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The C^liamLer and
the Super-New Deal
By FRANK A. THEIS
"Farmers don't need a wheelchair fabricated of government benefits," says the new President of the K. C. Chamber of Commerce. "But business, agriculture and labor must champion their own respective interests, and recognize the rights of others."
AS KANSAS CITIANS, it is important that we have a complete understanding of the agricultural problem in our trade territory. I doubt very much if the business men in this town have given the time that is necessary to bring those two very important groups together in a mutual understanding: the group of agriculture and the group of business.
Back in 1937, I said, in a speech at Dallas:
"In Farm Board days all of us were considerably disturbed over the illconceived experiment in price-stabilization and so-called orderly marketing, which if continued, no doubt would have completely wrecked our future market and our present system of distribution. We foresaw the doom of this scheme; but many persons took exception to our criticisms as selfish outbursts against what many accepted as a sincere attempt on the part of our government to lift agriculture out of a depressed state.
"Since then a myriad of laws has been enacted to relieve other groups in the period of depression until gov
ernment control has been extended to every conceivable group and type of business.
"Set up to deal with 'emergencies' (and how that word has been mutilated!) arising out of the droughts and economic disturbances, these socalled temporary measures are being enlarged upon and extended in the direction of complete governmental control of all social and industrial groups under the pseudonym of 'planned economy,' which in effect brings centralization of power and destruction of the open, competitive theory of trade. It is a plan for regimentation with a concerted nationalistic viewpoint."
A number of my friends criticized me quite severely in 1937 for making that talk. Today I think you all realize that that very situation has now come to pass.
I would like to quote editorially from the October 6th edition of "The United States News" on the three main branches of our social and business life. This is entitled "SuperNew Deal in Making":
"The underpinning now is being