Show 0 0 y national top cs interpreted by william bruckart national Wat lonal press building washington D C washington the united states Is being given an object lesson in what happens when the people government at must pay tempts to inte interfere with nature american farmers these days are threshing their wheat crop the production is that of a reduced acre age an acreage that was planned on theory ly the department of agriculture the result is that this year s american wheat crop will approximate bushels that is about bushels less than the average crop during the five ears from 1929 to 1933 the result is a stor tage department of agriculture fig ures indicate that the total wheat crop in the world this year will be something like bushels below the annual production in other words the wheat crop is short everywhere on earth and the result is obvious in our own case there is normal ly a carry over each year of about bushels but due to the shortage of the crop this year that carry over is insufficient to make up he needs of domestic tion consequently we soon will see heavy importations of canadian wheat a wheat that can be blended in milling with our own production an and d a very satisfactory flour re suits yet it must be kemem bared that on all importations of wheat from canada or anywhere else a tariff of 42 cents a bushel must be paid it is clear therefore that consumers of bread must pay that tariff because the importers are going to pass that item of ex pense along as part of the cost of the flour in addi addition fion to the short age in the united states canadian wheat production is reported to be something like bushels under normal there is sufficient production in canada to permit of carport export of course but the shortage is bound to be reflected in the prices and mention of the price brings us back to the individual effect of the combination of acreage re deuced by government edict plus the act of nature in visiting a drouth upon us scarcity always results in higher prices it is the operation of the law of supply and demand the roosevelt farm pol icy has been predicated on the the ory that scarcity would produce higher prices and thereby add to the farm income but drouth and other production hazards cannot be predicted and therefore the amer ican people find themselves in a position where the uner unpredictable edic table has happened and the farmers are not getting the benefit of higher prices on a natural and normal production there seems to be a stronger demand for wheat now than at any time during the industry last five or six opens up years it indicates a restoration of buying power on the part of the masses in other words industry again is opening up to some ex tent and employing workers dl al though the increase in employment i has been small thus far in consequence of this bombina tion of circumstances there is now a seller s market in wheat in stead of a buyer s market in wheat to say it another way there are more people seeking to buy wheat than there are seeking to sell it and the consumers of flour will pay the bill by way of contrast with present conditions it may be point ed out that world wheat tion has exceeded world wheat production in every year except one since 1929 in the 1932 crop year there was slightly more wheat produced in the world than was con fumed the result of the steady growth in consumption over production in the last few years has been to wipe out all of the carry over wheat stored in bins and ele gators throughout the world and in every country users of wheat are scraping the bottoms of their bins the tragedy of it all is that be cause of the reduced acreage and the drouth in the united states american farmers are not in a po to take advantage of the high er prices thus established by the sale of surplus wheat which may have been accumulated if the acreage had been normal instead of the united states real ly controlling the market for wheat we are in a position where a good many other countries may be en cou raged to grow more wheat the natural and obvious results of this fill be to further curtail the outlet for american wheat which so long has been relied on by many foreign nations that are non producers of wheat I 1 do not know how far the new deal intends to go in revising its basic economic policy regarding crop controlling I 1 can be sure of only one thing in regard to the bew ew deal plans the visitation of he drouth in two years in aich ohp political planners of the ne r ofal pal attempted to u unset aset batul laws has proved the inability man to alter the course of nature and by the same token these conditions have proved the inability of government to change human na ture I 1 do not know whether others will agree with my conclusion or not but I 1 am of the opinion that the american farmers are paying dearly for the crop control checks they received in the past two years even with a crop shortened by drouth if there had ben the normal acreage of wheat american farmers would have reaped the re ward to which they are so batly entitled 0 A year or two ago a committee of the american bar association made a report det def bar offers finitely critical of N new eu plan the new deal administration f for 0 r having created so many agencies to which had been given functions almost like the cou courts arts that report pointed out how such units as the now dead and the equally dead AAA could 1 ue rules and regulations that were enforceable as law they called attention to further fact that countless of these rules and regulations carried strict and severe penalties even to the extent of a lail jail term for an vidual violator lately another committee of the american bar association has pub dished another report again calling attention to the un american pies ples established in such bureaucratic control it offers a constructive proposal for the elimination of bureaucratic management of in affairs from washington it proposes the establishment of an administration court which would have power to enforce these rules and regulations but would be equipped with the judicial right of determination so that the thousands upon thousands of regulations with their various penalties would not be enforced upon an individual accused of their violation without div ing that alleged violator the right of a hearing the committee pro dosal in other words would put an end to determination of violations by one bureaucrat ultimately the proposed court would take over the judicial work of all of the administrative agencies in washington now numbering something like 75 the initial operation of the court would be limited until it could bring something like uniformity out of the chaos now existing for it is well known that in many cases two govern mental agencies will have rules on the same point and those rules will not be the same in some aggra va bated ted situations it has been found that one agency will prescribe a penalty against an individual busi ness for doing one thing while another a agency gency will have no penalty for the same act another instance is known where two agencies have virtually the same regulations but the penalties in he two rules are different I 1 suppose the condition can be explained by the fact that dozens I 1 of new bureaus too many have been set up bureaus under the scores of new deal laws and that in the haste to get them into operation no co ordination was had between the various groups but it is my belief that private citizens cannot be blamed for this i condition since they cannot be 1 blamed for failure of goern government ment to function properly they ought not be compelled to answer for the silly differences in law which bureau brats have written under authority of congress to draft necessary reg ions after all congress is really to blame for this condition it rushed through laws which president roosevelt demanded and it did not take time to debate the provisions nor did it examine the sections to know fully what results would flow r from them in many cases too many statements of general legis dative policy were not clear and congress abdicated its duties to the extent that it wrote into those laws provisions saying that the agency W which was to enforce the lar law was given authority to write whatever rules and regula eions were found to be necessary some authority of this kind always has been given in order to make the national laws alf flexible aible but they never have been given to such an extent as they have haie in the last three years insufficient time has elapsed since the american bar association committee came cime forth with its ad court proposal for an analysis to be made of its poten it may and probably does have weaknesses it does how ever have a strong point in the general idea that a judicial body should determine whether cm cin individual citizen has violated a bureaucrat bureaucrats s law and what the pen alty should be rather than have that bureaucrat sit as prosecutor judge and ury jury in telling the indi vidual citizen what his crime has basi S estain tta es lern tarn a paper anlon |