The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-27

GVGG yW1IGGGD HUI NAAy WKOP All hands are for Q farm bill, including the President, Secretary Wallace, Congress end the farrn- CTS. But on the vital question of what kind of bill Is wanted, there is . deep, wide chaSm of difference of opinion. Also, the makings of another major Demo- cratic blowup.
 Roosevelt wants . blll in which the emphasis ls on crop cone trol. Wallace, deeply bitten by the presidential bug, is on both sides Oe the fence. He is for crop regulation, but not too much regulation. He favors plan that includes crop control but only as Q reserve measure.
 On Capitol Hill, the Democra- tic n1ogulS in command of the agriculture committees are ice cold to crop control. They have arl entirely different idea of farm legislation. They want Q bill that puts no curb on production but gives the farmer Q guaranteed price. What they are after is price stabiliEation by means of . government subsidy.
 The formula most favored for this is the so-called domestic allotment plan.
 Under this scheme the govern rnent guarantees e parity" price on that part of c crop required for normal domestic consumption. The surplus is "dumped" abroad at the best price that can be got for 1t, or stored in ware. houses. The Treasury bears the cost of the difference between the parity" price and the world price.
 Cactus Jack" Garner
 Chairman of the House and Senate agriculture committees are Representative Marvin Jones, @ Texan, and Senator 'Cotton Ed Smith, o South Carolinian.
 The fact that these two South erners, through the operation of the rule of seniority, head their respective committees Is of the ute most importance because cotton is the explosive clement In the farm bill fight.
 At this point enters' CACTUS JACK GARNER, grlxzled vice. president of the United States and highly talented At giving the White House headaches. His interest is cotton.
 Garner is very much opposed to crop control. He wants ufl- limited production end govern ment-guaranteed prices. More- over, he has great influence not only with Jones and EnAith but also with powerful sections of the Democratic membership irl both houses of Congress.
 et.ll further, Garner is Q leader of the group that is bent on wrestling control of the Demos cratic party from the President in order to nominate c "safe'' candidate in 1040.
 Under cover there is bad blood between Roosevelt and the willy Texan. And the farm issue is not going to improve relations between them. Already White House intimates are girding themselves for Q kn0ck. down. and drag-out battle with Gar. ner and limiting that an open break ls not improbable.
 The farm issue may prove to be the detonator that will blow the lid off the boiling Demo- cratic cauldron and precipitate the long threatened wide-open split, with consequent far-reach- ing political reverberatiOns. The impending struggle has al the makings of such an explosion. II Is as loaded with trouble as a hand grenade.
 cotton VS COCCOn
 / While the cotton situation is political dynamite, not all the cards are in Gamers hands.
 The cotton bloc is far from united It Is split into two fac. tions. One, representing the "0ld" cotton states-Alabarna, Mis- sissippi, Florida, the Carolinas-- where the average farm and yield is small, leans strongly to conl- pulsory crop control. The other consists of the thew" cotton states -Texas, Arizona, California where the land is fresh "rAnChes' large and production is becoming itiechanized.
 Able to raise cotton profit. ably at Q lower cost than the "OId" area, these states want no limitation on output. They want full scope in going after foreign markets. With part Of their OPP THE RECORD