Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-13

ers should forego captious criticism Of
the board and its work" for reasonable
expectations Of farmers are being met
by the board" The Buffalo Evening
News holds that while much of this
years crop already has lost the benefit
Of the system" nevertheless there still
Is time to demonstrate its advantages"
The st. Paul Pioneer Press adds that
Gin proving that the new farm legisla-
ton is not mere historic, but Is capable
Of bringing the farmer real help, the
board has gone far toward establishing
public confidence l. its sincerity of pur-
pose and capacity for meeting the farm
problem"
at seems that right now at least
AYERS the Charlotte News, "the higher
interest, and mutual interest, of the
cotton growers and cotton manufactur-
erS and Of the wheat growers and the
millerS is to work alon~ q 'give-and-
take policy for common benefit. At no
time Is any holder of farm product
justified in dumping his holdings on the
market when he knows so doing will
bear the price, unless necessity so die
tates. Neither is a manufacturer juSti-
fed in dumping practices if he can
avoid such an economically serious
course. The prices of farm products are
going down now. Viewing the prospect
astonishing that so essential products
as those from which clothing and food
are obtained should shrink in market
value so steadily. = = The farm
ers who sell except in necessity at this
time are compromising a form of injus-
tice and hardship"
Considering past differences" states
the San Antonio Express, sit is not
surprising that the farmers have been
slow in getting together. At least they
will have the opportunity to see the
plan In action, and that will build q
confidence which will be useful in
handling next years harvest. From the
outset the board has advised. the farmer
to hold the wheat until he could get
his organization going, but that has not
always been practicable.
The Spokane Spokesman sview be-
lieves that a. to the probable develop
rents "EurSr~=n buyirg has been con-
centrated into so strong a ec--:ktnation
that c--:rter movement on this sit;a
of the Atlantic for a defensive alliance
of Canadian, American and Argentine
producers is not improbable" The Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel points out that
Europe is practically compelled to turn
to this country" and that 'the Farm
Boards action is welcome at a time
when. as President Hoover says, there
is a shortage in the world wheat CROP"
THE big domestic and foreign buy.
erS," asserts the Sioux City Tribune,
- things about set for an important
'0ear' squeeze (eAA the well financed
Farmers Grain Corporation stepped sinto
the picture, This addition TO the mar
keting scenery did not relieve the wheat
congestion all at one stroke. but did
create new hazards for bear pressure.
Domestic and foreign buyers needed the
wheat and decided that they had better.
start supplying their needs. Wheat
moved up little, in spite of marketing
and in spite of a near-panic
IN Wall Street. With proper facilities
Tor storing and holding grain, and for
orderly way, manipulation injurious to
producers will be greatly modified. 1t
Is the side issues to supply and demand
that cause the complications"
III the Farm Board does no more
than to enable farm psychology to grasp
: practical form of collective marketing,
Its creation will be abundantly vindi-
cated, and probably it ought TO attempt
no more" states the st. Louis Times.
while the Lincoln State Journal sus-
yeStS that the board cannot make a
farmer hold his grain until the price Is
right. but it can tell him what to do,
lnC II he Is willing to meet 1t half way
by organizing it viii permit him to hold
MS crop by financial aid"
Discussing both wheat and cotton, the
Worcester Telegram voices the fadg-
nent: I'VE are told by some of the
boards critics that the consumers will
lnally pay higher prices fer cottonaand
wheat during the coming year. But
AN We be sure that such a thing
wouldn't happen anyway? In the past,
ow prices received by the producers
we're not always followed by low prices
,aid by the consumers. The dealers.
including the Spectators who stood be-
ween the producers and the consumers,
Vere the boys who raked IN the money,