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Show NATION-WIDE RE- ' FERENDUM ON FARMLEGISLATION Salt Iako City, May 2S Docs the American farmer want legislation making Illegal the short selling of Hgrlcultural products? Doos he favor placing tli'u packing Industry under government regulation? What Is his' Idea In regard to the road building program? To answor theso ques linns the American Farm Bureau Federation Fed-eration will take u nutlon-wlde referendum refer-endum nmong Its 1,GOO,00 members during the next three weeks, according accord-ing to Information received by tho Utah Stato Farm Ilureau. A questionnaire Is to bo submitted to the entlro membership of tho farm bureau with questions based on the national legislative program adopted at a conference last month of tho J American Farm llurenu Federation executive ex-ecutive committee, together with representatives rep-resentatives from stato federations. Community meetings will bo held In tho 1,600 organized county farm bureaus In tho United Stntcs. A "yes" or "no" voto will bo taken on tho following specific questions of national nation-al legislative policy. In order that every question will bo clear beforo tho voto Is taken, discussion by tho neighborhood groups will bo given every encouragement: 1 Do you favor financing based on bonded warchouso rccolpts? 2 Do you favor llvo stock financing finan-cing based on nn ndequnto plcdgoT 3 Do you favor the development of a personal rural credit system based en propor safeguards? 4 Do you request that authority bo grnntcd tho Fedoral Resorvo Hoard to so classify rediscounts as to glvo priority to loans for basic production of nil kinds? I 5 Do you favor Increasing tho limit lim-it on Fodoral Innd Bank mortgago Irann from $10,000 to $25,000? 6 Do you favor asking Congress to submit to tho states a constitutional constitut-ional amendment prohibiting the Is. sunnce of nil tnx-froo securities? 7 Are you in favor of continuing tho Excess Profits Tax? 8 Are you opposod to tho enact-7 ment of n aonornl Sales Tax? 9 Will you be able to move a mn-l terlnlly largor amount of agricultural products If tho American Farm Tin-1 reau Federation secures an adequuto reduction In freight rates? 10 Do you favor placing tho packers pack-ers under regulntlon by tho government govern-ment and tho vesting of such regulation regula-tion In tho Department of Agriculture? Agricul-ture? 11 Do you favor the building of fnrm-to-mnrket ronds prior to tho construction or trans-continental h'ghwnys? 12 Do you favor tho Oreat Lakes-St. Lakes-St. Iwronco waterway? 13 Do you favor legislation making illegal tho practice of short soiling in agricultural products? U Do you favor tho Truth-ln-Fab-rlc legislation? 15 Do you favor enabling loglsla- I tlon for cooperative markotlng? I Fnrniors will bo urgod to commit their nnswers to all of tho questions and particularly to tho question whether, with relief from present high freights, they will be nblo to ship a materially larger volume of pro. ducts. Presumably this presages action ac-tion on the part of tho farm bureau officials to attempt securing voluntary volun-tary reductions by demonstrating to tho railroads that lower freight rates would pay by Increasing tho volume, should tho answers demonstrate that Introascd tonnage actually Is waiting for lower chargos, Tho organization of tho farm bureau bu-reau national, state, county and community makes It particularly adapted to ascertaining the wishes of tho man-on-tho-farm. rv . |
