The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-10
CAN'T TURN THE RADICAL BEAR
LOOSE

item. under Philadelphia date line, print
ed in The Times-NewS April 2, 1884:
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, frequent
target of charges that he is fostering regimen
tation of agriculture, stated flatly his skeptclsm
of the merits of foreible farm regulation here
TODAY His statement was made in address
before regional conference of dairymen and
contained a strong appeal for voluntary efforts
by the farmers toward production control and
the solution of other agricultural problems.
His expression of reluctance to embrace the
:compusion principle was Interpreted as reply
10 administration critics who recently were par
ticularly severe in charging that the new deal
wants to establish coleetivsm and to regiment
agriculture.
Giving Secretary Wallace full credit for
being sincere in his declaration made four
years ago, what is the present status OF
farm regulation and RECOMMENDATION?
Answers may be found on all sides. The
farmers know, and other classes of citizens
who keep their eyes open and keep abreast
OF what is rapidly transpiring in this coun-
try, also know.
Distinguished citizen of Charlotte made
the public statement in HenderSonville a
short time ago that down in that cotton
growing section one of his farmer friends
had been allotted 81 acres of cotton on a
two-horse farm; three-horse farmers al
iotment is IL acres. Cotton farmers and
others familiar with cotton farming know
what that means.
Gentleman who is a large owner of
aand in a northwestern State informs the
Times-News that government regulation
and RECOMMENDATION makes it impossible for
him to operate his farms according to his
own ideas and plans. The government,
through the U. S. Department OF Agricul-
ture, is managing his farming business.
AS stated, Secretary Wallace may have
been sincere in the statement made four
years ago, but concrete developments
prove conclusively that the Secretary has
either changed his views radically, or has
been pushed by the new deal into adopting
Ia course which he distrusts and thinks is a
false and dangerous course. g.. So
All of which adds up to the conclusion,
well established and proven in this and in
bother nations, that one of the chief dangers
of government radicalism is that once en-
tered upon it becomes more and more diff
ifieult to change nations course. One
foolish thing makes another imperative.
-Four years ago Secretary Wallace declared
that he did not believe in farm regimenta-
ton; today his department of government
rs up to its neck in farm RECOMMENDATION and
is moving with startling rapidity toward
farm eollectiyism or communism.
Gen, Hugh Johnson, in a late magazine
iarticle exposing some of the inside his
tory of the new deal, solemnly declared
that the most dangerous developments of
the new deal today are to be found in Sec
retary Wallace's attitude and in his de-
partment of the government.
Ii the central government is permitted
ltofdictate to, control and regiment the
Rural people and their farming business,
the certainty is that the American system
lof government will be destroyed. and will
ibeqreplaeed by agricultural communism or
isome other fantastic scheme of the new
dealers. That is the opinion of Gen. John
son. He knows.