Show DRY TUB THE BILL farmers of america are aie being given tile the runaround run around the goby go by and the doubled doub lecross oss in the dis of surplus war property perhaps bureaucratic clumsiness Is responsible for the slowness of tile hie war asset corporation in malting making sales but tho the WAG WAC cant be blamed for sidetracking the poage bill in con giess the bill to give tile the secretary of agriculture authority to requisition earthmoving earth moving machinery and turn it over by grant or loan to soil conservation gation and drainage districts no better use could be ba made of tho the bulldozers tractors dump trucks concrete con cieto mixers and sim elm liar flar equipment which tile the armed forces have left over in great numbers new and used gut but tor for some reason leason the farmers cant have them at the same time farmers are aie being urged to produce lilore moie food for a lung hung ery world largely with implements worn wora out in producing food to win the war the most distressing part of the story Is that tile american farm bureau federation Is said to be blocking the poago poage bill and its companion mckeller bill if that Is true tho the Is do ing harm to the nation and harm barm to the people it represents it if it Is not true the should at once throw its influence toward getting e biting tho se measures out on the floor ot of tile the house and one of them passed rep W it poages plages bill was approved by the house committee on agriculture then in some weird fashion referred to the committee chairman A J sabath has been quoted as attributing its burial to the opposition ol of a powerful farm organization in the meantime the senate had unanimous unanimously lk passed sen kenneth Mc Kellers bill identical except for one thing poages plages bill says that the soil conservation service shall apportion the machinery to the eligible districts Mc Kellers does not mention the leaves distribution up to the discretion ot of the secretary no one Is objecting to that change when the mckeller bill reached the house it was also burled in the rules committee only action the house has been allowed to take was to vote on a proposed amendment reputedly sponsored by the same powerful organization this was to add cities counties states road districts and other governmental subdivisions sub bub divisions to the list of agencies entitled to receive surplus equipment it was promptly and properly defeated back to th tho committee went the mckeller mckellar bill to await joint consideration with the poage bill that can not be until a two thirds majority takes the poage bill out of committee ugly rumors beach arizona that the center of opposition Is ed oneal president of the and that his stand Is based on dislike for the soil conservation service the same rumors say that he wants dis distribution trib ution placed with agricultural extension service it Is hard to believe that anybody in such euch a high position could be that petty 11 he like the surely he can leave the distribution detail up to the secretary as the mckeller bill provides in february the arizona ot of soil conservation districts sent a delegation to washington to lota join similar groups from 31 othor other states and attempted to get final action on one bill or the other the delegation carried an endorsement from the arizona farm bureau federation the bureau made a minor reservation that the machinery should be used only tor for public benefit not private gain surely our farm elected district boards can be trusted to see to that besides beides anything that saves soil and water anywhere is for the public good suggestions have been tossed around that far farm m equipment I 1 manufacturers e jurers dont wa want nt the districts to get free machinery nonsense hampered by strikes I 1 ac ic cant come within a million miles of tilling filling orders they might bo be embarras embarrassed ed by heavy demands tor for parts and service it if the machinery now rusting away could be put t to 0 work but not dodging business besides farmers made ua more prosperous through better irrigation levelled bevelled level led land and flood protection are better customers for everybody who has anything an athing to sell them from this distance no legitimate excuse Is visible tor for snarling the legislation in parliamentary red tape and not even letting the peoples representatives vote oie on it the people have ev every right to demand that they tell e 11 sabath where to head in also ed oneal it necessary ana and vote their sentiments on this I 1 issue so important to agriculture from arizona farmer |