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The Barnwell PeopIe^Sentiiiel, Barnwell, S. C, April 12, 1934
News Review of Current
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Events the World Over
Revision of the Railway Labor Act Demanded by Eastman;
First (Quarter of 1934 Shows Business Improve-
lent; Turkey Orders Extradition of Insull.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
I MMKDIATE comprehensive revision
of the national railway lab^r act
to expedite and enforce the settle
ment of disputes between the railroads
and their employees
and to safeguard the
right of collective
bargaining, was rec
ommended by Joseph
B. Eastman, federal
co-ordinator of trans
portation, In a letter
to Representative Sam
Rayburn, chairman of
the house Interstate
commerce committee.
His outstanding rec-
J. B. Eastman ommendatlons wero
these:
The creation of a new national board
of adjustment, divided tnto four tnde-
pendent parts, whose awards would be
enforceable In the courts.
The substitution of a new national
mediation board of three members for
the present board of mediation of five
members.
The inclusion of all companies which
operate equipment or facilities or fur
nish service Included within the defini
tion of the terms "railroad” and
"transportation” In the Interstate com
merce act.
Provisions similar to those In the
temporary emergency railroad trans-
portatlon act of last year, Insuring -
"the complete divorcement of r&ilroad
employees and managements In the
choice of representatives to deal one
with the other” and providing ade
quate means for the enforcement of
these provisions.
The a Hi
•* *1X7 IIC1 iM'lfrt 1 vJJ
would be divided Into four independent
parts to adjust disputes arising from
grievances or from the interpretation
or application of agreements between
the railroads and the employees. Each
division would be composed of an equal
number of representatives of manage
ment and labor. In case of a deadlock,
a neutral member would be appointed
by the national mediation board.
P RESlDtffcT ROOSEVELTS leader
ship received Its first important set
back when the senate, following sim
ilar action by the house, overrode his
veto of the independ
ent offices approj
tion bill carrying the
veterans’ and federal
pay provisions. The
vote In the senate was
63 to 27, or three more
than the required two-
thirds. In the house
the vote was over
whelming, 310 to 72, a
margin ef—SS more
than the necessary
V*'-. SK —Ov
T HE first quarter of 1934 proved
the most active In business since
1931, with some lines, notably automo
bile production, making the best show
ing since 1930. The easing of the la
bor tension with the settlement of the
automobile controversy was followed
by the announcement of principal
steel companies, and some other in
dustrial concerns, of 10 per cent In
creases In wages.
Spreading of the movement to In'
crease the compensation of labor was
viewed hopefully by merchandise dls
Irlbutlon lines and producers of con
snmers goods. It has added a new
element of uncertainty over costs.
Some buying of steel developed In ex
pectatlon of price Increases, although
production continued little changed,
Just under 50 per cent of capacity.
Retail trade has experienced a pre-
Easter shopping season widely de
scribed as the best In four years.
Wholesalers are running Into a sea
sonal lull, but retailers are hopeful of
a continuance of expanded volumes of
spring merchandise as warm weather
arrives. Seasonal lines have been
moving in large volume.
S AMUEL INSULL. fugitive utility
magnate, has learned that Uncle
Sam has long arms. He thought him
self safe aboard the chartered freight
er, on which he escaped from Greece,
anchored at Istambul, but Uncle Sam’s
long arm tagged him and he ww ar
rested by the Turkish authorities. The
council of ministers Immediately or
dered his extradition to the United
States. Two eminent Turkish lawyers
on behalf of Insull filed an appeal with
the supreme court of Turkey against
the extradition order. They ask the
court to examine the legality of the
Indictments, claiming that the council
of ministers acted agalnlt Turkish law
la ordering the extradition.
Unless the former utilities magnate
la able to perform some new wonder,
his year and a half flight almost half
way arotind the world has been
brought 4o as end. - _
Megnwhile, Washington officials arp
g plans to expedite Insult's re-
to the United States. Whether he
jhall be trihd on state or federal
charges, or on both, Is a point that has
not yet been decided. The Issue de
pends on the terms under/which Tur
key surrenders hlm\ /
munlsm'; It la not that, either. It Is
not a driving regimentation founded
upon the plans of a perpetuating di
rectorate which subordinates the mak<<
ing of laws and the pcocesses of the
courts to the orders of the executives.
Neither does It manifest Itself In the
total elimination of any class or In the
abolition of private property."
