Show y N Nand and HEAR around around be t tONAL he J ONAL COITAL CAPITAL Carter Field WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT l n. n Decision n-Decision Decision Dee I s Ion to makens make ns 0 on n cotton plus the theE these E agreeing in I advance se Rth With not next ext years year's l to program be pro pro- I go special legislation on ont dent den dentRo t Roosevelt noW has tied hog-tied sl I leaders leader marks the beginning tag growing in thet the f cotton t states states- it is very simple At pres pres- rat nt of the cotton crop of States on the average Which means that it tura Uy In competition from all other par parts t s 0 of f fug ing the last six years Pugh OUgh there were begin begin- rt that Brazil has been Its u 15 cot cotton ion production by III i sell seU cotton at a profit at ater er American money a as s tog jog the period of ng rid Id price has been held lough ugh American efforts is A cents During the first firstI 1 I It was the Hoover farm tarm t i artificially maintained ci rice irice of the staple Be Be- specula speculators tors had hadit it uge stocks of cotton at fa depression figures a harvest barvest when govern govern- te t put the price up le e Soviet government obE ob ob- E enormous price for Its n heat eat crop also in the tm board days by theY the Y client of concealing the Russia had a lot of at wheat s d I selling lelling it short In Amerl- Amerl incidentally fets to theand the theand and j-and and delivering the acI ac ac- I later Instead of cover cover- e tour ur or M. M Hyde then sec sec- es t expected I ear j of AAA reduction reduction- fee e a farm board period it i Ir from official fig fig- am of American l s n II almost precisely tid jr Increased production in inthe inthe inthe f the world This was not pee ceo ca It did not just lust hap hap- I world orld wanted the cotton 0 it It elsewhere It would Ii ht t the cotton from the thes lei s It If we had produced it to produce it en en- the producers of other II fakes abs akes Lead tra I this parade but there 4 r other foreign countries g I. I including even the them m ese lese puppet state in North ro this Ws six-cent six price o Brazil rull can afford to sell sellI 4 I profit the fact seems seem to 1 II if based on our own gov gov- rag figures that only two Wal the Union can compete i ao low cost production s a i are Texas and Okla Okla- I there would be plenty of i them If the price drops b ads pich ich points to the eventual T all aU the southern states e Mississippi from cotton since ince it is only a matter matterA A he len hen the export of cotton ally Impossible econom econom- 1 J Prove a blessing Inere In l ere cre e Is a monument to the n weevil In a certain ed t t. That county was forced vil vU to turn from cotton to ut r. r Including peanuts and i tied result the county I It as it had never done beI beIt belt be be- D It lt i Is not Impossible that South from North Caro Caro- siana and Arkansas benefited when st a n stops slops raising cotton and tier they crops y ne t who ho Is la really i at t is about to take place 3 g Can any SUch luch r Motive of ot the Roosevelt ad ad- on DU wand and the New Deal gen gen- v ve been critical of ot both the s attitude of the pow pow- An Andrew W. W Mel e his death there have I e vocal demonstrations of ot usual more seeking for tor vt ve that 1 Inspired the atI at at- i I the ascribed bed explanations i truth by a 8 mile mlle First I a ro nOthing personal in n it ere re Was no Particular deJ de de- re S J the Hoover admin admin- Thin s last the may mar sound gound fa tan f Jj he Farler simple truth Is that If d hS have and Charles Mich Mich- N d have i. accomplished i just to 10 Wanted waned by br pro propaganda a ands have Republicans last year rear nominated r Herbert II at of Gov Alfred Cleveland the ther cause refers to their atis at at- r II he a time the ti is II viewed with of fact several everal Democratic v chieftains iVery err concrete step shortly to v II of bJ aid ald to in the Hoover by the pr Dr r Supplied N ew sUpplied a certain Deal p Pie I e newspaper funds s and instruct instruct- ed him to bet any newspaper man who differed with him in an ment meat that Hoover would be the Republican nominee They further Instructed him not to bother about odds but to bet at even money if he could find any takers The whole point was was to put a doubt in the minds of the men writing writing writ writ- ing Washington dispatches to newspapers newspapers news news- papers all over the country about a possible Hoover comeback Frankly Frank Frank- ly the New Dealers at that time thought they could beat any