The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-11-09
Editorial

THE administration at Washington in tight
spot last week when midwest governors set their
program before the president and asked its adop-
ton. To accept meant abandoning most of the pro-
gram already underway after months of prelminares
Refusal meant heavy loss of favor in agricultural
sections and added to the seriousness Of the crisis
which will not pass until help arrives in actual dollars
and cents.
Whether the president correct in his decision
to hold his present plans until they have either sue
ceeded failed time alone tell 1t is fact that
relief has been slow in coming Prices have increased
but not proportionately sufficiently Red tape has
interfered with farm loans. The wheat plan is only
nearing the point where payments are in the i'm
mediate future. 1t will be two months before the corn
and hog benefits which mean considerably to Red
wood county will begin to come in
On the side of the presidents decision is the fact
that it would have taken time to put the governors
plan in operation. Licensing of every producer and
middeman as asked would have taken months Every
producer would have been told exactly how much he
could raise, feature in itself not in accord with
American principles of freedom. Perhaps it would
have been effective than the present voluntary
arrangements but there is plenty of to believe
that resentment would have been widespread and
serious, perhaps justified.
Price fixing sounds simple but the results probably
would not have come up to expectations. big in
in prices would cut off much of the market en-
courage the of substitute foods such oeomargar
and result in serious oversupplies than now
exist Price xings first profit would go to the specu
lator.
Perhaps the two most feasible recommendations
of the governors were mild initiation and embargo
on foreign products competing with our farmers. They
were lost in the vain effort to gain the radical
program.
It is not a popular stand in many homes but
still believe the smoothest road to somewhere near
permanent prosperity, and perhaps the shortest is
the one we We understand that $4,000 in
wheat payments are expected in the county within
few weeks A small amount per farm but enough to
help Corn and hog payments, which will be con-
siderably larger, should more rapidly because
the organization work required for the wheat program
does not have be duplicated We willing to give
the administration full year to make good before we
turn "red."
DERHAPs there is some legal ground for the suits
game wardens for alleged mistreatment here Sun
day night of last week, but jury made OF sports
men would give them very little consideration.
The sportsman's attitude is something like this
The men were out here welcome guests during the
hunting season. They had their limit of birds and
were within the law. However, many other hunters
were not so sportsmanke in their shooting In order
to the game and punish the enthusiastic
hunters it was necessary to make general check-up
of hunters leaving the pheasant region In the inter-
est of future hunting trips they might have made here
the ST. Paul men should have been willing to overlook
little delay and inconvenience while the check-up was
being made.