The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-22
IN
ATTACK UPON
FOODPROBLEM
Eders Buying Of Surplus
Lupply For Distribution
To Unemployed
RECESSED COTTON
| PLANNED FOR NEEDY
federal Relief, Agricul-
|tural Adjustment Funds
To Be Used

III DC OSeu
WASHINGTON, Sept. % CUP
president Roosevelt moved swift
TO expedite his $75.O0O,000 pro-
+ kam for surplus food purchase;
b. .hs nations unemployed.
He conferred on financing
e,,ots with Secretary of Agri-
+ n'T,s Wallace and Budget Di-
ttu. Douglas. Wallace indicac.
IA, actual operation of the
& rogam will be underway in 80
|ayS
Secretary Wallace said after
d discussion that he could not
E;.mate at this time the amounts
be expended for food nor for
Surplus cotton.
WASHINGTON, Sept. % CUP)
r .S75,000,000 attack on two
taiyr problemS-food SurpluSeS
kni hunger-waS launched last
|gat by President Roosevelt.
Determined to spread greater
hgEgt 20 all sections of the ma
EQn. lIr. Roosevelt directed that
surplus food, supplies. beef,
|llry products and poultry, be
-ychaSed ut market prices for
|>.ri5ution to the unemployed.
He also ordered that surplus
i p,tUn be bought up, proceSsed
bio clothing and given to the
teely.
4 This double-barrelled offensive
Fas announced at the White
+ fgBe as "a program to help
meet one of the fragrant NAL
tggStments OF American econ
~. well-being.
The presidents action, fur
Iermore. was described as lone
the most direct blows at the
lyonOmic paradox which has
boxed farms with an abundance
!: farm products while many of
BE- unemployed have gone hun
r.
Money for this purpose will be-
Dawn from appropriations of the
lsg.cultural adjustment and the
.elcral relief administrations.
1 ar White House explained that
e commodities given the unem-
Hoyed will be in addition TO
mounts they now are receiving,
faereyer they now aye inSuffi-
.rl for reasonable standards of
stenance. They will add To
p not replace items Of relief
.eady provided.
I'm removing the SURPRISES
Bm the market" it was said,
Isrefully applied safeguards
&N forestall any disturbance Of
d regular channels Of produc-
~ processing and distribu-
\ The president directed the de-
,mcnts concerned to expedite
4 every possible way their COM
aed attack on the food sur
ls and hunger problems.
While this joint effort is be-
Ne made to increase domestic
assumption Of surplus farm
Products" the White House adj
"a. the agricultural adjust
Pc. administration will inten-
y it, program of preventing
clmuIatiOn Of farm surpluses
ggea, that they cannot he con-
Iued. out result only in ruin
prices TO farmers. destroy
p purchasing power and aggra-
Patlu2 rural and urban distress -
4 L was further explained that
potion eed, a huge supply which
vw is on hand, would be IN
GUIDED IN the products to be dis
osed Of. Various by-prOductS
food value and derived from
r. seed.
President Roosevelt feels that
using the funds of the two
q lmlnGtratjOaS and the nation
d. network Of state and local
@et agencies for distribution,
real effort to bridge the gap
e.ween supplies and cOnSump-
On will be made. "
There are approximately 81
9y'OOO families now on rehet
oUS throughout the country,
&c white house said. "It is known
LAT even with recent improve
lentS in relief administration
eSuIt,Dg in higher standards Of
gNtt, the amounts of food and
D.tIn'ng given the destitute are
r.. inadequate.
4 Vn he other hand, in large
p because these millions of
'."N1al consumers are not able
Purchase a normal amount Of
oN.N"dues, huge SURPRISES of
io'c food products are Cutting
Ie markets and making their
.o45,Hclon Improbable to farm
II was explained that pur-
uaSeS Of these additional food
e TTppheS would supplement the
-,Oeatlon Of 100000 pounds of
u'ed Dork reeentfy--processed
'pN millions Of bOos hnuUht nv