Show m THIS wt WEEK E IC rin r in lit washington 0 wit W li vinton ci afon davidson S 0 go va d 8 0 0 FARM AGREEMENT president eisenhower Elsen hower la Is on pound bound ground when he complains that farm programs pr now in effect are too costly and in addition ineffective in controlling either prices or production the new ne congress when i it settles down to tackling the sticky problem of farm surpluses will have no difficulty in agreeing with the president on both counts it how ever likely to agree with him on what should be done about it in support of his contention that farm program costs are too high mr eisenhower Elsen hower reminded congress that the theu U S department of agriculture this fiscal f year will spend more than b tor for the support of farm prices on a very few farm products 1 there would be less quarrel with that huge um ruin it it were resulting in prices generally fair to both producers and colsum consumers era it could be justified J 4 it showed a reasonable promise of bringing production into balance with market demand 2000 pr par farm the department of agriculture Is spending at the rate of more than a year that figures on the basis of farms at some 2 a year per farm by no means all of that thai goes to farmers about 25 goes to operating expenses including salaries to the mote moie than USDA employees another 25 23 is the cost of export subsidies school lunches and other cither surplus disposal programs during 1058 1958 the government paid farmers more than 1 billion as a part of the cost of taking land out of crops under the soil bank and other conservative programs yet farmers on the smallest number of acres in cultivation in 40 years produced 11 larger crops than ever before government holdings 0 of farm surpluses mr eisenhower estimated soon will reach another record high the cost of handling and storing that surplus he estimated will be a billion dollars a year the president gut points out ill that kuch expenditures might be justified for fop a temporary period p justified od it 11 they were lending to a sound solution of the farm problem the farm situation though Is getting worst instead of better what lext the situation mr elsen hower emphasized vails calls for prompt and forthright action we need lie he said new legislation congress can find no fault with tho the presidents demand for action congress has bas adopted many of the recommendations 1 made by secretary ilenson denson and backed by tile the president it has however refused to go 90 as far and as custas fust as this administration would have liked most crops were supported at 90 ol 01 0 parity when mr became president ip 1033 1053 congress Congre aa has agreed to 0 of supports on most of those these to 73 of 0 parity and to 60 and 03 for others 0 we still need the I 1 dent told congress greater freedom for out our farmers to manage their own forms fau os and greater freedom fur markets to reflect the wishes of producers and consumers dy by that he be means fewer production controls and lower ower price supports the responsibility rests on congress either to accept tha th Pres presidents identa farm rec recommend ommen lations dallons dat lons ions or develop some pro gradi that would begin to make some sense to bothfur mers mere and consumers discussing the elaborate funeral of an illinois politician lincoln said why it if hed known how big a fun eral he was waa going to have he would have died years slim ago slogan on a church bulletin we believe that the task ahead of u us Is zw nver ver as great as the power behind us |