FARMERS: 1937 Model

Borrowing a campaign simile from Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last fortnight compared his 1936 soil conservation program and forthcoming 1937 plan as follows: "The two will be as nearly alike as the 1937 and 1936 models of automobiles. We think we have perfected a new carburetor for the 1937 program."

Last week Secretary Wallace put his 1937 model on display for farmers' inspection. Costing the same $500,000,000, it was basically identical with the apparatus whipped together last spring after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As...

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