Show NO CHANGE SEEN IN fARM N NEEDS Jardine Declares Defeat of Haugen Bill Has Not Altered the Situation NEW YORK May 25 AP AP- AP Speaking before the National Asso Association elation of ot Credit Men Secretary Jardine declared today that the re recent recent recent re- re cent defeat of the Haugen farm re relief relief re- re lief Ilet bill had not changed tho the agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural l situation nor the need for sound legislative assistance to to the farmer He said tho the bill would bo be n a long step toward the solution of the farm relief reller problem and ana that he was hopeful of action on it by bythe bythe bythe the present congress LARGE OUTPUT Legislative relief for the tho farmer Is needed Secretary Jardine asserted assert assert- ed because as the result of agrIcultural agricultural agricultural agri agrI- cultural expansion and the In Increased increased In- In creased use of machinery the farmer farmer farmer far far- mer has greatly Increased his output output output out out- put at a a. time of ot a world wide slump In the price f farm tarm products products products pro pro- ducts which has made marketing lather than production of ot crops crop his Chief anxiety The concern can no longer be merely that we wo shall have an adequate supply of food and raw materials he declared It It Is of national concern that the distributiVE distributive distributive tive machinery of the country shall help to put the farmer on an equalIty equal- equal It Ity with other groups of ers GREAT RECOVERY While d declaring It was true that agriculture had enjoY enjoyed d a remarkable remarkable remark remark- able recovery from the war post-war depression th the secretary said such recovery was merely superficial and that underneath the surface the f farmers of ot the United States are struggling with a a. disparity between their receipts and costs debts and fixed d charges that Is peculiarly a heritage of the tho war My opposition apposition to government price-fixing price or government handling handling hand hand- ling of farm products is well known he went on Today It I does not ot seem to me that this is the question BILL The bill the principles Of which I have repeatedly indorsed provides for a g governmental board an and further financial assistance ce to farmer falmer controlled agencies for lOl orderly orderly or or- d derly marketing In my my Judgment it would b be a long st step p toward a aa a. a solution of the agricultural surplus problem but offering no threat to tb consumers nor to eHl efficient lent private business |