Evening star., 1943-05-22
Hearings on Funds
For FSA Speeded
By Senate Group
Subcommittee Gets Plea
To Restore House Cuts;
Session Slated Today
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Expecting bitter fights ahead
over the Farm Security Admin
istration and the crop insurance
Senate Agriculture APP
preparations Subcommittee sought
today to complete hearings on the
annual farm money bill in record
time.
Chairman Russell called the sub
committee into an unusual Satur-
day session in the hope that hear
ings could be concluded next week.
C. B. Baldwin, farm security ad-
ministrator, appealed to Senator
Russel's subcommittee Yesterday
for restoration of funds cut off by
the House.
The bill carried s7O7,O4s ,S44 in
direct appropriat for the vari-
GUS farm functions as it left the
House
Mr. Baldwin. Senator Russell told
reporters, asked the Senate sub
committee 10 vote his agency $36,-
607753 for rural rehabilitation
loans instead of the s12,O0OO0O the
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Credit Admin istration for that pur-
pose
Another se7,5O0.o0O for crop and
other loans to needy farmers is
sought, instead of the s4O,OO0OOo
recommended by the House.
Told of Projects Deficit.
The Senate committees hearings
got underway in the wake of heated
discussions over the FSA before a
House group investigating the
agency. The latter committee was
told yesterday that FSAs Casa
Grande (Arizonap cooperative
farming project, which had been
cited as one of the most successful,
probably will result in a loss of
s5OO,O00 to the Government, and
Representative Zimmerman, Dem
ocrat, Of Missouri asked:
Isn't that just another way of
dividing up the wealth of the coun-
try?'
No. sir replied r. w. Hudgens,
assistant FSA administrator, who
presented the testimony, and who
maintained throughout that the
agency had been the victim of
subtle campaign TO discredit it.
Chairman Cooley directed Mr..
Hudgens to furnish the committee
with more complete data on the
Casa Grande project.
Misquoting Charged.
From DR.. George Mitchell. another
FSA assistant administrator, the
House committee heard the conten-
ton that any similarity between FSA
cooperative farm projects and Rus
sian collective farming is wholly
accidental
He also Sald he was misquoted by
a Puerto Rlcan newspaper CWorld-
Journal to the effect that he advo-
Gates long lease tenure of farm
land. subject to cancellation when
it is demonstrated that the lessee is
improperly using the land"
DR.. Mitchell, native of Rich
mond. Va, now is in charge of the
FSA branch Office at Cincinnati He
told the committee he wanted to
make it plain he had consistently
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land ownership policy for the United
States as a whole is stralght-for-
ward private ownership of family
type farms
Tugwells Role Queried.
Mr. Zimmerman asked what part
ReXford Guy Tugwell, now Puerto
Rican Governor, had in setting up
the 13 cooperative projects which
FSA inherited from the old Reset
tlement Administration.
He was kind of a daddy to these
projects?' Mr.. Zimmerman asked.
He was our first administrato tor"
the witness said.
Mr.. Zimmerman remarked that
there was deadly parallel be-
tween the American and Russian
systems of collective or cooperative
farming and that it appeared to him
to be more than an accident, par
ticularly since Mr.. TugWell, as a
private citizen. had previously
studied the Russian system at close
hand.