POLICY OF CONTROL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 229, 30 September 1935, Page 7

POLICY OF CONTROL

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE A.A.A. PROVIDES PERMANENT BASIS DEFENCE BY ROOSEVELT Received Sept. 29, 7.30 p.m. I FREEAIONT (Nebraska), Sept. 28. Mr. Roosevelt stopped on his tri] west to make an important speech oi agricultural policy before 20,00( listeners. He defended the Agricultun Administration Act, including the cur tailment features, although he ad mitted that the law contained soim imperfections which were being re vised from time to time as experienc dictated. He recalled that on hi campaign tour of Nebraska three year ago wheat was 30 cents and corn 2( cents a bushel. He said that durin; tho past three years, under the A.A.A. the farmers had gained an additiona 5,300,000,000 dollars, and to a grea extent their debt burden had beet lifted. Answering charges that agricultun was under dictatorial control, he sai< that tho Government was merely facili tating co-operative action amonj, farmers. “The A.A.A. is democracy ir the gold, old American sense,” he said. He indicated that he did noi consider it merely an emergency mea sure, but the basis for a permauenl national agricultural policy.