Show washington snapshots by james preston preiton I 1 with a new Sea sion of tho the congress in tile the offing lutu into w which k tell the will inject u determined drive for farm control cOlIt rol the capitols crops of official aud and official observers aro are a bit bewildered by the pre debate over the tarul farm issue easue lu a this connection some bome government officers seem beem to indicate an official doubt about the qualities of the administrations s abric agric agriculture alture plan A t notable indication of official doubt was cont contained awed la in a speech which Heere secretary tary of commerce dah dab iel 0 roper was waa scheduled to make before a tarm farm group in Charl estton 80 but which was cancelled without explanation copies of bojc tho the secretaries Secret arles speech yoro sent bent to newspaper offices in in advance it was found to C contain knipl a rather ballut attack upon crop control policies op the administration specifically hla his hi s undelivered undelivered speech declared superimposed controls except under emergency conditions have a tendency to thwart the principles of democracy through a form of regimentation that we righteously righteous i I 1 condemn in other forms of government when the speech was waa cancelled aud and secretary instead made a brief talk his public relations staff failed to notify all newspaper offices to ddll tile the speech thus it reached public print and precipitated an in ter department controversy and much eyebrow lifting n secretary of agriculture henry A wallace in a speech before a memphis te tann in audience added to to the bewilderment by voicing sollie reservations about crop control ile iio declared it true that the foreign cotton supply now amounts to bales more than in 1032 and that at least a part of ibis increase la Is due to this gov uni ern ments cotton restriction program the memphis speech while dealing ing particularly with cotton was rise supposedly an aa outline of the general generia policy tile the administration hopes honea to follow la in the matter of 0 f all crops and drew this chii editorial comment from the new york times mr wallaces Wal lacea was in moro more than one respect a 8 strange 1 one olle por for with the remarkable candor that ho he so often displays the Secie tary made one damaging concession after another regarding tile weaknesses of the policies poll clea of crop chop restriction pro processing emming taxes government loans loana and subsidies of crop restriction processing taxes government loans and subsidies then phen instead of concluding as one might expect that the policies should therefore be abandoned he be went on to advocate what he called a middle cour course coursolle soll which in effect proved to mean a continuance of all these policies with a few now new governmental controls and subsidies thrown in did somebody mention gling well out west tho the other day a federal official announced that government instructors are going to teach indians how to make and use bows and arrows I 1 |