Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1946 — Page 10

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"LAND REFORMS

Step Expected to Lift Farmer From Peonage.

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Soripps-Howard Siaff Writer MANILA, May 16—The Roxas administration is expected soon to take steps toward reinstituting land reforms. They were originated in the Quezon government and interrupted by the Jap occupation. The reforms would lift the tenant farmer from peonage. The Roxas administration has the laws on. the

§ only the machinery. to enforce them. "oy The tenant > "farmer was subMr. Whipple ject to gross injustices. His share crop was barely enough to keep him alive. He constantly was in debt to his landlord, paying high interest rates. He had |no chance to save money. | Program of Reform | Before the Japs arrived, Presi- | dent Quezon established an impressive program of reform. He Instituted a rural credit administration empowered to lend money at 4 per cent to sharecroppers ambi- | tious to own land. Landlords had | been charging 30 per cent. Great | tracts of new, fertile lands were |opened in the north. | ‘The Japs came. Reform was set back 40 years. | With the war's end, the people {expected the credit administration | to resume. But the Osmena ad- | mistration lacked materials and money. The people grew restless, { formed such outlaw groups as the | Hukbala-Haps, listened to Com- | munist propaganda. The wealthy {Roxas family became a target of | abuse ‘and was associated with the {one-time, hated landlordism. This | antagonism was unfair in view of |the fact that Roxas was a keen | supporter of Quezon reforms. One of the first objectives of the {new government will be to break jup and disarm outlaw bands who | are using the critical situation to | whip up flery support of commun{ism.. Then the administration must { put into effect the original Queson {program so that causes of unrest

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