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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

conditions that prevailed from
1909 to 1914 to establish a base
period for stabilized farm prices
and parity payments. There is of
course vast difference between
subsidy and a dole; a subsidy
being sum in cash sufficient to
seduce and induce a farmer to
muzzle his honest convictions and
barter away his own as well as
his fellow farmers civil and prop
erty rights.
1t was these subsidized farmers
under the leadership of the Triple
A and the Farm Bureau that made
possible the twice amended agri-
cultural act. 1t was the MIRA and
the Triple A that the Supreme
Court found guilty of violation
of civil and property rights. 1t
was special three judge federal
court in the State of Ohio that
held invalid the forty-nine cent
wheat penalty on the ground that
it amounted to taking the farmers
property without due process of
law. II was the AAA that reduced
the acreage of the small wheat
growers of the nation to less than
twenty acres yearly and led them
to believe that they were eligible
to vote in the wheat marketing
quota election only to find them
selves disfranchised on the ground
that they were growing less than
twenty acres yearly, in compliance
with Triple A dictation and con-
troll. For this yankee" trick of
DISTINGUISHING voters at the polls
there is no precedent since the
days Immediately following the
Civil War designed primarily to
make sure and certain that the
AAA could appear before the Con-
gress with a mandate from ma
iority of the wheat growers If the
nation in order to amend the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act in any
way the New Deal Triple A and
the ClO and Sidney Hillman's
Political Action Committee saw
NJ, with the aid and approval of
the AFBF. II has been claimed
by officials of the AFBF that the
policies OF the Farm Bureau have
their origin in the local units of
the federation. There is no evil
dence that the Triple A or its
policies originated in the Farm
Bureau locals but there is evidence
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

Having received many COM
munications from the AAA, in
which you are an official, during
the past years urging the i'm
portance Of quotas, goals, and i'm
centive payments, and explaining
how this farm, that operate as a
tenant farmer, might, earn this,
that, and the other, ! am enclos-
ing a copy of the record of New
Deal farm relief Legislation that
l have written, inspired by indig-
nation, resentment, Illustration,
and defeat at being forced TO be-
come an economic nomenity at a
time when billions were being
squandered. | learned many things
during the thirteen years of CON
troll and subsection of farmers who
produce the food of this nation
but there is one thing never
have learned and that is, just
when did you become qualified for
farm leadership and who per-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

cution of little pigs for a theory
of government at the command of
his Chief is at heart inherently
brutal.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Roosevelt fiddled faddled, sur
rounded by political parasites and
ruled the nation by executive de-
cree. Now that the "King" is
deed and Harry the Hop, and for
eign born Sidney Hillman and the
many times amended Triple A
and the OPA have gone with the
wind, and Henry Wallace stands
exposed as the last surviving hope
of the forty devious characters
that composed Roosevelt's inner
government to regain their politi-
cal prestige in the nation obtained
through the original Agricultural
Adjustment Act, is there any valid
reason why farmers should again
be burdened with enforced price
controls ON basic farra crops at
the request of a nondescrlpt Pres
ident who appealed to Almighty
God to ala him in carrying out
the policies of dead President
whose theory of government was
based on uncontrolled federal
spending, an ever increasing public
debt with rigid price controls for
basic farm crops to support a
planned economy and every liberty
of action COR organized labor tine
most successful of the many pres
sure. groups during the years of
the Roosevelt dynasty, who helped
put him in office and whose un-
taxed millions was used to keep
him there for which organized
labor was permitted to write its
own legislation. The success of
organized labor as pressure
group is clearly demonstrated in
that it now requires ten bushels
of three dollar wheat, or three
barrels of ten dollar corn, or one
hundred pounds of thirty dollar
hogs to pay a brick layer for a
days work, whose taxable work.
ing equipment can be carried
under one arm, while farmers, the
only people willing to work long
hours without time or overtime
pay are forced out of production
by OPA ceiling prices.
The story of the success of or
gained agriculture as a pressure
group is contained in the report
Of Ed Oneal before the Senate
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

