Show IF YOU ARE A FARMER YOU BETTER INTEREST YOURSELF IN THE AAA ELECTIONS SATURDAY EVENING the expression Is quite generally made by farmers who receive little or to no payment under the triple A program that the election of county or community committees under the program does not interest them As a matter of fact it if you are a farmer you can not escape being vitally affected by this program pi whether you participate in it or not say for example you grow a few acres ot of wheat and do not como come under the program your neighbors may all receive lie ile a bushel benefit payment for the wheat they raise in other words they receive a subsidy that amounts to a substantial profit and can produce wheat at cost or less and run you out of business not interesting yourself in this condition can never help you but by you and the vast number like you getting in and contending tor for your rights there may be hope for an improvement pro of the program by the suggestions made by your own community committeeman it you get out and elect one the triple A program changes from year to year and Is subject to continual change suggested by farmers the statement is blandly made that it Is the farmers program although in the past but comparatively ively few farmers have participated in shaping its policy the general public Is lead to believe by the press and public statement that farmers generally benefit by the governments vast triple A expenditures di tures these annual elections are the farmers only contact with this vast agricultural program and even when we make this statement we must quality it because only farmers ers who are signed up under the program are given a franchise in 1938 of millard billiard countes Coun tys 1300 farmers some or about 53 per cent received A A A checks these checks range from near 1000 down to about one dollar but they totaled an estimated exclusive of sugar beet payments the average payment was therefore something over 70 in order to get an idea of 0 the distribution of this money the writer took a substantial number of the 1938 1933 work sheets which when counted totaled these payments were classified in groups of less than 25 25 to 50 50 to and over sixty five of these farmers received checks in an amount less than 25 thirty more received checks between 25 and 50 nine received checks between 50 and while one check in the group amounted to another tor for arid and still another was tor for making three out of one hundred seven to gets checks ot of over when you stop to consider that nearly halt half of the tanners farmers received no payment at all it means that only about 1 per cent of millard farmers received triple A payments in excess of or about twenty farmers in this county un some of the farmers in this group of 0 twenty are very much interested in the program it may be assumed that they will all give these community and county committee elections thought and attention A number of them will find places on these committees the problem of the farmer who receives but nominal it if any been fit is to see that he also Is represented Al members embers of this group may feel eel that they can not afford to participate in this committee work but they receive all expenses and a good wage tor for the time they spend it is 13 only fair to say that improvements prove ments have been and are now being made in the A A A program this year an estimated will be received by millard billiard farmers plus perhaps beet payments but the beet payments will not be continued next year th there ere is room tor for much improvement yet high priced and heavily taxed land does not receive a proportionate share compared with land ot of little value and light taxation common observation tells us that wheat acreage is rapidly expanding in spite of most of the large wheat farmers receiving payment to restrict acreage it the farmer Is to be responsible in part for or the increasing national indebtedness some of 0 these weaknesses should be ironed out it they are not the T vast as i t majority oi ot farra farm ers era would just as leave have the money used tor for national defense whatever your attitude if you are eligible to vote your sober duty Is ito to think lind and act at atthe the elections saturday evening a il iden |