Show A CATTLEMAN PEAKS Out in Nevada there is n a man wed we'd like io to meet sometime sometime Ills His name is Roger Smith lIes lIe's a rancher lies lie's pretty plain spoken tl this s man Smith Less than eight per cent of the American J people ople produce the food and fiber for tor all the rest a aThe The Tho cost of individual food Items in terms of oC labor requIred to to pur pur- pur purchase chase them show a substantIal reduction since 1947 For example an hour of labor today pur chases about 70 per cent more beef than th then n Higher prices for meat have been notice notice- noticeable able to the consumer because they have moved ed up from an extremely low level Current prices of beef cattle are still much below the price levels of 15 years ago A Department of Agriculture study shows says Smith that tl the the average housewife paid 17 per cent more and farmers and ranchers received 7 per cent less Iss in recent months for forthe the same kinds and qualities oC foods pur- pur purchased pur chased in 1947 Some serious thought on the part of the tho housewife today he said would to discover that the reason for the rise in the cost of foodstuffs has been her own demands for new processing and and expensive facilities in supermarkets pro pro- provided vided for her shopping comfort and pl pleasure asure such as conditioning air piped In music and convenIence parking facilities Due to their pIcketing demonstrations the housewives may cause the elimination of such pleasant fads and frills Grocery chains after taxes make the tho lowest average profit of any major urban industry only 13 per percent cen cent We Wc livestock producers are arc already dy in desperate rat financial straits with cur net In come declinIng by 18 per cent from 1947 to 1985 1 while during time tile same time wa wages es to all employees in manufacturing industries in in- in increased creased by per cent Since e 1948 the cattle cattle- cattlemen's mens men's total production expenses have increased ed about 63 per cent whereas live weight cattlE prices have have- decreased 11 per cent from what they were 18 years ago In anybody's language this is known as as going broke The Johnson Administration has been I trumpeting loudly abut truth In advertising md and truth In packaging It It has been notably unconcerned about in government and the subject of the the true cause of DC the rising cost of oC living Government spending is in fact the true cause of inflation Let us aU all jOin In in n a boycott of Dig Big Government spending of our hard earned tax dollars dangerously and the dangerously extravagant legis legis- legislation lation lalion passed by the last Congress Each housewife can understand Mr Smiths Smith's language Let us aU all hope that Wash Wash- Washington ington can can too |