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Advertiser Chandler, a pious, scholarly young Manhattan lawyer and gentleman , farmer, was simply following the lead of his cousin. Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr., stanch Old Guardsman, who had already threatened to grow & sell illegal potatoes on his own ancestral acres in the Genesee Valley. Well did Republican Wadsworth know that New Dealers had had no hand in attaching the drastic, punitive Potato Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against...
According to the new law, no one may buy or offer to buy potatoes which are not packed in closed containers approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and bearing proper Government stamps. Penalty: $1,000 fine; for a second offense, a year in jail, an additional $1,000 fine or both. No farmer, under the same penalty, may sell potatoes without such containers and stamps. No farmer can get the necessary official stamps unless he 1) pays a tax of 45¢ a bushel, or 2) receives tax-exemption stamps from the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get tax-exemption...
...potato growers this official red tape may prove worthwhile if the price of potatoes is boosted. For the rest of the 3,000,000 potato raisers it means nothing but trouble & tribulation. Only exception to getting a quota or becoming a criminal is for those pipsqueak farmers who regularly sell not more than five bushels of potatoes a year...
Such was the law about which the citizens of West Amwell Township complained. To enforce it Mr. Hutson was to have had an initial appropriation of $5,000,000, no great sum in view of the fact that the number of potential potato leggers far exceeds the number of potential liquor leggers under Prohibition. But as a further handicap the appropriation for enforcement failed of enactment with the Third Deficiency Bill. One private consolation Mr. Hutson had: the Supreme Court would probably declare Potato Control unconstitutional since the whole scheme depends on a confiscatory "tax" which makes no pretense...
...tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down the runway it careened like an insane bumblebee, finally bouncing into the air at the very end. Three minutes later, still out of control, it somersaulted into a potato field two miles from the airport, smashed to pieces. Pilot Allen was killed instantly...