Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-06

Agriculture
Duplication
lroned Out
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY LYNN NESKET

81, MdICn D. - AlLnOuRh
Shrouded IN what the members hope
IS secrecy, terms of the agriculture
subcommittee recommendations on
duplication Of activities in expert
mental and market work have be-
come pretty well known. The main
point at issue was the test farms now
operated by the Department of Ag-
rlculture and which State College
wants. The subcommittee will reco-
mend that the test farms continue as
at present, They further will recon-
memo that duplicate and triplicate
ol,1llce-holdlng be eliminate in both
the college and the department. This
is directed at several situations, one
OF them being the three jobs held by
Dean Schaub, as dean of the school
OF agriculture, director of extension
ana acting director of the central
experiment tsatiOn. On the question
OF marketing, and OF some other
MINOR points the matter if left to the
two departments 10 work out mutual
agreements
Sub Sub Committee Overruled
IN tneSe recommendations the sub
committee Overruled the recommen-
datlon OF its "super-suds'' committee,
as the group of five men named as a
sub-sub-committee to give further
study to the matter, have been dub
bed Finding that parliamentary pro-
cedure did not admit a sub-sub the
boys jocularly called it the super
SudS. This group of five was known
10 nave recognized strong views on
the test farm matter, and a majority
OF them was known to be in favor of
changing their administration. The
campaign for removal of the test
farms was fostered by the Farm
Bureau, which has all its strength
IN the east and in few counties there.
Three OF the five men on the Super
sudS'' were from these counties. The
other two were from the Piedmont
section. There wasn't a western man
named on the group. The full sub
committee was more representative
OF the State as whole and looked
at the matter from a broader point
of view.
The full joint-committee on agri-
culture will receive the report early
next week, and while there will un-
doubtly be some opposition to it,
chances are much better than ever
that it will be adopted. Feeling is so
strong among the group, however,
that a minority report is quite posi-
BILE.
Secrecy Insisted Upon
Veteran legislators have expressed
amusement at the lengths to which
the group studying duplication have
gone to preserve secrecy. Executive
sessions were the rule; and in this
case the term meanst just that. FL
nance and appropriations committees
held many executive sessions, but al
ways outsiders were admitted upon
pledge of divulging only results and
not the procedure by which results
were obtained. The agricultural sub
committee and the ''super-suds" COM
mittee not only didn't admit outsid-
ers, they didn't admit members of
their own full committee, and they
have tried desperately to keep any
body from finding out What they did
while in session.
Hope for Accord Voiced
Workers at the college and in the
department, as we'll as agricultural
leaders throughout the State, have
voiced the hope that the committee
action will end the prolonged dis
pute. These actual workers have not
been so much interested in the poll
teal ramifications or the ramifica-
tons or the contests for authority
which the chiefs have waged. They
want the issue determined so their
work for the Improvement of farm
ing conditions can proceed in a nor
NAL way. Not many of them ever
come into personal contact either with
Most of them, and this correspond
Most fthem, and this correspond
ent has Interviewer several dozen,
have not seen evidence of the SER
ious effects imputed to duplication"
and they regard the whole thing as
scramble for prestige by some So
called leaders who want to point to
great accomplishments as the basis
for continued tenure in their present
posts.