Evening star., 1937-01-07
WALLACE OUTLINES.
1OPO|NT PROGRAM.
States Plans for Keeping
10000, 900 Farmers on
Par With Industry.
Ey the Associated Press.


Secretary Wallace outlined today q
10-point program for keeping Amer
ica's 100000 farmers on q par with
business and industry.
Agriculture Is no longer the for
gotten industry of the United States"
he said. citing four-year rise in esti-
mated farm income from $500, ,000,-
900 to $4,000. 100000.
The farmers income has returned
to its pre-war parity with urban in
comes. Wallace said. declaring he will
seek to maintain that relationship.
His program:
/. Free opportunity for farmers to
organize.
2. Fair and stable income for the
farmer. on an equal with city incomes.
8. Supplies of farm goods adjusted
to adequate home needs and foreign
demand.
Peace in Foreign Policy.
4. Foreign policies to encourage
peace with other countries and an
expanding market abroad for Ameri-
can farm products.
S. Conservation of the soil and other
natural resources
8. Turning below-standard land to
non farm uses.
Z. Crop insurance, to cushion the
shock Of drought, flood, frost and
plague, combined with the every-nor-
NAL granary.
8. Better opportunities for the man
with the hoe to own his land. and
increased security for tenants and
owner operators.
8. A higher standard of living for
the poorer farmers
10. Industrial policies to insure
abundance for wage earners and farm
ers alike.
Only two dangers threaten the
farmers future, farm experts said
European war or another drought.
Drought again would strain credit
and relief resources in some regions,
they predicted.
A war abroad. they said. might plug
up the outlets for much domestic cot
ton and tobacco now sold in foreign
markets, as the Spanish conflict al.
ready has blocked the market for GER
tain tobacco-producing regions.
World War Blamed.
Wallace and other leaders also claim
the World War. with its demands for
expanded farm production, piled up
the huge crop surpluses that con-
tributed to the agricultural depres-
sion of recent years.
plan for the Government to in
sure farm crops Is on the Presidents
desk. The insurance would start only
in wheat in 1888, but administration
leaders say Congress may include cot
ton and corn.
The President has indicated he
would press for aid to the nearly
100000 tenant farmers, varying
from Southern cotton sharecroppers
to renters Of fertile corn belt acres.
Some Congressmen have plans to
set up . Government corporation
to supply land and credit for de.
serving tenants, but Secretary WAL
lace favors improvement Of landlord
tenant agreements.
The soil conservation act, passed
by Congress after the Supreme Court
voided the original A. A. A., is dis
tributing $470,000, 900 in benefit pay
ments to farmers who participated
last year. Payments Of $500, ,0O0, 900
are planned for this year.
Secretary Wallace and farm lead
ers have said that crop control fea-
lures of the original A. A. A. should
be Incorporated in the Federal farm
program, because short crops and high
prices one year may cause overpro.
duction the next.
To accomplish this farm groups
have suggested that If . constitu-
tional amendment Is planned to as
sure Federal power over wages and
hours for labor, 1t also should include
power over agriculture.
The present soil conservation act
provides for shifting crop control to
little A. A. AS" in the 4S States
after 1887, but. since only six States
have set up this machinery, leaders
said Congress may abandon or delay
this shift.
A longtime national program for
aiding drought victims is indicated
by the Presidents Great Plains Com
mission. Members have advocated re-
turn Of many plowed acres to grass
and trees, water-conserving projects
and financial aids to drought victims.