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...except by briefs, in defense of the law's constitutionality. That the Court might decide the case of Lee Moor in some fashion without passing on the Act itself was possible, but Secretary Wallace admitted, "We are prepared for the worst." Meantime, bound for Atlanta were some of AAA's experts, going to attend a series of pep meetings for the purpose of convincing the South that cotton crops could still be restricted by the bounty of AAA even if the penalties of the Bankhead Act were declared illegal...
...Government was back in the Supreme Court this week to defend AAA in the second of its two cases. First of the AAA cases was the suit of Hoosac Mills to be excused from paying processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. The hearing, which began week before (TIME, Dec. 16), concluded last week when onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, after arguing that processing taxes were "robbing Peter the processor to pay Paul the producer," dropped his voice and declared...
...below normal, it does not represent as stiff a cut as has been demanded by Southern Senators who want to boost the price of cotton. This fact, in conjunction with the smaller reduction in corn planting and no reduction at all in hog raising, indicates AAA's present belief that farm prices are not likely to flop, that those who want still higher prices are less to be feared than the loss of markets, the howls of consumers...
...every conscientious objector to the AAA program and to its un-American and apparently unconstitutional measures, plant a potato patch," exhorted Clubwoman Newkirk. "Let every such potato patch bear a sign in large letters to proclaim the protest far & wide...
...days after Mrs. Newkirk's letter went out, John B. Hutson, AAA's potato director, announced that the automatic tax-free potato quota would not be 5 bu. (as fixed by law) but 50 bu. (as fixed by executive discretion). Republican ladies could still infringe the law by selling a few bushels of potatoes without applying for a quota but to do a good job of law defiance they would have to tear up considerable shrubbery around their homes and do some sizeable potato landscaping...