The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
GRANGE MASTER
SAYS NRA NOT
HUGE SUCCESS
Nor is AAA; Land Planning is
Urged; Insists Upon Honest
Money; Wants Country to go
Dry Again

Tuesday.
aNeither MIRA nor AAA has been
q huge success" Master King said
In his annual message. both of these
measures are experiments and have
had restraining influence on bust
ness. and it is expected they will be
revised in some permanent FORM"
The address was delivered to some
1000 delegates to the state conven-
ton.
Would Help Consumer
King predicted that out of gov
eminent control measures will come
greater respect for consumer cooper
atives. Under these, he indicated, mid
clemens profits largely would be cut
out and the consumer would be allow
ed to pay less for the products he
uses. 81 would feel much more conf
dent of our permanent recovery" Mr..
King asserted, if this were done.
He praised the agricultural adj
justment plan as Heading to a plan
ned agriculture and to an orderly farm
production" Thus far, however, he
reported that the adjustment admin
istration has "cut out fields, patches
and strips here and there with no re-
gard to the land value or the wisest
use of the land"
Urges Land Planning
1--WE must market by carefully
planned program, and adjust that pol
icy to fit our land planning program"
he declared. eve as farmers
must organize for controlled produc-
ton and think in terms of farming
together and not against one anoth-
en-"
He suggested that it "seems only
logical"that poorer land should be
kept out of cultivation. He proposed
that this poorer land be sold to a gov
eminent agency created for the pur-
pose, and that the present owners
"move where they might have better
chance to make living"
Urges Money, Not Bonds
Turning to money, King expressed
the belief that "our money should be
the same in debt and purchasing
power today, tomorrow, and the years
to follow" He cited section 8, article
] of the U. S. Constitution, which
gives congress the power to coin
mney and regulate the value thereof.
I'VE should print money instead of
tax exempt, interest bearing bonds
when we need more money" he de-
clared. Instead of that, we print
bonds. then sell them, paying inter-
est all the while. We should use that
credit direct by issuing non-interest
bearing currency
The state master recommended
flve-point program by which he be-
heves the problem of credit and money
can be solved 1t included ~ the gov
eminent take over the IL federal re-
serve banks; (2) ask congress at once
to assume their obligation in issuing
money and fixing the value thereof;
lS) issue currency instead of inter
est bearing bonds az make money
serve the interest of the people, and
l5) insist that our money be "honest
money"
Juvenile delinquency, King cited,
as an important factor underlying
adult crime, which, he said, APP
proaches a major crisis in our his
Tory" He cited figures on crime, typ
zeal among them being: $4,000 per-
sons being murdered every year in
TINS country, 100000 being assaulted,
$4,000 being robbed. While racketeer-
ing Is responsible for much of the
crime, King said, the youth problem
Is important. Beginnings of crime"
ne said, usually are found in mis-di-
1ected childhood. = = Solving the
pfoblam of Juvenile delinquency will
90 . long way toward solving the
Crime problem"
!. Alng expressed the belief that the
liquor problem has not been solved by
.ae repeal of the prohibition law and
"a sae setting up of control measures.
doubt If we ever control q BUSH
ness that caters to lawlessness and
disorder. believe that sensible, law
soiding citizens will be in the near
.u.ure vote our country dry again,
sno' when they do the public will want
sne law enforced then and then only
i. will be enforced"
Inc state master expressed the be-
nei tnat commission form Of govern
aent should be adopted in Washing
a' Although such move would
et be popular among politicians"
Ang expressed the belief it would
eauce the cost of government, would
Ae care of emergencies or matters
state Importance as they arise, and
would place responsibility on a few,