Evening star. [volume], January 26, 1937, Page A-16, Image 16

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HEARING LAUNCHED
ON TENANCY BILL
—
Wallace to Give Views to
Jones Committee to Curb
Problem.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.
The House Agricultural Committee
today started ahead of the White House
In the race to eliminate farm tenancy
and share-cropperism from the Na
tion’s rural economy.
The congressional group opened
hearings on a farm tenant bill writ
ten by Chairman Jones of the com
mittee, while a special board named
by President Roosevelt was still deep
In Study of what legislation would
best meet the question. Jones, how
ever, was asked last September by the
President to frame some sort of leg
islation.
The presedential experts are ex
pected to make their recommenda
tions February 1, by which time the
House Agricultural Committee may
have completed consideration of
Jones’ $500,000,000 Farmers’ Home
Corp. proposal.
The members of the committee ex
pect an immediate revelation of the
attitude of administration officials
toward the measure, for Secretary
Wallace, who is ex-officio chairman
of the President’s Committee on Farm
Tenancy, and M. L. Wilson, Under
secretary of Agriculture, are to be the
first witnesses.
Same Objectives.
The ultimate purpose of both
Jones and the White House is the
same—to reduce as much as possible
the high percentage of tenancy. The
1935 agricultural census disclosed that
42.1 per cent, or 2,865,155 of the
country’s 6,812,350 farms, are run by
tenants.
The rate of increase in tenancy is
so rapid, however, that Wallace has
expressed doubt in the past whether
the $50,000,000 a year for 10 years
Jones would spend on its elimination
would do more than slow down the
Upward trend.
The Jones bill “to encourage and
promote the ownership of farm homes
and to make the possession of such
" homes more secure" would transfer
all the functions now carried on by
the Resettlement Administration,
which is combating tenancy in a limit
ed way, to the new Farmers’ Home
Corp.
Would Buy Band.
In outline the function of the cor
poration would be this:
It would buy land farmed by ten
ants and turn it over to farm tenants,
share-croppers, farm laborers or per
sons recently fitting those categories,
with preference for “applicants who
are married or have dependent fami
lies.”
The beneficiaries would be desig
nated by three-member county com
mittees. They would be put on av
erage size farms carved from the
corporation’s land as renters with op
tion to buy, and the rental payments
in the first five years would aggre
gate 25 per cent of the purchase
price.
When the lessee decided to exercise
his option to buy, after paying 25
per cent of the purchase price, title
would pass to him, and the corpora
tion would take a lien on the balance,
with the loan to be paid oS in 40
year* at the rate charged by the
Federal Land Bank In the neighbor
hood.
Tenancy 1* a sore spot chiefly in the
South, especially In the one-crop cot
ton areas, with 70 per cent of the
cultivated land In Mississippi operated
by farmers who own none of this
acreage.
It Is lowest In Massachusetts, 6 per
cent, and low In Maine, New Hamp
shire and West Virginia, while through
the corn-growing mid-West States of
Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska the figure
rises to more than 70 per cent.
How far any program now under
consideration might go toward elimi
nation of tenancy Is made problem
atical by the President’s suggestion
to Jones last Summer that the Gov
ernment should aid “tenants who have
demonstrated their ability to manage
land.”
Opponents to the general theory of
tenancy eradication contend that a
large percentage of the non-owning
operators are shiftless and unable to
manage land wisely.
SOLDIER GETS MEDAL
FOR HEROISM IN FLOOD
Bravery of Last March in Pennsyl
’ vania Rewarded—Another
Private Also Honored.
Two awards of the Soldier's Medal,
on- for heroism in the Pennsylvania
flood disaster of last year, were an
nounced today by the War Depart
ment.
Pvt. Charles S. White, Medical De
partment, was honored for his action
in repeatedly crossing a raging chan
nel under hazardous conditions and
rescuing several persons from flood
waters at Jersey Shore, Pa., March
18. 1936. He discovered a fire in one
of the houses, extinguished the flames
"with utter disregard of his own safe
ty." and brought the occupants to
safety. He is a native of Jersey Shore
and now is on duty at Rock Island
Arsenal, 111.
The other award is to Pvt. Thomas
W. Treloar, Battery E, 62d Coast Ar
tillery, Anti-aircraft, for heroism in
rescuing a comrade from drowning at
Fort Totten, N. Y., last Summer. Pvt.
Treloar, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
now is on duty at Fort Totten.
D. C. BAR ELECTING
Results of Ballot Today to
Be Announced at Meeting
Tonight.
The District Bar Association will
choose officers today for 1937, and the
results will be announced at the as
sociation’s annual meeting tonight In
the Mayflower Hotel.
Balloting was to begin at noon in
the south room of the Bar Association
in the District Court Building and
close at 6 p.m. Voting is secret and
modeled after the system used in na
tional elections.
The race for the presidency has
been three-cornered with each candi
date forecasting his own victory.
Gertman, King, Quinn Compete.
Presidential candidates are George
C. Gertman, for 17 years secretary of
the association; Milton W. King, who
expects to draw much strength from
the younger lawyers, and Henry L
RESORTS.
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Quinn, a member of the Board of Edu
cation and Federation of Citizens’ As
sociations. All have been Indefatlg
uable workers for the association. Ef
fort* by Gertman far passage of the
bill liberalizing the District’s divorce
laws brought him the public thanks
of the association a year ago.
Another close race has developed for
the first vice presidency, with two
former officials as opposing candi
dates. They are Leo A. Rover. Imme
diate past United States attorney,
and E. Barrett Prettyman, who re
cently resigned as corporation counsel.
Rover has the backing of the self
styled “Fifth Ward,” an organization
of attorneys with offices on Fifth
street, near the court house. Mem
bers of the “ward” for weeks have
been wearing campaign buttons bear
ing Rover’s name and the name of
Assistant United States Attorney
Samuel F. Beach, who Is a candidate
for director.
Cuaick Battles Kane.
Two men are running for second
vice president and both represent the
so-called younger element.
They are Ralph A. Cusick and A1
Philip Kane.
Candidates for secretary are C.
Chester Caywood and Wilbur L. Gray.
Bolltha J. Laws, treasurer, Is a
candidate to succeed himself. He le
opposed by F. Joseph Donohue.
Three directors will be elected. Mine
candidates are listed, but voters have
been Instructed to vote for only three.
The names offered are Charles B.
Baker, Jerome F. Barnard, Beach, R.
Aubrey Bogley, Charles T. Clayton,
Ringgold Hart, Jo V. Morgan, Daniel
W. O'Donoghue, Jr., and Arthur J.
Phelan.
C. U. SCHOOL ADMITTED
Social Work Unit Accepted by
American Association.
The Catholic University School of
Social Work was accepted as a mem
ber of the American Association of
Schools of Social Work at its recent
meeting in St. Louis, it was announced
today.
The objectives of the school are
the preparaton of priests for leader
ship in Catholic charities, the train
ing of members for work in the field
of child care and the preparation of
members of the laity for leadership
In the social welfare field.
American women have an estimated
total of (210,000,000,000 of this coun
try’s wealth.
HOUSING NEARLY READY
Hopkins Plaos Receives Finishing
Touches of Workmen.
Workmen are putting tbs finishing
touches on Hopkins Place, the Alley
Dwelling Authority's low-rent housing
development in the Southeast section.
The authority announced today that
Mrs. Henry S. Patterson of New
York, daughter of Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, for whom the new devel
opment was named, has contributed
six trees, which will be planted an the
development.
In 1904 and In 1916 black item
rust, one of the most destructive grain
diseases, destroyed almost 200,000
bushels of wheat In the United States.
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