Evening star., 1936-01-21
DICKINSON URGES
INEW FARM POLICY
Senator Explains Five.Point
!. Program IN Radio
Forum Talk.

A fve-point farm program, based on
governmental cooperation and free OF
augmentation, was urged last night ny
Senator Dickinson, Republican. OF
iowa In Z talk on the National Radio
Forum, arranged BY The Star ana
broadcast over q coast-to-coast net
work by the National Broadcasting co.
Dickinson, from the heart OF the
eorn-hog belt, which gave the defunct
A. A. A. its most thoroughgoing sup
port, hailed Supreme Court overthrow
Of the adjustment program as great
landmark in American history" and
s'body blow to the basic philosophy OF
the New Deal"
Principles Declared Reafifrmed.
! "The court has merely reafhrmed
those principles which insure the
safety of democracy and Of representa-
tive government" Dickinson said
"Business instead of declining leaped
forward when the fetters were stricken
from initiative and enterprise"
Dickinson's program calls for elimi-
nation of present contradictions IN
government policy, an end OF crop
regulation, fulfillment of outstanding
A. A. A. contracts by the Government
agricultural stabilization production
through q land use program and
stimulation of crop diversification and
. broad program to restore farm eX-
port markets.
Senator Dickinson's Address.
The text Of Senator Dickinson's
address follows:
Just two weeks ago today the Su-
preme Court held the agricultural ad-
tustment act unconstitutional. That
momentous decision. together with the
invalidation of the N. r. A. last May
are destined to become great land
marks in American history. They
must be read together, since together
they weigh the New Deal in terms not
merely of whether it squares with the
Constitution but Of our historic devel-
opment as Nation.
The Supreme Court has thus dealt
q body blow to the basic philosophy OF
the New Deal. This that solution for
those great. complex problems, which
are the outgrowth of the depression,
can only be brought about by the
rigid reg;mentation of the Nations
economic life: that the lives and ac-
tivities Of every citizen must be mi
nutely regulated henceforth under a
gigantic Federal bureaucracy which
shall supersede not only the power OF
the several States. but also that OF
local municipal authorities. To that
. concept of planned economy. which
established government as the master
rather than the servant Of the people,
the Supreme Court now says: mo!
The Constitution does not provide for
any such plan!"
BY thus checking and challenging
the further Capitalization Of power in
the hands of what is nothing less than
. Federal autocracy. the court has
again merely reafIirmed those princi-
piles which insure the safety of democ-
racy and of representative government.
But it also decided something more.
The gravest dangers which confront
the Nation today arise from two
causes. That profligate spending by
.4f1e administration which is wantonly
and 3recklessly dissipating the peoples
savings. And the attempt to solve
those twin national problems of un-
employment and relief by reaching for
. remedies that are not only unsound
but desperate In character.
: On the plea Of emergency" vast
sums have been distributed from the
Federal Treasury to economic groups
which accept the various recovery
plans of the administration when these
plans are but thinly veiled political
subsidies. What the Supreme Court
has now said. in effect. Is that Federal
funds cannot be used when the distri-
button Of such funds is conditional
upon the recipients compliance with
regulations set up by Government ad-