The Bismarck Tribune

Those Federal Colts

The tumult and the shouting about both the NRA and the AAA has died down in recent weeks because of the necessity of getting these two great governmental experiments to functioning.

We have passed the ballyhoo era and have launched on the difficult job of seeing what we can get out of these two methods of improving the status of the average individual.

Initial reports indicate that both have done worthwhile things and that prospects are good for still greater achievement.

Of the two, the NRA probably has done the most worthwhile work from a national standpoint.

It was intended to help industry and the laborer therein and clearly has done so. Reports on employment and payrolls prove that.

The AAA was intended to help the farmer and it has at least made a start on that monumental task. Though much remains to be done. It has not moved as rapidly as the NRA because of the nature of the industry to which it applies and its huge size.

Taking the two things together, it is a great deal like breaking a team of colts. Anyone who ever has done this knows how difficult it is to get them to pull together.

But both these governmental colts are getting used to the harness now. There isn't as much bucking and rearing as there used to be. Soon we hope, they will be a well-trained team, working together as a unit.

When they reach that point-and not until then-will we learn just how much they can pull