Show 0 5 BY MOBLEY AUTO lacter washington BUREAU special to tiie the park record washington march 25 congress passed exactly thirteen acts which have a bearing on farming the most important was the appropriation for fa dr the department of agriculture of tor for 1931 which includes the money for regular and emergency road construction and for drought relief and tor for 1932 which includes tor for highway work the act licensing all dealers in fruits and vegetables is of perhaps as muc much h importance in the long run the rest of the thirteen ran can be dismissed as of f slight importance 0 2 up to march 10 a little over ten million dollars had been lent to farmers in the drought regions out of the 10 appropriated tor for that purpose loans to farmers had been approved on that date amos W W woodcock director of the bureau of prohibition got an appropriation from congress of enough to hire additional special agents lie he is putting of these into training for undercover work to mingle with violators of the prohibition laws and discover where and how they operate lie he also plans to buy worth of new automobiles for the use of enforcement agents the bureau now has cars all of which it obtained by confiscating them from persons using them tor for the transportation ol of liquor 0 the largest single contract ever let by the united states or by anybody else for or that hat matter was signed by the sec dietary of the interior the other day I 1 Is for and Is s for the construction st of the hoover dam at boul boulder ider nevada the contractor Is a corporation known as the six companies having been be en foamed tor for this purpose by six large contracting r 0 n tr acting firms the 45 millions Is for engineering and labor only the government ant being obligated to furnish all of the materials which will run to mole moie than the labor costs loans to operative cooperative co marketing agencies by the federal farm board come to about in cash so far of which about has been repaid the changes going on in the personnel of the board are making some of mr hoovers friends nervous they are afraid that the public will think it is a case of rats leaving a sinking ship and will conclude that the farm program st sl a failure that Is 1 not the case as those who have followed the boards work most closely ie e it it the whole program of the farm Marr marketing etIng act I 1 is p such a radical innovation that it was ria natural tural that many conservatives serva tives should be wary of it also all those hose falm faim groups who had haa other programs did not like it similarly many men who thought they ought to 0 have been appointed to the have been opposing it and it goes out saying that private traders in farm commodities are afraid it will eventually put lut them out of business add to that the he tact fact that several everal commodities which i have come under co operative cooperative control in he past year are selling at lower prices than they were a year ago which has bade lade some operative cooperative co members dis led and there are plenty reasons hy by the board Is constantly under fire of 3 course the never promised nor oid id the law under which it acts antica pate that it would maintain prices that is not lot what it Is tor for the law of supply and nd demand makes prices and nothing else the purpose of the operative cooperative co marketing act is to secure to the grower his full fair share of the price paid by the hc consumer whatever that may be board members and their friends say 7 that hat the program Is working out a eanls cronly ct only so tar far it will take five years to t it ft irto tul full effect and in the mean nn lm athly would like to have some come of their well vell meaning friends blends keep their hands oft off and give it a chance |