majority of the people of this, ma
ton, and that truth, honesty and
integrity are blessings divinely
bestowed, and the heritage of
every civilized human being and
cannot be lightly cast aside at
the first opportunity to grab some
thing for nothing without violat-
ing the rights of others. Man
created in the image of the
Creator, endowed with al! the
qualities that segregate mankind
from the beasts of the fields and
forest. 1t is most unfortunate
that subsidized farm leaders
should revert back TO the proverb-
ial Democratic jackass; "all ears
and hee-haw" braying for Federal
!subvention and more New Deal
law.
Is it not strange and significant
that the Triple A should 60 hack to
the administration of President
Taft, that another meddlesome
Roosevelt deprived of a second
term in the White House, to es-
tablish a base period for parity
payments and that many farmers
are low depending or the honesty
of another Taft to prevent return
to price controls on basic farm
products in peace time. Believing
as | do that no man should hold
office in an organization whose
policies he cannot defend on any
and ell. occasions | shall certainly
expect to hear from you in de-
Tense of parity and OPA ceiling
prices that BACKED out much of
the benefits of farm Legislation.
If you should find yourself some
what handicapped by having been
the recipient Of subsidy and a
salary, suggest that you seek the
aid of County Agent o. w. Ander-
son, who has wandered so far
afeld from his original. line of
duty and his Chief T. B. Simons,
of the Extension Service and Ed
Oneal who probably have all the
answers obtained by direct contact
with the pig-killing ex-Secretary
of Agriculture Henry Wallace Of
whom President Roosevelt said
nothing was too good, and vice
president Garner said, Henry is
not bad at heart but his theories
Of government are extremely dan
gerous to our way Of life, and !
say Of him that any man that
would order the sacrifice and exc
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

finance committee on February 20,
1888, reporting for the New Deal
planned economy program dt the
request of the President IF the
United States and his brain trust
or political jack-ass. In this re-
port he represents the farmers
as opposed to subsidies and as
favoring or demanding a dollar,
honest. sound, hard, and fixed as
to value. | have never learned
whether he had in mind the dol
lars obtained from the professor
of farm products and distributed
so lavishly to some farmers. The
Next important statement from
him to the public was the amount
of limit in billions the public debt
might safely reach under planned
economy, laround sixty billion If
l remember correctly. The next
we hear from him he is urging
OPA ceiling prices for basic farm
crops to keep down imitation, to
make inflated dollars honest, sound
and fixed in value and id hard
Tor farmers engaged in general
agriculture to get a sufficient
number of them to meet the in
creased cost Of production. In
l946 price controls blew up be-
cause the 0PA held the line a lit
tie too long and squeezed the
goose that laid the golden eggs a
little too hard. Gf Il - s..
The one thing that | am now
the most concerned about is
whether the Farm Bureau, and
subsidized lnechapized one crop
farmers, and Bernard Baruch a
leftover from the defunct MIRA
VIII again succeed in bamboozling
farmers into going along with
price controls with the promise OF
price support two years after
world peace has been established.
In view Of the fact that the
triple A and the OPA destroyed
themselves by unfair and unsound
methods, would suggest that in
any future farm program that
farm leaders respect and defend
the rights Of the opposition as
represented by small farmers, free
enterprise and the traditions OF
thls nation to which we owe our
continued existence as a "Democ-
racy".
DAVIS W. SIMPSON,
Viers Mill Road,
Route 4, Rockville. Md.
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suaded you to become entangled
and involved with New Dealism in
which the Triple A performed
major part in the subsection of
farmers?
| have no doubt that when you
read the above query, your first
thought will be it is none of my
business and ] insist that you are
mistaken. Any organized action
that effects my welfare is very
much my business and have
made it my business TO do my
part in exposing the fallacy of
farm. relief under New Dealism.
lnasmuch as II was the subsidized
fat cats within the numerous af-
filiated associations that compose
the AFBF in corporations with
Henry Wallace's Agricultural Ad-
justment Act that formulated the
restrictions and controls Of agri-
culture that takes us back more
than twenty years to economic
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

Now that the baseball season is
about ready to get underway there
are people in who will be able to
forget the European crisis.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

The country's improving; nobody
pulled an April Fool joke on US
this year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

Those who depend not upon 9TH
ers will not be disappointed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-04-22

The nirvana of the average
American is plenty of money and
no work to do but it, too, remains
a dream.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Scientists 10 Measure
Size, Shape Of Earth
During Partial Eclipse.