{VOME JwknesaetL-qn^ of the most
^ magnificent Eas&rs in Its Tong
history as the capital of Catholic
Christendom. To the usual imposing
Easter ceremonies in St. Peter's
cathedral were added {bis year, by
special will of POpe Plus, the solemn
liturgical rites canonizing Dom Gio
vanni Boaco. hnmble Turin priest.
Easter also ertded the holy year pro
claimed by the pontiff In commemora
tion of the nineteenth century of the
crucifixion. Eighty ..thousand people
pressed Inside St Peter’s for the
canonization ceremonies and the pon
tifical mass afterwards, and nearly
300,000 more were estimated to have
crowded Into St Peter’s square.
Among the crowds were 100,000 on
pilgrimages from many different coun
tries.
President
Roosevelt
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Such Fears, Such Worries
The President Succeeded
Man Prosaic, Woman Soars
A. Bandit Face Lifted
The government once kept oat of all
business, sow it runs every business.
Including farming. Senator Battey of
Asm
two-thirds.
The* blU Is now a
law, and Its passage is of high signifi
cance, aa it throws the budget esti
mate out of kilter and adds greatly
to the tax burden of the people But
of more Importance Is the evident fact
that the President bsi lost his firm
grip on congress. Fear of reprisals by
war veteran voters In the coming elec
tions proved a greater fear with many
TtPTTim ■ ..H» ■nnntnnii thon dtsnlftaO.
ure of the President
Restoring two-thirds of a 15 per cent
pay cut voted for a million govern
ment employees, including military
and naval personnel, *ln the economy
act last summer, the bill also greatly
liberalizes compensation and pensions
to veterans of the World and &panlsh- { kOt it
American wars. *
North Carolina says of the Bankhead
cotton bill limiting crops:
*Tf the Supreme court passes that,
1 should know the end of all things
had come In America, and 1 shall pre
pare for the Socialistic regime and
dictatorship.**
However, facta count American
farmers In 1933 received In cash $3,-
271,000,000, an increase of $1,158,000,-
000 over 1932. Much oratory and So
cialism wsuld be needed to wipe out
"■"fact like that— —
This Increase of more than a bil
lion Included cash of innocent taxpay
ers, paid by the government to farm
ers for plowing under crops Instead
of letting them grow. But farmers
are not particular about bow they
\
National Topfcs Interpreted
, • by William
W EARY from the strain of dose
application to the affairs of state,
President Roosevelt departed for a
short vacation aboard Vincent Astor's
yacht He headed for the warm
dimes of southern waters to fish and
relax for a week. It was an unprec
edented move for the Executive to
leave Washington while congress Is In
session;
go when
yacht before taking" the Presidential
reins, the President greeted his cronies
aboard ship and waved his hat to a
rousing farewell from the folks on the
dock at Jacksonville, Fla., where he
boarded the yacht - \
With carefree happiness he posed
for the photographers and joshed the
P^W8p$tp&f men. He chatted eager!
with his eldest son; James, who joined
him here for the cruise.
~ 'For " The next week of mortr'tfie f Secretary Ifckea,
President will be fishing and swim
ming, away from .the heavy cares of
office.
A CTING under the power delegated
** to him by President Roosevelt
under an executive order, National
Recovery Administrator Johnson ap
proved an amendment
to the bituminous coal
code Imposing a five-
day week of 35 hours
and revising Its wage .
scale upward, figured
on a $5 base with dlf^
ferentlals, on the En
tire bituminous coal
industry. The amend
ment Is subject to a
hearing on April 9.
Authoritative sources
in Washington agreed
that the operators wpuld accept the
amendment, at leasL until after the
hearing and that the threat of a strike
Is avoided at leakt until after that
hearing by the action of the NRA head.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, Issued a state
ment praising the action of the ad
ministration and promising the co-op
eration of the union.
Gen. Johnson
0
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IN THE foreword of bis forthcoming
1 new book, "On Our WOv,” President
Roosevelt says If his administration
"is a revolution. It Is a peaceful one,
achieved without violence, without the^
overthrow of the purpose of estab
lished taw and without the denial of
just treatment to any iDdividuai or
cl
he proofs of the foreword, given
ut by the publishers, the John Day
company, read:
"Some people have called our new
poller ^fMclsm.* It la not fascism
its Inspiration springs from
mass of the people themselves
rather than from a dais or a group
or a marching army. Moreover, it la
being achieved without a change In
fundamental republican method. We
have kept the faith with, and In, oar
traditional political Instltutiona
"Some people have caled it ‘com-
NITED STATES DISTRICT
JUDGE JOHN C. KNOX qf New
York upheld the minimum rate fixed
by the dyers’ and cleaners code In
what was officially declared to be the
federal government’s first appearance
In qourt on a clean-cut Issue involving
the national recovery act.
