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Show Roosevelt Hints At Extra Session New Fight . for Farm Crop Control Bill Indicated in North Dakota Talk GRAND FORKS, N. D.. Oct. 4 (INS) Taking direct issue with the supreme court'i divided opinion outlawing the old agricultural adjustment administration. President Roosevelt today strongly Indicated In-dicated that he intended to call special session of congress reestablishing reestab-lishing the new deal's general system of farm crop control. Mr. Roosevelt paused here at Grand Forks, N. D.. on ths final lap of his "intake" tour to asssrt it was his thought "that legislation legisla-tion toward that end ought to be passed at the earliest posslbls moment." mo-ment." Around noon the president's special spe-cial headed across Minnesota for St Paul, where he speaks tonight Coincidental!?, the president was speaking in North Dakota, 1700 miles away from Washington, D. C at almost the precise hour his first supreme court appointee, former Senator Hugo L. Black, was ascending as-cending the high banch for the first time after having stated in an unprecedented un-precedented radio address that he once belonged to the Ku Klux Klan, but held no racial or religious Intolerance. In-tolerance. Also, perhaps coincidental!, the president quoted from a Utter praising prais-ing his new deal program written by former Supreme Court Justice John H. Clarke, who resigned from the court to campaign in behalf ef Wood row Wilson's ill-fated attempt to -tie the United States into the League of Nations. Clarke made a speech In behalf ef Mr, Roosevelt's Roose-velt's defeated proposal to enlarge the supreme court After Insisting on the soundness (OoatmeeS ea rasa Tn om. neat) EXTRA SES.SI0N 1 HINTJS GIVEN j l-.F.iiuH from Pace One) t of his two-point farm program of M "bettor land use" and surplus crop 4 control with the consent of th i farmers themselves, th president I told his North Dakota audienc: I "I believ that it is essential to lour national economy that w hav I something to ay about th control 'of th major crop surpluses. The supreme court has ruled, in divided di-vided opinion, that the government cannot make a contract with a : farmer by which acreage Is fixed I either upward or downward. I have never subscribed to the constitutional constitu-tional theory that agriculture is a purely local matter and that it has. therefore, no national scope. I Difference Not Seen "Perhaps it will be held constitutional consti-tutional for the government to say to a farmer, it you do thus and so, the government will do thus anil so.' As a matter of common aense I cannot see very much practical difference between th two meth- j ods. In th on cas th farther voluntarily enters Into a contract; in th other cas h voluntarily does something with the knowledge ! that th government on its part will do something. One Is a contract: th other I a promts. Th result is th same. "I feel certain that a majority in both houses of congress will heed th wish of most of th farmers of th nation in enacting crop sur- 1 plus control legislation. And It is my thought thai legislation toward that end ought to be passed at tha earliest possible moment." . Mr. Roosevelt quoted from letter let-ter he recently received from former for-mer Justice Clarke. After the , aged cx-jurist expressed the belief j great numbers of the population popula-tion are "living in Intolerable conditions con-ditions while a few of us under 1 discriminating laws of our own making were enjoying much mors than a fair ahar of th bounties of nature and government." Th president said he had sever . received a finer compliment than I Clarke's assertion that: "Of course, 1 you hav fallen Into some errors that Is human, but you have put a new face upon th social and po- . litical life of our country." |