Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-20
FRIENDS OF FARM
DEBENTURE ACTIVE
Fight May Develop in Con-
nection With Appropria-
tionS for Board.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 2o.-Is a
fight developing against giving the Fed
eral Farm Board a, new appropriation
Of S15O,O00, 900?
Senator Borah objected yesterday to
immediate consideration when the bill
authorizing that amount was reported
to the Senate.
Senator Borah always has favored
the debenture plan of farm relief. He
has stated not only before the law
creating the Federal Farm act was
passed, but since, that the debenture
idea is the only thing which will give
the farmer himself any real relief or
protection
What does the Farm Board intend
to do with this appropriations" asks
the Senator. What has it done with
the other $3.50, 100000? For as far as
can see it has not benefited the
farmer at all"
Whether this spells an immediate
fight over Federal Farm Board appro-
priations should develop today, if at
all Whatever develops, the expert de-
benture champions are only waiting
their opportunity to fight that issue all
over again. For prices to the farmers
are much lower nov than they we're
before the Federal Farm Board was
created and before they started spend
ing the S250,000,000 for farm relief"
But Chairman Legge is saving wood
and saying very little these days.
Minor Has Difficult Job.
George S. Minor, general manager
of the Federal Farm Boards Stabiiz-
ing corporation, is not lying on a bed
of roses.
Although he commands more credit
than any other American grain oper-
ator today, he says little, seems always
optimistic and discounts his own i'm
portance, but he keeps his eyes fixed
right on the price of wheat while the
Chicago pit is in session. His associates
on the Winnipeg, Liverpool, BuenoS
Aires and other wheat-trading ex-
changes wire him frequently.
In a short interview, he said, quite
casually, some important things:
I'VE DON'T pretend to affect world sup
ply, demand or price. AS a matter Of
| fact, the price of wheat in the United
States is not fixed by the world market.
| This country is not on world basis in
anything.
IF have somebody come in here to
J paint my Office, he is not paid on the
| basis of what a painter receives in
| Europe. the immigration laws stop the
tariff protects the manufacturer. We
believe the farm relief laws do the
same for the farmer"
| And the hope of such relief, in wheat
prices, largely rests today in the hands
Of Mr.. Minor.
The Forestry Service.
The Federal Government has always
been parsimonious in its appropriations
toward the forestry service of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
Controlling one of the most precious
natural resources, the total amount
| asked for, according to the budget sub
mitted to Congress by President Hoover
Tor the forest service, the Bureau of
Plant Industry, the Bureau of Entomol-
cgy and the Weather Bureau, is Just
| S22, 100000.
And yet Robert Y. Stuart, chief for
ester, in his annual report says that
1.-The aim of the Federal forest policy is
| to bring about the highest use of the
forest as one Of the country's great basic
resources.
| 1T is a task comparable in many
ways with that of building I'D the
whole body of agricultural knowledge
on which rests successful and profita-
! BILE farming"
If the interest of the American peo-
! pie was inSistent enough the United
/ ObdlCo OOuA0 dO WOuuCIo III GIllS 1lGIUs
1t might well take a leaf out of Ger
many's book, in the field of re-
| foreStration, where every tree is marked
and guarded like something precious. In
the United States it is just wood!
Censorship In Cuba.
/ Censorship is growing tighter in
| Cuba! President Machado remainS
under constant guard and his admin
| istration says that no news coming
! from the United States is being CEN
| sored but information from other
sources indicates something different.
| Yesterday one of the most influential
Of the Havana dailies-Diario de la ,
| Marina-was suspended for the second
time this month and the plant closed
down.
It's editor, Aldo Baroni, one of Cuba's
| most vigorous and frank writers, has
been arrested and is now confined in
| federal prison, under a strong guard.
The president of the Cuban Press
Association, DR.. Rafael Angulo, has pro.
tested the closing down of his 98-years
old publication-the Oldest daily news
paper in Cuba, and one of the Oldest In
| America, as being both "unjustified and
unconstitutional" Why was it closed?
MY protest" says DR.. Angulo, lis all
the more emphatic because nothing has
been published in recent editions OF
this paper. which might be construed
even remotely as tending to criticize the
Machado regime"
Then why the closing down? Censor.
ship is pressing in, and affairs in Cuba
are anything but healthy
Many Cubans hope that the resolution
introduced in the United States Senate
ny Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, will
be passed. They contend that such an
investigation as is called for by the
resolution will enable the people of the
United States to see Cuba as it really
is today.
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