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Show TO HASTEN RECOVERY. It is inevitable that agriculture must some day return to normalcy, but the problem of hastening the time when the excessive burden upon the land will be lifted is still to be solved. Leaders are beginning to think t along sane lines in their effort to lessen less-en some of the grief that man-made errors have imposed upon agriculture ! in the past. Thought today is turning j to the advocacy of wider markets for I farm surpluses,' as advanced more than a year ago by the Grain Com- mittee on National Affairs in a sur-I sur-I vey of the farm question. This committee specified that any legislative plan to hasten agricultural recovery should be based upon these principles : "Should not require curtailment of agricultural production to fit only domestic do-mestic needs, but should through trade exchange open the world market mar-ket for whatever surplus of food or i raw material we care to produce. . i "Should not require the creation of ! any additional government machinery I or the employment of a single new government employee. "Should not add anything to feder-I feder-I al governmental expenditures in administration." ad-ministration." It was also declared that the outstanding out-standing world problem today is interference in-terference with distribution; that speculation is the basis upon which rests the whole structure of international interna-tional commerce; that there are certain cer-tain channels through which commerce com-merce naturally flows, and the law of supply and demand are immutable. All recognized authorities also insist in-sist that the farmers' future markets should be kept broad and liquid, unhampered un-hampered by needless restrictions. |