Evening star., 1933-12-12
Farm Recovery.

President Roosevelt in message to
the American Farm Bureau Federation
declared that the whole complexion Of
the agricultural outlook has been
changed" Recovery is coming to the
American farmer, with higher prices for
his products and cooperation in the
governments program for curtailment
of output, he predicted. At the same
time the President warned the farmers
that I'VE are not yet out of the woods"
He urged that the farmers continue to
give the fullest support to the Govern
ment in its endeavors to bring about
proper adjustment of supply and de-
mand. The maladjustment between
the two has been growth of years
and cannot be corrected Ger night.
With money from the Government
flowing into the hands of the farmers
in payment of the contracts for cur
failing crop production one way or an
other, and with prices for farm produce
increasing in many lines, the farmers
OF the country appear to be in better
frame of mind. The rise in farm in
come, the President said, however,
should not tempt the farmers away
from full realization Of the fact that
the old law of supply and demand will
continue to operate. For that reason
there should be the closest cooperation
with the efforts of the Government and
for tivaS kaen
supply within reasonable bounds.
The president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Edward A. ONeal,
pledged the full support of the bureau
and its thirty-five State branches to
the administrators program of farm
recovery. He termed the farm recovery
act, setting up the A. A. A, the magma
charta of agriculture.
If the farmers of America will CO.
operate, will unite in one program
which has definite purpose Of max
ing possible some real relation between
supply and demand, it is obvious that
good should flow to the agriculturists
In the past the farmers have been
divided, and even when they sought to
cooperate the grain trade and other
middlemen sought to divide them and
SO frustrate the real purposes Of the
measures adopted for farm relief What
the farmer needs Is fairer share of
the dollar which the consumer pays
for foodstuffs. He has been always in
the position of accepting whatever price
was offered him for his produce; he
has never been in position Of fixing
the price for which he will sell. But
through cooperation, if he sticks to
it, he may approach in some measure
that happy position. Even so, the law
Of supply and demand will continue
to govern, for there must be a demand
and money in the hands OF the pur-
chasers of farm products and in the
hands of the ultimate consumers or
the prices can not be paid.
The administration has just moved
to create a new Government agency,
headed by George N. Peek, lately A. A.
A. administrator, whose duty it will be
to seek new outlets for the products Of
American farms abroad through recip-
rocal agreements with foreign govern
ments. 1t is explained by the admin
istration that the first part of its farm
program is to bring about some limita-
ton of burdensome surplus crops. The
second step is to care for surplus pro-
ouction in this country by finding new
markets-or recapturing old markets
abroad. The barriers which have been
raised by governments all over the
world against products Of the farm ex-
ported from other nations has been re-
sponsible for great deal of the grief
of the American farmers. The World
War was followed by a demand on the
part of the governments of the nations
that each country be self sustaining in
the matter of food production.
Farm recovery in this country is i'm
perative. 1t must come, along with in
duStrial recovery, if real measure of
prosperity is to be returned to the
United States. Industrialist and agri-
lturists must move along side by
side in this matter of recovery. The
country cannot get along with one-half
of its population, that engaged in in
dustry, prosperous and the other half,
that engaged in agriculture in distress