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Show r7iornE . Town m??-. h. , IN WASHINGTON South Loyal RALEIGH, N. C. - With a thin prinkling of delegates here from the 14 southern and border states. ith the exception of Louisiana, at :he recent southern regional Demo-rrutic Demo-rrutic conference, an old saying Mimmon to the prohibition era and which Is true even today in some touthern states came to mind: 'They vote dry and drink wet." And so, applying this sentiment ,o the southern regional conference. Democrats in the South generally vill vote for Harry Truman and irink civil rights. In other words .hey are almost unanimous against .he civil rights program, but they're itill going to vote Democratic. So :hcre was no disunity here. Fact is, :ivil rights wasn't mentioned. Neither was the word "Dixic-rrats" "Dixic-rrats" mentioned. But there were several pointed remarks directed at the Dlxlerrats and their bolt of the Democratic national na-tional convention at Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. For Instance, Gov. Sidney McMath, of Arkansas, In complimenting com-plimenting the frank discussion of civil rights and other controversial contro-versial subjects by the Young Democratic convention at Chattanooga, Chat-tanooga, said: "But when the vote was cast, lone of them picked up and went .iome. That Is an example which are in the Democratic party can well follow." With agriculture as the main lource of income in most of the louthern states, highlight of the inference was an address by Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Charles Bran-aan. Bran-aan. And the concensus of opinion imong the press corps, which by the way, slightly outnumbered delegates, dele-gates, was that if any one thinks the Brannan plan is a dead duck, they're wrong. For instance, Gov. Kerr Scott of Vorth Carolina, himself a farmer, and for many years director of the itate agricultural commission, predicted pre-dicted that the Brannan plan would gain "more and more support." and declared he would like to see it given a fair trial. He declared it would eliminate the question of surpluses by throwing throw-ing all these products onto the open market which would permit consumers con-sumers to buy cheaper farm products pro-ducts than under any of the other farm programs. Examples Given Secretary Brannan, in pumping tor his own program, gave a very iimple and arithmetical example jf how the tremendous egg surplus :ould be eliminated If the people :ould afford to buy eggs at reason-Ue reason-Ue prices. Any one with paper and pencil can figure it out. Over a period of three years the government has acquired 68 million pounds of dried eggs stored in a Kansas cave. It takes three pounds )f shell eggs to make a pound of dried eggs. So 68 million pounds times 3 dozen, times 12 eggs, equals above 2.5 billion eggs, divided by 150 million people equals 16.3 eggs per capita, or as Serre-tary Serre-tary Brannan said, "if the per capita consumption of eggs was Increased six eggs per year it would wipe out all the surplus In eggs." But with retail price of eggs at 50 to 75 cents a dozen consumption is going down instead of up. The government, by the way, paid 32 to 40 cents a dozen for those dried eggs, or 96 to $1.20 a pound. Potato Surplus Following on the heels of the Raleigh conference comes the announcement an-nouncement that the government aas 50 million bushels of potatoes to dispose of in spite of the fact that acreage was curtailed some 20 per cent. But when farmers will increase fertilizer and plant rows closer together to overcome the acreage ac-reage reduction, they raise just as many potatoes, thus upping the surplus. sur-plus. And despite the fact that southern (armers voted 10 to 1 for cotton acreage reduction and state and county committees had complete charge of alloting the acreage reductions, re-ductions, some few large cotton operators op-erators and disgruntled smaller ones raised such a howl the house passed a bill to add up to 2 million acres to this year's cotton crop and an unspecified number to the peanut pea-nut crop. All in spite of the fact that there is a huge surplus in peanuts and the government already has 3.75 milliun bales of cotton on hand. Brannan Pian Passage? What the observers here say is happening is that the inequities and tremendous costs of the present price support program, the huge surpluses in foodstuffs and fibers, high retail costs of farm commodities commodi-ties and the action of some farmers in circumventing the aveiage controls con-trols in the present law, all are pointing up to eventual passage of the Brannan bill, which is intended to eliminate surpluscV, eliminate purchase by government, and let "--'"r"V prices be set by supply and demand. A |