Evening star., 1933-04-29
SET Up MACHINERY
FOR FARM RELIEF
Wallace and Morgenthau
Await Final Action
on Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two men assigned key roles by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in administering his
agricultural policy acted today to carry
the omnibus farm relief bill into i'm
mediate effect as soon as final con-
gressional approval is given.
Secretary Wallace, a farm-bred Mid
western, spurred by the Senate's ap-
proval Of the bill last night and the
likelihood Of prompt House action, put
final touches on detailed plans to exer.
else the broad emergency powers lodged
prices and return farm purchasing
power to pre-war levels.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., city-bred
fastener, speeded up his program for
centralizing farm credit agencies In
order to have the new Farm Credit
Administration ready to handle the
rush Of business expected when $1,000
100000 becomes available for farm
mortgage refinancing and relief.
VIII Set Up Committees.
Wallace will address himself to the
farm over-production problem as his
first step In assuming the broadest
authority to deal with farm ills ever
delegated to one individual. A dozen
courses are open to him, all compI-
Gated, with the complexity of their ad-
ministration increased because farmers
are now nearing the peak Of Spring
planting
Within six weeks after the bill be-
comes law Wallace hopes to have In
operation the main provisions which
are to become effective this year. He
set up In States, counties and town.
ships to handle local control of pro-
duction curtailment plans; to have COM
modify groups consisting of producers
and professors organized, and to deter
mine Just how far he will 60 In exer-
cising authority to fix processing taxes
on commodities covered by the bill.
As approved by the Senate, the COM
modities are wheat. cotton, corn, hogs
rice, tobacco, sugar cane, sugar beets
and dairy products. 1t was learned
that Wallace intends to concentrate on
the first four as beginning.
Hopes Of working out q plan FOL
leasing lands or using the principles OF
the allotment plan Of acreage curtail-
ment in advance of planting have prac-
tically vanished. More than half OF
the Spring wheat crop has been sown
corn and cotton farmers are nearing
the peak Of planting.
Experienced Executive Sought
As result, Wallace is considering the
practicability Of arranging with farm
ers to plow up portions Of their fields
after planting. Plans for leasing mar
ginal lands to make certain that they
are not returned to production are also
under examination.
Three men. all drawn from academic
ranks, will be Wallace's chief council
lors. They are DR.. Mordecai j. Ezekiel,
his economic advisor; DR.. r. G. Tug
well, assistant secretary. and Prof. M.
L. Wilson Of Montana State College, an
author Of the allotment plan. An ex-
perienced executive Is sought to occupy
the post Of chief administrator with
George N. Peek Of Moline, H., being
mentioned prominently.
More than 1000 county agricultural
agents will become cogs In the admin
istrative machinery. They will serve as
secretaries and in other capacities for
voluntary county committees. Placing
local control as far as possible In the
hands of farmers to assure policing OF
production curtailment features on the
basis Of mutual self-interest Is one of
the secretary's aims
Methods Of directing the use of lands
now devoted to staple crops into new
channels Is occupying scientists detailed
to this study. Forestry, particularly de-
velopment Of farm wood-lots, Summer
fallow, planting Of legumes and other
crops which will not compete with
crops now being produced In surplus
quantities, will be encouraged.