Evening star., 1933-12-12
Secretary Admits PossibiI.
ity of Changes, However,
in Talk to Farmers.
CONSIDERS SUBSTITUTE
FOR PROCESSING LEVY
Opposes Huge Foreign Credits Un.
til We Are Ready to Accept
Goods From Abroad.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCIATED FreSs.
CHICAGO December 12-Strict ad-
herence to the agricultural adjustment
act, with possibly some notifications,
until longtime farm program can
be agreed upon was pleaded for today
by Secretary Wallace in q speech be-
fore the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton convention.
Following George N. Peek, farm ad-
ministrator, who is taking another job
outside the department because Of dis
agreement over policy with some of
Wallace's aides, the Secretary, like
Peek, asked that support be given the
present program.
Conceding that some changes in the
act might be needed, among them a
substitution for the processing tax as
a means Of raising money for benefits,
Wallace held that the whole farm
problem is one Of planning.
Debate Is Urged.
Debate that will rage with great
intensity this Winter" was> urged by
the Secretary in the formulation of a
new and permanent program But he
pleaded that the debate not be re
dueed to petty, personal interests or
small local issues"
One thing that must be decided, he
said, is whether the permanent program
shall be simply national or interna-
tional. Until that decision is made,
Wallace continued, the assumption must
be that the plan is national because
there is obviously very little foreign
purchasing power for our wheat and
lard at the present time, nor is any
material change conceivable within a
year or two"
He warned against huge loans to for
| elgn countries to buy American prod
ucts until the United States is ready
for the acceptance of large amounts Ct
goods from abroad"
After suggesting support of the cul
rent hog-corn plan, Wallace said thai
the time is coming when we shall have
TO reconsider many of the devices en-
ployed In the adjustment act"
Among changes recommended BY va
rious groups, Wallace said. are substitu-
ton Of something for the processing
tax and the licensing Of every plowed
neld and the Inauguration of market
Ing farm products on quota system"
Skeptical of Licensing.
| said:
While have been skeptical of this.
Undoubtedly we ought to consider it
from every angle in our farm meetings,
II IS up TO the farmers and the farm
| oIganlzatlons to give us the benefit of
tneT judgment on proposals like these. 4"
One change in the act likely to be
made by the coming session of Con-
greSs, Wallace asserted, is the insertion
OF pee1 cattle and sugar as basic COM
modities.
| One or two others may also be added,
put the case for beef cattle and sugar
seems to be beyond dispute" he said.
But on the broader perspective. he
urged his listeners Ito defend the asri-
cultural adjustment act with every
power at your command until you are
sure you can get something better"
He mentioned in predicting efforts to
set one section of the country against
tne otner that If there had been no
cotton plow-up campaign, the cotton
seed oil in the cotton plowed under
would have equaled all the lard of the
hogs OF Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska !"
| Liberals who talk about Federal con-
trol OF private business, and the meth
ods OF some farm strike leaders drew
criticism from Peek, who also delivered
an address before the convention. After
saying he believed the export field
would reward "a very careful looking
into. Peek asserted:
Ihere Is grave concern over the ex-
pressions OF few ultra liberals about
the Government taking over private
business. If you want INV opinionw
personality. not officially, mind you
l would say that this apprehension is
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