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selfish In our hearts, as one -Ml mat ti|im ltnow the^J? no snch mg as something for nothing, but we ?ry out for more of the fraud hearing the label. Federal aid is a myth that ought tolm «*. K_ .fignized by the moist gtt|Wbkf school child, but grown men W the tax collector, it is endless, futile, foolish pro< that makes mockery of , the S of North Carolina in not $142 million, as the pens said. We contend I error of $2,458,000,000 b* dismissed as inconse Jfaw, as to what North Caro lina received from the federal government: We wish to be fair. In fiscal year 1963, federal grants-in-aid and payments to individuals totalled $210 mil lion. These figures represent alf grants and payments within the definition , used by the U. S. so we checked on that with the local Society Security office which reported a state total of $283 million. So, giving “fed eral'aid” aHwwatnc Ou benefit in Kinston Market for Eastern North Carolina ■ w ' 1 f 111 * fw€; 1 1 ---;— Of every doubt, the total money North Carolina received from the federal government last year amounted to 1403 mil lion compared with the >2,600,000,000 North Carolina send to Washington! Vi W« realize that the recitation of such enormous figures stag ger the imagination and befud dle the brain. But there is no other way to put into peraepo —**—T——! tive the that we get back more from the MW government than we 4. = . .v,. .... Quickly, as a recap, North Carolina provide* almost four per cent el the federal govern ment’* tax money. We get back less than two per cent of the so-called “free money*’ dialled out to the 50 state*. On to look at it another way, 4 ' ■■■■■■• ■■■ 'H»' iTffiiryi'n I) ' ■ tfCMTK YOU KNOW Hi'S KMSHT Gives fpijppppi Mb PosiHoB goal, yours and mine, is the same: We want a free and prosperous American agriculture, with improved incomes for afl farm families, within the frame work of our (fyusmic American enterprise system. Present bureaucratic farm programs are neither workable nor successful — i» terms either of freedom or farm income, I think the proper thing to do would be to sit down with farmers and farm organizations, on a commodity basis, and develop bet ter programs that can be recommended to the Congress. And Congress, of course, has the final say. 1 In other words, we must always ask what are the real needs of tobacco growers? What help should they have in order to make a profit in tobacco growing and selling? My purpose, as your President, would be to ask farmers what help they need and what solutions they recommend. 1 honestly feel that with respect to most commodities now con trolled, the farmer would prefer to return to a free market — which will lead to greater prosperity. I know that this cannot and must not be done overnight. Present tobacco support pro grams cannot be changed until better solutions are developed: and they must not be put into effect in a way that will disrupt farmers’ lives and income. 1 know, too, that there may be some commodities — and tobacco may be one of them — that would have to have some kind of control, whether it be self-imposed , or imposed by government at the express wish of the farmers involved. My goal, I repeat, would always be a gradual transition towards a freer and more prosperous American agriculture for the benefit of all our people, f f jrni lOTrim4^^ . Mil
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