lican but they knew they could beat Hoover So they wanted Hoover nominated No the motive in attacking Mellon Mellon Mel Mel- lon was different and more tant lent than any indirect means of smearing Hoover Mellons Mellon's Feat Mellon represented a legend which had to be destroyed from the New Deal standpoint Mellon stood in a way for all the old thrifty American virtues virtues particularly particularly getting get get- ting out of debt Mellons Mellon's great claim to fame will always be that he paid off oft of federal debt in ten years as secretary of the treasury treasury paid paid it off much faster than congress wished by the simple device of fooling congress every year about expected receipts Even more damning Mellon stood in the public mind for the theory that reduction of taxes on big in incomes incomes in in- comes and corporations results not In less but in more money for the Treasury In a way he proved it This Is controversial The answer Is made that he was able to do both things because there was a rising t tide tte te of prosperity which never turned from flood to ebb until the thelast thelast thelast last fiscal year with which he was concerned There is a rising tide of prosperity right now In this country Everyone Every one has been fairly sure for several years now that It was en route But there is no pursuit of the Mellon doctrine of paying off oft ones one's debts during good years so that when the bad years come there will be be so to speak an ace in the hole in the form torm ot of a huge unexhausted credit Harry L L. Hopkins is perhaps the frankest of New Dealers about fiscal matters He contends that there must always be huge relief expenditures expendi tures tunes and that the government must have the courage to take In taxes from those who have to finance them But it was figured quite a long time back In this administration administration ad ad- ministration the Mellon doctrine must be destroyed and discredited to make anything like this possible That's the real reason for the smear Mellon campaign Expect Big Show Official Washington can hardly wait walt to see the show expected when Justice Hugo L L. L Black former senator senator sen sen- senator ator from Alabama begins to tion The waggish comment to wait walt until the eight old men give him hima a dinner of welcome illustrates one angle of the interest But that is just lust the human impish angle The serious angle Is whether the new Justice will continue as a hitting hard ruthless New Dealer or whether he will as some lawyers around Washington have put it ft have a rush of law to the head There Is another angle which angle which may be found by studying the life and works of ot some of ot the great liberal Justices Justices' notably Oliver Wendell Wendell Wendell Wen Wen- dell Holmes Louis D. D Brandeis and Benjamin N N. Cardozo It is the difference difference dif ference between talking for tor the under under un un- der dog and acting for tor the under dog The two things are far tar from being being be be- ing the same as anyone who analyzes analyzes analyzes ana ana- politics and economic conditIons conditions condi condi- bons coldly will discover at once The truth of ot course Is that the embattled embattled em battled automobile workers in their various fights fights and and in the fight to come with Henry Ford Ford are are not the under dogs of this country by any manner of calculation The automobile workers were as workers go extremely well-paid well even before the recent adjustments They had higher pay and worked shorter hours than almost any other class of workers with equal skilL Must Work Considering the length cf d training and the responsibility required of the men In the five railroad brotherhoods brother hoods where a man has to work through quite a period before he can be a fireman and then has to work usually for tor years before he gets a chance to be an engine driver the automobile workers are very highly paid indeed So it was rather maudlin to get worked up about the underprivileged underprivileged and downtrodden If It you were thinking about the automobile work ers ens This is no attempt to criticize them or those in sympathy with them That is not the point There is plenty of ot room for argument asto as asto asto to whether they are getting a sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- suf large share of the profits of ot the business or whether any struggle is not worth while to force collective bargaining The only point is that they are and have been anything but the under dogs of ot this country's economic and social life C e Bell nU te S Service |