The Devils Lake world., 1921-12-14
Stabilizing Com
mission is Proposed

Strong approval Of the price-firing
bill introduced into congress recently
by Representative C. A. Christopher
SON of South Dakota was voiced yes
terday by Usher L. Burdick, North
Dakota director of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc, and one of the direc-
tors of the North Dakota Farm Bu-
reau federation. Mr.. Burdick express
sed himself as strongly of the convic-
ton that farmers could be saved from
destruction only thru the fixing of
prices, either thru voluntary action on
their part, or by action of government.
He was inclined, he said, to believe
the latter method offered quickest
hope of relief.
Mr., Burdick had just been shown a
summary of the Christopherson bill,
which appeared in Farm, Stock &
Home, Minnesota farm journal. That
paper gave the following as the gist
of the bill.
The secretary of agriculture, the
secretary of labor, and the secretary
of commerce and their successors in
office are to be a commission to be
known as the American stablizing
commission.
The commission is authorized and
directed to purchase all marketable
grades of wheat, rye, hay, oats, bar
ley, buckwheat, corn, rice, grass seed,
sugar, and wool heretofore or here
after grown or produced in the Unit
ed States and owned or sold by the
original owners thereof upon delivery
thereof at terminal markets.
The commission shall have power to
provide for such proofs as it may deem
necessary of the ownership of all
crops harvested or growing at the ex-
piration of 60 days after the passage
and APPROVAL of this act and which may
thereafter be offered for sale, in order
that the benefit of such guaranteed
prices for such harvested or present
growing crops, thereafter purchased
by said commission shall, so far as
practicable, insure to the sole benefit
of the original owners thereof.
The commission shall specify and
publicly announce the prices which it
will pay for the various surplus prod
ucts and the times at which it will
purchase them. The commission shall
annually before planting season speci-
fy and publicly announce the prices
which it will pay for the surplus of
such domestic future crops thereafter
planted, which prices may, if deemed
practicable and advisable by said COM
mission, be made contingent upon the
size of such crops, when harvested
and ascertained or estimated as accur-
ately as possible, to the end that the
aggregate amount to be paid for an
excessive amount to be paid for an
excessive surplus may not greatly ex-
ceed that to be paid for an average
surplus crops harvested or growing a,
the time OF the passage and approval
OF this act shall be as nearly as prac.
hcable tile average estimated cost OF
production plus a reasonable profit
The commission in specifying the
prices it will pay for such surplus
products hereafter produced shall en-
aeavor to encourage the production Of
crops of which considerable amount
Is now imported, such as flax, wool
, ana sugar, and discourage the produc-
tlon OF an excessive and unmarkota-
il !e surplus Of other products hereto
ore specified.
The commission shall also CAREFUL,
investigate the practicability of like
wise guaranteeing a minimum pric
for all surplus marketable cotton. to
oacco, hides, mutton, beef and Dor
and report its conclusions and recon
inendaticns, if any thereon, to con
oresS at tho aarI;o.+ ~,o4:l,