The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-03-26
The Jackals Gather

a minor wonder of the Jungle that the buzzard
and the hyena will sit down peacefully to the feast all
mutual distru forgotten during the orgy Which somehow
brings to the fight the farm the
gathering round of hungry opponents of the agricultural adj
ministraton and its socalled action agencies
In that faction lies the motivation of least
of the strange collection of bedfeows currently ripping the
nations agricultural effort the back It's nasty fight
any way you look at It, and motives vary from petty Jealousy
all the sinister counterpart of fascsm itself Of
all in there punching at liberalism perhaps the land
grant colleges with their extension services and county agents
the understandable in motivation They thinking
back the good old days when the nations could
still rambe along the principle of finding
and exploiting them to the fullest At that time Ex
tension Service with its of county agents syled
oracle OF the farmer and could remain IN its secluded and
dreamyeyed educational rolea which has accomplished
resuts-whie knowing that would
fairly well for the farmer But then the startling
awakening at the end of the twenties.
action was demanded and it came along, in the form
handicap being relief organizations relief
needed given the highest the lowest in
form other The term still makes good nipng material
though it is the of the truth.
Fact is, the program conceived on the adjustment
principle that the country would again be caught by
the hoged nacon farm leaders exhibited in the past While
tied down the letter of congressional law the administra
ton has hoped each successive demand when voiced
by the people, throw off the hand of the farm bloc and
poax states with whom compromise has too often been nee
essary
AAA-middle A for adjustment-had retooled and was
geared for production before Pearl Harbor Farm
er-governmen money transactions days strictly
footing all canny aimed at helping the farmer
help the effort Wckards proposed incentive payment
for which has apparently lost the first
round has been tagged relief such would be outright
silly But when you anayze it in the light of rational
production without initiating the nation be-
yond the saggng pontthe air cleared The surest
to damn thing label it with already hated
The Extension Service, whether not understands
peril it endorses control of the
economy returned to it's lap and the weapon at hand the
weapon With shrug of scholastic shoulders they
hiding their dsaste for the other forces with whom
they're nked-forces which include the ancient Wall Street
brotherhood the congressional farm bloc and the National
Association of Manufacturers each with its obvious
ves for beating this child of liberal thinking to its knees
In giving farmers the power to produce and market col
ectvey according market trends the Agricultural Adjust
Program shifted much control to producers and
those who formerly had been farming the farmer
Through legitimate electoral government they became
controllers volume and price, formerly the gauy toys of
SPECTATORS fnancers and their tribe of dollar
shacked stooge organizations The Extension Service thor
oughy tied the apron strings of certain soaed farm
of the of aristocrac landed
gentryis inevitably made answerabe to the main
moneyenders through the unspoken code of arsto
Further powerful commercial factions control state
legislatures which pony part of the land grant college
penses And another angle of this fight is the big farm
CARNATIONS hope of beating the true farm organizations