Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-02-06
COURT TAKES RECESS
EXHIBITS RARE SPEED
ROOSEVELT FOR FARM AID
LABOR PLANS A COURSE
HOOVEs'S FARM PLAN
HOUSE CONSTRUCTION
SUING A DU POINT
COMMITTEE HITS A SNAG

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will be no decision on the Tennessee
Valley Authority before it reconvens
the first week in February. Viii
many expected the decision to b
handed down last week, the Coul
passed on none of the government!
cases last week, although the reques
of the government for a re-hearing o.
the decision upseting the processin
taxes was refused with rare speed 70
the Court, which Immediately ordere,
the release of the funds impounded
An argument on the suit of the Stat,
of Georgia, challenging the constitu.
tionality of the Bankhead Cotton Con.
troll Act, will be heard on February 4
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The t ". A. case is of outstanding
Importance. 1t is the last of the New
Deal issues now awaiting the Courts
ruling. The real fight is whether the
government shall be allowed to COM
pete in the hydro-electric field against
private enterprise. On the decision OF
the Court will rest, to a large degree,
the vast economic and social expert
ment now being conducted in the Ten
nessee river basin.
The decision of the Court, is likely
to create an outstanding issue in the
coming national campaign. Forces on
both sides are organizing for the fight,
which will probably be waged in ev-
cry Congressional district The T. v.
A. case involves the effort of stock
holders of the Alabama Power Com
pany to prevent the sale of transmits
sion lines to the T. V. A. The govern
ment, beaten in the trial court, won
in the Court of Appeals.
President Roosevelt is w~hole-heart-
edly behind the plan to use the half
forgotten Soil Conservation Act of
1895 which will be amended to make
clear that farmers are to be rewarded
for maintaining soil fertility" as dis
tinguished from the prevention of
soil erosion" The measure as amend
ed is expected to be a satisfactory
substitute for the defunct AAA and to
maintain the policy of Congress to
provide farm income that measures up
to that of industrial workers. The
program he laid down last October for
a more permanent plan" to maintain
and increase the gains made by agri-
culture and to broaden operations to
give increasing incentives for con-
servation and efficient use of the ma
tons soil resources"
While the President would not dis
cuss crop control, his description of
the dangers of over-usage of soil,
coupled with the inference that good
land could be taken from production
temporarily on the ground of con-
servation, for the reason that soil
should lie idle periodically indicates
that there will be no lack of crop
control. The President called attention
to Intangible" erosion, which consists
of using up the chemicals necessary
to keep soil productive.
He stressed sentences in his state
ment of October 25th, emphasizing the
possibility that it might be as i'm
portant to stimulate certain kinds of
production as ii has been to remove
burdensome SURPRISES. At that time he
insisted that the longtime and more
permanent adjustment program
would provide positive incentives for
soil conservation and that benefit pay
ments could be made on a basis to
encourage individual farmers to adopt
sound farm management, crop rota-
ton, and soil-conservation methods.
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The Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor, meet
ing last week at Miami, Florida, con-
sidered the instruction of the last La
Dor Convention to formulate an
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton empowering Congress to enact
labor and social and welfare legisla-
ton. Undoubtedly, Labor as a whole
such an amendment, although
somewhat afraid of giving the gov
eminent greater power in dealing with
Labor, fearing that this might curtail
the right to strike.
A report at the convention was that
the Democrats will not adopt any
plank calling for such an amendment.
Labor leaders who favor the amend
ment point to the Supreme Court de-
cision on the MIRA and AAA and warn
that other rulings might destroy the
social security, railway pension, Cuff
fey Coal, and Wagner Industrial Re-
laws.
Of course, the Federation has long
maintained a non-partisan political
policy which would be je~opardized if
the Federation fights for a constitu-
tional amendment, and the Democrat
ic platform also advocates it. On the
other hand, if the Democrats refrain
adopting such a plank some
leaders believe that Labor could raise
the issue and make an appeal to all
sympathizers regardless of party af-
fliation.
Former President Hoover, in his
attack on the policies of the
Administration, outlined a farm pro-
gram to include three main uses, {
he said, had been tested and 1
proved by the experience of many t
countries. He would increase food {
consumption by restoring employ {
.ent upon the basis of a balanced $
stable currency and credits.
home market protection for the farm
err, and a restoration of reasonable" $
market through sane national r
policies" He advocated the retirement /
Of submarginal land and the holding 2