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Show I . Jarm Farm Act Proposes Proposes L Eliminatio Eliminatioj Eliminatioij Eliminatioijo o f furplus urplus j , G in Iii the corn belt great piles of corn cornare cornartf are r rotting in m the mud . Then drivingless driving drivingless drivingless less than a . hundred miles away discouraged dIS- dIS dIScouraged dis discouraged - couraged men and women are shuff shuff- shuffling shuffling shuffling - ling in breadlinesAgreat breadlinesAgreat breadlines breadlinesA A-great A great A - great dairy farm not more morc than thansixty thansixty thansixty sixty miles from New York is pouringskimmilk pouring pouringsklmmllk pouringsklmmilk sklmmllk skimmilk down its sewers , while InNew in inNew InNew New York City , . school children faintfrom faint faintfrom faintfrom from hunger at their desksNot desksNot desks desksNot Not only last year , but for manyyears many manyyears manyyears years past , part of the nation's nations ' ' apple applecrop applecrop applecrop crop went back to earth unharvested unharvestedYet unharvestedYet unharvestedYet Yet thousands of persons who wanted wantedthose wantedthose wantedthose those apples couldn't couldnt ' ' get themIs themIs them themIs Is there , then , , such a thing as a asurplus asurplus asurplus surplus of farm products when people peopleare peopleare peopleare are going hungry in town towni ? That is a hard bard question It cannotbe cannot cannotbe cannotbe be answered ansv.ercd ansvercd . in theoiy theOlY theory . The fact is that surpluses do exist existthey , they exist side by ; side cide with breadlines ; they add to these breadlines breadlmes Theyturn They Theyturn Theyturn turn the results jf of ) human jif effort fort into economic wasteThe waste wasteThe I The domestic wasteI consumption of food foodhas foodhas foodhas I : has not declined decUned very much In one J , Jway | way or another people are being fedThe fedThe fed fedThe The fact is that if beginning today todayyou todayyou todayyou you could restore completely the usualdomestic usual usualdomestic usualdomestic domestic consumption of food pro pro- products products - ducts , , there would still be an unsalablesurplus unsalable 'surplus surplus ' surplus of certain basic commoditiesThe commodItiesThe commodities commoditiesThe The fact is that these surpluses surpluseshave surpluseshave have been in m the making for more morethan morethan than a decade . . I They pound down prices , slash the thefanners thefarmers thefarmers fanners farmers ' ' buying power , . cause farmers farmersto farmersto to buy less from cities , and , in the end endadd , add to city unemployment . Crop surpluses have had as disas dISas- dISastrous disastrous disastrous - trous an effect upon national nationalwellbeing well- well wellbeing wellbeing -well-being well being - - being as crop shortages used to have haveon haveon haveon on the isolated communities commumties of asimpler a asimpler asimpler simpler ageThe ageThe age ageThe The new f farm rm act does does not condonethis condone condonethis condonethis this fact It seeks to help heJp farmerscorrect farmers farmerscorrect fannerscorrect correct it It is not , however , , . anidealistic an anIdealistic anidealistic Idealistic solution It does not attempt at- at attempt at attempt - tempt the impossible . It tackles the thereauty thereality thereality reauty reality exactly as it exists in our com com- corn- corn comp1ex cornpex complex - , plex p1ex pex ] social and economic structureI structureIt structure | It recognizes that farmers cannot buy from indus induct industry rY DvrY untn until Dv pric commodities frankly offrankly that Prices go up Iof It I , 0 of , the snnotis face of unsalable unsalablesnnot cannot snnot snnotg g 1I is Sl1tpl why the farm act pro ' . eloy err to attack the rovld Surp1us surplus , To ignore these ismean , " , mean that farmerswo farmers tanners S wo WOUld Surp1USes , ' ' " . z , I e4There ducmg for a market that thatgo th- th tho - go o 0 e4 f There i5 is no profit In tii ttee tee I Ionly only perpetuate theIt the theNot that t Itt It ItIn In wluch which the fanner farmer farmerfind find pr t finds Iin twice } tha as much muchof of his given quantity of IndustrIal industrui prOduce to it did t In that g ' 11909t Iit - fair-eXChange fair eXChange 11909 I 1909-1914 1909 1914 - 914 914that I INot Not an idealistic ' 'I I " ' , I Ipresents practicable soinnpracticable one , the Eolutlon solution new rie ? fa fabt ralTtl bt bti btpresents t i ' presents an ' opportUnity opportur to bra L Lpi pi cscnt escnt vicious circ1e circle 1t4 break t4 t4surpluses I urpluses surpluses : , to breadlines that It ltd leads 1 f ftp & nation the machinery giVt $ ing toing some measure to USe Inp } ( . of order ling tion ordertion , leading to irnpro\ irnpro irnproed improsed \ ed fann lain to farmers bUying Ulore more ' " dtukmen from dtuk men gomg going back to cilteS , $ I Imen WOrk workI workIn In IncgetsUtah Ind plants plantsUtah -Utah Utah - - - State lIege I cgets--Utah cgets Utah Agricutura1 Agdcul ] |