Evening star., 1933-01-26
FARM BOARD URGED
FOR AID CONTROL
Live Stock Men Want Power
Shifted From Secretary
of Agriculture.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
New waves Of controversy swirled
around the domestic allotment farm
relief bill today before the Senate Agri-
culture Committee.
Major alterations urged by repre-
sentatives Of milk producers, creameries
and stockmen included a new proposal
that administration of the act be
placed in the hands of the Farm Board
instead Of the Secretary of Agriculture.
1t was advanced by Charles A. Ewing.
president Of the National Live Stock
Marketing Association, Chicago. who
also advocated inclusion Of cattle and
sheep in the bill along with hogs. The
measure provides for bounty to the
producer TO be raised by taxing the
packer or other professor.
w. r. Jensen, secretary and manager
OF the American Association Of Cream
cry Butter Manufacturers, Chicago,
sought elimination Of dairy products,
included in the bill along with wheas
cotton, tobacco, hogs, rice and peanuts.
Jensen said his organization was
sympathetic toward measures to help
the dairy farmer. but asserted I'VE 60
not think it would work"
Points to Substitutes.
I'VE think the effect would be lust
the opposite" he said. 1T would re-
suit In much disturbance and disaster
to the cream producers"
II the bill became a law, Jensen said.
the consuming public would not pur-
chase creamery butter at the increased
price. Even at present prices, he said.
many have turned to butter substitutes
and the trade does not know how to
tpor 70 butt
Earlier at today's hearing a spokes-
man for 350,0O0 milk producers told the
committee that to help them, the bill
must be amended to tax oleomargarine
Ito maintain sales parity with butter
Charles W. Holman, secretary OF the
National Cooperative Milk Producers
Association, favored the bill with this
and other amendments. He said hs
thought its application to dairy products
would be practicable.
Urges Other Provisions.
Besides the oleomargarine amend
ment, Holman advocated two other pro-
visions
One would provide that the Secre-
tary of Agriculture could reduce the
adjustment charge" to be paid the
farmer If there should result surplus
OF dairy products due to undercon-
sumption. The other would seek to pre-
vent new interests from going into the
dairy business on an intensive scale
after the first year of the act, in order
to secure its benefits.
Senator Capper Republican, of Kansas
asked Holman's views on the produc-
tion-control features of the bill. 1t pro-
vides that dairymen agree not to in
crease their production and that other
producers cut production 20 per cent,
to receive the benefits of the act
Il do not think the bill can work with
any profit without production CONTROL"
said Holman. adding:
Il do not think that the dairy people
could bear this legislation without con-
troll Of their crops that would prevent
abandoned acreages from going into
uses that would produce more milk"
One Still to Be Heard.
One of the three big farm organiza-
tions still remains to be heard from, as
no representative Of the National
Grange attended yesterdays opening
The American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, through its president, Edward A.
O'Neal expressed itself as strongly IA
voring the bill. The Farmers Union, on
the other hand, was described by its
president, John A. Simpson, as regard
ing the measure as only "a pittance Of
remedy"
It should be changed. Simpson con-
tended, to guarantee the farmer cost Of
production.
In the welter of farm relief discus
sion there appeared late yesterday .
new gigantic proposal. Senator Robin
son of Arkansas, Democratic leader, in
troduced a bill calling for upward Of
81 900. 100000 in Federal credit to help
the farmer meet his money problems
This bill, which went to the Banking
Committee, rounds out the farm organi-
cations program of which the allot-
ment plan is part. General sympathy
with any program on which farm lead
ers could agree has been expressed by
President-elect Roosevelt, and hopes are
running high for its enactment at the
special session to be called this Spring.
One main feature of the new bill is
provision for billion-dol emergency
agricultural refiIRnce corporation to
lend money to farmers Other provisions
would place the Treasury Departments
resources back of the Federal land
banks to enable them to take over sound
farm mortgages wherever held, grant
extensions and lower interest rates.