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Show Demo National Chairman Says Administration Program Right Democratic National Chairman Chair-man John M. Bailey this week told a gathering of South Dakota Da-kota Democrats that the response of people all across the country to President Kennedy's call "to move out, to do something for our country, indicates we aren't standing still any longer. "We are on the move," he said. "And while we won't always al-ways succeed in every task we set out to do, the first time around we won't stop but we will come back again, and we'll try again. We won't be found workers to redouble their efforts to elect Democrats this fall, the National Chairman said that Domocratic wins across the nation na-tion this year will not only be1 wins for our candidates and our Prty they will be wins for our country. "We want to help President Kennedy do the job the people have called on him to do," he said. "We want Democrats in the Congress, to help him. We want Democrats in office in Pierre and across the State of South Dakota, and across the sitting back and thinking about it or talking about it. We'll be found trying. The Democratic Chairman remarked re-marked that "we didn't find President Kennedy just sitting back and shaking his head" when Big Steel suddenly announced a price rise of $6 a ton last month. "Mr. Kennedy was rightfully indignant," Bailey said. "He had the interests of the American country people who support and will give the President a hand in the work he is doing for his country." Bailey praised former Congressman Con-gressman George McGovern, Food for Peace Director in the Kennedy Administration and now the unopposed , candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from South T 1 A lL f , people in mind. And he went straight to bat for the people." Bailey chided the Republican leadership for its silence while the steel price issue was immediately imme-diately at hand, adding: "After it was all over after the President, with the people behind him, had won the day for keeping down the price-wage spiral then the Republican Party blasted the President for acting in the people's interest and demonstrated once again, as Senator Humphrey pointed out, the uncanny ability of the GOP to come up on the wrong side of an issue." Bailey said it has been estimated, esti-mated, taking into account both direct and indirect costs of such a steel price rise, that the $6 a ton increase would have raised costs to farmers across the nation na-tion as much as $90 to $100 million mil-lion dollars in the next 12 months. In urging Democratic Party uanvvd, as a man wno gets things done." Bailey said that under Mc-Govern's Mc-Govern's "aggressive administration," adminis-tration," the Food for Peace program pro-gram "has changed in fundamental funda-mental concept from that of a stepchild, born of agricultural surplus, to that of a vital new force, for peace and freedom in the world." For the year 1961, it is estimated esti-mated that the Food for Peace program, working outside normal trade and market channels so as not to upset the prices of world markets, accounted for nearly one-third of South Dakota's Da-kota's wheat crop, or some 10 million bushels, along with some 2V2 million bushels of other South Dakota grains. "So Food for Peace under George McGovern," he said, "has not only worked for hungry people peo-ple overseas. It has worked for the farmers of South Dakota and the nation." |