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Show FARMING AS A BUSINESS "Legislation can help agriculture help itself," Governor Mc-Mullen Mc-Mullen declared in an address before delegates attending the convention con-vention of the Federation of Nebraska Realtors at Grand Island, Nebraska. The governor declared that the farmer does not ask the government gov-ernment to step in and manage his affairs, but does ask! that he be aided in working out his own problems. He urged less talk, less thoughtless opposition, and above all, something tried. "Agriculture is not a local industry in which only the people of the farming communities are directly interested," Governor Mc-Mullen Mc-Mullen said. "It is national in its scope. "It represents an investment of over eight billion dollars. Ir. economic matters agriculture must be taken for what it is, namely, cur basic industry, and our largest industry. If it can be helped through legislation as other industries are helped then the help should be forthcoming. "If the tariff system benefits industry as it most certainly does tnen it should benefit agriculture. But agriculture must first pu' itsel!! in. position to receive such benefit. As it is now, it is helped by the tariff only in form instead of in fact. Its protection through the tariff is on paper instead of on the farm. But that is not the fault of the tariff. It is the fault of agriculture itself. One obstacle in the way of help through the tariff has been crop surplusage. "So long as there is a surplus of any crops, the surplus musl be sold in competition with' world production, and the world price received for the surplus is the price that has been accepted for the major portion of the crop. That is wrong and in every way i: unbusinesslike. It's the tail wagging the dog. ''Agriculture is not asking special favors of the government and it is not asking the government to step in and manage "the farmers' affairs. It simply wants help to which it is entitled, the s -.me k:nd of help the government has given industry, labor and finance. And there is another thing agriculture wants: It want' less talk, 1 ess criticism, less thoughtless opposition and more action It wants something tried." |