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...heels of the Farm Board's rejected proposal to plow under every third row of cotton (TIME, Aug. 24), Louisiana's energetic red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long last week called a conference to consider the cotton situation. To New Orleans flocked hundreds of State officials, factors, planters, millmen and plain farmers. The conference resolved that there should be no cotton planting in 1932, that the Federal Farm Board should buy up 8,000,000 bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such...
Into the chaos that is cotton the Federal Farm Board, driven to desperation by the failure of its other relief schemes, tossed a startling proposal. It was: Let the South plow under one-third of its cotton crop. The idea was not new. It had been suggested and summarily dismissed at a cotton conference at Austin, Tex. fortnight ago. Stocky little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi had revamped it into a suggestion that planters simply abandon one out of every three rows in the fields. Within 24 hours the Farm Board had filched the Bilbo idea (without credit...
...South was being asked to destroy about 5,000,000 bales of its cotton on the chance the other 10,000,000 would bring in more money. At $30 per bale this was equivalent to plowing $150,000,000 in good money back into the ground. As an inducement Chairman Stone promised that, if ten major cotton States agreed to the plan, the Board would withhold from the market its own 1.300,000 bales and get its co-operatives to withhold their 2,000,000 bales, making a total reduction of 8,000,000 bales in the 1931 market...
...madness . . . damn foolishness . . . just so much bunk," were typical of the epithets which Southern newspapers, cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board to buy up half of the 1931 crop...
...their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay and not bound by the injunction against Texas, Governor Murray fortnight ago ordered his highway workers to clear away the free bridge's barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your jurisdiction beyond all reason." Replied Governor Murray: "I bow to your authority over the State of Texas. You could probably muster more manpower than...