Thp decision held that the govern
ment was entitled to a judgment re
straining the Spotless Dollar Cleaners,
Inc., a concern operating some 32
stores In and about the city, from per
forming services for patrons at less
than the code fixed minimum prices.
R was charged fn tho sult that the
defendant company was dry cleaning
men’s suits for 89 cents each and wom
en's dresses for 45 cents apiece as
IgftTMt the m and 75 eent ~mtnJnnnn,
respectively, fixed under the code.
rendering this decision,” wrote
JudgeN^nox. "I know full well that It
may be a^istinct step beyond the
boundaries wiich in peace times have
been said to circumscribe the. powers
of congress, w defendant be Immedi
ately restrained from ^continuing Its
violation of thelmlnimum prices of the
code, anc^ my conclusion should here
after be held to we erroneous, great
damage will be Its portion. Therefore
I will suspend the operation of the In
junction -for ten days. Within that
period defendant can apply to the
Court of Appeals Tor further delay.”
A USTRIA’S new corporative constl-
** tutlon, aa published In {he Official
government gazette, gives the presi
dent powers similar to those possessed
)»y the late Emperor Franz Josef when
he ascended the throne after crushing
s republican revolution In 1848. The
president will rule through the cod-
stltutlon. but may change it whenever
he thinks an emergency demands. The
constitution will be based on the. prin
ciple that all power emanates from God
—in contrast to tise present one, which
•ays all power emanatet from the
peopled
The bill will cost the goverment
an additional $210,000,000 annually.
It eliminates retroactively as of Feb
ruary 1, 1934, one-third of the federal
employees’ pay cut and an additional
third on July 1. The cost to the gov
ernment under the provision will be
$26,000,000 for the period from Febru
ary i to July 1, and $126,000;000 an
nually thereafter. "
The increased amounts for govern
ment workers and veterans will come
from the general revenues of the gov
ernment.
Washington.—One ef the outstand
ing eigne te be noted In the Washing-'
toi “ political ail—
Wake* Up tlen these da;
Minority the renewed co
and strength /being
gathered by the mlaertty. There is no
longer any doubt about /it. The
minority in the government, consist
ing, first, of dyed-in-the-Wool Repub-
Ucans and, secondly, sf Aid line Demo
crats. who canaot edits follow all
items of the New Deal have begun to
pull back. For the first time since.
President Roosevelt came In, there is
at least a real "Opposition parfy.””X»"
tuts students/of politics and govern
ment Insist it Is s most healthy sign
and that It wtll make for better govern
ment In/ihe end.
There has been opposition to a great
of the Roosevelt policies here-
s considerable portion of
lt/has been Just silent mumbling “fiBff
Austria, a little country, whittled grumbling. Most of them seemed to
down by the Versailles treaty, man-7^ afr ai d 0 f the widely-advertised
aged by Dollfuss, of size to match, Roosevelt popularity throughout the
now la planning ‘‘muzzling” of speech, country. Mr, Roosevelt Is popular,
prssa, theater, radio. That kind of/gor- more so, perhaps, than any President
we have had la many years, but the
Works administration
J. has gone out of existence, and this
relief organization bedame the works
•rnment action leads to revolutl
surely as sitting on the safety valve
leads to explosion. Men not allowed
to talk, print or broadcast will do
something worse, and ypu can’t pre
vent that.
This country showrf an occasional
disposition to muzzle something, radio
being the object qf a muzzling desire
Just now.
Radio shonld^be as free as the print
ing press. If radio -had existed when
.. . , . „ . , _ ^ our Constitution was written, its free-
dWBk™ of. tb. Federal Eiaergeac,| dom ^ ^
Relief administration.
under mu natie n mn use some
1000000 remaining from Its recent
perhai
/•of the press was guaranteed,
more emphatically.
to provide relief for states, which are
in turn to pass the money along to
cities and counties.
For a month district agents havjt
been working to perfect the ma<
ery for the change.
