THE NEW PRESIDENT

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 5

THE NEW PRESIDENT

HIS FIRST MOVE AIDING FARM POPULATIONS. ("United Preso Association—ly Electric Telegraph—C opyright.) NEW YORK November 10. Mr Roosevelt’s first presidential move towards aiding the United States farm population of thirty-two million is expected t 0 ibe by the convocation of a national agricultux-e conference. During the campaign, he told an audience at Topeka, in ,Kansas, that he would try to compo- e the conflicting elements and the various farm relief plane. He would co-ordinate their efforts to the end that an agreement would be reached on policy. Primarily, Mr Roosevelt -had said, he wishes to give that portion of the crops that was consumed in the United States a benefit, equivalent to a tariff, sufficient to produce an adequate price, and that h e intends to attack the disparity between the prices at which the farmer sells and the prices of what h-e buys by stimulating international trade, through tariff re-adjustments. Some read into Mr Roosevelt’s speeches a leaning toward an allotment plan, By which an amount equal to the tariff would be added to the world price on tiliat part of the surplus commodity that was consumed •in the United States. ROOSEVELT INDISPOSED. NEW YORK, November -11. President 'Roosevelt is confined to hie bed with a slight cold.