Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
Dickinson to Push Measure
Creating Commission to
Handle Matter.
DENIES BILL WILL PLACE
GOVERNMENT I'M BUSINESS
Series of Conferences Called by
Agriculture Department,
Seeking Program.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
Secretary Jardine Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture today announced
a schedule Of conferences with farm
leaders and editors on the surplus
problem.
AT the same time Representative
l. j. Dickinson Of Iowa, who returned
To Washington today from the Iowa
conference at Des Moiues on the same
problem, declared his intention of in
Producing his bill for Federal farm
commission TO deal with crop sur
pluses within a day or two after Con
gress assemblies Monday.
Il intend to present my bill, said
MIR. Dickinson, "and TO seek action on
IT. The time has come Tor show
down | shall ask the House commit
tee on agriculture to call hearings on
the bill and to make every effort to
bring about legislation dealing efec-
lively with the farmer problem, the
surplus problem"
Would Establish Commission.
Mr.. Dickinson insisted that his bill
did not propose To put the Govern
nent in business, as il has been
charged in many quarters. The bill,
he said. proposes the establishment
Of Federal farm commission. and
this commission is to designate Va
riouS agencies to help handle surplus
crops as they may be produced. The
agencies. he insisted, will not be gov
ernmental, but private. The Govern
nent aid will come through a re-
Volying fund used to help finance the
transactions.
The Federal farm commission may
call upon the cooperative marketing
organizations, or. upon the millers. or
any of the various agencies already
set up by the agricultural interests.
depending upon the crop which is in
volved," said Mr.. Dickinson.
The administration, it was said to
day, is driving ahead in its plan OF
campaign TO deal with the surplus
problem on lines which have already
been outlined. 1t Will oppose, II is
said, any legislative step which would
take the Government into the bust
ness of buying and selling produce, or
of fixing prices.
Calls In Editors.
The first conference at the Depart
ment of Agriculture called by Secre
tary Jardine is with the editors of
the group of standard farm papers,
including the Farmer, Minnesota;
Wallace's Farmer, Iowa the Nebraska
Farmer the Wisconsin Agriculture
list. the Prarie Farmer. Illinois; the
Progressive Farmer. Alabama the
American Agriculturist. New York
the Pacific Rural Press, California.
the Ohio Farmer, the Michigan
Farmer Hord's Dairyman. WiscOn-
sin, and the Breeders Gazette, Hi
nois.
The conference is set for January
IL and is called to consider the
surplus and other farm problems. :"
The emphasis, however, will be laid
upon the surplus. These editors have
already arranged for a meeting Of
their own here January II. Steps will
be taken by the Secretary TO confer
later with the editors of other agri-
cultural publications.
The second conference scheduled to-
day by Secretary Jardine is for Janu-
ary IA, and those invited are former
Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, Sam
Thompson president OF the American
Farm Bureau Federation. and Aaron
Sapiro, attorney for a number of the
large farm Co-operativeS.
In Line With Policy
The statement issued by Secretary
Jardine today declared that the con
ferences were in line with the depart
-
mite program on sound lines, to deal
with the farmers problems. lie said
that other conferences would be held
during January, both with editors and
representa- tiveS of farm organizations
and co-operatives. The fourth ma
tional cooperative marketing confer
enCe is to be held III Washington
January u to IS and it is to be held
January II TO - and it is expected
II. .l..,-s -V+fl
he here for that meeting and avail
able for conferences at the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
1t has been made evident by the
administration that 1t desires to pro-
ceed as rapidly as possible toward Il
helpful program with relation to the
handling of the farm Surpluses. Its
hope is that II will be able to forlnu-
late plans, outside of price fixing and
the buying and selling OF farm prod
ucts, which will he satisfactory.
Government in Business.
There would he much opposition in
Congress to having the Government
go into the business Of marketin"
the products of the farms. and it was
declared today that no such legisla-
ton as proposed in the McNary- Hau-
gen bill. setting up Government eX-
port corp a ll'pii- ''lllti i'cSHtiE Stl
through The East and the South
would not agree TO such n proposition.
nor would many of the members from
the West, 1t was declared.
But the necessity of dealing with
the farm surplus problem has been
impressed on the administration,
both by the economic eXigencieS and
the need of establishing the agri-
cultural industry on sounder basis,
and by the political exigencies. which
appear to be considers at the
present writing, due TO the aroused
sentiment in the Middle West and
West that something must be done
for the farmer.
The administration is encouraged in
it's hope that constructive measures
may be adopted through the willing
ness of some of those who have hither-
TO advocated the establishment of a
Government export corporation to
buy and sell farm produce to agree
upon the substitution of a Govern
ment board or commission which shall
aid the farmers to handle the surplus
crops themselves.
One of the chief problems. however
is to arrive at a system which shall
successfully spread equally the loss
which must be taken for surpluses sold
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