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Show March 30. 1956 THE UTAH STATESMAN Page Six Downs Bill Designed To Discredit 1955 Record Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah) today said that the national economy in 1955 not only achieved, but exceeded, the levels of employment, production and purchasing power necessary to carry out fully the major purposes of the Employment Act. The Utah Senators views are expressed in a dissenting statement to the Report of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report on the January 1956 Economic Report of the President, with supplemental and minority reviews, released today. The desidon to dissent, the Senator said, was based on his beliefs that the majority report was mostly written in terms to minimir.ft the economy's progress in 1955 and to cast doubt upon the ability of the economy to' cultural legislation remedies. achieve with reasonable success Our first fctep, he added, in the objectives of the Employment to formulating legislation which can also Act in 1956. He objected treat the causes of these prob1956 hearings, the nature of the lems is to obtain former meaningful anSENATOR WATKINS which departed from the nual dollar data the by of . . . Sheer politics upon relying procedure value of products sold. of selected a of group testimony Lack of annual statistical data should be increased. economists, saying that it smackof this type, the Senator declared, ed of sheer partisan politics. Getting Out t reveals that a 90 per cent He added: Still other people, the Senaprogram won't help The new procedure which retor continued, will derive better of the family-typfarmers incomes placed the testimony of competent in only by leaving agricule brackets, nor will ture entirely. 80 witnesses economists , some These he said program for would include many younger were heard in 1955 with a group any of political and administration an- hat matter. This fact is substan- people. For these, he added, tiated by such income data pro- Club and other educational protagonists, except in a case of two, vided for the first time by the was approved by a straight party need to stress vocational grams vote the Democrats for it; the 1950 Agricultural Census. training leading to gainful nondea Such Most Fanner Sell opposed. farm Republicans employment. cision by the Democrats in an The nation must not lose sight s of our family-typ- e election year has served, in my farms simply do not produce for of the fact that others would opinion, to retard the professional commercial sale in any signifi- rather go on living the lives cant amount, he said. In order they do . . . and whether people approach to the objective study some which' economy, of the to get price support, a farmer leave agriculture or not, they members at least had believed must have something to sell. Sen- should do so of their own free was being gradually achieved by ator Watkins added: Senator Watkins de-choice, the committee. Very plainly we have two ma- clared. Bill Introduced jor categories of farms in the Record Year United States each with different The Senator also introducted a The only reason the testimony solu- bill to which for failed problems require witnesses change the committees f the political denun-iatio- n tion different types of public polname to the Joint Economic Com0 produce the expected c icies. Farm prices and the need mittee. The bill also would Econom-give of the Presidents was for 'price support are of major the President until January 15 to Report was because 1955 concern to only the owners of the submit its Report on the Presiilainly a record year . . . commercial farms . . , For dents economic report. In my opinion, the Senator larger most of the people living on small In concluding his remarks, Senthe of idded, the usefulness rural farms a as ator Watkins said that with the mmittees work and report, family-typ- e farmers as program, Presidents affirmative decision to result, have been compromised a new aspect of agriculbe a candidate again, the people public oth to the detriment of the needed. is tural policy, a in 1956 and suceeding years can urgently future work and to The rural program look forward to a continuation etter understanding on the part initiated development Benson last of the economic statesmanship the function-nby Secretary if the public as to the if congressyear, President and his subordinates given adequate of the economy. ional not which has been support, have exercised in using governPositive Goals to has all the forthcoming mental facilities to promote the date, The Senator stressed the posiof developing into just objectives of the Employment earmarks dur-ng tive goals and achievements such a program. Act. 1955. A $387.2 billion producFor of the latter many farmers, tion of goods and services The sale of last years tomato Senator said, more liberal the needed level by $1-- the to canners brought Utah crop credit together with proper techbillion in constant prices. 40 per cent more money farmers nical assistance will solve most Employment rose 2 million to a of their low production and there' than in 1954, according to the (rears total of 64.1 million. fore their income problems. Sena- American Can Company. Unemployment declined by tor Watkins has introduced C. W. Parry, Utah representalegismore than half a million despite lation to g addprovide such credit op- tive of the leading the fact that 1,379,000 were resaid Utah that farmers portunity. firm,' ed to the labor force, 379,000 ceived from canners Others will $1,449,000 Senator the Perfind, more than was anticipated- the to their eco- for their tomato crop in 1955, solution said, received income sonal disposable nomic problems through a com- compared with the $1,025,000 they to spend and save increased by bination of part-tim- e of farming and received in 1954. $14.4 billion to a record high nonfarm employment. For the U.S. as a whole, in$269.2 billion. This resulted in a creased staSenator Watkins acreage led to a rising in real income, 6 per cent increase presented economic tistics that such rural production figure, resulting in showing the largest basic gain in was had people since 1946. This distinctly bettered Americas tomato growers receivmore lot than if they had ing more than $80 million from achieved with price stability, the their into continued fulltime farming. processors last year, almost $15 index consumer price-levSuch he stressed, million more than they received cent .3 opportunities, during per creasing only for those who favor such work the previous year, Mr. Parry said. 1955. Senator Watkins dealt at length in his minority views upon the position of agriculture in the nations econmy and upon positive suggestions for its economic advancement. The majority report recommendations, he said, ignore certain fundamental problems in agriculture which require extremely different solutions and types of public assistance than those recommended for agriculture as a whole. t OIL Two Problems .The Senator said there were two major problems confronting Utah Oil Building Salt Lake City, Utah Congress which must be answer ed positively in proposing agrl farm-incom- e price-supportwo-thir- ds e low-incom- price-suppo- rt 4-- H Two-third- University of Utah Tells Summer Visitor, Class Offering Schedule Courses in criminology and legislation will be taught by two outstanding experts in the field of legal education during the 1956 Summer School of the University of Utah College of Law. They are Dr. Norval Morris, associate professor of criminology at Melbourne University, Australia, and Prof. Sheldon D. Elliott, professor of law at New York University. Prof. Elliotts course in legislation will be taught during the . first session, June 11 July 17, and Prof. Morris will teach the course in criminology during the post24. session July A course in mining law will be taught the full summer quarter. . -- 18-Auu- g. June 11-Au- g. 24, by Edward W. Clyde, Salt Lake attorney. , Another feature of the summer school will be a legal research course taught the full quarter, ac- cording to Dean Dykstra. Registration in the summer school will not be open to beginning students. Prof Morris has been at Harvard University the past year teaching a section in criminal law and conducting a seminar in criminal responsibility. He will return to Australia after spending the summer in Utah. Prof. Eliott is former dean of the University of Southern California Law School and has been with New York University since , 1952. non-commerci- al 1 com-nitte- es g ex-seed- ed 2 Welcome To County Convention can-makin- American a Stance Ccrt. well-bein- g el 30-pa- ge LORENZO SMITH & SON REPRESENTATIVES 257 East 2nd South DA 2-24- SQMIPAKIY 75 |