Evening star., 1934-05-13
FAILURE OF WHEAT
PARLEY MAY LIFT
CONTROL BY j. s.
Wallace Warns Producing
Nations America ConSid-
ers Fight for Markets.
WOULD UPHOLD PRICE
FOR DOMESTIC USE
A. A. A. Said to Provide Machin-
cry to Meet stiffest Competi-
tion in World.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Ga. May 12.-The wheat
growing nations of the world today
were put on notice by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace that an agree
ment must be reached unless they wish
the United States to go into produc-
ton on big scale and battle for the
worlds markets.
Reviewing the collapse of the Lon
don conference which was designed
to increase export prices by 10 per
cent and aid the farmers of the
world, Wallace said that he was "ex-
ceedingly disappointed by the failure
of the conference and that it was a
serious matter for the world although
1t was not so serious from the view-
point Of the American farmer.
May Abandon Control.
Unless the conferees can work out
an agreement, he said. the United
compete for outside markets. He gave
credit to the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration for making it possible
for the United States to enforce little
acreage reduction and scatter its
wheat throughout the consuming
nations.
1T is to be hoped" he said, that
the world conference can be saved
and that other exporting nations will
perceive that they have even greater
interest in the salvation than we have
in the United States"
With the mechanism of the A. A. A.,
the Secretary added. it would be pos
sible for the United States to meet,
with its surplus wheat, any kind Of
competition that might be established
time aid the cooperating growers to
get comparative prices for the por-
ton of the crop domestically con-
sumed.
Urges Danger Be Needed.
"I trust that the other exporting
wheat nations will see the danger" he
said, land help the United States
to restore the agreement to working
basis"
Here to address the University Of
Georgia Institute of Public Affairs,
Secretary Wallace said the drought
in the Middle West was alarming TO
the people of that area, but in no way
threatened a national food shortage.
He said the wheat carry-over this
year was double the normal amount
and there was no likelihood of pro-
ducing less than the American people
will consume.
1t illustrated, he asserted, the fact
that the United States must give more
thought to protecting its farmers in
time of over-production and the con-
sumers in times when drought and
other disasters reduce the supply.
Speaks for Bargaining.
Speaking before the institute, WAL
lace advocated a tariff bargaining
policy that would protect the people
as whole against small. ineficiently
conducted businesses that maintain
powerful lobbies that know how to
"tip-toe around Washington"
He said these inefficient industries
apparently had more power with
Congress and the Tariff Commission
than the people and that while there
were some protests of too much Gov
ernment control Of business, he be-
lieved that in the past there had been
too much business control of govern
ment.
When inefficient industry Is al
lowed to expand under high tariffs,
Il Is doing so at the cost of the en-
tire people" he said.
These inefficient industries are
equipped with lobbyists. skilled law
yers and representatives - they
might be told You can't expand any
further at the cost of all of the
people"
Lauds Southerners.
Turning to cotton control, he said
no group of people anywhere in the
world had been able to produce cot
ten as intelligently as the people Of
the South and he did not expect any
expanded production in other coun-
tries unless the South decided to re-
duce the amount it sends to foreign
markets.
Regeneration" he said. would
be the cry of Republican candidates
for Congress this Fall in the North
ern and Eastern States, but the pres
ent farm campaign had been true
Jeffersonian democracy since township
and county meetings had been used
as a clearing house where the will Of
the people could be determined"
He predicted that the Bankhead
cotton control bill would be assailed
tremendously by the Republicans Of
the North and that it did "partake
of the nature of compulsion," but it
two years and was passed after 95
per cent of the Southern farmers in
cicated they wanted it in an emer-
gency.
II think the farmers are going to
hold on to the powers of the A. A. A.
until they get out of this mess"