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Show i I What They're Doing in Washington WASHINGTON Opponents of the administrations farm bill are living behind an emotional Magi-nLine," Sen, Wallace F. Bennett (R., Utah) told the Senate. The Utah lawmaker defended flexible farm price' supports ad-- , vocated by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, also a Utahn. It seems to me that the supporters of the concept of tMtrV parity are moved in their fervor to ascribe to it almost mystical powers, Sen. Bennett said. It has become the synonym and symbol of security, a kind of emotional Maginot Line behind which its adherents think they can - live in a world apart, ot 'protected from the effects of eco- nomic laws and forces that operate in the ordinary world outside. They have made it a kimj of dreamworld from whose happy hopes they do not want reality to waken them. The senator charged that the whole support program was un- necessary because unsupported crops actually had consistently fared better price-wis- e than supported crops. He said, too, that it was impossible to keep market prices at 90 parity even though the government had spent $7.5 billion in the attempt." Finally, he expressed dissatisfaction with acreage control which in actual practice tends to increase surpluses rather than to decrease them. Admitting that he was not a farmer, the lawmaker said he approached the problem as a busi- - ! nessman both weary and wary of the high cost of rigid price supports. He warned his colleagues of many- - storm signals ahead. The first of these, he said, was the danger of perpetual loss. He showed from Department of Agriculture figures that the Commodity Credit Corporation has sustained a net loss of $125, 000,000 on wheat during 17 years, of $H3,ooo,ooo on peanuts over, 14 years and of on corn over 22 years: I can understand the logic of a program which operates to give help in years of trouble or adjustment. but some of these programs could not break even, even in the war years with production at full draft, Sen Bennett said. The second storm signal he pointed out was the rapidly accelerating rate of loss which climbed, on the basic crops, from about $0,000,000 per year before World War II to about $120,000,000 per year in fiscal 1954. In the phases of the high-rigi- d parity program, the senator said he saw several cracks in the Maginot Wall, the first of them being changes in customer buying habits. The best example of this is in the field of dairy products where, since 1042, the per capita milk consumption in America has dropped from 821 pounds to 0S0 pounds, he said. Had producers been so alert to the problem that by administrative and imaginative marketing they had been able to sustain the higher rate of consumption we should today be pushing them to make up a milk shortage of non-mon- ey 00 to 8,0(10.000,000 pounds instead of burdening them with a surplus of pounds of butter and pounds of dried milk. It is true that the consumption of dairy products has turned up since April of this year, but it is equally significant that this has only happened since the industry went on to the flexible price support System, he added. The second crack is in the relationship. In 1042, he butter outsold marout, pointed five to one but by 1952 garine had outdistanced butter. margarine Sen. Bennett said the wall was cracking, too, in the area of intersectional competition. There was a time when the traditional wheat growing areas of the country were fairly well defined, but with the incentive provided by the rigid high support system, other sections of the country have been, encouraged to increase their wheat acreage, not only providing new competition for the noimal markets but also adding to the overwhelming surpluses, he said. He noted that while rigid high price supports may have brought temporary profits to farmers in the original wheat belt, they had also created a permanent threat to their prosperity in the form of several tremendous new competitive areas. Sen.' Bennett said that his position favoring flexible supports was shared by most of the farmers in Utah and in the nation and he expressed pleasure and pride in the backing given Secretary Benson by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Agriculture Secretary, Sen. Clinton P. 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The chap with the umbrella, footing it on the dusty road as he seeks a vacant place in a truck, strikes an HANOI, Indo-Chine- INDO-CIIIN- A se Incongruous note. Trains For Channel Swim approved, his compensation will start as of the date of the new application. Q My mother and father are dependent on me. If 1 go to school under the Korean GI Bill, could I count them as dependents, for GI allowance purjMises? Or are the dependency allowances limited to wives and children? ' A Under the law, you would he permitted to include your parents as dependents, so long as they are in fact dependent on you. Q I am drawing a VA pension as the widow of a World War I veteran. I have a small endowment policy that has just matured. Must 1 count the monthly payments as PORT ANGELES, WASH. Training for her coming assault VA pension purposes? for income, Strait of Juan De Fuca between Port Angeles on the A The monthly payments will and Victoria, B. 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Can he still follow our desires, that ering they may be sands of questions daily concerning on thst original applica- moulded and exalted before through they the benefits their Government pro- tion take form in words and in deeds. vides for them through Veterans Msry Baker Eddy, A No. VA considers a claim Administration. Below are some 4 .York. Rated as one of the editors in the nation, one has been interviewed by leading writers. Some of her trite say top-flig- ht V Bone-Numbi- . inga include: Etiquette tops necking. Resistance Is a must. There Is no mental task la which women cannot compete with men. Miss Bacon explains thst Love Story Writer is n book of practical advice of the sort which gavs writers all over the country their start I dished it up in tbs same fireside chat way seas. li J - fc cs c2c::3 lb EttbS the way, reduced rates ore m effect daily after 6 p.rru, and all day Sundays. 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Although primarily concerned with writing romantic fiction for large circulation mag. aiinea, critics havt pointed out that much in the book applies to other types of writing as welL mm L t!:re Fifty years eea, Utah Copper pie, ne sired open pit production of copper from low-preore ct tin; Scat. This did more them create a sm Utah Mudry. Adse3y It efrsed up the fieU of mass production mining of low grade western ere, previously considered wortLIem. fids tpe cf nlnlrg produces 5 cl our sdlM'i needy mined ccpper and here in Utah it is writers today need all the.en couragement they can get with editors making themselves so la accessible. She urges writers to write of what they know and to use1 backgrounds tn their own part of tho country. Then is a Fainted Desert in your own front Vets Information yc-rscl- f... v office, she says. So many books on writing are discouraging and ng Wife Preservers bl. always r talked to authors in tha 1 : cr |