Show Mr and Mrs Doug Simpson Tell Tel Tellof of Farm Life Tradition in India i v i ia i a 55 5 i A n Douglas Simpson Utah Farmers Uni Union n President for the past year and his bis wife have Just returned from a six weeks' weeks visit to India They along with fifteen other American farm leaders made the trip under the joint sponsorship of ot Farmers and World Affairs Inc of Philadelphia and the Farmers' Farmers Forum Indias India's national farm organization Low Living Standards Mr and Mrs Simpson now back at their farm in Kamas view viewed ed ell their experiences as one which words could not Justly describe Their visits to villages in India r revealed large families living in I II I one and two room huts Many had bad no light except the glimmer gUmmer from froma a lamp tamp burning oil made from fromI i I m mustard plants The cooking facilities amounted to a dung cow-dung fire burning on the dirt floor with no chimney or escape pipe Alpo for the smoke I The only food available to these families explained the Simpsons Simpson was that which they grew themselves on their farms of ot usually one two or four acres However the Simpsons Simpson described the tho people as wonderful kind generous honest and friend ly Mr MI Simpson and his wife felt that the Indian people generally generall have an unlimited respect and love for lor America and Americans They recalled that during one two-day two period they talked and visited with about a thousand farmers per day At a fair the Simpsons met met with some farm ers era Here they were asked questions questions questions ques ques- about how much the American American American Ameri Ameri- can farmer earned how bow much he paid his hla agricultural ral help What about the US U.S. overproduction over tion did we destroy food What about price prica supports controlled production gation gatlon How much of each commodity commodity commodity commo commo- does the Us U.s. produce per acre How y much milk per cow How does farm income compare with industrial Income These and many other questions were fired at the visitors Also AlBo there were many technical questions questions ques about seeds chemicals sprays fertilizers etc Fortunately Fortunately Fortunately Fortun says Mr Simpson we u usually had haC someone in our group with a fairly good answer Guest of Indian Farmer t During their visit the Simpsons spent several days as guests of one particular Indian farmer In la Ina laa a village near Bombay His name was Mahendra Mr Simpson Simpson Simp Simp- son described d him as being a pro pro- young farmer wealthy by Indian stand standards rde who had been to the United States as an exchange student Farmer two story house bouse was described by the Simpson Simpsons as one of the the- best they had bad seen in seven villages housing over people Mrs Simpson felt that it was most exceptional in that it had electric lights and running water cold she added She Sho described the kitchen as a 12 by 14 U room with a cement floor anda cement block wood burning with a small email bole hole In the ceiling for the smoke to escape Mr Simpson added that the house bouse had bad what be he called both botha I Ia a bath and a path He lie explained ex that so Bome sonde e 60 feet teet from the house bouse was the building housing the diesel die die- set leI engine which pumped water from a well for tor household purposes purposes pur pur- po poses II and Irrigation plus plue powered power power- ed the volt 25 DC D.C. electric plant la In this building was also housed the bath The path which Mr fr Simpson referred to led to a little house bouse with a stand on stand on WJ wash down toilet A randy handy little bucket bucket bucket buc buc- ket ketlIe ket ket- lIe be comments and a water tap la is almost as convenient as a pull chain chala flush The bath In the pump house bouse consisted of an oval metal tub In Inthe Inthe Inthe the center of or a white tile floor a cold water tap up and a metal cup with which to pour water wate r over oyer oneself Continued Next Week Wed |