The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-06

Job of carrying out the farm policies laid down by Congress,
 Tn trying to explain all this poll- tleal peace on the agricultural front, it won't do to jump tho agricultural COW over the moon while holding one to the toll of c conclusion that the Roosevelt administration has ct last found the perfect farm policy. Nor will 1t do to assume that farmers are universally happy, Farmers are never without complaints, and the mid.western farm states are gen" erally conceded by the polls as tend- Ing towards Dewey,
 FROM CROP ROTATION TO
 POLITICAL ROTATION
 If the pells are right, this will amount to repudiation Of the Roosevelt farm policy, even though farmers are now making more money than they ever made in their lives and should be singing to beat that lark in the south 70, Political dopesters, however, explain that farmers are normally Republican when prosperous,
 Grateful creatures that they are, they must Do fixing to vote out of office the Democrats under whose mlnistrations they have become prosperous. It's vicious circle Farmers having been sold on the benefits of crop rotation, they carry out the theory to political rotation
 Another factor which leaves the Department of Agriculture tfeer of political criticism than in past cam paign years b that there ore other government agencies available to catch the blame. Principally, there is OpA with It's ratiening festrie" tIens on gasoline, tires, trucks and the other things which farmers buy; It's price ceilings on grains, feeds, livestock and oil the other things the farmers sell, 1'hlS year oPA Is the goat and the whipping boy, rolled Into one,
 War Food Administrator Marvin Jones and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wiekafd have been contrib. uting greatly to tho departments peace of mind by c studied policy of not leading with the chin and Of keeping out of the papers. Judge Jones in particular is one of the most Rdroit non-seekers Of pub. lielty in Washington, and his policy of keeping his mouth shut has paid off in keeping WFA and the Depart ment of Agriculture out of this years political turmoil.
 By relaxing controls wherever possible, WFA has, however, con. tributed its bit to the adminlStra- tion'S need for keeping the voting clients conscious Of the fact that things have been worse and are get- ting better WFAS recent orders, releasing rationing controls on milk cans, pressure cookers strokes. That these orders come just before an election Is of course purely coinci- dental.
 FsA KEEPS TO sIDELINES
 The new Farm Security Admin istrator, eX-Congressman John M. HancockA has likewise been shun. ming the limelight aS much as pose oAbASt 996 AAto bGGAf AbAt " AAAha- date some of the worst hangovers from the Tugwell resettlement era, and the congressional criticism Of FSA has died down somewhat since the former administrator, 0. B. Baldwin, jumped the government fence to range in the greener pas. lures of the 0. I. o. Political Action Committee, which he now serves as assistant chairman under Sidney Hillman.
 This trick of being able to oper- ate Q government department with- out having everything and every- body in a continual state of turmoil is something that many admlnIstra- tors never learn. It doesn't neces- sarily mean that a bureaucrat has to sit back and do nothing to have his agency kept on the tracks of peace. But 1t does indicate that government agencies can be run as 1 quietly and as efficiently as a good business organization should be. And in final analysis, the test of perfect government is to have 1t function ing so smoothly that the citizenry T T.