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Show June 1971 Page 7 UTAH FARM BUREAU A SUCCESSFUL POLITICIAN CAN 6ET IN THE PUBLIC EYE WITHOUT IRRiTATINdr Farmers Gear for Role in Research A recent Wall Street Journal article on research stated ...despite the fact that agriculture is in total the nation's biggest Industry, farmers are still favored with a hefty subsidy a subsidy In addition to crop allotments and the like. The public pays for. much of their research..." While It Is true that the public reason cannot be objectively or successfully researched by pub- major source of financing In the future will be grants and bequests made to the Foundation through wills and donor income producing plans. The Initial financing for the Foundation Is being raised from farm sources. The administrative cost Is paid by the American Farm Bureau Federation from membership dues as a regular budget Item, and money for support of the research program Is being raised through voluntary contributions. As farmers have learned about the program, they have started to send In donations, and to date, have contributed some $65,000. It is also anticipated that after the Foundation becomes established Industry and possibly other foundations will wish to assist with the financing of projects In which there are mutual licly financed Institutions, the work will be contracted with private research agencies. pays a large share of the cost of agricultural research the suggestion that this Is a subsidy Interests. to farmers Is somewhat misleadDonations to the Foundations ing. Typically, as research had led to greater output, the beneare deductible on both Income fits have been passed on to conand estate taxes. Requests for sumers In lower prices. information about the Foundation or suggestions for Its program of Regardless of how misleading it is to classify publicly financed work should be directed to: research as a subsidy to farmers, this opinion Is gaining prominence American Farm Bureau Research as competition for funds to finWhile the Foundation must deFoundation ance social program, space expend on Individual donations In the 1000 Merchandise Mart ploration, and clean air Increases. beginning. It Is anticipated that Its Chicago, Illinois 60654. Few people today appreciate that 85 years ago when Congress appropriated the first $15,000 for ag- ricultural research, this nation was faced with the problem of rkrick'k'hkitkkkiciiivk'k-k'k'k'kii'k'k'kirk'itirk sufficient food production to feed its 60 million people. Even fewer appreciate the prominent role research has played in achieving the super abundance America enjoys today. The most publicized concern food today Is how to hold L. DeLove down production and dispose of by Sidney surplus. This may explain why Is it possible to wave the flag too much? Provided, research Is losing some of Its luster as an attraction for pubIt is of that wave it with fTROUBLE SLlPOUTTA) OFFICE-SEEKER- S LIKE AN EEL-O- NE (TWHEN IT ffiULLY-WASHER.H- SAID HE'D HELP FARMERS BY TURNED INTO A V DECLARED E IT WAS AN ACT OFGQD ! PRAVINdr FOR RAIN .... Tbltii i tier au 6i FEJ V IT a-b- out lic funds. Realizing that political pressures were forcing changes In the nation's priorities and that needs for agricultural research were Increasing, not subsiding. Farm Bureau members took steps to organize their own research organization, the American Farm Bureau Research Foundation. Research as such Is not new as a Farm Bureau interest. The development and expansion of research competence and facilities has always been a major concern of the organization. Nationally, the American Farm Bureau Federation has concentrated on getting needed appropriations from Congress to finance the research and experimental work of land grant universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It has also advised with USDA officials and national committees representing state universities In the planning and coordinating of cooperative research and extension programs. The role of the State Farm Bureau has been to assist In obtaining research funds from state legislatures and to work with the respective state universities In building better research and extension programs; Since It Is clearly In the public Interest, public support for research will undoubtedly continue to be a matter of highest priority in the Farm Bureau program. The establishment of the American Farm Bureau Research Foundation In no way de --emphasizes the traditional part Farm Bureau has played in research, but in effect opens a "second front" for building better research services. The Foundation provides machinery through which farmers may become Instrumental both In helping finance needed research and more effective In determining its direction. To be effective, farmers must find means for pooling their limited funds that can be spared for research and approach their research needs jointly. The foundation Is geared to do or get needed research done by whatever means promises to produce best results on the Individual case basis. Whenever possible arrangements will be made to do the work cooperatively with land grant universities. If, however, the problem is of a nature which for some course, possible integrity? you to study Lincoln or Shakespeare too much? Is is possible to read the Bible too much? The great, the good, the true, are inexhaustible for inspiration, example and strength. I believe that we are not waving our flag enough, not nearly enough. It seems to me that we are developing a tendency to be timid or even apologetic about waving the stars and stripes. Walk up and down the streets on July 4th and count the flags. It is our nation's birthday, a sacred day in world history, the most important day of America. Why isn't the flag flying on every rooftop and from every home and building? This complacent attitude is strong evidence of cancerous patriotic decay. The flag is a symbol of our national unity. It is the spirit of our undying devotion to our country. It stands for the best for loyalty, character, and faith in demthat is in us ... ocracy. Isn't our flag a synonym of the United States of America? Does it not represent man's greatest, noblest; most sublime dream? Is it not the zenith of achievement, the goal to which generations have aspired? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it is time for us . . . to for the mad, rushing Twentieth Cehtury American ... Farm Bureau beliefs We, as Farm Bureau members, believe: In our Constitutional form of government and its division qf powers. In freedom of speech, press, and peaceful assembly. In separation of church and state and in the right of each individual to worship according to the dictates of his own conscience, to the extent that such activities do not infringe upon the rights of others. is a precious heritage which That can be preserved only by the active, intelligent assumption of basic citizenship responsibilities by all people. In the American competitive enterprise system, in which property is privately owned, privately managed, and operated for profit and individual satisfaction, and in which supply and demand arc the ultimate determinants of market price. n n n . self-governm- ogD Vgq Cgok7? That Vou Should Deport (Slaims ITJIthin 30 Says? UTAH FARM BUREAU INSURANCE CO. . stop for a moment and think. Let us arrest our near rev- erential admiration of material success and return to the spiritual and ethical values. Let us imbue and rekindle in ourselves and our children the way of patriotism, a burning devotion to the principles and ideals upon which our country was founded. Should not every home own and proudly display the colors on holidays and other such occasions? Isn't the so-call- old-fashion- ed ed flag Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Nathan Hale, Gettysburg and Valley Forge, Paul Revere, Jackson and other great men and women who have given us our heritage. When you look at the flag can't you see the Alamo, Corregidor, Pearl Habor, The Monitor, The Merrimac, Wake Island, and Korea? Lest we forget, isn't the flag Flanders Field, Bataan, Iwo Jimo, Normandy, Babe Ruth and Davy Crockett? The great events of our past and present are wrapped up in our flag. It is a symbol of this blessed nation, a giant in in' dustry, educaton and commerce. Millions of fertile square miles, wheatlands, coal mines, steel plants. Our great republic, the chosen infant destined to be man's last and remaining hope for suffering humanity, a shining beacon of light, noble and glorious, the haven for the oppressed and persecuted and truly God's gift to mankind. That is what the flag means to me. Can we wave it too much? I don't think so. |