The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-04
BUNK IN NAME
OF SCIENCE IS
COOLIDGE AID.
Wall Streets Secretary
of Agriculture Reports
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press staff correspondent.l

| Federated Press STAR Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. s.
When you have no other ma
teriaI from which to produce
political thrill in the breast of
the common man for whose
vote you are playing, get hold
of the machinery of something
scientific, Eke the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture, and edit a
crop report so that it reads like
the prospectus for a new bath
ing beach.
That's the idea which seems
to actuate Secretary Wallace, in
a press handout which he cap
tions-"Agriculture Shows Con-
ltinued Prosperity"
The Campaign Year Swing.
Notice that word continued" and
read the first sentence of this official
scientific declaration: mot in five
years has the United States presented
so nearly a picture of balanced pros
perity as it does now" declares A. B.
Genung, agricultural economist of the
U. S. department of agriculture, who
has just completed tour of the lead
ing agricultural sections of the coun-
try.
''It may be that for considerable
period agriculture will stand at some
disparity with the urban industry, but
for the moment agriculture is swing
ing toward par, and the readjustment
is healthy one for the country" Mr..
Genung says.
In short, there is no continued pros
perity because there is no prosperity
all he claims is that things are less
bad then they have been for five black
years.
Summing up conditions in the East,
he says it is "going into the winter
on about the same basis as the last
two years. The prevailing frame of
mind among farmers is rather static.
Men find little to be enthusiastic
about"
Corn Outlook Is Bad.
In the corn belt he finds the farm
ers Gin better spirits than for four
years-not so much from any great
increase in income as from a feeling
that the stage is being set for better
times. The corn outlook is bad
enough. Frosts have hit the North.
A heavy percentage of corn will GER
tainly be soft and one of the corn
belts real farm management prob
lens this Fall is how best to dispose
of the soft corn"
The wheat belt, he says, is "in in.
finitely better shape than for four
years. In the Western spring
wheat territory where no one has
had pair of new shoes since the win
ter of 1890, there is particular re-
joicing. All thru the wheat country
growers have hustled grain to market
and new money is circulating rapidly
in the process of paying debts"
Cattle Raisers Suffer.
Sheep men and growers Of grain
and irrigated crops in the range coun-
try are in very bad shape" says this
optimist, but seattle men are just the
reverse 1t has been four-year story
of liquidation, which still continues"
This cattle situation seems to be
the only kind of prosperity that con.
tinued" as announced by Wallace in
the headline.
Pacific Coast conditions for feed are
certainly no more favorable than last
year. 1t may not be wide of the
mark to say that the coast country is
in just fair condition this Fall, but on
the whole it does not seem in quite
as good shape as one year ago.
An Unfair Report.
European governments send agri.
cultural scientists to this country at
frequent intervals to study our meth.
DDS of production, marketing, fact-fnd.
ing and general advancement of the
interests of agriculture. Probably
none of them would credit, unless he
saw it, the statement that our govern
ment could issue report so unfairly
edited.