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Show WARNS OF SURPLUSES Strong Farm Program Urged WASHINGTON. - Expanded consumption con-sumption and adjusted production are the major points of a strong farm program recommended by Edward A. O'Neal, president of American Farm Bureau" federation, in testifying before the house agriculture agri-culture committee. "It would be folly to assume that we will not have burdensome surpluses sur-pluses of farm produce again that may wreck farm prices," O'Neal warned. In endorsing reciprocal trade principles, the farm leader declared that "agriculture more than ever needs an expanded volume of foreign for-eign trade to absorb its output." Although describing the farm legislation leg-islation since the early '30s as "the greatest cooperative endeavor between be-tween farmers and the government," govern-ment," O'Neal criticized "a tendency tend-ency to develop centralized control of these programs from Washington." Washing-ton." Instead, he urged transfer of larger authority to state extension services as a means of effecting savings in costs and providing greater service to the masses of farmers. O'Neal informed the house committee, com-mittee, which is considering a long-range long-range farm policy, that his organization organi-zation has not come to final conclusions conclu-sions on the subject, but he read this statement: "We recognize the desirability of full agricultural production, but agriculture cannot maintain full production if industry is going to maintain rigidly high prices by cutting cut-ting down production and applying monopolistic controls, or if labor is going to insist upon maintaining rigidly high wage rates and to continue con-tinue such increases in wages without with-out regard to productivity, and to enforce such rates with scarcty policies which discourage consumption consump-tion and throw people out of work and onto relief rolls. "It is this approach which leads to economic chaos. "Farmers believe in an economy of abundance and stand ready to join with industry and labor to achieve maximum production and maximum employment through price policies and wage policies which are geared to a maximum level of consumption." |
