Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-12
APPLAUSE GREETS
EULOGY OF HOOVER
Hyde Tells Young Repub-
Iicans TO Curb yes, But
Comment on Party.
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Is doing. He showed them the progress
being made by the great farm Coop
erativeS, whose business has been IN
creased enormously under the fostering
care of the board Sterilization, ne
said, undertaken by the Farm Board
and of which there has been ire
mendous amount of discussion, lis only
the sideshow, not the circus"
Sterilization is not the fundamental
program of the Farm Board con-
tinued Secretary Hyde. The funda-
mental program of the Farm Board IS
to organize agriculture AMI to help II
up the hill. In normal times that 1oo
would be hard enough. But given a
world depression, the Farm Board has
had nothing but bad breaks Condi-
tons that would try the patience OF
saint or stimulate the deviliShness OF
sinner have prevailed. Sterilization Is
an emergency matter and has only been
tried twice. First in 1929 after tn stock
market crash The Farm Board ielt
that the farmers had nothing to do
with blowing up the stock market bubble
and should not suffer on account OF ITS
bursting. 1t tried to help the farmers
maintain prices.
Denies Board Is in Business.
''The second time sterilization was
BIleQ was IdSJ dlI, WHICH, wv HeNAANS
failed in Arkansas in one day. We
knew that so or 60 million bushels OF
wheat was in the West and that it
might be dumped on the market and
bring the price of wheat down to so
cents a bushel, with co-operatives
ruined and banks carried down. Stabi-
1izaticn was attempted to stem the tide.
It did stem the tide. Heaven knows
what ruin might have followed, not
Sd 60, lN,,f fnY. hriCi
If sterilization had not been at
tempted
You hear lot of talk that the Farm
Board should not go into business. The
Farm Board is not in business and not
going into business. The Farm Board
is trying to put the farmer into bust
ness, and why not? The object of the
Farm Board is to SO organize the farmer
so that he can go into the market with
his own products and can plan his own
production, just as the United States
Steel Corporation does. Its purpose Is
to organize the farmers so they can
speak for themselves, just as the Stand
ard Oil speaks for the oil business, and
United States Steel speaks for the steel
business. The crops belong to the
farmers There is no divine right for
anyone else to sell the crops for him.
If there is anything radical in this pro-
gram, it is because the farmers are doing
it. Business and labor long ago
organized in their own interest"
Secretary Hyde said that there were
complaints that the Farm Board had
lost S500,00 900. AS a matter OF fact,
he said, only $500, 000,000 Is at issue.
and no one can tell whether in the end
anything will be lost. He admitted that
if farm loans had to be lquidated to-
day there would be large paper losses,
but he added that the operation of the
lnl No =
many times those losses.
Value Fixing DiscIaimed.
p The secretary said that the Farm
Board had been accused of fixing val
7ies. He said that when anybody &C
cused the Farm Board of it he felt him.
self that the Farm Board was accused
of stealing chickens. The enemies Of
the board, he said, like to refer to the
fixing of the values OF rubber. and to
call attention to the fact that 1t mad
failed He denied that the Farm Board
was attempting any such thing as value
fixing. which did not admit there was
any relation between supply and de-
mand. The Farm Board. he said. freely
admitted the relations between supply
and demand and had sought constantly
to have the farmers give attention to
their production in relation to the de-
mand.
IF the farmer insists on burying HIM
self in an overproduction of his crops"
said Secretary Hyde, then no power on
earth can save him. But if we can get
him to limit his production. according
to the demand, then We have accom-
plished something"
Secretary Hyde declared it was neces-
sary for the Federal Government to
help the farmers organize since they
were so widely scattered throughout the
extent of the whole country.
Il understand that the election has
already been settled here said Secre-
, tary Hyde, referring to the predictions
made by speakers yesterday at the con-
ference that President Hoover would be
renominated and reelected. Il am thor
oughly in sympathy with that arrange
ment. Personally, I had it settled a
long time ago. y
DIR. Robinson Speaks.
, DIR. John ]. Robinson of the UNIVERSE
ty of Indiana, discussed for the con-
ference what has been done in the way
of organizing the young Republicans in
the Hoosier State. He declared that the
movement among the young Repub-
.licanS was not rebelliouS movement,
but thinking movement. He insisted
that any candidate who has the hearty
! support of young Republicans can win.
For any party to neglect the young
voters is tantamount to seeking the
death of that party, he said: He re-
ferred to the death of the Wing party,
declaring that it had neglected the
young people of that time.
He said that young people coming
into the Republican party are bound to
give it added life and success. He
urged the college men and women to
get their organizations started this
Summer in preparation for the cam
paign next Fall
Walter Newton. secretary to the
President, addressed the conference
briefly urging the young Republicans to
take an active part in politics.
j. More Indictments to Come.
= The Young Republicans themselves
had lot to say at the meeting yester-
day afternoon. The nearest approach
{ +. to mention of prohibition came from
Paul E. Lockwood of the Young Repub-
1ican Club of Brooklyn, who in opening
his talk to the conference mentioned
the fact that Brooklyn was the first
city in the United States to have a
brewery and also the first city to have
Young Republican Club.
I'VE are not very strong" said Lock-
wood, but we make a terrible lot OF
noise. We watch the deals in which
the city buys real estate and then de-
termine who gets the dough and then
we send embarrassing kilograms to Gov.
Roosevelt. We have had seven Demo-
Gratis indicted, and can promise you
there are more to come"
The thorn in the side of such an or
ganiZation as the Democratic organi-
cation of New York City, he said, is
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