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...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...
...average corn crop 1900-1936 was approximately 2,500,000,000 bu. Under the restricted acreage of AAA and its successor, the Soil Conservation Act, 2,500,000,000 bu. is also a bumper crop...
Transition- Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different...
...first Supreme Court decision day of 1936 Mr. Justice Roberts, reading the majority (6-to-3) decision on AAA, declared in slow, precise words: "The tax, the appropriation of the funds raised, the direction for their disbursement are but part of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end." For nearly two years since the Supreme Court swept away that New Deal mainmast, the Administration's farm policy has been sailing under jury...
Just what the new permanent farm program was to be was not known even in Henry Wallace's big, liberal heart. But through the fog of conflicting plans loomed the probability that the New Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated...