Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-08-13

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little doubt any longer that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is
To Lure getting ready to
Farm Vote spring new sur
prise among his
many surprises and that he Will
employ it to wean away as much
of the farm vote from Governor
Landon of Kansas as is possible.
The President usually has a card
up his sleeve, one that he can pull
out with flourish and one that, on
the surface at least, carries very
convincing prospects in the partlcu-
lar line he has chosen.
In this instance, it seems rather
well established that you may ex-
pect the President to come forward,
shortly with a brand new PROPOSE
ton for greater cooperative effort
between the farmers and the city
consumers. He is likely to pre-
sent this new proposition-some OF
his critics have been unkind enough
to describe it as new rabbit from
the hat-in a dressing that Will be
quite alluring. 1t is not clear yet
just when the new plan will be Of
fered by the President and his New
Deal associates, but the guess can
be made that it will come in time
to permit a full exposition of the
program by the New Dealers in
advance of election. BY the same
token, it is apparent that the Presi-
dents 1886 promises for the farm
ers will be disclosed late enough so
that the Republicans will have little
time to pick it to pieces. 80
The tip-off on the fact that Mr..
Roosevelt is developing another
farm program comes in Mr.. Sec
rotary Wallace's latest book
"Whose Constitution. Of course,
the secretary's observations may
not be charged directly to the Pres
ident. Nevertheless, it is the opin-
ion of many of us who have
watched the New Deal wheels 60
around that the secretary Of agri-
culture usually leads the procession
in offering new suggestions for New
Deal activities.
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man and his frankness continuous
ly has been of an engaging sort.
For the reason that he is of this
type, I think it can be said usually
that his views reflect what is going
on beneath the surface. That is,
his views ordinarily serve as trial
balloon, whether the secretary re-
allies it or not, and if they are
watched closely, an accurate fore
cast of what is coming may be
made.
1t might have been that the Sec
retary's book would have escaped
attention as vehicle carrying
message from the inner circle of
New Dealers except for one line
that was tucked away in the Dem
ocratic platform, or the platform
adopted by the Philadelphia con-
vention.
The sentence in the platform with
which the secretarys book may
properly be connected reads: eve
will act to secure to the consumer
fair value, honest sales and a de-
creasing spread between the price
he pays and the price the producer
receives"
Some observers here have linked
that proposition with a thought that
Mr.. Roosevelt proposes to organize
not only co-operatives among the
farmers but to link those co-opera-
tives with similar co-operatives
among the consumers. The convic-
ton held by these individuals is
that Mr.. Roosevelt, astute politi-
clan that he is, is seeking to kill
two birds with one stone. In other
words, they contend that his plan
will be thrown out, as an induce
ment for the farmers to support
his policies and re-elect him and
that when he deals with the voters
in great industrial areas he will
point out to them the possibility of
cheaper food in this manner.
1t is to be remembered in con-
nection with the reported new farm
program that Mr.. Roosevelt has
sent commission to Europe to
study the cooperative idea. There
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trumpets about the departure of
these men, each being an avowed
New Dealer and each one being
thoroughly dependable. That is,
they are men who can be depended
upon to present the facts they gath
err in true New Deal light. They
have been in Europe now about
month. 1t is expected they will re-
main at least one month longer. If,
then, they take month to write
that we can expect another New
Deal farm program, based upon
the cooperative idea, to emerge
from the White House around o.
tober i. 1t is just 30 days from
that date to the election.
We now have had acceptance
speeches by both Mr.. Roosevelt and
Campaign his opponent To-
Issues the extent that
the keynote
speeches of the national con-
ventions indicate the trend Of mind
of the party workers and to the ex-