Meanwhile, administration officials
made it clear that Industry yras not
support so represented does not ap
pear to run to all of bis proposals.. It
certainly does not apply In favor of
all of his subordinates. The “oppo
sition” now appears to have found out
these facts and they are concentrat
ing their attack. **
- I noticed the first signs of it in de-
bato In the house sf representatives
and In the senate where a desire was,
and la, plainly evident to call a halt,
New Deal plans are not being swal
lowed without mastication any more.
trend, however, appears to be in the
tesdency of the opposltron to qiWgnou
lanks to President Roosevelt, and . . . . ,, . .
Ise attitude of employers and ' contlnued enactment of . every kind of
/employed, the automobile strike that ] f
i ’ 1
would have taken millions a day In 1
wages from the workers Is adjusted.
The President has set up a "board of
conciliation”; one labor man, one rep-
gency needs.
ler the guise of emer-
Everything up to this
of unemployment, absorbing the for
mer CWA workers. In a
cautiously
slow allotment of public works funds
was originally responsible for the cre
ation of the CWA, said that $1,041,
310,468 of federal projects from the
$1,300,825,370 Allotted for such works
by the PWAywere now In the construc
tion contract stage.
Of thin sum, the secretary added,
$936,400,490 represented contract
awarded.
resentatlve of employers, one
traL"* ' /
The main point Is
O El
J\ „
EPRESENTATIVES of the flour
milling industry decided to op
erate without a code of fair competi
tion, _ Their rejection of tfro NBA and
AAA marks the first refusal of an en
tire Industry to« accept the adminis
tration’s recovery plans. The decision
to go ahead without NRA affiliation
came after nearly nine months of
fruitless negotiations with the NRA
and AAA officials.
Government officials were represent
ed as considering a legal test if the
millers do not reopen negotiations.
There was some talk that the millers
might be put under a license.
The millers, contend that the code
offered would have brought ruin to
the Industry and would have forced
up prices of flour beyond the ability
of consumers to pay.
C HARLES G. WOOD, federal com
missioner of conciliation, . an
nounced hfs resignation In a sharply
worded letter to Miss Frances Perkins,
secretary of labor.
Mr. Wood charged Miss Perkins with
"having fallen down on her Job,”
through a failure to take the lead In
reconciling Industrial belligerents. He
accused her of having caused Presi
dent Roosevelt and General Johnson,
national recovery administrator, to
"devote precious time to do the work
which the congress obligated yob to
perform.”
i-SKT'
Wirt, superintendent of schools at
Gary, Ind., that some of President
Roosevelt’s advisers wanted -to ieati
the government into
communism are to be
Investigated by a com
mittee of the house of
representatives Doc
tor Wirt will be called
before this committee
to name the man or
men whq toty him
that President Roose
velt Is merely the
"Kerensky of this rev
olution” and that the
radicals within the Dr * w * w,,,
administration are seeking to foster
a revolution by prolonging misery and
destitution In this country.
Republican members of the house
were determined that the inquiry will
not b* confined to the Wirt allega
tions alone, despite an apparent de
sire on the part of Damocratic lead
ers to narrow the Investigation’s scopei
Democratic membari of tbe house
were making an effort to confine the
Inquiry to the allegatlbns made by the
Gary educator alonta Under preasura
from Republicans, however, it wan
agreed by tbe Democratic leaders that
the Been named by Doctor Wirt will
have te be called.
• towm
».imi
that "the decision of the board shall
be final and binding on employers and
employees” That means compulsory
arbitration In place of disastrous
strikes And inevitable violence.
lit la due to the President for
taetfnl management, and Mr. Green,
dent of tbe American Federation
•f Labor, not boasting of victory, as
less sensible men would do. says:
"There is no basis for a claim that
either side, employers or employees,
bas gained a victory over the other."
time has been pushed through with a
loud cry of '“emergency!” Some- of it,
if not most of It, was emergency legis
lation.—But now everybody with a
pet scheme is rushing In with It as
the statement “ emergency ” le S l8,atl ?P‘ iMJlJs an
'new-
overworking of that word that has
brought about concentration of the op
position forces, according to the con
sensus that I have been able to gather.
