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Crongressman Jamie Whitten Answers Farm Program Critcis (Continued from page one) j come for the whole familiy. Ij mention these facts in view of the j attacks that have been made in re cent months on the farm support I price program. "The Congress has tried to meet this problem through its price support program financed by the Commodity Credit Corporation, i the funds for which are recom •.v.witJfi'by this committee. It is interesting to note that through out the operation of the Com modity Credit Corporation the total cost of all price support pro grams for the last ten years has been only approximately one bil lion dollars, less than one-fourth the amount spent on consumer subsidies on a few commodities during the war. Of course we have on hand many commodities in which the government now has invested something like three and a half billion dollars, a reserve j of commodities that could be a ! blessing in case of conflict or even j in the event of a disastrous farm ; year. Complaints appear daily in j the press about this program. It i should be noted that the records i show that *hc federal government ] spent about 6 billion and 200 mil-j lion dollars in enabling industry to reconvert after industrial ca pacity had been, expanded to meet war-time needs and sold an ad ditional 3.9 billion dollars of real \ property to industry for one and ! one-quarter billion dollars. The Congress approved excess profit tax reductions totalling nearly 5.6 | billion dollars. This is in addi tion to authority for corporations | to receive certain tax credits for ■ their operation during war-time. I “I mention these facts because | the papers are continuously mak ing attacks on the whole pripe YOU CM* SHOOT, A MOTH ^ 1 PONT SHOOT THAT MOTH! Moths won't bother your clothing if you get jU*San-0 Insured Mothproof Cleaning. Ask for U-San-0 Mothproof protection now where you see the shield of safety— Lltememberjt costs you nothing extra. 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It i« likely that corrections will have to be ' made in regard to other commodi- 1 ties where there is no control of supply or which cannot be satis- ; factorily stored. j “It has been argued many times j ; that the law of supply and de mand should operate with regard | to agriculture. It is said that peo ple do not get all the food they could use. In this connection I point out that the law of supply and demand has been repealed in sofar as labor is concerned by minimum wage laws and, by the | bargaining power of labor unions ‘ all- «f>which*i® reflected in higher prices for manufactured articles. It can just as readily be said that j the people do not get all the re frigerators, automobiles or other manufactured articles they could use. Yet it is not argued that in dustry should sell its products be low cost of production: I think almost all Will agree that mini mum wage laws and labor unions, oven with their excesses on oc casions, have resulted in pros-1 perity for our nation and I know; Of no onis that would go back to 1 the ol4 days when the law of sup ply and demand was completely j operative with regard to labor. . . Many people ask why we s don't export our farm surpluses, t That is easier said than done.! Whfre formerly, thjs nation spent I millions of dollars in other eoun- « tries \vhieh gftvc to such coijrttries ’ dollars to bity'from ,us, today we i \ arc largely seMlsufficier^t- . j1 “ .. . Becbt4s: show ‘ that • each 1 depression’ has started' fifst 'with! k drop Irt farm prices. 'According to- these ;re£drds, a drop in farm prices shows', uj> at about seven times -that amount of drop in nat ional Income. Through the farm support program we have retard ed such spiral. After World War I agricultural prices dropped 50 percent in 12 months. For two ■ years after World War II the drop , has been less than half as much for twice as long a period. In ad dition to,that many of the charges made against the farm program have been relative to the increase in cost of various consumer goods. And yet the record shows that in j the ease of bread for instance, j during the period October 1947 to 'October 1949, the cost of the in j gredients in a loaf of bread paid j by the baker went down from 5.9 (cents to 4.7 cents. Yet during | that same time due to the high I cost of labor transportation and ! other elements in producing the ! finished loaf of bread, the retail ' price to the consumer increased from 13.3 cents to 14.5 cents. "These matters are not mention ed to strike any argument with those that come from non-agri ! cultural areas but is to point out j that there is a real need that prop er attention be given to agricul | tore." The congressman, having ans wered the farm program critics, j went on to show the importance of soil conservation, not as a so ! cializcd undertaking, but as one j vital to the welfare of this nation, including those off the land as well as those on the land. He said. "The records show that during the last ten years our population has increased by 19 million peo ple. If that same rate of increase is maintained for the next fifty years you can easily see that the demands on our soil will become greater and greater. We, as a na tion, need to use only that which ENROLL NOW With RESERVE HOSPITAL PLAN l*uys in Full K^urdlcHK uf Any Other liiMiranee You Have, or Workmen's Compensation ♦ 1 Benefits Arc Not Reduced For Children or Elderly Dependents ,-lge Limit 1 Day To BO \ rs. 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Richard Prickctt (left), of Albion, 111., and Mrs. Catherine Scoman, of Arlington, Va., are shown by teacher John Da Grosa, of Philadelphia, how to relax facial muscles to increase speech volume mmI voice personality when making talks. (International Soundphoto) is necessary, in soil depleting i crops, and to place the balance in grass or to other uses that will save and restore this most vital natural resource. It makes us aware of the fact that our soil, which is perhaps our greatest natural resource on | which the nation is dependent, is i the basis for the real security of our people in the years to come. Certainly a study of other nations I throughout history will show that onceiagriculture has been permit ted to fake more from the soil than is put back in, so that in ef fect more is being extracted than is being replaced, eventually it has. led to the destruction of such nations. You can look around the earth today and any country that has paid attention to the fertility of the soil and to other natural resources you will find a pros perous nation. You can look then to Greece, Palestine, China, India and to ahy other countries where thc 'peopte are having a terrible tithe existing and you will find that behind it all is a depleted soil structure and wasted natural re sources. In other words this nu j tiejp should have foresight enough to know that we must include as | a part’of the cost of food, shelter | and clothing a reasonable amount to pe set aside for the restoration of our production plant, our soil ‘‘In one way of looking at it we have done a wonderful job of production in this country. It is a matter in which we all can take pride. But when we consider the matter from another viewpoint no nation in history has wasted its natural resources through the same period of time to a greater extent than has the United States. 