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Show Farm Board In Action i The first official act of the federal 1 farm bourd seems to have been to repel re-pel the onslaught on that $5(K).000,000 -fund fy people In need of ready money. 4 Chairman Legge expressed the policy: 4 None of the money Is to be loaned to i Individuals and lobbyists and lawyers 4 and promotors are not needed. The 4 people concerned may speak for them- 1 selves with better success than through 4 professionals. The use of I be money Z is restricted to farm organivai lions, 4 The policy of the board as far as j publicly expressed is to regulate pro- 1 duct ion as near as possible to the needs 4 for the commodity, to make marketing 2 procedure more efficient and econo- 1 mica I, and by such savings to increase 4 the returns to the producer without 1 materially increasing the cost to the i consumer. 4 The wide spread between the cost to i the consumer and the return to the 4 oroducer Is now generally recognized as the most Important factor in the farm problem. It is well that Chair- man Legge has emphasized it. He will need and he will deserve all the encouragement and support producers can give him' to pursue it against lowerfnI opposition to a successful conclu-sron. |