From what I have been able to see, it
Is a re-enactment of the old story of
giving the calf too much rope; It Is
choking Itself to death. '
The importfqtce of this ’trend, per
haps, Is best pointed out by the fact
that there are dozens of units of the
New Deal setup that are predicated
wholly on the fact that they were pro
posed as a part of the general pro
gram for recovery. I think none can
-doubt that the depression Raft pre
sented an emergency Just as great as
any arising under, i war. But when
Man’s inclination Is to follow the
rut Woman craves Independence.
Adam would have been satisfied with _______
doing nothing forever. Eve would eat, war was "concluded the emergency
tbe apple. Dr. Mary Walker would ^ as over, thea and there, and emer-
wear men’s clothes. She once called £ enc y legislation was neither passed
on this writer while wearing them, congress nor sustained In courts.
Now, (J |ie might possibly conjecture a hit as
and the sight was startling,
when you see fat ladies waddling in where the emergency ended In the
purple combination pajamas and g 6 * t* 1 ® economic structure
"pants,” you long for thin Dr. Mary back * prosperous footing, but the
Walker, with tight trousers, cutaway new developments certainly show a
coat and stovepipe hat
The latest cry of independence Is
a protest against the hair dressing nui
sance. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, mar
ried four times, who knows her mind,
announces a "one-woman revolt”; she
has shaved her head and will wear
considerable number of leaders hi
congress and outside who arq unwill
ing to have the emergency continue
forever.
It might be natural to assume that
the movement to halt enactment of
emergency legislation had developed
naturally from the fan that this Is
an election year for the 435 members
wigs, any color she likes. Says she:
"This hair-dressing business has be- j of the house and some 35 members of
come a racket They get a woman In, the senate. Political analysts of long
give her a shampoo and a wave, and service and able judgment assure me,
for the rest of her life she Is their however, that this is not the whole
slave."
Ordinary crime, and supercrime,
which is war, adopt swiftly modern
Ideas and Inventions. War seized oa
the airplane And poison gases. We
might hot yet be flying In earnest had
planes not been needed for killing.
Dillinger, the bandit now at large,
his btfnd broken up, two sentenced te
death, a third to life Imprisonment, to
said by police to have had bis face
“Ufted.- cbanged In rarious ways, by
plastic surgery, a mole and a deep
scar, taken from his chin. Police show
beauty parlor receipted bills found in
Dllllinger’a abandoned lodgings.
Mussolini held anr election recently,
tbe businesslike idea being to let vot
ers vote patriotically “In their own
time,*’ not Interfering with Work. It
was a plebiscite, tbe opinion of tbe
people was desired, and Mussolini sim
plified matters by writing oat the pro
gram as be wanted It, putting no other
program on tbe ballot, tip us saving ink
and paper. His Judgment was sound.
Oct of 10.000.000 votes, he got about
9,900,000. showing “a machine In good
working order.”
Some dethroned bosses in this coun
try, Democrats and Republicans,
should sit at tbe feet ef tbe Mus
solini Gamalieh for a while. They
would learn someth Ing.
Dr. Walter Williams, University •(
Missouri president bead ef one of the
most ably managed schools of Jour
nalism, back from a trip around the
♦world, says, "War, anywhere, to a tang
way off. No raaponalble statesman of
any conntsy want* it and the people
•* meat countries are warslck.”
4k Mas MMaramoteat* las-
WlfU a»nrtM
case. They say that existence of a
campaign probably has strengthened
the backbone of some of the opposi
tion but that the trend more properly
represents the divergence of thought
in the two schools of students of gov
ernment If that be true, as it ap
pears to be, then we may expect to see
more and more assaults on the Roose-
velt position. Every time he slips
with an error of Judgment or on bad
advice—and he Is human % and those
sltron can be counted on to make the
most ef It
For example, and as Indicating how
the lineup Is changing, attention need
only be called to the
Changing opposition that has
Lineuo ' been ® n ®9 nn t®red in
^ v the house on new
agricultural legislation. Most of these
bills are designed te go further than
the program laid dewn In the agricul
tural adjustment act, and to use com
pulsion where the present New Deal
philosophy has been based on volun
tary co-operation from AS rlcuI l ur ®i
itself. There tre half a dozen or more
pieces of legislation, tbe nature of
which need not be recounted here, that
would give tbe federal government
added control ef farmers’ affairs. One
of them, for Instance, would give the
secretary of agriculture authority to
tell a farmer what to do with the
land taken out ef production by bis
agreement te limit acreage of cotton,
•r wheat, or corn, or tobacco. Most
observers hero construe that legisla
tion aa giving the government absolute
lomlnattoa ever the farmer, and I sus
pect that moat farmers are not going
to atqnd ter that -
At any rate, thto mi ether propoaala
are moved forward because there hr
’emergency." But I have seen
yignf of • reaction among the farmers.
