HUSBANDRY: Critic Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge last week indulged in his first major criticism of President Hoover. Just as the Federal Farm Board was preparing to spend its latest $150,000,000 in the wheat pit to peg prices,

Citizen Coolidge dug at the whole policy of Government stabilization in one of his daily news-syndicate articles.

Never personally fond of President Hoover,* Citizen Coolidge wrote: In the general field of agriculture, government interference in an attempt to maintain prices out of the Treasury is almost certain to make matters worse in stead of better. It disorganizes the whole...

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