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| Ing trades has a bearing on the pro-
cram of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration. That is starting out
to be the most successful Of all the
, Administrations plans so far. APP
plications for "modern:Zing" loans
are increasing at the rate OF 40 per-
cent week, and the outlook for
widespread new home building &C
tivity gets distinctly brighter from
day to day.
The question of labor costs will
shortly become a distinct concern
of the Housing board. The average
annual income of industrial work
ers in this country is estimated in
the best of times, at 81 500 a year
or thereabouts. Can building labor
be spread out over great number
of operations so as to give every
one of the four OR five million nn-
employed in the building trades an
annual income of that much or
more. without loading labor costs
too heavily on individual houses?
In the AAA they have just been
taking a vote of farmers in the
corn-hog belt, to see how many OF
them want to 60 along next season
in the matter of crop reduction and
birth-control in the hog family. The
replies received so far indicate that
more than 80 percent of the farmers
are for the continuance of the plan.
Now A Cotton Poll
Another vote of farmers is to be
called for soon, under the Bank
head cotton control law. AS the
law stands, the total production OF
cotton is limited to 100000 bales
a year, with exact quotas allotted
to each grower and fine of $40
bale for growing more than ones
quota. But unless two-thirds OF all
cotton growers vote for a continu-
ance of the plan, it is to be aban-
doned after one year.
Another poll. conducted by an
outside agency, is giving the Ad-
ministration something to think
about, however The National In
dustrial Conference Board, OF which
Virgil Jordan is the head, and
which has a good reputation as an
impartial t-finding organization,
sent a QUESTIONABLE to the editor OF
every newspaper in the United
States, daily or weekly, asking sew
eral questions about public senti-
ment in each community in respect
to various phases of the Recovery
program. Nearly 5000 of the IL
900 editors addressed sent in re-
plies giving their best Judgment OF
their communities attitude.
Editors Report Findings
The majority, in many cases an
overwhelming majority, reported
that people generally were opposed
TO compulsory unemployment insur-
ance, for old-age pensions, against
further increase in the national
debt, for reduction in the Federal
payrolls and the application Of the
Civil Service law to new JOBS,
against price-fixing of both agri-
cultural and industrial products,
against restriction of agricultural
Or industrial production, opposed to
Government competition in any
kind of business, to Government
! taking over the banking system,
against power of the Executive to
change the value of the dollar, op-
posed to the use Of the taxing pow
er for the redistribution OF wealth,
for private profits in business,
against regulation Of profits except
public utilities, for Government fix
ing of minimum wages and maxi
mum hours Of labor, against COM
pulsory membership in labor unions,
and for legislation making sympa-
thetic strikes and lockouts illegal.