Show FARM RELIEF THE pl of 0 the farm relief relict laatch president roosevelt has asked congress gr es to adopt Is as a we understand it to r raise alse the prices of farm products by reducing the volume of production we believe that Is a sound principle we are only concerned about the practicability tj tic cabi lity ol of accomplishing it it Is the fact that the farms ot of the united states have been for years year producing more of the principal staples staple cotton wheat corn tobacco beet beef pork and dairy products than the people of the united states could readily c consume OnS urne we have been dependent upon the export market for the lie sale of these surplus products the export expert market has been steadily and as tte te bellee bell cie permanently shrinking nation after nation lias has got itself back to the position othere its own farms can call supply its own oun needs I 1 it is absurd tor for tanners farmers to compete with each other in ili tile the domestic market 1 1 but that Is what it comes to ben they I 1 demands we t grow more mor e than alian the market I 1 had hoped that the operative cooperative co market ing plan was mas the basis of thea the farm boards creation might it mork out I 1 to induce the lie farmers to pull I 1 ull together hasi instead of apart but as yet there has I 1 been no such progress made as to justify tile hope that american farmers ix III ever be anything but independent inah bidual ests that Is in the true american bradl tion a tradition of upstanding independence aich makes it impossible to apply in tills this count country lucli restrictions a as are placed upon production pro atlon in other mulli conni trips tries ho however llever beneficial they may be to the farmer the principle involved in the presidents plan Is a new and untried one tile the principle of paying tile the farmer fanner for not lot producing in order that all farmers may get a higher price tor for th the c limited amount they do produce ts As mr roosevelt himself admits admit it may not mork bork but there are many who believe that it mill m work mork and if its administration dors does not take any more ca cash sh out of the pockets of tax results in collecting pa ers but instead the amount paid to the flir farmers mers from the processors and handlers of farm products it may accomplish the purpose of restoring tile the farmers purchasing p power oler |