They are signs that never fail. Rep-
resentatives from agricultural areas
have been getting mall from home and
there are many of tbe house members
who now Insist It 4s time to call a
halt .Frankly, I hear frequent sharp
declarations that the professors in ths
administration have gone far enough.
That means votes against the bills.
Yet the professors are hard worker*
They never cease to turn out new
plans, and the proposals continue to
flow from the White House te the
Capitol—Among the newer projects to -
one that proposes to establish a set of
goverament banks to aid what the
promoters describe as the small busi
ness. The plan contemplates creation,
of the regional banks much after the
manner of the Federal Reserve banka,
with the treasury supplying the Ufc-
tlatloa capital of. $14io
600,000.
• • •
Here, again, is an emergency meas
ure. It to pointed out, however, that
the project Is do
’Banking for signed for perma-
Industry ” ency - " l ’'
* fore, a move by
which the federal government, through
a step-child, would be put Into lie
business of banking for Industry, and,
of course, once that happens, the sys
tem will hang on and on. It will hold
so much commercial paper, represent
ing loans, Ihat there really will be no
time when it can qu
business.
I was talking with
known senator about
other day,_and be rot
and retire froi
rather well
e plan, the
his private
H e mig-
of the Industrial loan ayst
strongly influenced hy- politl
being
and
that this condition surely would lead
to the making of loans Improperly
secured, loans that no sound bank
would dare make.
“I win tell you. Just how far tba
thing could go,” he added. “It could
easily reach the point where, if
business man wanted to borrow mocey,
he would have to go into the bank
oa the arm of an office holder.”
And this senator is a Democrat, a
member of the senate for years! ’ftfe
incident Is related here, however, be
cause It shows the line of cleavage
that has developed. It demonstrates,
Indeed, that no longer Is legislation
being put through congress just be
cause tbe administration wants it
Another piece of legislation that la
going to have rough sledding is the
Roosevelt tariff adjustment proposal
It says on the face of the bill that It la
emergency legislation.- Down in the
text, however, there Is a provision
that any of the international tariff
agreements reached under provtsiens
of the bill may be renewed and that
they will continue. In YOrce as long as
one nation or the other, parties to the
-accord, do not give-notice of cancel
lation. Tbe opposition holds this to
be - a proposal for permanent legisla
tion under .the guise of emergency/
plans.
Some ef the few Republicans left in
the senate and house have been chid
ing the Democratic leaders about the
tariff proposals of the administration
because they would delegate the
President and the tariff ^ommlsslen
more authority to revise rates upward
or downward than now exists. The
Republicans are recalling to their
Democratic friends how the Democrats
fought against this idea when It was
proposed by President Coolidge and by
President Hoover; although neither of
those Presidents Included Interna
tional agreements with the rate re
vision Idea./ Quite a humorous situa
tion has developed as a result
/ • • • •
Officials of the Department of Agri
culture admit little about reported
/ criticism •taiey re-
/ Farmer9 ceive. They con-
1 Object tend that criticism Is
to he expected and
that, under the AAA plans being
oum>7 molded by Administrator Davis, the
* organization and rules are 'to he kept
flexible. I understand, however, that
there Is quite a bit of objection reach-
die. department about the neces
sity for farmers allowing government
agent* to examine their records. The
reports I get are to the effect that
since most of the facts have to be
gathered by county representatives of
the Washington government, many
farmers do not like’the feea of neigh
bors knowing all about their affair*.
I have Inquired around to find out
whether there is any wqy that such
a condition can be corrected and have
found no answer, except the state
ment* ef the high officials who apgne
that there Is little examination neces
sary. The condition seems to be one
that must be expected if the concerted
effort contemplated by the AAA prin
ciples of crop control are to be effec
tive.
The situation Is one that obviously
and naturally develops as4bt govern
ment wades further and further Into
private business. Most persons recall
the circumstances that came with th*
inauguration of the Income/ tax as a
system of raising federal revenues.
Business men objected vigorously t*
granting government agents the right
te dig Into thefy books and recorda
bnt their fight was to no avail
• Sr W«t«ra N«w*p*P«r Union. .
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