Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
McNary 5aysG. 0. P.
Will Give Farmers
Better Program
Calls New Deal Farm Aid
Plan q Thing Of
Shreds and Patches

BY the Associated Press.
AURORA. Ill. Sept. Ex-senator
McNary told Corn Belt crowd to-
day that the New Deal had failed
to solve the Nations basic farm
problem" and predicted that 1.-The
next administration" would provide
better program for agriculture.
Addressing an audience OF farm
and city folk in his first major
speech since he accepted the Re-
publican vice presidential nominal
ton, Senator McNary termed the
Roosevelt administrations farm set
up "stop-gap substitute for some
thing better" and "a thing of shreds
and patches"
And I assert. in full confidence"
he added. that the next admins
tration will be able to provide some
thing better"
The audience, filling about half
of the 10000 seats in the grandstand
at Exposition Park, applauded his
demand for protecting American
markets for American producers at
American prices" his contentious
that the New Deal had failed to
increase prices by curtaiIing crops
and his critical comment on the
campaign addresses of his opponent,
Henry A. Wallace, Democratic can
didate for Vice President and for
mer Secretary of Agriculture.
Chides> Mr.. Wallace.
Mr.. Wallace, he said, had elected
to transfer his campaign from the
Farm Belt to Europe" This re-
called, he added. the young lawyer
with a weak case who asked a
change of venue to get as far from
the scene of the crime as possible"
The Oregonian stated that the
Republican party and the next ad-
should base a farm
program on greater abundance" in
stead of scarcity; that it should
seek enlarged markets and search
for a formula" that would put the
farmer ION the same footing with
other American producers, who sell
a. the American-not the world
price
Maintaining that permanent So
luton was not masquerade" Sena-
tor McNary declared "a substantial
solution merely involves national
program which will allot to each
farmer his fair share in the Amer
lean market upon which he will re-
ceive parity price. Such a plan
would assure the farmer his equit-
able share of the national income.
This desideratum can be accom-
plished through some form of an
allotment plan whereby segrega-
ton will be made of that part Of
the crop which is required for do
mestic consumption and that part
which is denominated the export
able surplus.
Hits Trade Treaties.
Definitely. we must not permit
the ruinous world price levels to
fix the price level of American farm
products. Too long a world of lower
:.
lower incomes, have fixed the price
Of American agricultural products.
Let us end that situation without
delay"
Discussing reciprocal trade treaties
in relation to his proposals, the
nominee asserted that the next
administration will not be bound
by the free trade dogmas of Sec
rotary of State Hull"
"It will reserve to the American
farm producer first access to his
own market" he said. TT will fur
ther, by every means, seek to en-
large the American market for farm
by improving the
consuming power of city consumers
and also by encouraging the indus
trial uses of farm raw materials"
Favors Farm Benefits.
Senator McNary made clear that
he favored soil conservation. parity
crop loans and other
benefits until the prolonged emer-
gency is past and the farmer is no
longer at disadvantage but he
charged that these systems were
plagued" now by red tape, favorit-
ism. confusion and delay" He con-
tended that they should be decen-
tralized and that costs should be
reduced.
The Senator said that the farmer
has taken a deeper pay cut than
the rest of U.s." and that his share
in the national income dropped
from more than 20 per cent in 1920
to II per cent last year.
He told the crowd that the New
Deal did not invent the farm prob
lem but added Its offense lies in
the fact that, finding agriculture ill
Of functional disorder, it made the
disorder chronic"