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Show FOR OUR FARMERS ' The president vetoed the Gronna bill, framed for the benetit of the farmers, who are suffering so severe-' ly from present low prices of farmers' far-mers' products. The senate, in turn passed it over the veto. Democrats joining Republicans in this effort to revive a finance board similar to that of the war board, to aid strug-' jgling producers of food crops. Des-1 j pite all the talk to the contrary, far- j mers are in a class different from j other producers. Their crops are I largely annuals. The farmer receives the money from his crop but once a year. If that annual income is taken tak-en entirely away, he needs financing for still another 12 months. It is the sort of credit that banks are slow-to slow-to allow. They prefer short time paper that is rapidly liquidated and renewed for other short periods. (1 the other hand, the financing of the farmers is just as important as the financing of other producers. The war taughnhe people that it is possible to secure emergency legislation leg-islation in war time to meet a specific speci-fic crises. They have come to' meet a specific crisis. They have come to the conclusion that congress should be able to pass emergency peacetime peace-time legislation, instead of having to wait two or three years for remedial remed-ial measures, which go through after af-ter the crisis is really passed when those it was planned to aid have either succomed or adjusted themselves them-selves to an almost intolerable condition. con-dition. Special legislation, passed for emergency em-ergency couses, should be of such a nature that it is repealed as soon as the need for it has passed, unless It proves to be of such substantial character as to survive the immediate immedi-ate purpose for which it was called into being and perform a permanent service of value. |