Evening star., 1935-10-20
|LANDON DEFEAT SEEN
IF HE INDORSES A. A. A.
One of Leading G. o. P. Possibilities
May Be Tripped by Advocacy
of Program, Observer Says.

other person I have observed, the
heart of the issue that is now before
America.
But that-the thing described in
Gov. Landon's words-is precisely
what A. A. A. Is. The freedom of the
individual farmer, in potatoes, tobacco
and cotton land ultimately in every
CROP to seek his own welfare in his
own way, by the exercise Of the
simple privilege Of planting what crop
he chooses and as much Of it as he
chooses-that freedom is by A. A. A.
forbidden to him (as respects three
crops so far) under penalty of fine
and imprisonment.
have said that A. A. A. is "po-
tential" threat to Gov. Landon. The
qualification potential lies in the
fact that A. A. A. (some fundamental
parts of it) is now before the Su-
preme Court. and that the Supreme
Court, by invalidating fundamental
parts of A. A. A., may remove this
impediment from Gov. Landon. But
the situation is such that its con-
elusive decisions upon A. A. A. may
possibly not be handed down during
the present session of the court. which
lasts until next June. If, because Of
that, A. A. A is still before the coun-
try in the presidential election next
year, and if Gov. Landon is identified
with support of it, he has hardly the
faintest chance to get either the Re-
nh IL
Il am careful to add that Gov. Lam
don, so far as l know, has not per-
sonally expressed approval Of A. A..
Neither Gov. Landon nor any one
else can go on too long a cryptic
sphinz upon the issue of A. A. A.
Emergency Measures.
Perhaps I should add, to clarity my
own position, that the voluntary part
of A. A. A, as it aplies to wheat and
| corn and hogs-which is practically
the only part known to Kansas and
the MidweSt-was not Objectionable
as an emergency device for lifting
the farmer out of the depression, and
thereby lifting the country out. But
we now know that neither A A. A.
nor N. R. A. were intended by the New
Deal radicals to be the merely emer-
gency measures which the New Deal-
erS said they were. They were in
tended as, and must now be judged as,
mechanisms of new order of society,
a collectivist order based upon the
European model, which the New
Dealers, taking advantage Of our
misery, meant to impose on US by
letting us remain in depression until
the new order of society is securely
established.
A. A. A is not to be judged standing
alone. 1t is not to be judged. as I
suspect the Midwest farmer judges
it, standing alone and expressing itself
to him for the present) in twice-a.
year checks. The New Deal is to be
| judged as the fundamental mecha-
nism which is meant to expand, and
must expand by automatic growth, If
not arrested, into a whole new order
/ of society, with every business and
individual regimented as potato grow.
! ers are now attempted to be regi-
mented. 1t is an utter mistake to
assume that A. A. A. is merely a regu-
lation of agriculture. In the full list
of A. A. A. powers the original A. A. A.
statute and its amendments, there is
not as much about regulating agricul.
ture as about regulating everybody,
the whole order of society, including.
curiously enough, the value of the
dollar. A. A. A. is the charter of a
new order of society, containing many
of the features of Italian Fascism.
some of the features of Russian Com
munism.