Show ea e r t a N lai 1 c h L W 0 e bee b atho 1 nale I 1 jn k s from OUR congressman W K GRANGER a it war investigation re e agriculture begins 1 fhe e special subcommittee sub committee cist war planning for agriculture insists of the following congress illinik n stephen pace of georgia is n anik airman orville zimmerman I W R page of texas W id for at granger of utah jerry voorhis antal tal 11 0 california alifornia victor Wicker wickersham sharn of I 1 for dahoma clifford R ho hope pe of kan e atol Z auit august H and andresen e of minn reid F murray of wisconsin ta tails blei iorga W gillie of indiana and IV s e hay haj r hill of colorado first meeting of this special ste are was held in the senate e room on dec 4 beginning aito if f study with king cotton the cot ful fd n crop is is usually referred to as is dentt de ing fling since it is the major crop of ie lefalle to lie world there were present at I 1 hab first hearing re representatives presenta stives of act alery klery branch of the cotton industry re r n the grower the ginner the trans trani in ia garter the broken the weaver and senile manufacturer forn the i be rony jony thus far given the future of tm otton is not bright blight this is the beginning of the agri linture postwar post war study and it is anticipated that every part of our agriculture eri gri culture system will vill be given an to be heard and offer ay suggestions having for its pur ose the allover all over benefit of agrical jre ire wh which ich in its As fullest sense means economic c benefit to the nation keco the following is taken from the es estl mony of sec claude R wick rd of the department of agricot ka ure lire i wore more than half of the nations arm people live in the 13 southern states hates they have among them less han one third of the nations crop and and receive only about one T of the nations farm incont ahe lahe great majority of these famil families ift receive most of their cash income rom roin cotton even if farmers received parity for far every pound of cotton that could e grown in the south the incomes lit if a great many of them still would f ae too low to afford an acceptable level of living and th the e prospect of nar marketing at a satisfactory price all the cotton this country is capable producing is to say the least leas a here then is a bremen tremendous dous economic and social problem for the jim immediate mediate future of course we behave have the price supporting authorization of the amendment and the cotton export subsidy program but they are temporary measures it must be solved yet it cannot be solved in terms of cotton alone IS HI what we often refer to as the cotton problem has a much broader base than a single commodity we I 1 H must think in terms of southern p agriculture and the of southern farra farm people |