The Washington times., 1936-08-06

Topeka, July %, 1896.
Governor Landon, calm and reasonable man,
has resisted the temptation to call the burning and
blowing under of crops by government order GRIM
inal folly"
But "criminal folly' is NOT too strong de-
scrpton of the Administration program Of destroy
ing food when millions of the American people were
hungry.
apply to course which took account of Nature,
which shut its eyes to the possibilities of droughts
or floods, which deliberately destroyed the reserves
piled up in the fat years for in the lean years
"Criminal folly'' it was-folly for which EVERY
MAN AND WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA
is NOW PAYING THE PRICE.
Pictured on this page is the incredible story of
this incredible proceeding
Grain burned by government orders.
Farmers denied the right to give their surplus
crops to the starving.
AH that done by the Administration lVith one
hand 1UIliLe Nth the other hand FOREIGN grain,
FOREIGN butter FOREIGN meat are imported to
replace the domestic products being destroyed
Truly the twins Topsy and Turvy must have
taken the government of these United States
when such program was conceived and put through.
Outside of a fairy tale or a fable, such re-
versal of sense such reign of nonsense is within
the experience of our people or of ANY people.
But the pictures on this page are no fairy tale,
though they relate fable that out-Aesops Aesop.
In one short year, butter imports jumped
eiehteen-foId.
Our corn imports, ffteen-foId.
Our beef imports, twenty -eght-toId.
Our other food imports in equally dizzy
proportions.
Meanwhile, food prices went up. They still go up.
The "gambers' at Washington to whom Gov
ernor Landon refers with such admirable restraint,
had made their gigantic gamble and lost
Destruction Of food caused shortage Of food,
not an increase.
Nature. instead of submitting to the edicts of
Messrs. Wallace and Tugwell, refused to be regi-
meDted.
PERHAPS the cards were stacked against the gam
blers from the first.
The cards are usually stacked against gamblers
who bet that the law Of supply and demand can be
repealed, or that Mother Nature will take orders
from THEM.
But the real losers are not those who made the
gamble Those gentlemen are still on the payroll,
ready to gamble again, and supplied with the neces-
sarv funds
The real losers are:
First, the American farmer, WIlOSe home market
has been narrOlUed by the imports of foreign farm
products. EUen the Government bounty lOhIch he
received is not equaL to the loss of this Market Uhen
the final reckoning is made.
Second the American people, LUhOSe living costs
hare been raised sky high While their incomes have
been cut by taxes, seen or unseen.
Every breaduOinner finds that his dollar UW
bun less bread than it did. EUery housewife knOOs
that her allowance for food for the family does not
purchase today as much as it WOuld only year ago.
''You can't have your cake and eat it," is
saying that most of learned children, and found
by hard experience to be true.
''You can't have your bread if you burn the
wheat' is another homely fact that any child can
understand. But it is one, seemingly, which the
gigantic inteecs Of the Brain Trust have thus far
failed to grasp.