ATTACK ON CROP CONTROL PLAN

Southland Times, Issue 23375, 6 December 1937, Page 5

ATTACK ON CROP CONTROL PLAN

ROOSEVELT FORMULA OPPOSED BY BORAH

EFFORT TO REGULATE LAW OF ECONOMY DERIDED

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 5, 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 4. In a typically vitriolic speech attacking the Government’s contemplated measure for crop control, Senator W. E. Borah (Republican) alleged that the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) “admits that 40,000,000 people are underfed, yet Nature’s bounty will be deliberately destroyed.” “We cannot permit this condition to continue, for we will rear a class of human beings who will be full of revolution and disturbance,” said Senator Borah. He declared that attempts to regulate the law of economy through an Act of Congress were laughable and opposed to mankind’s experiences over 2000 years, and he demanded that the Government purchase excess crops with which to feed the needy if it takes the last dollar in the Treasury.