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Show ‘ THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, Bruckart's Washington Digest Congress Plans an Investigation Of Wallace's ‘Must' Legislation etaee Sheree ate nena ieee egies et MARKHAM Army preparedness 1s hampered by lack of funds, generals tell the senate . . Europe's quarrels will be reflected in United States CHICAGO. - Hybrid corn, which produces bigger crops on a smaller acreage, has brought to agriculture, for the first time, the industrial technique of standardized parts and mass production. agriculture interpretation, legislaelections. tion that would solve the farm debt (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) problem that has confronted the American farmer over a period of Hybrid is a tough, pugilistic sort WASHINGTON.-Those folks who very many difficult and trying cropWASHINGTON.-Outside of airof corn. It battles storms and other have been around Washington any ping seasons. planes and trucks, the industrial vicissitudes of the weather successlength of time cannot fail to recogIt seems, however, that there are preparedness of this country as a fully. It beats off the attacks of nize the tremendous power exerdiffering views as to what the Jonesresult of war orders has been more bugs and disease. But most imporcised over congress, Wheeler bill would do. Opponents or less a flop to date. Incidentally, tant, it yields from 10 to 25 per cent and throughout the of the measure insist that it is just the army has shown itself pathemore per acre than the old types of country, by officials another theory to supplant other thetically inferior to the navy in its open-pollinated corn. Moreover, it in the executive ories that have failed. They charge strategy on Capitol Hill. Somehow is of superior quality. branch of the govit will make the borrowing of money | the admirals are much more effecernment. It always Practically unknown to the averso easy that presently an unsound tive than the generals. has been so. It apage farmer five years ago, hybrid basis will be established for all farm You don't catch the admirals, for pears to be on the corn, it is estimated, will be plantmortgages and that, ultimately, it instance, making speeches to the increase, which is to ed on nearly 20,000,000 acres this will be almost impossible for farmcountry saying say that it is growspring. Most farmers who have ers to borrow money anywhere. that everything ing very dangerous grown hybrid are delighted with the That is to say, the bill is another is fine-that the because through the ee results they have obtained. Few, step in the direction that has ruined navy is in tiplast few years we however, know how or why it came the farmers of land in the nations top condition have Ree great Wm. Bruckart about. of dictators, for the reason that and could whip deal of ‘‘must'"' legislation sent to It all goes back nearly a century eventually the government will be congress from the executive branch its weight in to an old monastery garden in Austelling the farmers when to eat and wildcats, ofr of the government. tria. There Gregor Johann Mendel, sleep. All of this is without referWhile, as I said, there always has | ence to what I regard as the worst Nazis, or what peasant by birth, monk and abbot of sos been pressure of a tremendous sort have you. No, Brunn, devoted hours of patient refeature of the legislation, namely, from executive agencies, it reached whenever you In time the further use of federal money | search to plant breeding. a new peak lately. Secretary Walhear an admiral he discovered the rules which govin controlling national, or even state, lace of the department of agriculwhose hybrid corn won him the "corn king" title at last year's talking in pubern the inheritance of characters elections-because that end will ture headed the pack. He has set in international livestock exposition, is congratulated by his friends. lic, or for that and the way those characters can surely result. motion a gigantic pressure machine be separated by inbreeding. In 1865 matter in priThe secretary's action in sending out, is ‘‘selfing.'? The breeder starts hybridization. to force through some legislation on vate, he is behe published a monograph entitled the circular letters to 600,000 farmwith a good ear from some standNow the standard parts are availfarm loans. It is so far-reaching in "‘Research on Hybridization.'"' The er-borrowers shows what can be wailing the fact ard, productive variety. After plantable for marketing to the farmer as its scope that if a private corporapaper attracted little attention. It done. Having been a farm boy mythat the navy's Secretary ing, he covers the shoots with a commercial hybrid seed. Mass protion or group of individuals had self, I think I can visualize the rewas not until 1900, or 16 years after battleships are Woodring paper bag before the silks are exduction is the next step. done it, they would have been charaction of hundreds, if not thousands, Mendel's death, that interest was ‘getting pretty posed. When the tassels start to acterized as ‘‘special interests'' tryFertilization Important. of farmers to that letter. A good kindled in his startling discovery. old, that at least three of them could shed their pollen, the silks are ing to smother congress; they would One of the important results of the many of them will be afraid that if not figure in a battle line because Testing Mendel's Theory. carefully fertilized and then kept have been lobbyists of the first waswitch to