POLITICAL POTATOES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 141, 17 June 1938, Page 10

POLITICAL POTATOES

FARMERS' PRESIDENT TWITTED BY MR. SAVAGE (By Telegraph.) (From "The Post's" Reporter.) STRATFORD, This Day. The protest made by the president of the Farmers' Union, Mr. W. W. Mul- . Holland, about the proposal to sell surplus potatoes overseas came in for " some notice by the Prime Minister - during his Town Hall reception here . last night. After outlining steps that he and ' the Hon. Walter Nash had taken to 1 carry out the proposal, Mr. Savage ; said the next day, after the intention . was made known, there came the protest from the president of the Farmers' ' Union. • '-'Just fancy," he said, "a protest from ; the president of that non-political body, the Farmers' Union. He is damning | by bell, book, and candle everything the Government, attempts to do. I was not interested in potatoes as such, but I was interested in the farmers who grow them. We thought we would try and sell them for him, but there is a complaint because we do not do it through the Farmers' Union. Soon I will not be able to get up in the morning without asking the president of the Farmers' Union. He thinks it is Socialism when we try to sell potatoes, but it is not Socialism when we guarantee him 5s 9d a bushel for his wheat. Oh, consistency! I wonder sometimes what is wrong with our mental apparatus." •