Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-12
CAPPER ASKS j s.
TO BUY MORE GRAIN
Kansas Senator Thinks Farm
Board Should Take 1907
100000 Bushels Off Market.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
Closely following ttN action of two
Kansas publishers yesteAIay in demand
ing the resignation of Chairman Legge
of the Farm Board, Senator Capper,
Republican, Kansas, Joined Gov. Reed
of his State in advocating that the
board purchase and remove from the
market an additional tonnage Of wheat.
The Senator, speaking to representa-
tives of the press, proposed an amount
four times as large as that suggested
by Gov. Reed-recommendin that the
board buy 00.O00, 900 bushels. In his
campaign against the boards acreage
reduction plan the Governor has recon-
mended the purchase OF 25,Oo0,O00
bushels.
Declaring the Government could not
lose any money on the purchase OF
wheat at current prices, the Senator
said he would take the matter up with
Chairman Legge as soon as he returns
from his tour of the Winter hard wheat
belt in behalf of acreage reduction.
Believes Move Wise.
IF the sterilization program Of the
new farm relief act ever Is going to
the Government could well afford to
buy wheat at the present prices" Cap
per said. II believe it would help to
improve prices"
Chairman Legge's answer to Gov.
Reeds criticism of the boards wheat
policy has been that wheat already is
getting the lions share of the $500, 000,-
600 revolving fund. The chairman
pointed out that the board Is spending
81 600, 900 a month in carrying charges
on approximately 100000 bushels of
wheat the Grain Sterilization Corpora
ton took out of the 1929 crop.
It was in the midst Of the wheat
acreage reduction controversy that Max
M. and Louis Levand, joint publishers
of the Wichita Daily Beacon, called
upon Mr. Legge to resign and apologize
to Kansas for statement they said
Legge made at Dodge City, Kans., that
the biggest hog will always lie in the
trough. Kansas is now in the trough"
White House Silent.
The White House made no statement
in connection with the publishers re-
quest.
Senator Capper and Senator Allen
Of Kansas said they had received no
| demand for Mr.. Legge's resignation.
The demand for Mr.. Legge's resigna-
| ton is the most precipitate action the
| foes of his acreage reduction campaign
| have taken thus far. The conflict with
| Gov. Reed has been fought on economic
| lines-the Governor maintaining Kansas
| should be allowed to produce to the
| limit because she could produce cheap
! ly and turn out a superior product.
! The chairman's answer has been that
| Kansas should be the first to reduce
! because it is the largest wheat State
| and adds the greatest amount to the
| surplus.
| 1t was recalled at the Farm Board
that Chairman Legge's reference to the
hog in the trough" is pet phrase Of
| his and one he had used before in
urging large cotton producing States
| to reduce their acreage.
Used Familiar Term.
HE uses it as a simple farm term
one that speaks his own language
| to the farmer who has wrestled with
| the proclivities of the biggest pig in the
PEN" those familiar with him said.
Referring to the telegram to Legge,
asking him to resign on the strength
of a report that he had said he was
through" board headquarters recalled
| that in starting his tour with world
| wheat outlook figures to show the
| dilemma of the American export mar
| ket, he had said the board has done
its duty when it presented the facts
and that 1t was up to the individual
! farmer to determine whether he would
be guided by them or continue to add
to the "back-breaking surplus"