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Show THE AMERICAN WAY i . ''C t - Georee Peck . FATTENING FOR THE KILL The Brannan Plan promises all things to all men. It presents pre-sents an alluring appeal to all groups guaranteed income to the farmers, cheaper food for the consumers, and an assured, prosperous, rural market for business. Sounds just dandy, doesn't it? Briefly, the Brannan Plan has as its objective an annual farm income comparable in purchasing purchas-ing power to that of the ten-year ten-year period, 1939-48. For 1950 it is estimated this will amount to over $26 billion. The producers pro-ducers of perishable commodities commodi-ties would be paid in cash the difference between the support standard and the average selling sell-ing price for these commodities in the market place. And what will all this cost us tax-payers? No one seems to know, including' even Mr. Brannan, Bran-nan, himself. But, authorities who are qualified to express an opinion, estimate it will cost from $5 billion to $10 billion or more a year, depending upon trends in prices, production and consumption. The cost of the Brannan Plan would be added to federal expenditures, ex-penditures, which, already are running ahead of revenue. Government Gov-ernment taxes of all kinds already al-ready take over 25 of the national income. This ratio is dangerously high. In the past, whenever any country has taken tak-en such a large proportion of income from its people the economy econ-omy has bogged down under the strain and the government has been forced to step into the saddle sad-dle and establish a despotic rule. The farmer himself would suiter the most if the Brannan Plan were adopted. In fact, it would FATTEN HIM FOR THE KILL. In order to receive benefits, ben-efits, the individual farmer would have to comply with production pro-duction goals; acreage allotments; allot-ments; marketing quotas, agreements agree-ments and orders; and observe soil conservation practices as prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Under the Brannan proposal, the farmer would have to submit to the most rigid set of controls ever imposed upon farming. He would be placed in a straif jacket jack-et and be subject to the whims and dictates of the planners, who would be governed strictly strict-ly by political expediency rather rath-er than by the economic welfare wel-fare of the nation. The farmer would be plagued by a swarm of bureaucrats who would tell him how to farm his " land, what crops tn ' to care for his land a' K the subsidy is to hp nd K L There could be bm nt outcome Natin ;.0ne fin- VK the land. Make no t ? is the ultimate goaU f, rung boys. It is a 5 tle t. $ to get the farmer X noose, the while he iCa ' for the kill. e ls fatter.4 K Farmers should tf. ' S Parable of the WUdV written in the first h,i.H' t 19th century by m al I 1 the great Danish There is sa deadly e be drawn between Wfc K which will be the flrl " the Brannan pi. ;larmer's ,, 4 operation, and t h e PUj which overtook KiPrS iis wild duck. The parahPard' !, lows: parab'e fc;. With his mates a wild h, , $ was tlying in the J dut! , northward acnxj . Eu&f ing the flight he caiM a Danish barnyard The? k ? were tame ducks. He ate'; $ their corn and he liked it & stayed for an hour-thl ,fi al a day-then a weekit'' t month and finally, beeanl j i relished the good fa?K S safety of .the barnya d I W stayed all summer. ' ht j tl Then one autumn dav the flock of wild ducL & winging its way southw again' PuSsed over the C1 yard and their mate heard S cries. His breast stirred with Strange-ihn11 of joy an de 1 w and with a great flapp & wmSs- he rose in the air J 0 join his old comrades in tw D flight-but he found h fare had made him fat and hu muscles so soft and flabby tb, & he could rise no higher thanfe eaves of the barn. So he dropped back into the 1 barnyard and said to himWf "Oh, well, my life is safe h' and the food is good." But. alas he was not e'e -- from the man who fed him for he later discovered that ht't D was being fattened fox the kill |