The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-27
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
JosEPHs WAY, AND THE NEW DEALS

JOSEPHS WAY, AND The NEW pEALS
It is singular that the secretary of agriculture,
Henry A. Wallace, should begin an address in these
words:
Joseph was one of the earliest economic states
men in history During seven years of good wealth.
or, according to the 47th chapter of Genesis ne
stored up the surplus crops to be used when the
dIoath years came" Ia. zss.< ...
Singular, because where Joseph stored up the
surplus, the New Deal destroyed the seeming album
dance Not only that, but the New Deal, hoping to
assure against plenty set about to control produc-
ton by curtailing acreage and by limiting the
breeding of swine and cattle. "
Under the New Deal the seeming surplus was re-
dueed and then the drouths and the dust storms
came. The surplus was gone and the new crops
failed to produce enough for the normal needs of
the whole people. Joseph's people had the stored
supplies upon which to draw; the American people
were, and are, without great store of supplies.
A New Deal objective was to help the American
farmer whereas it is helping the foreign farmers,
for this country must import great quantities of
foodstuffs The American farmer is without stuffs
for the market, and the American consumer is hav
ing to pay high prices which are going higher week
by week.
Mr.. wallace says: ..... ..
THE cry, you cannot regiment nature, while
true enough, is the cry of little lost in print
tive superstition. Joseph had bigger vision than
they. He didn't regiment nature, but he did pre-
pare for the whims of nature"
Z The American people are paying for the New
Deals effort to regiment nature; Joseph's people
benefited because he prepared for the whims of ma
ture One Of Mr. Wallace's colleagues in the New
Deal, Senator Byrnes, told South Carolina farmers
who had been hurt by drouth that he would call
upon the New Deal to overcome the vagaries of
weather The vagares of weather are whims of
nature
However adroitly the New Deal spokesman shall
argue, the cold fact remains that man cannot con-
troll nature. In terms of agriculture, man cripples
himself when he destroys the abundance of his
fields
Mr.. Wallace says that Joseph's plan worked
Wen in ancient Egypt because behind Joseph stood
Pharoah." Well, behind Mr.. Wallace, Mr.. Bank
head and all the others who sought to destroy the
surplus and to reduce production has stood the
Pharoah of this time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He has stood behind them with the funds of the
people. Farmers have been well paid for ploughing
crops under am, for curtailing production.
q II the pIan followed by Joseph OF Ola were III
effect, the American people would not be compelled
to import great quantities of foodstuffs. American
consumers paying such prices that foreign pro-
ducers find it profitable to hurdle the high tariff
wall and offer their stuffs in American markets
More than a million pounds of pork products are
coming into this country from Poland every month
That is a Sign of the New Deals failure to cope
with the whims of nature, the vagaries of the
weather.
\ Americans to live must eat and to eat they must
pay high prices under national administration
which assured that it would protect them against
high food prices while bestowing money benefits
upon farmers Ask your grocer whether prices are
bound upward. Compare prices with what they
were few months ago The New Deal in rewrit-
ing the law of economy has placed heavy impost
upon the American people.-Charleston News and
Courier g .-