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From Cincinnati, earnest Socialist Norman Thomas broadcast: "The most wretched conditions on any large scale anywhere to be found in exploited America, exist in [the] cotton country. . . . These share croppers and casual day laborers of the cotton fields are the Forgotten Men of the New Deal. AAA has 'practically washed its hands of them and their problems...
Socialist Thomas erred in one respect. Department of Agriculture and AAA officials kept their mouths sternly shut about it, but last week the plight of Southern share croppers weighed heaviest on their minds...
...repair the old order, to rebalance what was out of balance, to rescue isolated groups from distress. But NRA alone, conceived principally as a Recovery measure, was a man-sized attempt to produce a new social and economic order, affecting everyone's method of earning a living. Under AAA and FERA farmers and the unemployed discarded old cards and drew new ones from the same old political pack. Only under NRA was the old pack thrown away and a brand new one brought forth. From it alone was dealt a completely new set of rights, rules and institutions...
...butter, eggs were at the highest levels in four and five years. Actually the farmer was not benefiting to any large extent because last summer's Drought had either depleted his livestock or boosted the cost of his feed. Nevertheless, U. S. housewives were mad clear through, and AAA officials even admitted that any further rise in food prices might have a serious political reaction on their plans for crop control...
...plan will be experimental for at least the next decade, for its results are dependent on a change of attitude and consequent revision of civil service laws. The Harvard graduates, now serving on federal agencies such as the NRA, the AAA, and the Securities Commission, are appointed. No one has definite assurance that these boards will not be abolished in a succeeding administration. The present dependency of business on government would seem to indicate, however, that the importance of well-trained officials will become an increasingly vital problem...