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...announcing the two-price system by which farm surpluses will be distributed to undernourished Americans, Secretary Wallace has produced a plan in which farmers are no longer the main beneficiaries. Timed to forestall the mounting criticism of the AAA, the program presents a poser for die-hard critics, for it includes the good points of every sound program suggested in recent years...
...prices, except insofar as it was not drastic enough in the face of huge carry-overs from the bumper crops of 1937. The necessity of some sort of reduction was recognized even by Hoover's Farm Board in the waning days of McNary-Haugenism. So far, the AAA has operated to the direct advantage only of the nation's farmers. Much has been said of the indirect advantages to the nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity of this argument, high food costs have consistcutly held down the living...
...voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...
...President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley on a dark night." On AAA: "I was number eight in a brood of ten. Under this New Deal ... I never would have arrived at all. Or, had I been fortunate enough to have seen daylight . . . little Henry Wallace or Dr. Tugwell . . . would have knocked me in the head and plowed me under...
...Roads to Disaster." AAA's misfortunes have already revived a host of rival farm panaceas. Most popular is the long talked of "domestic allotment" plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would...