Evening star., 1937-08-22

u ~ o0p9tcnes nave been going
Wv out Of washington about .
new crop-control measure.
ftsy began some two weeks ago, when
Mr.. Roosevelt Indicated 70 4 press
conference that he was going to ask
Congress to pass . new crop-oontrol
measure. He said It u made neces-
sary BY the Supreme Courts tnvalida-
tion Of the old A. A. A. crop control
. year and . half ago. True, the
administration has been using q kind
Of indirect, back-handed crop control
by means Of the device they call the
soil-oonssrvation measure. But Mr..
Roosevelt says that Is not enough.
There must be . new direct crop-con-
troll hw, one that will surely control
by the way. why do they call 1t crop
control? Why not farm control" or
farmer control? That's what 1t
will amount to-
With Mr.. Roosevelt's statement
events began to stir The New Deal
sfs began to press for the legislation
the President wants. In short, A. A.
A. u In again. There Is going TO be 4
eontinuo,nly larger now Of dispatches
about crop control out Of Washington
Dispatch Frsm Berlin.
Well, here y = dispatch about farm
control which did not come out OF
Washington-not yet. This dispatch
came from Berlin last month:
BERLIN, July 81 (P.-secret po-
lice, acting against food producers
who failed to cooperate In the four
year plan for economic self-suf1iciency,
today jailed three East Prussian farm
ers. They were said to have dis
regarded their obligation to deliver
milk quotas to specified dairies, feed
ing 1t instead to their hogs, and to
have marketed butter through boot.
lessers' to obtain higher prices"
And here Is another. This one Also
came from Berlin:
BERLIN, June 10 P.-The Ger
man government tonight ordered q
sweeping redistribution OF agricul-
tural lands BY pooling large numbers
OF small farms into collective enter
prises. The new Naz development
will rediStribute land within 4 COM
munity 20 ~ to . promote commu-
nifty ownership and operation Of such
land As can be worked efnciently In
common. Roland Freisler. state Sec
retary Of the ministry Of justice, de-
scrthed new laws Affecting the status
Of the farmer ~ an entirely new
status for the farmer Is . member
OF the national community. The
farmers function Is to make the
land produce what the nation needs.
and II constituted authorities find
he is insxcusably delinquent in ful-
f1llinS the function, no legal title can
save him from being thrown OF the
land to make room for some one who
Will produce"
I have yet another dispatch from
bsrim-thh one describes how one
German farmer was thrown OF his
land. He had 10 acres. He farmed
them In An easy-godng way. raising
just enough to live on. The NlE gov
ernment told him he must raise more
on his 10 acres. and when he did not
they turned his farm over to some one
who said .ls would raise more.
Will End Up Man Way.
Ipesent those dispatches from Ber-
lin. Readers will ask why I present
thsm-do present them to suggest
that anything like that u threatened
IN the United States? answer YES,
I present them for precisely that And
am not just suggesting 1t, am say
ing 1t. And am saying more Once
We start the Nad way OF regulating
our farming and our other economic
Affairs We shall end up with the Nazi
way Of regulating our education. and
our religion, and our art. and our
marriages and everything else
Some American farmers will read
those Berlin dispatches and think thev
see . distinction between the Nad
crop control and the New Deal crop
control. They will observe that in
Germany the Nazis compel the farmer
to raise more while In America the
plan is to compel the farmer to raise
less. But. as the Germans say. "das
macht nicht'-thAt makes no differ
ence. The principle is the same II
We let the Roosevelt administration
regulate reduction downward, they
can regulate 1t upward, too. For some
crops already. the idea Is to regulat te
upward. Whenever there Is 4 short
age Of one crop relative to another.