CORN-HOG CHEQUES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20454, 6 November 1934, Page 1

CORN-HOG CHEQUES.

Lucky Coincidence for New Dealers. WASHINGTON’, October 1. . The most significant inside news of politics right now is that the Administration is sending out corn-hog cheques at the rate of £200.000 a dav This money is going to 1,250,000 MidWest farmers who have about 4,000,000 votes in their families, and the election is only a month away. Figures may not be interesting, but ino better way has been found |of counting dollars, and votes. The figures show that, two months ago, the A.A.A. had paid out only £3,705,400 in corn-hog benefits. A few clays' ago, the total had reached £20,000,000. The significance is plain, j As election drew nearer, the cheques ! went faster. It would hurt the feelings of the ] New Dealers to deduce that this was | a put-up job. They admit it looks i rather suspicious, but they say they had to check and double check each ! individual contract. That held up j their programme for some weeks, so that it just happened to come before i the election. i It seems, therefore; that it is just j another of those happy coincidences | which always are happening nowadays I to aid the New Dealers who are, as j you must know, mere babes in the | political woods. One thing, however, cannot be denied. The smartest ! politicians in the world could not have done the corn-hog job any better.— I N.A.N.A. copyright.