Evening star., 1934-12-09
A,A. A, PROBLEMS
TO Be DISCUSSED
. At FARM PARLEY
18th Annual Bureau Con-
ference Expected to 0. K.
Marketing Program.
GOVERNMENT LEADERS
SCHEDULED TO SPEAK
Davis, Wallace, Hull, Myers
Among Those Listed-Financ-
ing Stressed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, December g.
Problems Of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration and recon-
Inendations for minor changes in the
act will receive first consideration
at the sixteenth annual meeting of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton to be held here from Monday
to Wednesday this week.
Alterations in administration will
be studied with the view to adapting
it to operation in future years when
surpluses may not be as large as
in 1888. The federation has gen.
orally supported the A. A. A. during
the past two years and is expected
to continue to do so. The market
ing agreement and licensing Sec
tions Of the act will receive special
attention of the session, which is
being held in the South for the first
time since 1921.
Davis and Wallace to Talk.
Chester c. Davis, administrator,
and Secretary Wallace are scheduled
as speakers on the adjustment pro-
gram and on the problems of agri-
culture, respectively.
Further monetary reform, such as
advocated by the Farm Bureau for
discussion at Nashville. The insta-
bility Of purchasing power of farm
commodities causes many to advo-
cate the commodity dollar plan au-
thorized in the agricultural adjust
ment act of 1888. DR.. George F.
Warren of Cornell University will
discuss these matters before the Farm
Bureau convention.
Secretary of State Hull will speak
on foreign trade, with particular ref
erence to reciprocal trade treaties
now In process of formulation.
Farm mortgages, production credit
tor the current expenses Of farming,
cooperative credits and related sub
jects will be discussed by Gov. w. I.
Myers Of Farm Credit Administra-
ton.
Taxation Policies to Fore.
Taxation policies, both State and
Federal, will be specially considered
by Resolutions Committees, princi-
pal objective being to ascertain if
any plan can be discovered to permit
prorating by Federal and State gov
ernments of the income derived from
income and corporation taxes. such
rs has been done for several years
In regard to the Federal estate tax.
It Is unlikely that the Farm Bureau
will demand an immediate balancing
OF the Federal budget, but some
caution to the present administra-
ton is likely to be expressed in re-
gard to the continuation of the large
expenditures.
The national land policy will be
given the strongest possible support,
with q distinct recommendation that
all of its aspects be administered by
the Department OF Agriculture. This
project Is definitely correlated with
the adjustment plans under A. A. A.
M. L. Wilson, Assistant Secretary Of
Agriculture, will address the Farm
Bureau convention on this subject.
Subsistence homesteads, control Of
plant and animal pests and diseases,
limiting importations of competitive
farm products from abroad, speeding
up elimination of bovine tuberculosis,
continuing necessary highway ap-
preparations, opposition to riotous
speculation in farm crops, opposition
to so co-ordinating transportation
agencies that no competition will con-
tinue, expression of interest in early
approval Of the St. Lawrence treaty
with Canada and in putting the in
surance of bank deposits into COM
plete operation are other matters to
be discussed.
The president and vice president,
being elected for two-year terms, will
not be up for election this year.
Regional directors whose terms ex-
pire or who are deceased will con-
stitute the only vacancies to be filled
at the Nashville convention.