Show THE cooperatives AND THE FARM BOARD at its last convention tho the national cooperative council which is a federation of tho the leading farm cooperatives of tho the nation representing over a million organized farmers went on record as ag favor inythe taff the continuation ortho of tho federal farm board but recommend reco amend the repeal of that part of the law under which the board conducted its ita stabilization operations in corn com modules mo dUlea dittes most of the jus justified titled criticism of tho the board has been directed at that part of the law in intent it was good that it led to abuses cannot be denied stabilization became speculation and hundreds of at millions of af dollars were spent without any appreciable benefit there is no cause for criticizing the boards management the trouble lay in the fact that you cant control supply and demand by law it has been largely forgotten that tho the principal reason for or the board boards 0 creation estiOn cr was to help the farmer help himself through cooperatives that remains the principal reason for tho the continued exist existence enoe of at the board or similar government agency in times such as aa cheso tho io that la is a legitimate governmental function speculation in wheat Is not if the government con contineri tinei its operations to furthering the cause of cooperatives there will be little criticism in the future auturo |