A partial eclipse Of the sun will
be used this spring by United States
scientists as a gauge for better
measurements of the earth's size
and shape.
DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president
Of the National Geographic Society
announced that an expedition will
leave the country In March to set
up seven observation posts in the
path of the eclipse which will sweep
across Asia and the Pacific May 8-9
The Army Engineers, Signal Corps
and Map Service, the Air Force,
Navy, National Bureau Of Stand
ards, Coast and Geodetic Survey
and State Department will cooper
ate in the project.
Location of Posts.
The observation stations will be
set up In Burma, Siam, China,
Japan, Korea and the Aleutian Is
lands.
In an "annular" eclipse the moon
appears slightly smaller than the
sun, and at the height of the eclipse
a narrow ring Of "annulus" of light
can be seen around the moon. The
scientists will use this situation to
make measurements which will tell
the earths shape and size more
accurately than before. It will make
better maps possible.
The observers will clock the time
the moons edge begins to obscure
the sun, when the ring of light
around the moon first appears,
when the ring disappears, and when
the sun and moon lose contact. The
differences in the time these stages
are viewed at the different observa-
ton points will enable the scientists
to calculate the distance between
any two stations with errors of no
more than $50 feet.
A close measurement OF the
moons distance at the time of the
eclipse, necessary to the other CAL
culations, will be determined by the
observations in Japan and Korea
The distance between these two
observation points will be known
precisely before the eclipse because
Of previous studies.
At the two Aleutian stations,
two Air Force B-29's will stand by,
ready to photograph the eclipse
from the air If clouds obscure the
view of ground observers. Shoran
radar navigational equipment will
be used to determine the precise DO
sitions of the planes with respect to
the ground stations.
Errors of Mile Found.
Despite use of the best methods
now available, 1t was pointed out
the locations of many spots on the
globe are several hundred feet
of, and the error in some cases IL
as much as a mile.
Observation points and leaders
Evening star., 1948-01-26

will be: Wu-k'ang. China, the Rev
Francis j. Hayden. director OF
Georgetown College Observatory
aided by DR.. Y. G. Chang, q Chinese
government astronmer: Mergui
Burma; E. A. Halbach, Milwaukee
Wis; Bangkok, Siam, Prof. Charles
H. Smiley, director Of Ladd Obser-
vatory, Brown University, Provi-
dence, r. l., assisted by Prof. G. w.
Miller Of the university's physics
department; Cho-nan, Korea, Dr.
George Van Briesbroeck, Yerkes OBJ
servatory, Williams Bay, Wise; Re-
bun Jima, Japan, japanese scien-
tist; Kiska and Adak, 1t. Comdr
Clarence r. Reed and Clarence A.
Shelton Of the Coast and Geodetic
SURVEY.
Evening star., 1948-01-26
Home Rule Study Mapped

The Federation OF Businessmen's
Associations has called a special
meeting at 8:15 pm. Friday in the
American Security and Trust Co.
Fifteenth street and New York
avenue NV. to consider the Auch-
incloss plan for District home rule
Louis r. Frick, secretary, an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-01-26

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Evening star., 1948-01-26

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flee Protects cigarettes from dust, eliminates
scattered tobacco bits. Holds 20 cigarettes. As
sorted color plostics
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
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call State $3.50
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Tie with NY. dims
Hawks faint hopes

A FTER last Sunday nights
IN hockey game at the Sta
dunn, the dim hope that the Black
Hawks had of finishing fourth in
the league standings and clinch-
ing play-off berth had become
a Pickering flame about to go out.
The Hawks practically skated
the New York Rangers into the
ice and broke in alone on Sugar"
Jim Henry, Ranger net minder, at
least ten times. But Henry, who
played brilliant game, was equal
to the occasion.
When the final siren had sound
ed, the best the Hawks were able
to accomplish for the nights eff
fort was % tie.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
BY AL VAUGHN

