New Britain herald., 1929-04-17
RPRISING THE FARM BLOC
 AND OTHER BLOCS

10 color his own opinions; and he is
 not permitting tariff raisers to guide
 ha abitual fault-finder would be dis
 posed to criticize the Chief Executive.
 Most of the time in human accom-
 plishment the golden middle way at-
 tains its objective with the least
 travail and in the long run IS most likely to be correct. Though there can be no compromising with un-
 blemished evil. no middle-road policy in connection with what is in- herently bad, there can be suc- cessful compromise with opinion; especially when such an opinion is predicated upon materialistic self interest. It can scarcely be denied that western farmers and higher tariff proponents alike are actuated solely by self-interest regardless of the effect upon the country as whole. President Hoover, in our opinion, is justified in not yielding all both sides ask of him. He repre- sents all the people, not part of them.
 Suspension Of the national origins clause of the immigration act, as ad- yocated by the President, throws down the gauntlet to Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and his assistants. who have been demanding that this anachronistlc conception of immigra- ton quotas be allowed to pass into law by proclamation this year. A step forward is enunciated in the suggestion that reapportionment of congressional presentation be speedily carried through, which would be in accordance with the plan pushed by Congressman Tenn for several years.
 The Presidents view toward agri- culture are summarized in few words from his message:
 The difficulties Of agriculture cannot be cured in day: they can- not all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the federal gov ernment alone. But farmers and their organizations can be assisted to overcome these inequalities. Every effort Of this character is an eXperl- ment, and We shall find from our ex- perience the way to further advance. We must make q start"
 The start referred to, however, will need to be made by Congress for the most part. The President was not detailed in his suggestions. The furthest he went was to advocate the creation of federal farm board with authority and resources to remedy conditions. The way to bring about this elimination rests with Congress, MT. Hoover prefers not to lead too far.
 The presidential view on what 10 do about the tariff will not please higher tariff interests, providing they were sincere in their recent de mands before the ways and means Telling them that changes in the tariff must take the entire country into account, and must include consideration of the effect upon American trade relations with foreign countries. is not the kind ot tariff tnkering that is popu- lar among those who favor the The President is more in- clined 10 rely upon the efficiency of 6 reorganized tariff commission than upon the log rolling method, and :. make the commission r"o-" worthy of confidence he would increase the salaries in order to command men Of the "broadest attainments. Unless one expects 10 be thorough going tariff beneficiary one can 1lnd fault with such an at titude.
 The main feature of the Presi- dents recommendation was the that great instru- mentality be created to function on behalf of agriculture. This instru- mentality would be the federal farm board, which in the Presidents esti- nation would do for agriculture what the Federal Reserve does for banking and the Interstate Com merce Commission does for transpor- tation In a sense it would be a step toward that increase in bureau cratic control in government Of which there has been much criticism of late; yet, if such centralized con- trol is good for banking and trans the same principle would apply with relation to agriculture.
 AL SMITH AS AN AUTHOR