The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-29
WALLACE PREPARES
TO USE AUTHORITY
FOR AIDING FARMER
aorgenthau Also Is Ready to
Start Enhancing Organ.
ization at Once
WIDE POWERS ARE GRANTED
Agricultural Secretary Will
Seek Solution to Over
Production Problem

Washington, April 2s.-tR-Two
men assigned key roles by President
Roosevelt In administering his agri-
cultural policy acted Saturday to
carry the omnibus farm relief bill
into immediate effect Is soon a
final congressional approval Is given.
Secretary Wallace, farm-bred
mid.westeruer. spurred by the sen
ates approval Of the bill Friday night
and the likelihood Of prompt house
action. put final touches on detailed
plans to exercise the broad emer-
gency powers lodged with him to cur
tail production, boost prices and re-
turn farm purchasing power to pre-
war levels.
Henry Morsenthau, 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 "a
600 1000, 900 becomes available for
farm mortgage refinancing and re-
lief.
Wallace will address himself to the
farm over-production problem q his
first step In assuming the broadest
authority to deal with farm ills ever
delegated to one individual.
Within six weeks after the bill
becomes law. Wallace hopes to have
In operation the main provisions
which are to become effective this
year. He intends to have voluntary
committees set up In states, colln-
ties and townships to handle local
control Of production curtailment
plans: to have commodity groups
consisting Of producers and process
0ors organised. and to determine just
how far he viii 60 in exercising au-
sthority to fix processing taxes on
aeommodities covered by the bill.
4 10 Work On -Four Items .
Y As approved by the, senate the
commodities are wheat, cotton. corn,
hogs. rice. tobacco, sugar cane. sugar
t1eets and dairy products. It was
9earned that he intends to concen-
Sfrate on the first four Is . begin
ming.
Wallace is considering the prac-
ticability OF arranging with farmers
to pillow up portions Of their fields
already planted. Plans for leasing
marginal lands to make certain that
they are not returned to production
also are under examination.
Three men, all drawn from AGA
demic ranks, will be Wallace's chief
counsellors. They are Dr. Mordecat
J. Ezekiel, his economic advisor: DR..
r. q. Tugwell, assistant secretary,
and Professor M. L. Wilson Of Mon.
tana State college, an author Of the
allotment plan. To occupy the post
Of chief administrator. George N.
Peek Of Moline, ILL.,. Is being mem
toned prominently.
More than 1000 county agriculture
ri agents will become cogs In the Id
administrative machinery. They will
serve Is secretaries and In other ca
pacities for voluntary county COM
mittees. Placing local control g far
a. possible In the hands Of farmers
to assure policing Of production cur
S0AAsSC4At ASUtu2So VA tAS6 UAoA0 VI u1Us
tual self-interest Is one Of the secre-
tary's aims.
Methods Of directing the use Of
lands now devoted to staple crops
Into new channels u occupying scien-
lists detailed to this study. Nores-
try, particularly development Of farm
wood-lots, summer fallow. planting
LOT legumes and other crops which
win not compete with crops now be-
ling produced In surplus quantities,
will Be encouraged.
A drop Of 81 800. 000, 900 In farm In
come In 1882 - compared with 1881
md the lowest total Of agricultural
Eexports In March for the last 10
Bears were announced Saturday BY
The agriculture department.
The farmers income fell from a.
Dll 100000 In 1891 to @5.143,O00. 900 In
1882 - compared with gross income
Dn 1870 Of I'll ,elS, O00, 900.
The department reported this Is
the lowest gross income In any year
Tor which estimates have been made"
pver the lsoo-lo32 period.