The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-22
NEA Service Writer

(Copyright 1888 NEA Service. Incl Washington. Agriculture, for better or worse, is out of the hands of the politicians.
 The farmers are the intended beneficiaries of the most far-reach- l ing program of economic rehabili-
 tation that any government-per- haps excepting Soviet Russ1a-has ever devised.
 The man who will supervise this gigantic attempt to put agriculture on it's feet is President Roosevelts secretary of agriculture, Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa.
 ] Wallace never held office before He is an economist, an agriculture | scientist. a dirt farmer and a busi' ness man who has been in constant contact with farmers and their or I ganizations through his editorshl1 | of one of the most distinguished and successful weeklies of the mid dle west. He holds the respect o1 farmers. economists, scientists
 and politicians.
 Right behind him, helping tt
 carry the enormous burden ol power which it is hoped can bt used to save 1O,O0O,OO0 farmers and their families from ruin, art Prof. Rexford Tugwell and Dl Mordecai Ezekiel, economists who have specialized in agriculture Tugwell, who was an economic ad- wiser to Roosevelt in the campaign is assistant secretary. Ezekiel. who has been assistant chief economist with the farm board, is economic adviser td Wallace.
 They are the Big Three" be- hind the new farm program. They framed it with the advice of Presi- dent Roosevelt. of farm organiza- ton leaders and others and are now trying to figure out how best to make it work.
 He Thinks Farms
 Wallace thinks in terms of farm prices, overproduction, taxes, acre. age, planting, charts, yield, mort gages and the various other aspects of the farm problem.
 To a stranger he seems sat- with it. Handsome. medium sized, younger than his A years wearing a rather unruly shock o1 hair hardly beginning to gray and with determined. thoughtful eyes among other semi-rugged features, he seems friendly bu' slightly hesitant and even diIn- dent at times. But that appears due to his caution in making statements. One can't imagine the man ever going off half cooked. reporting: last night and went out to Henrys house and had a hell Of a time!
 Henry himself would never use such language. In Wallace Farmer-which his grandfather Henry, and his father, Henry Q. edited before him and which ms 17-year-old son, Henry 5" prop. ably will edit some time in the future--you find regularly twe pages entitled sabbath Scnoo Lesson" by Henry A. Wallace himself. The journals slogan |
 Good Farming, Clear Thinking Right Living"
 His Writings
 walIace,s Farmer and Wallace reflect each other. Since his father became secretary of agriculture il l1921 he has been an active editor nroducing a magazine of surpris ingly high quality in which he sim nlifies economic and farm prob i1ms. You find him editorializint on sEarly or Late Corn for Silage.'
 "State Taxes for Local Schools. .Check Up on Your Seed Corn,
 "aow Clean Ground Saves Sprinf Pigs" How British Lard Pricei Have Risen Since England Went of Gold" and a hundred other sub jects. He has been writing sep arate column for farm boys ant girls in which he explains suci matters as the relation of the golt supply to farm prices.
 Neither a spellbinder nor
 backslapper. he has growl through his writings and hi
 ceaseless nonpartisan battle fo the farmers interests into one O
 the biggest figures in the grail
 region.
 studious and reserved. he is re garded as a voice of authority b, hundreds of thousands of farmers Their confidence was demonstrate when they and their friends en dorsed him so enthusiastically fo his present post that there wa hardly any competition for the jot An independent republican. he ad vised the farmers during the cam paign that they had "a chanc
 with Roosevelt but none wit Hoover"
 An Infiationlst
 Wall street sat up and blinke'
 when it realized the new secretar
 was an advocate of imitation. bu Wallace has remarked that the have another fellow here who take
 care of the money and that h '"won't be putting in on the job