Evening star. [volume], March 01, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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FARM PLAN COST
BILLIONA YEAR
Estimate of Congress Lead
ers Puts Soil Conservation
at $500,000,000.
Bt th« Associated Press.
Congressional leaders estimated to
day the administration's program to
bring parity and security to agri
culture may require upward ot a
billion dollars a year.
The major part would be needed,
members of the House Agriculture
Committee said, for these items:
Soil conservation, 1500.000.000.
Crop insurance, $100,000,000 to
1150.000.000.
Rehabilitation of farm tenants,
•hare-croppers and laborers, $100,
COO.OOO to $125,000,000.
An additional $50,000,000 has been
suggested by some Congressmen to
•id tenants to become land owner?.
An appropriation of $25,000,000 win
be required, it was said, to reimburse
the Federal Land Banks for Interest
rate reductions Congress Is expected
to order continued on farm mortgages.
These estimates do not take into
account possible appropriations for
emergency purposes. Congress al
ready has voted $50,000,000 for emer
gency seed and feed loans and has
received bills calling for $5,000,00u
for eradication of grasshopper and
Insect plagues.
In addition the House Committee
has approved a bill to authorize setting
aside $800,000,000 in gold as a reserve
for *2.000.000,000 in agricultural re
serve notes for use for farm credit at
rates as low as 2 per cant.
Granary Estimates Larking.
The committee was without estimates
on financial requirements of Secretary
Wallace's ever-normal granary and
commodity loan program—based on
Government storage of major farm
products from years of bumper crops
for use in poor seasons.
Some features of this latter proposal
were criticized as "dangerous as well
as unnecessary" in a Brookings Insti
tute report published today.
Asserting release of stored stock in
years of short crops would tend to de
press prices at the very times when
the farm has less produce to sell, the
report said "there is serious question
as to the amount of gain to be derived
either by farmers or consumers."
It conceded the plan would improve
farmers’ income in years of large pro
duction.
The report approved in general op
erations under the agricultural adjust
ment act and the soil conservation pro
gram as meeting emergencies facing
agriculture.
The economists said "organised ac
tion of Government is in our modern
technical and institutional situation
necessary."
The economists said with present
world-wide trade and transportation
there was a tendency for crops to
balance between seasons and regions.
They quoted administration farm
leaders as saying that even with two
recent droughts and the A. A. A. re
duction programs there had been no
"acute food shortage" in this country.
Plan Held Inconsistent.
Asserting that former Government
farm programs had been aimed at re
ducing large supplies in private hands,
the economists said the granary plan
was inconsistent with these, in at
tempting to build up supplies in the
hands of the Government and at the
same time maintain prices of farm
products.
The economists recalled experience
of the old Federal Farm Board, saying
It “found to its sorrow, the drawing
In of supplies from the market at
times of excess is an undertaking which
has the full support of farmer* and
The report said administration of a
Storage or loan program "is subject
to great pressure from farm com
modity groups, often reinforced by
political pressure, as was amply dem
onstrated bv the experience with A.
A. A loans, particularly those on cot
ton.”
The economists suggested Govern
ment efforts could be better directed
toward improving present trade, credit
and transportation agencies, which
they said now tend to epuallie farm
supplies between seasons within “limits
set by perishability and the cost of
holding operations."
Payment of nearly $2,000,000,000 in
benefit payments to farmers and the
crop-control features of the original
A A. A. won approval.
For Emergency Periods.
“Our general conclusion from the
experience with production control in
1933-35, as far as we can observe It
through the dust of droughts, is that
the effectiveness of these devices is
Reported Wedding Date Stirs England
The Duke of Windsor was reported today to have set May 2 as the day he will wed Mrs. Wallis
Simpson, causing fear their romance would overshadow the coronation of his brother-successor
just 10 days later. Edtvard and Mrs. Simpson are shoivn in this previously unpublished photo on
the beach at Biarritz in the Summer of 1934. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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euch as to make them practicable In i
emergency periods," they said.
Asserting corn and cotton loans had
resulted from political or regional prea- |
sure. Uie report said the "A. A. A. has
shown growing Inability to limit itself
in its payments to the classes of esses
in which we have argued there is
economic justification.'' I
The report said Government pro
grams should try to help the “little
fellow" ss well as large commercial in
terests in agriculture, but warned
against “confusing the 'little fellow’ ,
with the ‘poor fellow who lies below
the margin of stable economic ad
justment.”
“To load the problem of chronic
rural poverity on the A. A. A. would
be to threaten its breakdown.” the
economists said and suggested such
problems were best handled by an
agency like the Resettlement Admin
istration.
Government crop insurance was ap
proved “If put on a strictly actuarial
basis.”
The study was prepared by Edwin
G. Nour.se. director of Brookings In
stitute of Economics: Joseph 6. Davis,
director of the Food Research Insti
tute of Stanford University, and John
D. Black, professor of economics at
Harvard University.
Davis and Black filed “conclusions”
differing In some aspect of the main
report.
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U.S. REVENUE EMPLOYES
DISMISSED IN COLORADO
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B; the AtiocUtefl Press.
Elmer L. Irey. chief Investigator
of the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
said today two employes in the Bu
reau's Colorado district had been dis
missed.
The men were Joseph D. Delehant
and H. Edwin Weeks. Irey said. Their
dismissals, the intelligence unit chief
asserted, followed an investigation of
political activity of employes in the
region.
