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Show Wallace Defends Crop Insurance Plan En Address OMAHA, Neb., April 19 OJ.EV Your "rugged individualist" is a "strife promoter," Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said in a speech here today, inaugurating in-augurating the newest phase of the New Deal's agricultural program pro-gram crop insurance. Wallace made his observation while telling how crop insurance, to be tried first on this year's wheat corp, will work. He appealed ap-pealed to 1,200 farm leaders from the leading wheat states to work for success of the plan, so that it can be extended to corn, cotton and possibly other crops. Had To Choose Wallace said when President Roosevelt assumed office he had to choose between two plans in handling the farm problem a "hands off" policy, practiced for 18 years by preceding administrations, administra-tions, or cooperation. "The dominant characteristic of our farm policy is cooperation,' said Wallace. "Our programs are planned and operated by the farmers and the government, working together. But the plan and the machinery are dead things until the partici-5pation partici-5pation of large unmbers oi' farmers farm-ers puts the breath of life into them.'7 The "hands-off" policy, Wallace I said, is better known as "rugged individualism." The depression, he charged, was the direct result of this policy. "Your rugged individualist," said Wallace, "looks upon life as a competitive struggle. He doesn't see why anybody should want to get along with anybody else. He is always looking, not for points of common interest between groups such as agriculture, labor and business, but for points of conflict. Strife promotion pays big profits to the strife promoter, but the cost to the nation is terrific." Payson Training i Moot Thursday PAYSON A spring training moot for the Nebo district Boy Scouts of America, will be held Thursday in the Wilsdn Little theater. the-ater. It is for all scouters and their wives, parents, stake and ward officers. The program will be in charge of District Chairman R. E. Huber. Talks will be given by District Chairmen Vernal Twede, Wells Wignal, Reed Jones, Lyndon Crook and Ross Madsen. An exhibition exhi-bition will be given by the Spring Lake troop in complete uniform. |