither Charlie's plan nor Clint's. He prefers hia own. Compile. ted Plans rti hous of representatives insists none of these plena Is worth sour spples. It likes the plan of Representative Albert Gore of Tennessee. The senst says th Gore plan ia terrible. There are a few other plana by a few other gentlemen, but with your permission I'll ignore them. The schemes of Charlie. Clint, Albert and George already have me whirling like th Pitmana on a sickle bar. Th gentlemen, who Insist they know what they are talking about, fortunately have pro-dured pro-dured some charts showing th differences between all th plans. It ssys her. So: Albert, Clint and George would support the prices of wheat, tobacco, to-bacco, cotton, com, peanuts snd rice. Chsrlie would, too, and also eggs, chickeaa, pigs and cows. i Plenty ol Pay-off Th trio of Albert, Clint and George would give the farmers more if they played along with the government and cut down the sixe of their crops. If they didn't, they'd still get something. some-thing. Lone wolf Charlie would pay off only those farmers who "cooperated." ' The gentlemen kept talking about parity. This word haa a different meaning to nearly , everyone, but, in general, tt'a what prices ought to be tf this weary old world didn't have a headache. Clint and George have something special. They call this modernised parity. It Is more than plain old parity, but they don't agree aa to how much. George would see that farmers got at least 60 to 0 per .cent of this new style parity for their crops. Clint would give 'em 75 to tO per cent. Albert disagrees. dis-agrees. Old-fashioned parity ia good enough for him. He figures fig-ures SO per cent of that ia about right. All this mumbo-Jumbo Is at least ss confusing aa I've made it sound. The senate in the next few days will stir the mixture hard and put some froth on It. Politics will rear ita grizzled head. And no matter what happens, hap-pens, or which plan gets the nod, eating still will be an expensive luxury. Of that, and that alone, I am certain. |