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Show Fa t mini Under the GOP On April 2, 1958, Senator James Murray of Montana showed his Senate colleagues the true nature of the Eisenhower-Nixon-Benson program for increasing farm income. The story he read from a U. S. Department of Agriculture publication tells more than any figures. "Mr. President, for some time I have been interested in the formula by which Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his staff are aiding family farmers through their much-publicized rural development program. "The other day Under Secretary True D. Morse sent us all, bearing his personal signature, copies of the monthly magazine maga-zine Extension Service Review, which is issued by the Department of Agriculture. It is the March 1958 issue, and is devoted entirely en-tirely to glowing articles about the rural development program. "Mr. President, I combed this magazine almost line by line to find an example of a farm family that had been saved by the program to get some clue about how it really works. My efforts were finally rewarded. On page 58, in an article' entitled "Keeping "Keep-ing Them on the Farm," which is about Choctaw County, Okla., I found this clear example of the operations of the program. " ' Farm people in the county were quick to take advantage of the opportunities provided through the rural-development program. pro-gram. Floyd Berry and wife are good examples. Berry operates a 280 acre farm and has a small grade A dairy and a commercial beef herd. To supplement farm income Mrs. Berry drew on her experience as a housewife to get a job cooking in a local cafe. She works from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Her husband is working at a filling station from 3 p.m. until midnight. Berry handles the farm chores in the morning and his wife takes over in the afternoons." after-noons." "This, then, is the formula for successful farming under Benson. Get your wife a ful-time job in town. If you are lucky, the husband's in-town wages will pay the losses resulting from farming under Benson and you will still have your wife's pay as a fry cook to buy some groceries and clothing. "I want it to be entirely clear, however, that this shining example of the results of one of Mr. Benson's programs simply reinforces my own conviction that he should be fired before sundown sun-down a conviction I have had for the past 1,896 days, which goes back to the day of his appointment.' Need we say more? |