1 mention it to point out the real need thal we have We could well spend ten times the amount of money for agriculture and the money would be well spent il wc had it. We do not have it ‘‘This depletion of our natural resources is easy to understand When our forefathers settled this country, land was the cheapest thing available. It was good bus! ness insofar as present income was concerned, to drain the land of its fertility and then to cleai more. Our forefathers followed that practice and succeeding gen orations grew up to believe that was the way to farm. Then in manv States we became depend lent on. rme-«"P, m my own are.. I cotton, not simply because cot ton would grow well in our States but for the further reason that we had no cash markets for much id anything else. In other areas it was tobacco, in another, wheat, and so on. As all now know, this 'depleted the soil and in most eases ! financial returns were so small that the money was not to be hud i to protect or restore the soil Rec ognizing that the Nation and fu ture generations had an interest in this great natural resource, fer tility of the soil, the Soil Conser- ! vation Program was set up by the National Congress. Under the program the National Govern- j ment said to the farmer that if he i would follow food soil practices and if he would restore his soil, , the Nation would make a contri bution toward the costs. This Federal contribution has averag ed about one-half of the money cost with farmer putting up his labor in addition to his hall of the cash outlay. The nation must ! see to it that out soil is preserv jed. You may say the farmer ishould do that on his own. He hasn’t and there are only two ways to see that he does it, one [us through our present s_.ut.eui ut leadership and aid or to make j him do it by law, and that is not the American way. “There is no question but what the great natural resources of our Nation have been the real basis of our high standard of living. Therefore, all our people have an j interest m our sod fertility, in its | productivity. The fewer people j it takes to provide shelter, food, and clothing for the rest of us, the greater the number of people left to produce radios, cars, refrigera tors anti the thousand and one things for all of us, luxuries to most of the world, but taken by our people to fie necessities. “The people of our towns and cities have a real interest in the fertility of the soil in the adjoin ing areas. The merchant has an ( interest, the doctor, the lawyer, yes, and the preacher They have a real interest in the methods of farming employed by the farmers of the country though the farmer owns his land and has the legal right to farm it any way he wants, for all prosper only as the area around them prospers, the Nation prospers only as all its areas pros- ! per. Let the farm production go | down, let the land become ex- i hausted and half the people will have to move out of our cities and the half remaining will have more of a struggle to make a living. Let that happen over the whole Nation and more and more people will have to be employed in the production of food and c’'thing and fewer people will be left to provide the manufactured ar ticles that all enjoy. That has been the situation which helped to bring about the low standard of living in much of this troubled world today. “The government has helped to finance practices only to bring about such practices by the far mers themselves. Whether that course was wise will be determin ed by what our farmers do on their own initiative in the future. “For many years it was taken for granted that the farm people couldn't expect to have electricity | or the same conveniences that ! others m our nation have had. 1 The Congress a few years ago j rcalibing that farmers were a part of our national economy, set out to enable the farmers to help themselves by making available electricity through the Rural Mee trlfication Administration. We made it possible for farmers to secure loans to buy farms and made it possible for farmers to do many things for themselves w ith full payment to the govern ment for services rendered. At that time in 1935 only 743,950 farms had electricity. Since that time through the REA the number has been increased to 4,850,000 farms not on a gift basis but by I the use of government loans which are being repaid and on I which the government actually is experiencing no loss. It may sur prise you to know that’less than | six-tenths of one percent of REA cooperative borrowers are de linquent as much as 30 days on the amount due on these loans. This has actually freed these farm families from drudgery and has made the situation such that we can expect in the future a suf ficient number of our people to he interested in farm life to stay on our farms and supply the food and clothing for the rest of us. As fine as that program has been S&. ftroefc m**' ^B^fV&UOd 1 Jui/AMMium. •k With every Marfak job, we thetk danger spots to save you trouble later. If exhaust pipe is rust ing through, if tic rods are worn, or tires cut tv/// hear about it! Cict this thorough service today. Drive in for Marfah lubrication. HARRISON OIL CO. 2 KINDS V oil know, yoti’vt' pen TWO kinds etf e*\* jinisi's, Tlie*re* ai'c IlVUVUiDlA l I'j rosin of li\inp, iinel llirn there* lire tilings you vi* f»oi lo liny ami pay for in I lie*. future. Mow aheiul those* letup runpe* e*\jie*iise*si Vein slietnlel lie* savinp NOW, |teissihle* fen* u Iteiine* etf yenir eovn etr Junior’s e*elue*a* lion. Guaranty Bank & Trust Company it still means little to the Hi per-' cent of our farmers who still do not have electricity available to them. And the committee has constantly urged area coverage. During this sam" period many) thousands of farmers have been' enabled to buy and own :i farm ' home and here to we find the, record of repayment to the Far mers Home Administration is ex cellent In other words we have helped the farmers to help them selves. These programs have both been considered by our committee and there again it was our prob lem to determine a reasonable basis on which these programs could be carried forward and the I overhead expense kept at a mim j mum. i “Some may think that in view of the present surpluses it. is well enough to drop resear< h. Nothing could be further from the truth. The history of the world will show that as nations get old and as land is used through the centuries, in all too many cases diseases that destroy plant life become more prevalent In our own nation we have .seen ihe chestnut tree go, the victim of disease. We have the problems of the white pine blister rust and recently oak wilt. 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