Evening star., 1932-09-15
ROOSEVELT LEAVES
TOPEKA FOR DENVER
Six-Point Farm Program,
Begun Before Nomination,
Was Reviewed by Experts.
By the Associated Press.

6y tne Associated freSS.
Topeka. Kans., September IS
Franklin D. Roosevelt left Topeka at
1919 am, central standard time, today
for Denver where he will make the sec
ond principal stop of the trip that vii!
take his campaign for the presidency
to the Pacific Coast.
According to an adviser to Gov.
Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential
nominees speech on the farm problem,
delivered yesterday at Topeka. has been
several months In the making and was
reviewed by many farm leaders, eco
nomists and financiers.
The Associated Press was informed
that Mr.. Roosevelt began assembling
Information on the farm situation as
early as last April so that it would be
Immediately available in event the New
York Governor received the nomination
at Chicago.
Had Studied All Plans.
Mr. Roosevelt, himself farmer, with
farms in New York and Georgia, said
yesterday that he had studied the vari-
Gus relief plans proposed in the past
few years such as the McNary- -Haugen
bill. the export debenture proposal, the
domestic allotment plan and others.
Within the past few months the
leaders of the Farm Bureau. the Farm
ers' Union, the Grange and other agri-
cultural organizations of producers, and
heads of the outstanding cooperative
marketing agencies, have conferred with
Mr. Roosevelt in Albany.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., conservation
! commissioner in Mr.. RooSevelt's State
d, cabinet, on business trip to the Middle
.West last May, interviewed many of the
publishers of farm periodicals. Prof.
Raymond Moley of Columbia Univer-
Nity. assembled the views of economists
and Joseph P. Kennedy, a New York
and Boston banker, contacted fnanciers
who are interested in the farm question
Clyde NJ Reed, former Republican
Governor of Kansas; former United
States Senator James A. Reed OF Mis-
souri, and Bernard M. Baruch. New
York inancier, also conferred with
Roosevelt on farm relief. Fred Free
stone. master OF the New York Grange,
also is one of Mr.. Roosevelts advisers.
First Draft Week Ago.
From al lthese sources Mr.. Roosevelt
obtained data With that information
and his knowledge of farming he made
the first draft of the Topeka speech
week ago After that it was revised sew
eral times and as late as yesterday, an
hour before its delivery, a change was
made.
Gov. Harry H. woodring after the ad-
dress, Mr.. Roosevelt was asked how the
BiX-point plan, outlined in his talk, CO.
incided with the equalization fee, ex-
port debenture and domestic allotment
proposals. He advised the questioner
10 make his own Interpretation.
Mr. Roosevelt intends to deal further
with the farm problem and the tariff in
the last Of his four major speeches on
this Western swing. which will be de-
1ivered at Sioux City,, Iowa, Septem-
Der 20.
Roosevelt Warmly Greeted.
A warm and lively Middle Western
greeting was given Gov. Roosevelt and
Speaker Garner as they appeared on
the sun-swept south steps of the Cap
,itol in Topeka yesterday. There were
shouts and applause and whistles. In
the crowd was one elderly man who
wore, with a conventionally tailored
gray business suit of expensive material,
a huge cowboy hat. AS Roosevelt ap-
peared he threw the hat high into. the
air. 1t was returned to him later,
trampled and dusty.
There was laughter when Gov. Roose-
Welt said with smile:
Il have run farm In Georgia for
eight years-and run it without profit"
There were cheers when he said:
I'VE must adopt the definite policy
of giving those who have lost the title
to their farms, now held by institutions
ieeeking credit from governmental agen-
'cies, the preferential opportunity OF get
ting their property back"
After proposing as immediate and
permanent measures for farm relief, re-
organization of the Department of Agri-
culture, looking toward the administra-
tive machinery needed to build. pro-
gram Of national planning" formula
ton of a definite policy looking to plan
med use Of land, national leadership in