Evening star., 1933-09-23
PRESIDENT STUDIES
COAL DISTRIBUTION
Considers Adding Fuel to
Program of Feeding and
Clothing Destitute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt is considering the
advisability of adding Federal coal dis
tribution to the Governments enlarged
program for feeding and clothing desti-
tute families.
He studied the possibility of supply
ing fuel to the needy during the Winter
months as the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration organized for purchas-
ing and distributing through relief
agencies portions Of the large farm sur
pluses Of beef, dairy and poultry prod
ucts: cotton and cotton seed.
The President has reached no decision
regarding coal purchases. Like agri-
culture, which the new relief program
is designed to help, coal is an industry
which has suffered from reduced con-
sumption. 49, - '---'
Federal officials, who were given 30
days by the President to start deliver
ing additional food and clothing to the
unemployed, today were perfecting the
necessary organization details and were
planning their work on a long-term
rather than temporary basis.
1t was the Agricultural Administ-a-
tion's goal to get the first of their food
stufis in the hands of Harry L. Hop
kins, the relief administrator, within the
week.
Pork Shipments to Start.
Pork will start the train of foodstuffs
toward the lines of destitute now csti-
mated to number 3,500000 families. Al
ready prepared from hogs purchased by
the farm agency in its surplus-reductlon
program, the first carloads soon will roll
into Montana.
Other foodstuffs and clothing made
from cotton will follow as fast as Hop
kins completes distribution plans. OIL
cials said the Federal outlay in the re-
lief program-without including coal
probably will greatly exceed the s75,-
000. 900 originally estimated as the cost.
George N. Peek, farm administrator,
described the program as "a real attack
on the dual problem of people in need
OF food and oversupplies on the farm" p"
Peek announced simultaneously anoth-
er development which he termed 1.-The
most significant event since the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration was
established"
Plan Master Code.
This was a pledge from spokesmen
lOI CIle COullIIy , AudJOI 4Ooo LlouSt11eo
to support a master code aimed to
achieve parity prices for farm products.
It was given by Colby M. Chester Of
New York. president of the General
Foods Corporation and chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Food In
dustries Advisory Board organized to
assist the A. A. A.
1.-The board pledges ITSELF" Chester
wrote Peek, ito use all reasonable efforts
to secure from industry an active CO.
operation in obtaining for the farmer
for his products a parity of purchasing
power equivalent to that of the period
August, 1909, to July. 1914, and will CO.
operate with the A. A. A. to that end.
price control to secure agricultural
parity Of purchasing power can be OBJ
tanned only by agreements when binding
upon both producers and professors or
by the control of production and equally
the control of transportation that the
movement to market may be in con-
sonance with the effective demand"
:. Peek said a master code will be
drafted and set for an early hearing.
He planned also to supplement such an
agreement with divisional codes under
which industries would agree to pay
not less than parity prices.