FARMERS: Kings, Queens & Apples

While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon...

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