hybrid is the change it they do not support the Jones-Wheetheir big guns have not sufficient Then scientists in this country becovered so that no other pollen can ter, and they would have been dehas wrought in the attitude of many ler bill, they will not get fair conelevation, or that because of this or gan to use corn to test out Mendel's reach them. nounced on the floors of the house farmers toward fertilization. Statissideration from the Farm Credit adthat reason the navy simply does theories. G. H. Shull, at the Carand senate as brigands and highResult Is Amazing. ticians have figured out that 50 bushministration. They will be afraid not have enough money to spend. negie experiment station, E. M. waymen. Next step is to cross these inels of corn (not a remarkably high that some local representative of East at the University of Illinois, GENERALS DO GOOD JOB. But Mr. Wallace seems to have breds. The result of this ‘‘single yield as hybrids go) removes about FCA will ‘tell on us." In other and Donald F. Jones at the UniverThe generals seem to do a pretty stuck out his neck. He was too cross'"' is startling. For some rea75 pounds of nitrogen from the soil. words, there is the danger of use sity of Connecticut, did the pioneer good job when they are talking to anxious. The house committee on son that science cannot yet explain, It takes out about 21 pounds of phosof politics in the meanest way. And work. They found that by breeding small subcommittees on Capitol agriculture has decided to look into the offspring of these runty inbreds phorus and about 41 pounds of potdon't forget: when a politician is a corn plant to itself (‘‘selfing'' by the matter. You see, there is a Hill, in executive session. They is an amazingly strong, vigorous ash. Bigger yields naturally make seeking office, he is seldom refertilizing the silks of a plant with statute that forbids officials or emeven make converts in the senate and large plant. even greater demands on the soil's strained. pollen from the same plant) strains ployees of the executive branch of and house who strive zealously to Then the breeder takes two single fertility. Two Leading Farm Groups were developed that looked poor but the government disseminating, at do things for the army. But the crosses which tests have proved to Thus, remarkable as hybrid seed did amazing things when crossed public expense, documents designed admirals go right to the public Are Opposed to Bill be good and crosses them. This is, it has to be accompanied by a with another inbred strain. to influence the views of congress. with their story, and are in no whit "double cross'' is a combination of The best proof that I have of the well-rounded program of soil manDoctor Jones paved the way for That is, in short, the statute forbids inferior to the generals when it four inbred parents. Again the tediunsound character of the Jonesagement and the use of fertilizer if the modern hybrid industry by suglobbying by officials of the governcomes to their committee appearous process of trial and error is reWheeler bill lies in the fact that the results, in the form of high producgesting, in 1919, the method now genment. The statement would not be ances and their individual contacts peated until the breeder finally gets National Grange and the Farm Bution, are to be maintained. Only complete, however, if the fact were erally used for combining inbred with the national legislators. a combination that includes high reau federation are opposed to it. then is there a satisfactory replacenot added that this statute has been lines into hybrid combinations Of course this time, and for the yielding ability, strong roots, stiff Further evidence is that Mr. Walment of the essential plant food eleviolated so many times it is impossiknown as ‘‘double crosses.'' last two or three times for that matstalks and a high quality ear with a lace has been courting the Farmers ments which hybrid corn removes ble to accurately make a report on First step, as has beenpointed ter, the army has been handicapped alliance support of the bill. The mysterious vigor that results from from the soil, them. Farmers alliance never has had a | by the known difference in view begreat following among those who tween the secretary of war and the Secretary Wallace Disliked seek sound farm policies. The Naassistant secretary of war. This Land Bank's Loan Policies tional Grange and the Farm bureau feud has run much longer than most I expect that the house committee always have been respected and of the spectacular feuds in federal on agriculture will not punish Mr. their views generally have been imadministrations. Washington has Wallace and his subordinates at all, portant with members of the house expected for years that President politics being what it is and the neand senate. So, Mr. Wallace is found Roosevelt would eliminate either cessity for face-saving always being nursing the group that best fits his Harry H. Woodring, the secretary, present. But that does not prevent immediate purposes. or.Louis Johnson, the assistant secme from setting down here what Mr. There is another thing to be men. retary. There are lots of theories Wallace has done. It ought to be tioned. The Jones-Wheeler bill, with as to why he has not removed one notice to all farmers to take the all its trick phrases, probably wil! or the other, but none seem compropaganda with a grain of salt, or not get through at this session of pletely satisfying. several grains of salt. congress unless all available presThe navy, in