Irey declined further comment ex
cept to say no further shake-up in
Colorado was contemplated.
Under Treasury Department regu
lations, political activities by employes
are banned.
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(Continued From First Page.)
parent the people of England will not
have forgotten their self-exiled ruler
by May 12. when his brother, George
VI, is to be crowned.
Among the large body of the middle
clasa, a definite feeling of apathy
toward the ceremonies is being ex
preaaed—a feeling of indifference that
could not have been imagined six
months ago.
The government and thoae respon
sible for the success of the traditional
ceremonies were said to feel such a
vivid recalling of Edward to his former 1
Subjects as his wedding during the
coronation would further lessen en
thusiasm.
Dozens of solid middle-class British
citizens admit the coronoration—since
Edward no longer is to be the object
of their affections—has lost its "kick.’’
and that to them George VI will seem
a substitue King for quite a while.
They read every word printed about
Windsor's life in exile end the nego
tiations between him and his family
over the wedding and financial settle
ment.
Hop* Edward Succeeds.
Most of them say frankly they are
on his side and hope he gets whatever
he is holding out for.
It was suggested in some quarters
Bdwzrd, knowing how powerful a
counter-attraction his marriage would
be. aet May 2 aa hia wedding day as
a bargaining weapon to gain the In
come he desires.
The most authoritative report now
is that King George haa offered Wlnd
sor an income of approximately *125.
000 a year out of the royal family's
private Income and will make no at
tempt to plaoe Edward on the civil
liat.
The upper rlaaa, which will occupy
the $50 seats for the coronation pa
rade. apparently la satisfied at having
George and Elizabeth for their mon
arch rather than Edward and Wallis.
Likewise the millions of the poorer
classes, who will sleep overnight on
the damp ground in order to shout
a quick cheer for "their majesties,
God bless them!" are satisfied.
To them a King is a King regard
less of his first name.
But the middle class Is not enthu
siastic. There have. In fact, been re
cent happenings calculated to bring
outright dissatisfaction.
Tlie government’s handling of its
block of 85.000 seats for the corona
tion procession contributed to the dis
sension. The British Legion, which
has Issued almost weekly statements
regretting Edward's abdication, has
received none of the seats.
On the other hand, 500 were given
to the co-operative stores, which com
pete directly with England's individual
middle class merchants, bringing a
terrific outcry from the little man In
the villages as well as in the towns
and cities.
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DR. DAFOE RECOVERED
Physician of Quintuplets Had At
tack of Influenza.
CALLANDER. Ontario, March 1
(Canadian Preas).—Dr. Alan Roy
Dafoe, physician to the Dionne quin
tuplets, reported himself recovered
today from influenza which kept him
In the Toronto General Hospital for
almost two weeks.
Resting after his arrival home yes
terday, he said he would resume his
| regular medical duties. Including the
' care of the five Dionne children, today.
DIONNE FINANCES
Ontario Lawmakers Urge
Airing of Sources of Quints’
Fortune.
TORONTO, March 1 (Canadian
Press via (A*)).—The conservative op
position in the Ontario Legislature was
reported ready today to demand a
complete public airing of the sources
of the Dionne quintuplets’ fortune.
The opposition leaders, the Ontario
Globe and Mall declared, may press
for a legislative inquiry into the "big
money contracts” negotiated for the
five famous sisters by the government,
acting as guardians.
"In any event,” the paper reported,
’’they are said to feel that more than
the bare details of agreements that
have built up a fortune of more than
half a million dollars for the babies
at Callander should be made public.”
The paper referred to the speech
by Welfare Minister David Croll, the
quintuplets' chief guardian, last week
in introducing a bill that would grad
ually reunite the babies, who will be
3 years old May 28. with their parents,
Oliva and Elzlre Dionne.
Fortune More Than 1800,880.
Croll, accounting for his steward
ship and asking to have official
guardian of the province take his
place on the board, declared the
Dionne babies' fortune had grown
from minus *35.000 to more than
*500,000, with contracts signed to
bring *200,000 a year for the next two
years.
The parents, who cried ’'robbery''
ind "persecution,” two years ago when
their daughters were made wards of
the King, are looking forward now to
the time when the quints and their
six brothers and sisters will play tin
der the same roof
Until recently they were consistent
ly bitter toward the Guardianship
Board that controlled Annette, Yvonne,
Emilie, Ceclle and Marie.
Parents Visit Quints.
But now they are content to go on
living in their five-room home and
visiting the quintuplet* in their nurs
ery across the road, until they are
reunited In the same house.
A large home is said to mean little
to them, and the only reason they
ever would build ona would be for
their daughters.
The early animosity to the nursery
staff, including Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe,
has given way to quiet cooperation,
the parents working for the best inter
ests of the five famous girls who. they
now realise, never will be able to live
the normal lives they want for their
children.
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METEOR OBSERVED
Explodes Before Burning Out. Sa7
Providence (R. I.) Reports.
I PROVIDENCE, R. 1, March 1—A
brilliant meteor was observed in the
Western sky at 7:40 o'clock last night.
! Appearing slightly southwest of the
senith, it shot downward and slightly
I to the north, exploding shortly before
; it burned out.
The meteor was reported as fully
twice as brilliant as the planet Venus,
near which it disappeared.
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