Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
Real Struggle Is Forecast as
Farm Aid Gets Under WAY

The farm relief law continues to be
a storm center. The criticisms of Jul
1uS H. Barnes of the United States
Chamber Of Commerce of discrimina-
ton in favor of co-operativeS and to
inducements to farmers to afiliate with
the system are interpreted as q pro-
test against impending changes in the
economic system. Advocates of farm
relief hold that the grain dealers are
responsible for the protest.
Reviewing this situation, the Chicago
Daily News suggests that "the efforts
Of the Farm Board to build up effective
farm organizations would be aided ma
terially If leading grain dealers were
able and willing to occupy posts Of
management within the grain Coop
eratives;" that sit is not improbable
that the Farm Board would welcome
so striking q development"
Necessarily some establishments Of
existing machinery will be required"
according to the Kansas City Times.
But similar experience in the United
States and elsewhere has shown that
private concerns that are giving real
service on an economical basis have
been able to maintain themselves in
competition with the co-operativeS
Undoubtedly that will be the experience
under the farm marketing act. The
cooperative agencies will furnish COM
petition. Private agencies will have
to be on their toes to meet it. But it
can be met on the basis of efficient
service. That Is the situation as it
existS-a situation that represents the
greatest effort that so far has been
made to promote the well-being Of the
farming West"
Probably the country as q whole
does not yet fully realize what a revo-
lutionary piece of legislation this farm
relief law actually Isl suggests the
Worcester Telegram. "The law, it
may develop later on, will, perhaps
need revisionS and projections. But
the board does not seem to be running
wild with the law so far. If anybody
doesn't like the boards actions, the
thing to do is to go to Congress and
the President and appeal for changes
in the law" The Newark Evening
News offers the judgment: so the
middleman Is to be eliminated, among
the consequences of the new econom-
icS-Society at barter being resolved
into its elements Of producer and
consumer-buyer, as Mr.. Barnes en-
viSageS the future. 1t Is something
to ponder-not alone for the middle
man. Must the consumer buyer then
become cooperative? It would seem
so, in economic self-defense. The new
economic dispensation will bear watch
ing"
1.-THE policy Of the Farm Board, car
ried to its logical conclusion" thinks
the Charleston Evening Post, "would
dispose of private dealers in farm prod
ucts and handle all such commodities
through a central agency representing
the farmers and financed by the Govern
ment. Carried to its last analysis,
it would eliminate all private agencies
for distribution and sale, provide its
own system of transportation and oper-
ate its own stores. 1t should make
farming profitable to the farmers,
which is the business of the Farm
Board, but it would turn out to Craze
or to farm-vaSt numbers of people
who are engaged now in merchandise
ing"
"For q party and President boasting
Of veneration for the slogan, Keep the
Government out Of businessP 1t Is GER
tainly going some" says the Baltimore
Sun, with the conviction that 1t Is AN
economic revolution Of q scope that, II
successful, will leave no community in
the country untouched" Nevertheless
the Rutland Herald offers the opinion:
Apparently neither President Hoover
nor the so-called experts would be pre-
pared to say that this advancing of
public money to private organizations
Is anything but an emergency measure,
tural crisis. In due time, 1t Is hoped
that these organizations will not only
become Self-supporting but will repay
the advances made by the Government
In the present emergency"
1.-THE effort or the Farm Board Is to |
1--WE thu producer o share Of the benefit |
OF prospective advances In price between