The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
Fear Shadows Outlook Of Farmers
Now That Court Has Outlawed AAA
BY HELEN LINDSAY

biOIlO, lluIly -I6dQeQ LII 10 JrdI.
Roberts never heard of Justice Owen
J. Roberts, although they bear the
same surname.
In her seven years. Supreme Court
decisions haven't figured. She has
learned the significance of alphabet
combinations in her two years at
school, but the New Deal abbrevia-
tons have not been included.
So the news that Justice Roberts
had read a Supreme Court decision
yesterday which outlawed the AAA
didn't mean anything to her.
But to Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Roberts, her parents, the news car
ried particularly gloomy significance.
Since the AAA went into effect,
Mr.. and Mrs Roberts have chalked
up a number of accomplishments
which they credit to farm legisla-
ton.
Pay OFF Mortgage
1--WE have new automobile; we
have paid off the mortgage on our
farm. and we have a modern water
system, gas stove and an electric
refrigerator, Mrs. Roberts said to-
day. glancing with satisfaction at
the modern conveniences in her
coy farm kitchen.
But, best of all, we were able
to send Doris Jean to the hospital
to have the operation which i'm
proved her walking, and almost en-
tirely cured the limp which resulted
from infantile paralysis"
Farming and farm housekeeping
are not easy tasks under any cir
cumstances, Mrs. Roberts admits.
You have to get up early, and
work from morning till night she
explains, with a courageous smile
But when you are accomplishing
something by it; when you know
that, through an institution like
the AAA, you will be able to clear
off debts and bring into your home
some of the comforts which every
woman wants, you don't mind it"
Under the AAA, Mr.. Roberts had
a $1,000 contract with the Federal
government. Under the ruling read
by Justice Roberts, such a contract
no longer is possible, and the
Marion County Roberts family fears
it is to be returned to the old farm
ing system.
Their experiences are similar to
those of more than 100000 ot...er
Indiana farmers, wives agree.
Ac thoyy t,iY ,o;oooo &c fxaz1.l..
killed pork, in preparation for can
ming, Mrs. Albert Steinmeier and
her sister-in-law, Miss Alice Stein
meier, spoke today of their expert
ences under the New Deal.
Daughter in College
1--WE have been able to send nv
daughter Dorothy, to Butler Uni
versity the last two years." Mrs.
Steinmeier said Next year her
brother. Frederick. will be ready TO
go, We hope this won't make
change in our plans for him, but if
we are to return to old prices for
our farm products, it may"
I'VE women don't pay much at
tention to politics" Miss Steinmeier
confessed. 'We leave that to the
men in the family. But both nv
father and my brother agree that
times have been much easier since
the AAA has been in effect"
Rocking in her comfortable chair
as she watched her daughter
law and daughter work, Mrs. Fred
erlck Steinmeier shook her head.
I'VE had just about enough money
saved to carry us through the worst
years of depression" she said: It
watched my husband and son work
hard, and make nothing. Of course,
/ have seen low prices for farm
products in other years. for have
lived on a farm all my life. But in
the days when T was a girl. and
farm products sold at low prices.
money went farther, for other prices
were III accord
Prices we're just beginning to get
back to where they could bring some
modern conveniences into our home.
We have an electric refrigerator
ctAAA q 5lto SUONC. we 10 DuV
new rugs and some other new things
for our houses.
What AAA Meant
That's what the AAA has meant
to farm women. Comforts for our
homes; college educations for our
children-those are the things that
we will lose, we are afraid, from the
Supreme Court ruling"
In the Roberts kitchen, few
miles away, Doris Jean stopped be-
fore the modern refrigerator for
her after-school glass of milk. In
the Steinmeier kitchen, two women
worked to preserve meat for their
t a mily tables. Mrs. Steinmeier
rocked and watched them.
And in Washington Justice
Roberts and his eight associates,
turned to other court matters. They
had ruled on the New Deals AAA.