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Show Administrator Lists Ag, Program A postwar program of seven significant developments that agriculture ag-riculture will require was contained contain-ed in a message announced by -Judge Marvin Jones, war food administrator, ad-ministrator, and received by W. W. Owens, director of thei Utah Extension Service. Judge Jones reviewed the "magnificent "mag-nificent production job" of farmers farm-ers since the beginning of the war, and said that "this production produc-tion is what we want. Ours is the heritage of abundance. It is our goal today and will continue to be our goal when the war is over. This production can be continued only if we have all-out industrial production as well. This abundant agriculture production was made possible by the support prices which Congress wisely provided." "After the war," he declared, "we will have surplus stocks of. food just as we will have surplus airplanes, guns and tanks. We will need authority to dispose of surplus agricultural commodities and the products abroad at competitive com-petitive world prices. The message outlined and elaborated elab-orated briefly what he regarded has high points in a post-war program of developments that agriculture ag-riculture will require. His key-points key-points were as follows: Soil conservation, including further fur-ther development of soil conservation conserva-tion districts, water use, construction construc-tion of large dams for irrigation, flood control and hydroelectric power, rural electrification, decentralized decen-tralized industrial developments, highway development and elimin-reight elimin-reight rates as between different sections, and development of home ownership. Particular emphasis was laid at this time on the seventh point. Judge Jones said that the financing financ-ing of home purchase of family-sized family-sized farms, with special provision for the returning soldier who may desire to purchase and live on a farm, can Icontribute much to the stability of our country. The same is true of the financing of home purchasing in towns and cities, he pointed out, and added that our laws, both state and national, should be so fashioned as to encourage en-courage the ownership and maintenance main-tenance of family-sized farms in the country and comfortable homes in the towns and cities. He concluded that it will be difficult for any 'ism" or wild . scheme or movement to gain any appreciable appreci-able foothold among a home-owning people. |