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More than two months ago Secretary Wallace mobilized his Agricultural Adjustment Administration to fight Drought. Gallantly AAA waged its battle, paying farmers rent for dust-dry fields, allowing them to use Government-rented acreage to grow forage, buying more than 1,500,000 head of starving cattle...
Last week Secretary Wallace mobilized his followers for another battle, not against nature this time but against public opinion hostile to the New Deal's treatment of the agricultural crisis. As the great defensive system of the Germans during the War was the Hindenburg Line, so AAA last week relied on its own chief defense...
Grand Mobilization. Not on the Tugwell Line alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left...
While the rhetorical defenses were booming like long-range guns from Washington, other defenders were down on the actual battleline. At Fayetteville, Ark., AAAssistant Director for Production D. P. Trent was telling farmers that AAA is not regimentation at all, that "the most regimental form of regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah...
...Dealers are trying this fall to elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary drought in 40 years as an argument for abandoning the entire agricultural adjustment program. This effort to use the fact of the drought as an attack on the Agricultural Adjustment program is typical of the shortsighted leadership of the Republican Party from...