Evening star., 1933-12-29
HUGE ACREAGE CUT
SEEN BY TUGWELL
Says One-seventh of Farm
Lands Should Go to Bal.
ance Production.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December 29.-An
agricultural system under which the
most efficient farmers would operate
the best lands, with marginal lands be-
ing returned to the public domain. was
pictured today by Rexford G. IugweN,
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture.
In speech before The American
Economic Association. American Sta
tistical Association and the Farm Eco
nomic Association Tugwell envisaged a
farm area operated at maximum eff
cheney without flooding markets and
destroying eXchangeability.'
Under present conditions possibly
5Oooo.0 900 acres. or one-seventh of the
entire cultivated acreage of the United
States, would need to be withdrawn
from production to balance present low
demands. ne stated. Because of the
declining birth rate and increased agri-
cultural efficiency, he added, the United
States will probably need even less land
unless exports increase and standards
Of living improve.
Present Measures Temporary.
The present crop and acreage reduc-
ton plans of the Farm Administration
are emergency measures only and could
not be part Of the permanent plan,
Tugwell said. because they cnly "ad-
lust supply to the moments market"
and do not conserve the land.
Before the problem of determining
how much land will be needed can be
answered, three questions must be Set
tied, the Assistant Secretary said.
The Government must determine
whether future development Of the
country will be toward nationalistic
or international economy; the future
growth of population and how nearly
its food needs will be met by increased
agricultural efficiency. and whether peo-
pie will continue to live at subsistence
standards or will advance in purchasing
power through efforts to devise new
economic organization.
Specifics Poorer Lands.
The three areas within which the
program of land classification and land
withdrawal might be carried forward
first and most intensively" were given
Dy 1uSWell dS the ApEdldCilldIl I1is4l-
land of the Eastern United States. plus
certain poorer portions Of the adjacent
Piedmont Plateau and coastal plain;
the great area of relatively poor land
along the Great Lakes from Michigan
to Minnesota, and the area along the
Western border of the Great Plains.
Defending the role of the college pro-
fessor in the present Federal admins
tration, Prof. Raymond Moley of CO.
lumbia predicted last night that po-
litical scientists will play an eVer-ln-
creasing part in government.
The erStwhile Assistant Secretary OF
State called on the educators critics
to cease this attack on professors as
such; meet argument with argument"
Purpose Is Advisory.
"Would they reduce them to an ad-
visory capacity?" he asked. THE entire
original purpose of the camp with which
1 was associated was to act in this
| advisory capacity.
But the attack-and it began in
the campaign of 1928-was turned away
from the respective statesmen and di-
rected at the advisers. The critics drove
the advisers into positions by the nature
of their attack"
Prof. Moley said it was his job to
obtain the highest qualified men for
specific jobs, and, citing as an example
Hugh johnson, N. R. A. administrator,
said he chose many beside college men.
The public had confidence in us, u
he said. The public still wants the
benefit of our advice"
The view that social discipline" or
merging of individual interests for
the good of the community, might be-
come the governing force for American
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