Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-03-01
THE NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
By CONG. JOHN PAUL KVALE

Ideas of early adjournment of this
session are rapidly going glimmering
in the minds of leaders who up TO
now have been hopefully predicting
May first as the latest possible date
OF closing. The writer has consist
emily held that more likely date
might be some time in early June
or even later, i'm view of the diff
Guilty of controlling the Senate in the
manner that the House has consist
emily been gagged on every important
measure, and because of several i'm
pOrtant issues which now appear i'm
possible of sidetracking from consid-
GRAFTON.
Wishing to continue to keep these
letters on factual and informative
basis, the writer resists strong
temptation to give a complete and
proper reply to the misinfOrmation
and misconception embodied in the
farmers valentine" article which has
been widely published in Minnesota
papers under the signed signature of
John B. Andrews, who is secretary to
Congressman Hoidale and generally
writes under the name SAINT HILL"
The subject has been gone over in
some detail in former letters of the
writer, and the matter of the cur
rent tax measure and the gag" rule
which forced its passage without
amendment will be dropped until the
bill comes back to the House when
the conference report is considered
Among the bills which will retard
adjournment plans is very evidently
the bonus bill, in the past generally
called the Patman bill, which has won
the necessary number of signatures
to win consideration for it despite eff
forts Of House leaders to keep it bur-
time is no secret, and it remains to
be seen whether or not it can COM
mand enough support to send it over
to the Senate and to gain sufficiently
strong backing to change the Presi-
Dental mind. It's hackers are watch
ing for the possibility of parliament
tary trick by the employment of
which leaders might still defeat them
if the committee reports unfavorably
and if that report is then buried.
This development ties in with the
rapid abandonment of the ideas which
gave birth and existence to the wide
ly-discussed economy act. Conces-
sions to the veteran groups have al
ready been outlined in these letters
during the past weeks, and now it
seems almost certain that the gov
eminent will also restore original pay
and wage and promotion standards to
its own employees, just as it has driven
industry through the MIRA codes to
increase wages and work opportunities
in an effort to increase purchasing
power.
But federal statistics regarding re-
employment and increased industrial
activity and better prices fail to per-
suade agricultural areas that good
times are returning in the face of
the continued lag in price benefits,
particularly as to dairy products and
livestock. Two meetings have been
held by House members during the
past week. one addressed by John
Simpson and Senator Thomas, and the
other headed by certain representa-
tives of sections supplying milk to
metropolitan areas. The latter proved
a lively meeting.
The Dairy Situation.
The reason is clear. The part of
the dairy industry which supplies
whole milk to cities markets it's pro-
ducts by the pound, and is now and
has been in a much favored position
as compared with the butter and
cheese areas where milk is sold on a
butterfat basis. And in the last few
days the Department of Agriculture
has indicated definitely that it be-
lieves this latter basis to be the fair
est. Disagreements and disputes
within the industry have hampered
all efforts of the department and the
AAA to hasten adoption of a policy
of relief for the dairy group, and in
the meanwhile their condition has
grown more desperate and their pa
thence closer to the breaking point.
The program aims to give the whole
milk producer some advantage in
price to compensate him for the adj
ditional costs he experiences and for
the fact that he receives neither skim
milk or whey as part return, but it
refuses to approve fancy prices for
him while at the same time the price
of butter and cheese and other dairy
products is driven down and down
by the influence in large measure Of
the undistributed surplus of the whole
milk yield. When it has gotten this
stabilizing program under way, the
next step of course will be the prev
iously discussed matter of reducing
the annual milk yield, either through
reducing the nations cattle herd or