II WAS bending elbows with
a couple of old fight
cronies of mine couple of
weeks ago, right after District
Attorney Frank S. Hogan of
New York asked Eddie Eagan,
New York Boxing Commission
er, what he intended to do
about the tie-up between the
underworld and the fight game
in their fair city.
Coming behind the Billy Fox
Jake LaMotta farce, we fight
fans felt this a most important
question.
Eagan answered Hogan ex-
planning that it is not function
of Boxing Commissions to in
vestigate tie-up of this type
but the duty of the District At
torney's office. AS "Alphonse
and Castor" proceeded to make
a political football out of the
question, we began probing our
brains to remember just what
constitutes the duties of Boxing
Commissions.
IT HAD always been our
understanding that the Commits
sions had an obligation to see
that the interests of the fan and
the men who ply their trade of
fisticuffs in the squared ring
were protected at any cost.
However, as we travelled back
along the memory lane of box
ing to substantiate this under
standing, these thoughts were
recalled.
On February 10, 1898, Ernie
Schaaf, a conscientious boxer
who a few months before had
been terribly battered by Max
Baer and who should have been
%in hospital bed, was led in
stead into a prize ring to be
kayoed by Primo Camera in
the 18th round. Shortly there
after Schaaf died.
ON THE BASIS of this fight,
Primo Camera was built up as
killer and while the Boxing
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Big Nine

The Iowa Hawkeyes have tied
the Wisconsin Badgers for first
place in the Western Conference
basketball title race with a 10 to
81 victory over Illinois at Iowa
City. The Hawks and the, Badg-
ers have won six and lost two.
NorthweStern's Wildcats defeat
ed Ohio State, Al to As, in Evan
ston, to tie up the race at the
bottom of the standings at two
victories in eight starts each.
Purdue edged out Minnesota,
So to 81, on the Gopher floor. In
non-conference games, Wisconsin
whipped Michigan State, 81 to 80,
and St. Louis university van
quished Notre Dame, SO to 81.
Iowa's Murray Weir is pacing
the Big Nine scoring and needs
II points, 10 per game, TO better
the conference mark.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Just what does the boxinq
cornish do TO earn its keep?

toughest fight, the fight for life,
alone.
WHEN we at long last arrived
at the sign post on memory lane
which reads "the present." we
heard the anguished cry that
went over the nation when
Jimmy Doyle, who had been ill
for many weeks, and had no
business trying to fight, finally
succumbed to the blows of
Sugar" Ray Robinson in
Cleveland ring. We chalked up
another death to a lax boxing
commission.
We thought of the many over
matched fights like the Shamus
O'Brien and Tami MaurieIlo
mockery in Chicago, where the
fight fans spent their hard
earned cash expecting to see
an even match and were Bit
terly disappointed.
The so allie d "non-tifle"
fights where champion coasts
through ten rounds and the only
loser is the fan flashed before
us.
SUDDENLY the dawn broke,
we had completely misunder-
stood the purpose of Boxing
Commissions in our great coun-
try. For through the years, they
certainly had not protected the
fan and the fighter.
The only thing they had done
expertly was to pose for pic
lures showing their smiling
countenances and gaining a
great deal of free publicity.
They must be able to do some
thing else. We were completely
lost in a dense fog as to their
purpose.
Perhaps Commissioner Eagan
can show us the way out of
this complicated m axe we
blindly stumbled into. He gave
beautiful explanation of what
Boxing Commission is not
supposed to do. Perhaps he can
do as well in telling us just
what it is supposed to do.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

last Sunday afternoon in a 3. A. A.
game before 5,295 fans.
The triumph moved the Chi
cago five up to second place in
the Western division.
The Warriors playing without
the services of the fabulous Joe
Fulks led 31-17 at the half. But the
Stays, spanked by Max Zaslofsky,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Bowling

