Show dispelling DISPEL LENG THE by charles mich on representative joseph W martin minority leader in in the house resigned from th National and executive committees of the republican organization the other day 1 various republican newspapers interpreted the incident presaging as r the entry of mr martin into the already rather crowded field of re publican aspirants for their presidential nomination I 1 incidentally does not suffer in comparison with some others of the group that are after that nomination he has had long experience as a national legislator and is a veteran wheel horse politician not long ago he delivered an address in kansas he was governor landoas Lan dons eastern campaign manager when kan kansas kanas as voted for frank lin D roosevelt roosevell markets and martyrdom naturally tor for the benefit benait of a tomeko audience mr martin dwelt on the woes boes of the fanner r and his martyrdom under tinder the he new deal congressman martin is from massachusetts so it is not perhaps surprising that he failed to know as much about wheat a as s did lis his audience kansas is our banner wheat state and is second in the flour business in the first year of the smoot hawley tariff the kansas farmers were getting 39 cents a bushel for wheat though the tariff on wheat in that measure was 42 cents that rate is still on it has not been reduced in any trade agreement what has happened is that foreign markets for wheat have been improved by such concessions Js as great britaina Brit ains abolishing its preferential ferent ial tariff on united states wheat and canada reducing its duty on our grain eighteen cents a bishal and on flour 85 cents a barrel As a result the british last year bought nearly double the amount of wheat from us as they did in the smoot harleys hawleys first year and paid 16 cents a bushel more for it statistics tell the story likewise the united states exported million bushels of wheat last year and imported but a anath part of that amount in percentage figures the imports amounted to two one hundredths of one per cent of our total production and a lot of that was wheat not fit for human consumption but bat was livestock feed which the farm cas bought because they could not afford to give the animals their own more valuable product some five million bushels of wheat came over the borders but bu never touched the american market as it was brought here under bond milled by Ameir can workmen and the flour shipped abroad the only time wheat has come to us in in any quantity was during the drouth years when we did not raise enough to supply the domestic ic demand but kansas produces more than wheat she has a big meat packing business and the packers a and nd the corn hog raisers all testify to the benefits conferred in 1932 the total of Ameir can exports had dropped to about one and one half billion dollars last year they were double that kansas like every other state shares in the increased production an prices I 1 get these rather tedious statistics out of the state department i deloras choras and the reports 01 the economic policy committee that non governmental non karuan isan western research agency that in farm it might be worthwhile worth while tor for the republican presidential candidates to do a little investigating before they tell the farmers as representative martin did that they have been ane guinea pigs for reckless I 1 experiments and that if the government had gone in for intelligent research for new uses tor for ag ii cultural products they wot would not oe be in any trouble |