23 FARM LEADERS URGE REELECTION OF BOB
23 Farm Leaders Urge Reelection of Bob Official, farmers Union Laud Senator for Agricultural Aid Bob's Debt Assistance Program Wins Praise from Hones and Other Midweslern Farm Leaders WASHINGTON,...
...Led by Kenneth Hones, Colfax, president of the Wisconsin Farmers' Union, the 2'3 farm leaders unanimously recommended the re-election of the Wisconsin senator after praising his record in behalf of the farmers...
...U is for this reason his support, after such deliberation, will have considerable "weight in passing the measure this session...
...So far as I knew...
...23 Farm Leaders Urge Reelection of Bob Official, farmers Union Laud Senator for Agricultural Aid Bob's Debt Assistance Program Wins Praise from Hones and Other Midweslern Farm Leaders WASHINGTON, D. C—The enthusiastic support of the Farmers' Union was thrown to Sen...
...Vigilance, Work' Guide to Sound Political Order Mrs...
...Philip F. La Follette told the annual community dinner sponsored by the Waukesha county public service committee here last week where she was th* principal speaker...
...adding that "for its modest cost, it is the finest kind of investment in the public service...
...The scrap developed over methods to be used in setting up civil service standards for the pension employes of the various counties...
...thereby eliminate the annual subsidies from the federal treasury now required...
...La Follette, whose career has been devoted to getting women to have a greater interest in politics, told the group that continuance of the in-service training program was something for the civic, women's and service organizations to get behind...
...They expect a great many services, but too often they don't expect to give in return added responsibility on their part as citizens'.*' she said in emphasizing the importance of public understanding of government...
...In turmoil people turn to government...
...Mrs...
...John H. Bankhead, Alabama, and Rep...
...La Follette reviewed the in-service training program of the last Progressive administration in which outstanding college graduates served as apprentices in state departments...
...To make the federal land bank system selfsupporling...
...Special praised was heaped on Bob tor his intensive work in formulating and fighting for the farm debt adjustment bill, now pending in congress, whose passage will go a long way toward easing the debt burden of farmers...
...she pointed out...
...To reduce interest rates on land bunk and land bank commissioner loans to three per cent...
...Bob Iji Follette did not sponsor the bill until he bad studied It thoroughly and had discussed it with the White House and other high executives in the national government...
...La Follette said, "In the state capitol today services have been decreased, and we hear of 'economy'—but the bill is higher than it ever was...
...Wis—If government is not working, it is our responsibility to make it work, Mrs...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana...
...she said...
...Marvin Jones, Texas, in addition to Bob...
...It has the public support of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace...
...To decentralize the administration of the land bank system by increasing the duties and responsibilities of local farm loan associations...
...Turning to the present plight of the state government...
...The purpose of the in-service program was to provide training in the public service and to enable apprentices to carry back to their home communities a better understanding of how their state government works...
...In a statement commenting on Bob's fight for the widely endorsed debt assistance program, Hones said: "We greatly appreciate the work Sen...
...Phil OCONOMOWOC...
...Mrs...
...The four major objectives of the far-reaching measure, as outlined by its authors, are: "1...
...To provide a fair and practical method of refinancing farm mortgages, where the farm debt exceeds the fair value of the farm, or where the annual payments on the mortgage exceed the normal farm income...
...Comity Boards Oppose State's Pension Rules REPRESENTATIVES of Wisconsin's county boards clashed last week with the state department, of public welfare which was set up last year by the Republican administration...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, at a conference of 23 mid-western Farmers' Union presidents here last week...
...Wisconsin is the only state where the state government and the state university worked together on a program of this kind...
...La Follette is doing for this measure which will create a real farm credit administration for our section of the country and lake the land banks out of the hands of foreign bankers and financiers...
...The La Follette debt adjustment program bears the joint authorship of Sen...
...She compared the state budget to a family budget and demonstrated that the Republican financial operations represent "economies" only for the wealthy few instead of the general public...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
