As for policy: it is obvious that the new bill retains
several of the most important features of the old
\AA—the bounty system, the maintenance of a
"fair price" and the control of production, though this
rontrol is now made incidental to conservatidn. The
ihief point of difference between the old plan and the
new is a shift of emphasis from wholly negative to
more positive action. Under AAA. farmers were paid
for not producing crops which the Government decided
were not needed. The theory of the new play is that
payments would be made as a reward for planting
crops which, without adding to an existing surplus,
would help to conserve the soil.
Nervous Thermometers.
• Cincinnati Enquirer)
It might be said with a good deal of truth that for
nost Americans, life is just a bunch of dials. We ca.-.t
i glowering eye upon the dials of an all-too-trusl
vorthy alarm clock the moment we awaken for another
lay. We spend hours fumbling with the dials of our
adios, and other hours glancing down at the dials
>f our speedometers, oil gauges, and sundry measuring
ievices that clutter the instrument boards of our
notor cars.
In the last few days, however, attention has centered
>n the ancient thermometer. They come with dials,
oo. these days, but we prefer the good old-fashioned
nercury column, particularly for that cold corner
rntside the kitchen window. It takes just such weather
is we have had in Cincinnati in recent days to remind
is what an exciting story the thermometer tells.
