The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-27

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 the eye is a young feller of 40. Far
 from growing Bolshevik beaver, he
 looks almost too young, too boyish
 to grow any beard at all. Further
 more, he combs his hair. His eyes are blue. His get-up was blue-suit,
 shirt, tie, He looks like bond sales man, but of course you can't trust these Communists and there's no telling what tricks they're up to.
 The real secret of MT. Baldwins communism comes out when you examine his political paSt-he is a Virginia Democrat and (shh) he has voted for Harry Flood Byrd for senator three times. It was Senator Byrd, you'll recall, who led the fight on FSA in the Senate, though 1t was Senator Kenneth McKellar who called Baldwin a Communist.
 Tovarich c. B. Baldwin is known to his intimates by the nickname of "Beany." That was hung on to him from his middle name of Benham. The c. stands for Calvin. He was born in Radford, Va, where his father ran a grain mill. As boy, Beany worked around the mill and got to know the Virginia farmers and their problems rather well. He went to Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute, then came back home to work in the railroad shops and run an electrical business. In 1883, Henry A. Wallace as secretary of agricul- ture hired Paul Appleby as ore of his assistants. Appleby knew Beany Baldwin and brought him to Wash ington as a bright young man.
 BEANY
 BRICKBATTED
 It is of course the FSA program that was really under attack in the Senate. Baldwin just happens to be the man who Is directing the pro- gram and SO he has to catch all the brickbats thrown in that general di- rection. FSA can be criticized. It has made some mistakes. It did con- siderable experimenting in rural relief. About $1 billion have been administered by the agency since it was created by Congress in 1885 as successor to Resettlement Ad- n1inistration of Tugwelltimes. FSA has made loans or otherwise helped nearly a million farm families, which is about a sixth of all the farm families in the United States. About 80 per cent of its loans are, collectible. FSA employees number some 10000. Its administrative costs have run 5 per cent, due to the close inspection that must be made on its million of scattered small loans.
 Now there is obviously much in that program you can find fault with, but consider what FSA was given to work with. It was as- signed the job of bringing relief to the lower 50 per cent of the farm families, the group that gets only 10 per cent of the farm in- come. It was authorized to help only those families which could not get help from private banks, those families which had no col- lateral, those families which were the poorest risks. The average FSA loan has been about $500. The average annual FSA cost for bring ing relief to one of these poor fam- lilies has been brought down to $75 8 year, and that cost should be com- pared with the $400 or $500 it cost to keep city or town WPA family for year.
 HAVE A
 CHANGE
 Today, with a war on and with huge food production program under way, Beany Baldwin sees the first chance these low income farm families have had to get back on their feet. There is a shortage of farm labor. The one-family farm therefore has a chance, if 1t is steer ed into producing the needed vita min crops and steered away from producing the surplus crops of cot ton and wheat.
 Tn addition, Baldwin believes that the best way for these small farmers to help themselves is through cooperative effort.
 Mind you, these principals are 8 darn sight different from Soviet collectivism, where the state owns the land and the tools and the crop. These coop practices are the things that American small farmers have been doing for gen. erations. If belief in these things makes Beany Baldwin a Com .,a..x.snk snb~ xvns,ws rv~nVAAvnnffaVs