A virtual unknown, Emil Wansa,
from Lincoln Park, Mich, suburb
of Detroit, took the $4,000 first
prize in the 38th Petersen Indi-
vidual Bowling Classic at the
Archer 35th Recreation last Sun
day night.
The 29-year-old kegler, whose
fast but accurate hook toppled an
amazing 1,716 pins, will meet
Buddy Bomar, Semo Stavich, and
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

sent the US. should have been
settled here, not in Switzerland.
Brundage and his Olympians dis
graced American sport before the
alleged symbol of athletic purity
the flaming Olympic torch.
Possibly you saw the picture of
a reverential guy in plus-fours
lighting the torch signaling the
opening Of the games. He really
needed light in those dark mo-
ments. What the hell goes on
here? Anybody see anything of
international amity? The USOC
Brundage yawping) thunders it
will yank all US. winter. COM
petitors out of St. Moritz if the
rival us. hockey combination
(AHA is permitted to play.
.
THAT sounded the Olympic
battle keynote. The Swedes then
charged that the games were SIM
ply a gravy project for st. Nor
itz hotels and shop keepers. The
Swiss promptly defied the lordly
USOC and, mark you, Brundage,
too.
The winter Olympics shift in
doors. Embattled us. Olympic,
Init. Ice Hockey Federation and
Swiss badge polishers VIII e
aWay at each other.
FOLLOWED a free for all
among the players during the
Canada Sweden match. Ameri-
cans also snapped wallops with
Poles in their meeting. And the
speed skaters were in high dud-
geon over some ruling. The US.
skaters threatened to strike. Such
goings-on!
AS Olympic leaders, Brundage
and the USOC are a pain in the
neck. Brundage especially should
be given the heave-ho.
1t was Brundage who expelled
our matchless swimmer, Eleanor
Holm, in mid-ocean, from an
Olympic team. Caught her slipping
a healthful glass of wine! Sent her
home to what he thought would
be public scorn. 1t was-for him.
IT WAS pious Brundage, with
a rush of "simon-pure" amateur
ism to the knob, who speeded to
Canada when he heard that adj
niring townsfolk had presented
little Barbara Scott with an au-
tomobile. A token of esteem for
the little lady who had won the
worlds figure skating honors
Under a Brundage threat of pro-
fessionalism, Barbara tearfully
returned the gift to her admirers.
Heart-warming incident, isn't it?
And Brundage's USOC hockey
boys who travelled to Moritz and
didn't get to play? "We were the
fall guys for the Olympic Com
mittee," asserts one of them. He
also thought the USOC never
really felt its team would be ac-
cepted by the Swiss. Another
unused: at sure made American
sports smell"
It sure did, brother.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

4u9 40AAA1X 4O03AAA o1 AA ASSSs
shortly after he killed Ernie
Schaaf in the ring.
Commission closed its eyes he
was catapulted into a world
championship fight with Boston
Jack Sharkey which he won
with an invisible right upper
cut to the jaw. Not only had a
lax Boxing Commission killed
man, but it had allowed his
death to be an agent to one of
the greatest debacles in fight
history.
At this point the sad story of
Lem Franklin came back to
haunt us. Lem was a boy who
had come up the hard way. He
had only two things to recon-
mend him as fighter, power
full right hand and a strong
heart. We watched him battered
time after time until what little
brain power he had was COM
pletely gone. Franklin's career
finally came to a close, but thru
no effort of the Boxing Com
mission.
Inevitably, one night in Chi
cago ring, the rest of his body
already dead, his strong heart
stopped and Lem Franklin sup
posedly did the rest of his fight
ing in the hereafter, leaving a
large family to carry on the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Who asked for
this Brundaqe
anyway?
BY ED HUGHES

nNCE again it has been war
Vim our time. Remark the
bloodiest of all Olympic wars -
the opening of the 1948 Olympic
winter sports.
The blame for the st. Moritz
hockey mess can be unloaded on
the shoulders of Avery c'SDorts
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

is fun, amuse-
ment and recre-
ation") Brundage
and his U. S.
Olympic Com :
mittee. Whether
the A m a t e u r
H o C k ey Assn.
t e a m or t h e
u S &C out fl t
were to repre-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

Paul Krumske, who finished be-
hind him in that order, in a 81 900
four game roll-off next Saturday
afternoon at the same alley.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Pro basketball

The Chicago Stays bested the
Philadelphia Warriors 80-74 in
double overtime in the Stadium