Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-12-13 | Page 2 | Bureau Chief Hits House Farm Bill

Bureau Chief Hits House Farm Bill CHICAGO. Dee. (iW Edward A. O'Neal, president of ths American Amer-ican Farm Bursau federation, today to-day criticised the farm bill passed by the house last week, oaiiing it "a tragedy for agriculture and asserted as-serted surplus control la essential to maintain farm prices. Ths house agricultural committee commit-tee wrote a bill that leads ths farmer farm-er to think he might get parity prices, aaid O'Neal in a speech prepared pre-pared for delivery before the organisation's or-ganisation's annual convention, but k offers no mechanism at all to five him parity. "Practically all thay have done," he declared, "la to amend the soil conservation act and add marketing market-ing quotas to H. And ths marketing quotas have bean set at such high levels that prices would be absolutely abso-lutely wrecked before they could be invoked. The responsibility for . high quotas must be laid on the majority of the members of ths bouse committee. "Aa the measure now stands, It has avoided the surplus Issue Instead In-stead of meeting it squarely."