| Show dispelling THE FOG ro G by charles michelson I 1 we are now advised advise d that the republicans are going to solve the farm probie em no 4 they do net tell us how or when but a committee ee ol of forty six G 0 P cong congressmen gressmen I 1 it as a s been named by minority leader martin to arrange the program and furnish the process some of us are able to remember that in the good old days the farm problem was studied rather exhaustively those were the days of af the mcnary l laugen bill vetoed by president cool ideel krcs went ident hoovers federal farm board etc president hoover wrestled with the problem so strenuously that the farmers revolted from his party almost unanimously and contributed perhaps the largest element clement in effecting the retirement of the republican administration in 1932 doubtless the martin committee of 46 will occupy a bracket with the glenn frank group of formed with considerable two years ago to distill a and nd announce a republican program originally one of the purposes of the outfit was to call a nation 1 convention at which the country was to be informed of the bartys I 1 views from a contemporary newspaper clipping I 1 glean this the committee on program shall complete its work at the earliest possible opportunity and shall report its recommendations suggestions and conclusions that was two years ago and the great strategy and platform board has been dumb as an oyster ever since talking 0 of economy not only are they going to straighten out the farm sit situation antion but the republicans are going to cut government costs mr martin has formulated a bill providing for a 10 per cent reduction in all properly susceptible a appropriations such a measure would have the support of the whole country including the administration jf if the qualifications between the quote marks were satisfactorily defined the minority minor ity leader excludes from the cut such items ss as relief social security pensions and interest on the public debt true to the republican principle of generalities the bill gives n no k clue to where they would do th the e cutting everybody is in favor of national economy just as everybody is in favor of keeping this country out of war however the democratic administration has a program for the accomplishment acco of both objectives its assailants have none for either while we are on the subject of economy it might be well to consider the cost of the recent pro ce edings in the neutrality matter it makes no difference if the eve event alt is styled bedr a debate or a filibuster it cost the country countrymen ten or twenty thousand dollar s a day to listen to the repetitious speeches if the matter had been permitted to tc come to a vote in the regular session our legislative expense would have been less by something like half a million dollars and we would have arrived at the same result |