this administration, sure is put behind it. It was to cre. Recently, Secretary Wallace ishas been aces from the first. The ate this support that Mr. Wallace sued a statement harshly criticizing President himself was more directly and Governor Black sent out their the loan policies of the federal land interested, because of his life-long banks as those policies were carcirculars in criticism of the land love of the sea. ried out under the banks' former bank policies. Since there jis nc management. probability of congress being called In the language of the With most Italo-Americans waitstreet, he kicked those policies highinto extra session and since adjourning to hear from Il Duce whether er than the well-known kite. ment of the current session is likely Anythey are to be pro-Nazi, pro-ally, or body who criticized the secretary's to occur sometime in June, the bill continue neutral, and with a much criticism at once became an agent has to be pushed through now, or it larger percentage of of the special interests who are tryGermanwill yield no political benefits at Americans fervently pro-Hitler than ing to enslave the farmer. the election in November. I believe In other most observers suspect, the presiwords, all of the world's knowledge it is fairly clear from this what Mr. dential and congressional campaign on the subject of farm credit was Wallace's suggested program connow under way is precisely what tucked away within the brain of the templates. certain current United States secretary of statesmen The new drive for additional au- | back in 1920 UP SHE GOES-The radioHERE IT IS-Here signals dreaded if the United States should thority for the secretary of agriculagriculture. THERE IT GOES-After sonde, a miniature broadcasting from the radioso ture nde comes are join the League of Nations. at being a time when But weather observations are comthe cash Mr. Wallace did not station, being sent aloft from the recorded with stop farm income picture is not pretty. It would seem as if this country special equip- plete, there. With the assistance of one they are immediately bridge of a Coast Guard cutter. ment aboard The last figures issued by the deis being torn internally by EuroGovernor Black of the Farm Credit the cutter. radioed to Washington. partment of agriculture show that pean quarrels almost as much administration, Mr. Wallace sent as By WILLIAM his of the guess-work has been NUGENT cash farm income for the months of if it had joined the League. statement about the terrible federal taken along the Atlantic coast. Since last away. ASHINGTON.-The famous reWith the rise of aviation, January, February and March toAnother surprise to some of the land bank policies through the mails fall, when war broke out in Europe the general interest in upper mark uttered by Mark Twain talled $1,696,000,000, whereas it was men to something like 600,000 farmers who fought and beat Ameriair and ships of nearly every Europe | has an Conditions has increased through the years become $1,581,000,000 for the can participation in the League who are borrowers from the and airso same nation ceased sending weather three is land intraditional craft have made it possibl and so months often of repeate 1939. banks. e that d That to obThe letters, of course, went apparently looks like a formation, the bureau has been Woodrow Wilson serithat most of us are inclined to tain upper air observations gain, but wait! through the mails, free under agree was more absolutely ously handic right, apped in making foreand the sothe that the weather is something frequently According to the department and in more federal government's franking privwe localities called reservationists casts of value to ocean commer of | absolutely can't do much about. ce. than formerly agriculture, farm subsidies for with sounding balHowever, in ilege. wrong, about Article 10. the | This observational work, It will be our deep appreciation of the sagaciloons and kites. which is The radiosonde, a recalled that rst Article three 10 was the one gradually expanding into months Jones-Wheeler Bill Results this year were | ty of the immortal Mark a network $291,000,800 and forof the Twain we miniature broadcasting station with Same three which provided that if any nation of observi ng Stations, yields weather lose sight of the fact that the a Are Subject to Debate parachute months of 1939, the farm subsidi attachment weathwhich should es attack another service for all types of and refuse er forecaster is just about the weighs less than two pounds, totalled $192,000,000. uses. The bravTo get back to the secretary's cash into submit the quarrel to arbitration has tome reported basic for thisThe year critobservations was, | come est man are in into the the world quite same when general he makes icism of the former land bank use for the of the League, all members of whether manthe the | a forecast for tomorrow's weather. specific forecast is for recording of pressure, temper roughly, $115,000,000 more agement and the circular letter ature than a League would be obligated to sent use of the aviator, the mariner furand humidity in the upper year ago, and the subsidy paid , or Guess-Work Eliminated out at public expense: atmosto nish troops As I Said, or ships or both to bring the farmer. Phere. the farmers was almost $100,00 He has about as much information This robot weather observer the secretary appears to have 0,000 the aggressor to terms, stuck is sent aloft attached to larger than last year. Everett Mitchell, radio announc to go on