Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-03-04

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and shorter and more readily seen
than the stages followed by most other
agricultural commodities.
1t was small wonder. then, that
milk was large factor in the ousting
of Jerome Frank, general counsel Of
the A. A. A.. and his associates; in
the demotion of DR.. Frederic c. Howe
as consumers counsel. and in the
subsequent forcing out Of Victor A.
Christian. former Republican Repre-
sentative from Minnesota, as assistant
administrator.
Industry Makes Decision.
The fact is that the milk industry
the dealers and the heads Of the bar
gaining o-operatiyes-a few weeks
before last November's election named
the men in the A. A. A. who, they de-
cided. must be fired.
At that time the explicit intention
of Charles Holman. head of the Ma
tional Federation of Dairy Corpora
tives, and Of his associates and the
dealers to force q complete reversal
of milk policy by the A. A Am
Guiding the list Of men slated for
head-chopping-was submitted in
writing to Chester c. Davis. the ad-
ministrator. by one of the officials OF
the consumers counsel to whom it was
reported. And it was conveyed by
me in conversation to Secretary Wal
lace.
These were the same bargaining
cooperative leaders whom Secretary
Wallace. through the fertile word
conjuring of Alfred D. Stedman.
former newspaperman and chief OF
the Division of Information of the
A. A. A.. had labeled in q bitter press
release less than year before IS
distributors masquerading in over
ais" Angered, they set out to undo
the damage done to their pocketbooks
and regulations by the policy the
Secretary enunciated following the
resignation of Administrator George
Peek and the ousting Of Clyde L. King
as head of the dairy section.
That policy abandoned Kings mar
keting agreement program, liking re-
sale prices to consumers and guaran-
teeing handsome margins to the dis
tributors with an official Of a big
dairy corporation sitting IN an ONCE
adjoining Kings advising him. 1t
substituted a license policy fxing
prices to producers only and letting
the forces of competition in the milk
markets regulate the margins.
Administrators Named.
Under the revised policy. milk ad-
ministrators were appointed to various
major cities where licenses were put
in. One of these administrators was
Einar Jensen, q naturalized Dane
brought up in the Danish cooperative
movement. who had finished oil his
practical farming experience with
studies at the University OF Mime
sofa and q Phi. d. from Harvard IN
agricultural economics.
Jensen, a member of the consumers
counsel staff, was appointed admins
traitor in the Boston market. He ad-
hered reiigiously to the terms Of the
license, playing no favorites, forcing
one of the large milk distributors In
Boston to pay into the pool when 1t
threatened not to do 50. and winning
the trust Of the farmers in New Eng
land. His name headed the list OF
those slated for removal by the bar
gaining cooperative leaders, "the dis
tributors masquerading In overallS,"
and the dealers with whom they oper-
ate closely.
When 1t appeared certain that
Arthur H. Lauterbach, chief Of the
dairy section, was about to remove
Jensen, I expressed my profound con-
Germ to Secretary Wallace in letter
in which I said Jensen's removal was
merely the first step in q reversal to
the policy which the Secretary had
announced following Kings removal.
He showed the letter to Mr.. Davis and
then summoned me. He agreed with
me that Jensen was the highest type
of public servant and extremely COM
petent in his job, but said he could
not afford to override Administrator
Davis-virtually the same attitude the
Secretary took regarding Jerome
Frank-and that Mr.. Davis insisted
Jensen's removal did not mean . re-
versal Of policy.
Appeal from Hurja. m
So well was Jensen regarded by the
farmers supplying the Boston market
that Emil Hurja, Jim Farley's right
hand man. wrote q letter to A. A. A.
officials urging them to postpone Jen-
sens removal until after the election.
Hurja did 50 at the instance Of demo-
cratic campaign officials in Vermont.
who walled that Jensen's removal at
that time would seriously jeopardtZe
what they considered good chance
of their candidate for the United
States Senate winning in that proven
bialiy Republican State.
The removal Of Jensen was followed
in January by the dismissal Of r. K.
Froker Of the University Of Wisconsin
the man responsible more than any
other In the dairy section for working
out the revised policy after Kings
ousting-and the ultimate elimination
Of Frank, Howe, Christgau and the
others, just as the distributors mas
querading in overaIls" had desired.
The A. A. A. pretends that the dairy
policy has not been reversed-that
there is no consumer prive-hxing.
Actually. what happens Is that oficials
Of the dairy section try to bring the
dealers together to agree on price in
creases. That's what happened in
Boston. While Jensen was still ad-
ministrator, Mr.. Lauterbach, the dairy
chief, and his assistant, Roger Cor
bett, met the dealers In q Boston hotel
room and urged them to join In q price
increase.
Conference With Ely.
n price increases are not thus
achieved the dairy section falls back
upon the STATE MIX Control Boards