Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-30

saved five cents on every pound
of bacon they bought, and six cents
on every pound of ham they bought,
those being the amounts of proc.
essing taxes assessed against these
particular pork products. (The
AAA tax on pork was only two
cents a pound, but this included
the whole hog, and many parts OF
the animal could not, for one rea-
son or another, stand the tax, so
the major portion of it had to be
assessed against bacon, ham, pork
chops, and other attractive ele-
ments rather than the hides, hoofs,
bristles, etc., which competed with
other products not subject to any
such taxi
On the Other Hand
Also, of course, there would not
have been the deficit from outlawed
processing taxes which is now to
be made up, in part at least, by
the higher rates of the new tax bill.
This policy, it is further pointed
out, would have resulted, at the
present moment, in there being on
hand, in government warehouses,
plenty of feedstuffs for the animals
now being removed from the
drouth area. Whereas even last
year feedstuffs had to be imported.
The system so far pursued by
the government, therefore, has &C.
tually resulted in the taxpayers Of
the United States being assessed
not only to make food cost more
in the United States, but to buy food
from foreign lands.
Yet had the President carried out
the idea he talked about, instead
of pursuing the Henry Wallace doc
trine of scarcity, the farmers
would have had the satisfaction of
having big crops in good years, the
government would have held up the
price by big purchases, such as
last year for meat and this year
for wheat, if necessary at profit.
In short, the farmers would have
been just as well off as by re-
ceiving AAA checks for not grow
ing crops, the consumers would
have paid more-perhaps little
less-and the taxpayers would have
saved half a billion dollars a year.
Half billion is cited because this
is the amount the AAA "plow I'm
der" campaign cost year-the
amount of AAA processing taxes a
year-and the amount that must
now be raised to obtain crop reduc-
ton under the camoufage of soil
erosion prevention.
Signs of Relief
Nobody will admit it, officially,
but there were plenty of signs of
relief around Charley Michelson's
office, not to mention Steve Early's
White House sanctun, when Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt announced
the other day that she would have
no more press conferences until af-
ter the summer. "After the cleo
ton" is the way her statement was
construed.
The answer to the relief lies not
nearly so much in anything Mrs.
Roosevelt has said or done as in
the constant fear of what she might
say. Or do.
The First Lady is a fortnight per-
son. She acts on impulses. Those
who know her, regardless of their
opinion of her views on economic
and social questions, like her tre-
mendously. She has real charm.
She has, in addition, quality all
too lacking in so many wives of
prominent men-the ability to give
the impression to any one talking
to her that she is enormously in
terested in what they are saying
that it is a new thought to her
and that the whole course of her &C.
Invites is going to be swayed by
it from now on!
This sounds like absurd over
statement. Actually it falls far
short of accurate appraisal of this
extraordinary quality.
But-this is not the picture of
Mrs. Roosevelt that the country as
a whole enjoys. The average man
or woman out in the country chuck
les at jokes on Mrs. Roosevelt s
constant travelling, never being at
the White House.
Use Mrs. Roosevelt
Some of the critics of the admin.
istration, especially in the South,
say that Jim Farley, Charley Mi
chelson, and the whole political
wing of the New Deal (this element
having no connection and no inter-
locking directorate with the Brain
Trust wing whatever) have been
using Mrs. Roosevelt to make sure
that the negro vote in Harlem and
Chicago would be kept in line for
Roosevelt. They were especially in
dignant when she said she had au-
thorized the taking of some pho
tographs, which created some
publicly expressed annoyance in
Georgia.
The. fact is that Mrs. Roosevelt S
political guide, counsellor and
friend is no longer at her elbow.
When Louis Howe was alive, he