as the doctor who receives out his neck. Which, in my a carrier He included in that er IF IDEA HAD WON book, balloon represe a telephone from on nts the National Farm the decks of floating just no gain at all letter a thinly veiled appeal call from a man who and Home for the But suppose Wilson's idea weather Says he "has a temperature'"' for the farm program. bureau of the 600,000 farmer-borrowers to hour, has been telling the stations on and two write to farmers League had _ been I cannot enthuse, therefore, coast guard cutters in mid-At wants the good doctor to tel] Carried their representatives and senator out! of the about lantic nation him that "It's a Beautiful s in There would have been no the policies that have been and whether from the he aggresSupport grounds of six airports has measles or meninof a piece Called Day in Chicago"' every day of legislation sion for years by "best" by Secretary Wallace. Japan in the country. The radiosonde in China. gitis. known as the Jones-Wheeler The weather forecaster's diThere He sends bill. Mr. and years, but they know would has tried too many have his weathback signals which give been agnosis must be based to a no Wallace said this legislation conquest ‘bests' of and, the temlarge would er report is just a little Ethiopia by Italy. after a lapse of time, perature, air pressure and extent make it much easier for the white lie. Albania would upon the they were surface weather humidifarmers The farmers, like the mariner displaced by another "best" still be free. ty at all heights map, and this map gives comparaThere to borrow and it would make would s have and and reache an d by the their other that is certain to been no Munich, and no European aviators, still look to tively meager information of the balloon. debt burden easier to Carry solve the the weather atthrough farm problem. war. bureau for their authent mospheric conditions at the higher a reduction I am beginning to in interest rates and Aids Weather Forecasts. ic weather doubt whether the experts in the That is not by any means altitudes where most of our weather ~through revision of other reports. Mark Twain, notwithstandde. to say terms. The ocean observations, It partment of agriculture that if the United States had which bewas, according to the depar is produced. ing, there are few human know what ratified tment of gan only recently, are of activities the word "‘best"' means. great value the Versailles treaty, without In recent years, aowever, much which can boast complet resto the weather bureau, e indifferNow, there seems to be especially ervations, and ence to weather, present become no reason an active or future, to criticize Mr. Wallace ‘Must' Legislation member of the League of for seeking Nations, Secretary of Agriculture to change the loan policies. Walall these aggressions That is would have lace has been too anxious his right. to imHe lately became the been prevented. If Wilson's ideas DENVER.-What press his view regarding boss of the credit Policie happens to all current NORFO to had LK, manufacture been s VA.-Capt. Patrick N. carried out, yes, but there because and of the farm loan legislation onto circulate, sales tax Preside tokens nt in America? Roosevelt's conL. Bellinger, commanding is plenty of doubt that the "I know that every government officer of State gress, League man and womaccording Treasurer to reorganization Charles William Armthe United States naval air placed an in the state isn't would have been any more the Farm station Strong Bruckart, vigorous running around of Colorado Washington corre. has Credit administration admit here, ted piloted with with the the United States a member. 33% tokens jingling first airplane struck within the de. spondent. that he couldn't solve The house committee in his the mystery in or partment of agriculture. by bullets in combat. her pockets," Armstrong There might even on agriculture' will look into his own State, or in So, while be a fairly szid. "So the nation. Mr. While flying over Vera Cruz one may disagree with what happens to them? grounded suspicion that Wallace's statements on the durthe secrethe United In circulation-or subing the elsew Mexica tary's here- n States trouble in program, his right to would not have sent troops in 1914, Belject and will report the findings Some of the miss Color direct ado to ing alone there are 36,691 milltons of linger's Curtiss Seaplane and ships to prevent the those policies is not ,500 congress. tokens are in cash was hit by Farm politics is beconquest of open to debate. of the little aluminum registetrg. Armbullets fired by ground dises, China, the Concerning the methods hind all of the stir and fuss, or Ethiopia, strong troops, or Poland, guessed, treasurer said in a report says if he is usand quite Belling 1 er . few He also called on by the League pointis believed to be ing, however, much can Bruckart. have been taken to do so. ed out that into and should was 33.5 tokens for other States the first aviator to After all, the United States evattack enemy by tourists. be said. ery man, woman and conveniHe Said he SUPpCsed soldiers from the air, child in the a ently forgot few thousand more all about j State. a solemn They cost the State $69,38 were jn the ves} treaty 3 it had Pockets of worn-out with Korea when sulis, By WNU 1 ERNE CRON JEROME WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. = =e krone in terete -aeeange an aer o =~» ee nee Bowe porateen, mn sas oe arn HYBRID WINS CROWN-. E. 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