Evening star., 1931-06-21
HYDE HITS FOES
OF FARM BOARD
IN RADIO ADDRESS
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'the greatest drive against distress
ever undertaken by any government
on earth" and a description of the
work of the Agriculture Department.
Explaining that the Farm Board Is
an independent agency, Secretary Hyde
said that because of its close relation
to agriculture any discussion OF his
Emergency Operations"
While the loans and stabilization
activities of the board have attracted
most public attention, he said, they are
only emergency operations" and con-
stitute but a small part of the activi-
ties Of the board, whose major objective,
he added, "is to help the farmers or
ganize their cwn institutions just as
the steel and ol industry have done"
I'VE hear the cry Government in
business, the Secretary added. THE
to put the farmer in busineSS-in the
not going in business. Its business is
to put the farmer in buisness-in the
business of planning the volume of his
crop, in the business of following his
crop, through organization, into the
markets cf the world; in the business
of having a sales department for his
production, just as any other factory
has. Why not? 1t is his crop. He
produced it. Nobody is clothed with
divine right, or vested with authority
to sell it for him. If there is anything
new or revolutionary about this, the
novelty is due solely to the fact that
it is farmers who are organizing. Busi-
ness, finance, labor did 1t many years
ago.
Gain to American Farmers.
Another stereotyped criticism is that
the board has lost $500,000,000. 1t
cannot definitely he said that the
Farm Board has lost anything The
total amount that the board has at
risk is around $400,000,000. For that
money it has thousands of bales of
cotton, millions of bushels Of wheat,
and the pledge of credit of many
organizations CT earnest men who are
striving through organization to benefit
2715 millions of our fellow Americans.
No one can foretell what the final ac-
counting will be. If it were necessary
to liquidate on the present market,
there would be a large loss on the
face Of the paper transactions, but,
when benefits already achieved for
agriculture are balanced against any
probable loss of funds, the balance on
today's market would be a gain for
American farmers"
Pointing to the growth of the Coop
erative movement, Mr.. Hyde said that
the board had accomplished much in
the two years Of its existence.
Under distress conditions 80 acute as
to cause political revolutions in many
of the nations" Secretary Hyde said IN
discussing relief measures, the United
States has "weathered the stress with
out even a strike"
Affords Work for 100000.
The Government has been instru-
mental in affording work for something
over $1,000 men In the drought areas
Mr.. Hyde said, and through loans has
aided 3s5,000 farm families put Y
their crops, plant q garden and get
started again"
The vast program Of relief work was
organized and directed" by President
Hoover, he declared, referring to the
fact that it was the desire of the Presi-
dent that the loans be made speedily
and sympathetically with a view to re-
lieving distress and re-establishing the
drought sufferers in their businesses
This has been DONE" he declared.
Secretary Hyde reviewed the work Of
his department, which he described as
"a great educational research and service
institution, not alone for farmers, but
for every citizen Of the Nation"
e5O,OOO,0OO for Road Aid.
Through the Bureau of Roads and
the Extension Service of Agriculture,
Mr.. Hyde pointed out, the Department
of Agriculture has been recently en-
gagged in emergency operations On be.