Show bof fowl tilis tf fis t WE WEEK W in washington ollington Wa with biti cliffon davidson Dav ldson PIRO BLEiM OF TOO MUCH with tile the 1259 1059 li harvest arvest sea son eon in full swing this week farmers ate are gathering another bumper crop of almot almost everything except cabil for the second year in a taw raw total farm tings this year will set t a new record yet net farm income will be more than A i dollars under last year this Is the heart of 0 the farm problem which has washington more worried than ever amr before it means higher costs of government farm programs at the same time that faraon farr nera ate are having their income cut it means took booy that there will be navy pressure kressu re of congress next year to die db something about 1 growing our surpluses pluses and rising farm program costs and ca farm income depressed to the point where it endangers national prosperity tr despite farm income ottlo tally lally estimated by USDA at 12 por po w r cent below last year farmers are spending almost half a billion dollars dollar tr more in f farm a r rn operating expenses they are caught in a tighten ing cost price squeeze clay city workers worlow 1111 when farn farmers mere income is reduced by a binton dollars and they must spend half a billion more mom for the things they buy it mean they must either cither cut down on family living expenses or go deeper into debt many eire are doing both when they reduce their buying of fetich luxuries as au automobiles torno refrigerators clothing etc it means fewer lobs jobs for factory workers and when factory workers lose their jobs they must cut down on purchases purchased of the things farmers produce also they buy fewer things that other factory workers produce that is why many people who take the trouble to look at both sides of the farm problem P realize that when farmers virkers ore are hurt many city people also suffer what city 1 workers gain in cheap food they more than lose in tile the loss tot of farm customers for what they produce tor for sale to farmers for every farmer fanner on the I 1 land there are three people in towns and cities who make a living processing and mark eting form farm products pro luct cr in manufacturing truc trucia iv tractors automobiles clothing etc that farmers buy smear campaign all of us heu hear r md d irad W about the fl 47 billion a year farm program ragn costs costa and some assume that this la Is money paid to firx ax as a sub tidy aldy th facts completely disprove the charges that the government is keeping kf farm ers in clover and of that amount almost 2 bl billion on a year ealr fria to finance to foreign r e 1 a aid a pro iroll yim ma more than an M million billit in wit pent for or food for free tion to schools charitable tion along and others in this thin country it Int includes ludos too more than million in loans to ilea and other cooperatives which farmers repay in lull full interest another million goess for such auch things as aa research to improve food quality for meat inspection and like programs of bf primary benefetto benefi tto consumers half a billion a year la Is invested in preserving our gur soil coll water and timber resources resource a in order to assure a plentiful supply of food tor for future generations erat ions the charge gh that en t farmers are getting somei thing for nothing from tile the I 1 government is completely false i until city people understand tand that as farmers farmer already da do washington ip going to h have ve difficulty in making needed changes in present farm laws |