Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-21
FARM Relief SEEN
|. ASUNT|NG c. Up.
Harmony in Party in Iowa
May Result Brookhart
Given Support.

BY the Associated Press.
DIES MONIES, July 21.--The farm
relief question today looms as PROB
able medium of complete harmony In
the Republican party of Iowa.
Preceded by the meetings OF the
corn belt committee and the IL
States committee of % which agreed
upon a definite program of farm leg
islation and censured both major
parties for abandoning campaign
promises" the State Republican con-
yention assembled today with pros
pects of factional quarrels being side
tracked, possibly ignored, while the
principal issue in the Midwest-agrl-
culture-iS discussed in detail.
The corn belt committee, composed
of farm and cooperative organization
heads, and the committee OF II naiileu
at the agricultural conference mere
last Winter concluded their sessions
YESTERDAY They outlined program
of farm legislation identical with that
rejected by the last Congress ana
which is essentially protection for all
Industries, agriculture included, as
peer, or, as a last resort, protection
for none"
Will Carry Fight Farther.
The committee of %, made up OF
bankers and manufacturers and
others interested in farm conditions
decided to carry on it's fight for re-
lief to include committeeman from
other Western and Southern States
which desire representation, and to
finance its finish battle for congress
sional adoption Of it's program by ap-
pealing to State legislators for appro-
priations.
stems toward a closer alliance of the
Western Republican corn. belt and the
Southern Democratic cotton belt when
plans were laid to hold meetings In
border States before the next session
of Congress.
That attention Of the Republican
convention is to be centered on farm
relief has been predicted by Dan w.
Turner of Corning, keynoter, ana COL
Smith w. Brookhart, storm center OF
the party for two years and now SEN
atorial nominee for the third time IN
six years.
Urges Party Harmony.
Mr.. Turner indicated he would at
tempt to place the party in Iowa SOL
idIv behind the fight for farm relief
and at the same time urge complete
harmony in the ranks. Col. Brook
hart. an ardent farm relief prepayment,
again declared he could continue the
fight on issues" without thought OF
the party organization.
Col. Brookhart today faced the pros
pect of receiving for the first time the
attention usually accorded a senatorial
nominee by the party. In past years
he has been ignored, but today he Will
be seated on the platform, probably
with Senator Albert B. Cummins,
whom he defeated in the June pri-
mary.
Breokhart strength in the conven-
ton was revealed by the support
given yesterday to a proposal that
the party go on record as fayorlng a
reopening of the contest OF Senator
Dan f. Steck, Democrat, which re-
suited in the unseating or Senator
Brookhart The purpose of the move
would be to unseat Steck and pave
the way for Iowa Republicans to re-
place him with one of their own Sc
lection.
The corn belt committee yesterday
received a report of it's cost f1ndlng
committee, which fixed the actual
cost of production of a bushel of corn
in Iowa, with an allowance for a
fair profit, at ST.
The cost was not mentioned in the
set up as the mark to be attained in
the continued effort to obtain con-
gressional relief for agriculture.
The cost finding committees report
also set forth that in Illinois the ex-
pense of producing corn. with fair
profit of per cent included, is 81. 43;
in Nebraska, $1.40; Minnesota, $1.41,
and in North Dakota and Wisconsin,,
SLAP.
Capitalized at $148 an Acre.
Other costs of production in Iowa,
allowing the same fair margin of
profit, We're reported as: Oats, 10
cents; wheat, S2.49; hay, $21.44; hogs,
1852; veal, $17.S2; wool, 65 cents;
lambs, $20.45; chickens, % cents;
butterfat, SO cents, and eggs, 81 cents.
An average 160-acre farm was the
area upon which the compilation was
based, and it was capitalized at $148
an acre, with an average interest of
per cent, or $1,1S4. Other expenses
figured included:
Depreciation on a S2,250 dwelling,
800; depreciation on $500 worth of
other buildings, S1S4; depreciation on
fences, S83; depreciation and interest
upon $1973.90 worth of machinery,
$335.56; farmers salary, $500: hired
help, $500; fertilizer, S101.60, and au-
tomobile depreciation and interest,
$121.50, only rs per cent of the motor
car expense being charged to the
farm.
Present Income Too Low.
The total income necessary for the
per cent fair return, as outlined, is
$5,601 IA, against what was said to be
a present income of $2,99Ss44.
The figures were compiled by E. E.
Kennedy of Pontiac, ILL.,, secretary of
the Illinois Farmers Union. They
were presented by Milo Reno, presi.
dent of the Iowa Farmers Union.
Any policy that failed to extend to
the farmers proportionate increases
was denied the support of American
farm organizations, and the short
sighted industrial policy expressed by
spokesman for the national admins
tration, including Secretary Mellon,