A prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative sales agency for grain growers. Last week's development: the Senate Lobby Committee summoned Julius Howland Barnes to tell what, if anything, he knew of a secret widespread movement among private grain commission men to "restrain the Federal Farm Board," to undermine its attempts to...

