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1 Edmund de S. Brunner, Farm Act of 1933: Its Place in the Recovery Program 1 (1933)

handle is hein.tera/fmatprp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NATIONAL CRISIS SERIES ADULT SERIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SERIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SERIES THE FARM ACT OF 1933 Its Place in the Recovery Program This country cannot be permanently prosperous until it has a reasonably prosperous agricultural population. Ten million workers and thirty million people are dependent upon the farm for their support. A large proportion, perhaps the majority, are receiving meager return for long and arduous labor. -Planning Proposals of the Committee on the Continuity of Business and Employment of the United States Chamber of Commerce In this statement the United States Chamber of Commerce goes to the heart of the agricultural problem. America as a whole cannot be prosperous if thirty million people-in other words, one-fourth of the population of the United States-are not prosperous. The Seventy-third Congress called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed clearly to recognize this fact, for one of its first actions was to pass on May 12, 1933 the Agri- cultural Adjustment Act, the so-called Farm Act of 1933. This bill is intended to help the American farmer recover the eco- nomic position that was his during the years before the World War, in order to better the economic position of the whole nation. Such an intention is novel in the history of our govern- ment. The Secretary of Agriculture has stated that this Act is designed to substitute co6peratively planned agricultural pro- duction for the system in which each farmer did what seemed best in his own eyes. What kind of situation made this Act seem necessary? What are the terms of the Act? What will it mean? Will it succeed? Will it actually help the farmers, and if so how? These are the questions which this pamphlet will attempt to answer in so far as they can be answered at this time. I

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