Beaver County News | 1928-01-06 | Page 6 | National Policies Prove Inadequate to Meet Needs of American Agriculture

National Policies Prove Inadequate to Meet Needs of American Agriculture By GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING. It is obvious even to the casual observer that something is wrong in the adjustment of industry to the complex conditions of the present day. We are forced to the inevitable conclusion that out national policies have not been at all adequate to meet the needs of American agriculture, especially in this postwar period. Unless some way through national ef fort is found for raising the level of prices on our basic products sufficiently sufficient-ly to meet production costs and give a margin of profit that will enable the actual producers to hold their land and provide for its constant improvement, im-provement, then the small farmer is doomed. During the war we insisted that the American farmers should ex pand their efforts to the utmost to feed our armies in the field and the armies and civilian populations cf the allies as well. With the war's end, we failed to consider that there was a certain responsibility upon us as a natkn to aid the farmer to escape from the disastrous after effects of excessive production and competition.