Show X RK a isz e mi n R y lisa 0 anim rw r w 11 i i s ft ayt 4 nia A y A iss w M irp i tat f i d 4 i a i dmn M 1 11 1141 ti 9 wm washington A plainly w worded and simple announcement forthcoming the other day from the will plant agricultural adjust more wheat ment administration presented present d one of the sharpest reverses in policy yet promulgated under tinder the new deal dozens of experiments have been tried out since president roosevelt came into office and almost as many we haie run their course and have been abandoned a ban on of tetla were tried out with high but the enthusiasm thusia sm died long before the recently created agencies themselves went out of existence such was as not the case however in the instance to which I 1 refer because the simple announcement by the AAA resulted in the addition of acres to the lie wheat planting area of the united states for the 1031 1010 crop not alone lid did this announcement represent a change in administration agricultural policy it if one is to believe the undercurrent of information available around washington one cannot escape the conclusion that the increase in wheat acreage to be authorized represented something of an answer to the protests even boycotts that have been evidenced in many sections of the country against an increased cost of living it is unnecessary to repeat here how hundreds of women have boycotted meat in markets in detroit and how one delegation after another in other sections of the nation have written or telegraphed to the department of 0 agriculture or to their representatives and senators in congress in complaint against the high and ever increasing food prices of course boycotts and riots and demonstrations are rather silly they just dont get anywhere successfully about the only result one ever sees flowing from that sort of activity is a lot of publicity so when secretary wallace and agricultural ri adjustment administrator davis dails agreed to raise more hogs the wheat acreage comes next from 85 to 03 05 per cent of the available acreage for the next nest crop the he consensus was that the administration felt it might mi lit have gone too far in its crop reduction program probably all restrictions will be lifted on hogs very soon because hog prices have sailed higher than a kite and the shortage of available live stock for packing has come to be almost appalling certainly the city dwellers who constitute a big element in the market for pork products regard the shortage as appalling and they are not to be appeased by any promises from washington secretary wallace was rather angered at published newspaper accounts from various cities to the effect that the AAA program was responsible for the high prices lie ile IDS insisted ISted that the drouth of last year was responsible and that the destruction of several hundred thousand sows bows and several million pigs had not affected the market situation at the present time but mr wallaces statements did not go over so BO well in the flroa instance the bulk of the city dwellers simply will not believe that the file drouth had resulted in killing off a sufficient clent number of hogs boss and cattle to cause the current high prices in the second place wiseacres wise acres around washington who have a habit of blurting out their thoughts without regard to feelings s of others promptly inquired what good had coule come from the AAA orn or hog control program it if the drouth alone was responsible for the price increase those these same individuals were mean enough to inquire also why some experts in the department of agriculture had released statements to the press to the effect that meat prices especially ally pork will continue to skyrocket until the summer of 1930 1036 they pointed out that a great shortage in supplies existed and that it was to be expected the trend would continue until a now new crop of hogs of pack ing IDS size is marketed next nest year then we here in washington heard suggestions from men whose job it Is to understand market conditions in which imports of pork products were predicted for the forthcoming winter now importation of any commodity does not take place unless the domestic supply Is short of the requirements thus crop control program or no crop control program drouth effects or no drouth effects it Is possible that this one of the greatest hog bog producing nations in the world may witness substantial imports of a food item for which it has always been noted as a producer As re regards ards the reversal of form in the abat wheat control program mr wal lace face said in his an explains no rio thit that the reversal increase had iron been authorized primarily to assure domestic itic consumers of f continued c ample anaple wheat supplies he said aid that the wheat carried oer this year was about huchel i and that on the basis of present ebli mates of production product iou for next nest year it seemed advisable to use tho the flexibility of the agricultural adjustment act it at this time to provide for somewhat larger production to assure adequate I 1 supplies of all types of milling wheat in theory of or course the AAA control Y C plan should permit production of sul suf wheat next year to take up tha slack of left over requirements and r should hould hane hae the effect of maintaining american stocks at about normal but buk in practice a different result Is 13 threatening this nation always has exported a considerable mount amount of wheat wheal it has therefore had some influence in the world market and to that ex ei tent has influenced the domestic price it happens however that the world wheat crop ahead of us is likely to be smaller than usual if the I 1 united states had the wheat it Is pointed out variously could be a cons considerable lder return to the farmers from the export market As it stands bill ties of taking advantage situa tion just do not exist without further reference to the practical operation or of this theory some experts have mentioned to me the fact that the 1030 american crop may not be as good as in times past then not only will the american farmers be unable to take advant advantage ale of a foreign market but they will not obtain the maximum return possible for their domestic sales because of at their own shortage in answer to tills AAA officials point it out they can use the flexibility of the agricultural adjustment act as a benefit to the farmers their diew ot of the tha situation Is that the american wheat industry will be in a strong position due to the shortage of world wheat and can again exert its influence the divergent opinions of lose those who favor crop control and those who think the theory will not work have created create many arguments even among officials there are those who think only of the farmers position and there are those who think only of the plight in which the city dwellers finds them themselves selves bhea prices are high the whole thins when simmered down doin Is simply another way of stating the age old lena lem in which we find on the one liana hand those who produce the food and on the other those who eat it it adoption ot at the principle of crop control has not solved that problem nor does it hold bold any prospect of solving it it seems seem to me as a matter of cold judgment that the agricultural adjustment administration Is not any more fair with the people as a whole than are those who promote boycotts or seek to tear down gains made by agriculture the department officials have glien ghen out statements carrying only their side ot of the case those who attack higher prices have made only their side of the argument neither has added much to the sum total of human kno knowledge Medge or human comfort 1 the new deal plans for giving employment may not have been so effective outside of wash federal pay inston but no one roll grows crows can question the result in so far as the federal pay roll Is concerned late figures A ures reveal that since president roosevelt came into office in more ore than persons have been added to the federal list of employees the total of workers on federal pay rolls in the executive branch branch of the government at the end of oc the hie fiscal year june SO 00 was whereas the total was at the end of march 1033 the end ead of the first month after mr roosevelt took office kofl ice it has always been the claim calalin of political poU parties that to tha victor belong the spoils it Is true under the roosevelt administration to a remarkable degree this Is show a b by y the fact that the civil service list of t employees in the federal govern government ment has gained very few while those appointed to jobs without the nee necessity it Y of passing a civil service examination account for the bulk of the new DOW 6 workers much of the new deal legislation has carried specific provisions that employees in the particular agency created by the bill lu in question be appointed without regard to the civil service law that Is the simple expedient used to provide spoils tor for tie the victor but these new thousands are not at C all secure in their jobs as distinguished ulsted from basic reason why a great many persons seek federal appointment appoint met through civil service examinations an I 1 employee who has passed an tion alon and has received an appointment Is supposed to be fairly secure in 1113 jol job and nd as long as he does the work assigned to him there Is scant possibility of him being ousted tills this is no true of the political appointees if ia and when there liere Is a change of ad ulluS and a political pirty party of opposite faith tales the reins the file workers vito ho came in by reason of political plums hire II ae little chance of sn in 03 the file jib jb fluently one ile hours hears around washington now discussion us as to what will hill hillwig Wil 11 lo 10 nil all f these now new vor lers if new a iel des cles blow lit up 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