The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-21

that Is so simple a child can under
stand il. II is complicated neither
in phraseology nor in provisions.
Eighty per cent of agricultural
products arc shipped from one state
to another. No state law can control
or regulate traffic between states.
Yet there are over, 10000, local and
state cooperative farm organizations
trying. to profitably operate under
state laws, selling commodities that
are interstate in shipment and con-
sumption: thus emphasizing the i'm
pOrtance of national marketing law
under which farmers can nationally
distribute, market and stabilize prices
of their products in a uniform and
orderly manner to meet their finan-
cial requiem ents and supply food
stuffs as, demanded by the public"
Curtis.AAwcll Bill Permits Farmers
To Organize Nationally
r. "The purpose Of Federal law as
proposed under the Curtis-Aswell bill
is to authorize National Commodity
Organizations. Under such bill
farmers would be placed in, posi-
ton to uniformly stabilize their
prices in all sections Of the country,
On all Nationally organized commo-
ditics., In this way the farmers could
prevent dealers from using any or
ganized farm. commodity OF any one
state to break down prices in other
states.
Farmers could 50 regulate dis
tribution as to avoid glutting markets,
which is one of the existing evils;
as an oversupply of any food conn
modify in large centers not only
breaks down the local prices but it
is often used by dealers to break
prices, to the dctriment Of all farm
ers producing such commodity; often
forcing farmers to sell ut ruinous
prices or see their products spoil in
their fields.
Bankrupt prices to the farmers
and exorbitant prices to consumers
constitute the real fundamental and
destructive difficulty with farming.
Give the farmer a law that will per-
nit him to control his distribution
and marketing without any intcrfeg-
encc by federal agents and the agri-
cultural problem would be solved by
the farmers themselves on q sound
and lasting basis!
"What the real field farmers need
and what they demand is q marketing
system that will apply permanent
remedy reaching to the utmost depths
Of their unhappy and almost hope
less condition.
ut is the unfortunate people en-
gagged in feeding the balance of the
world who are being told by politi-
clans, in, their efforts to bring on
friction between the agricultural
| West and the industrial East that
the East is wallowing in wealth and
luxury, unsympathetic with the des-
hsSks onl IS
farmers.
The McNary.Haugens Bill
Let me point out to you some of
the evil principles Of the McNary-
Haugen bill, which will illustrate
with wheat.
1.-THE provisions of the McNary-
Haugcn bill are based on the theory
Of securing higher prices for wheat
by holding up the home prices Mt Il
figure equal to foreign prices, plus
the tariff and expenses of dumping
the surplus abroad for whatever it
would bring. The losses sustained
by this dumping process in the for
eign market would be paid back by
the farmers in the form of an 'equali-
cation fec or a tax on every bushcl
of wheat grown.
"This equalization fee would be
7, arbitrarily fixed by the Federal Board
as provided for in the McNary Hau-
gen bill, without consultation or
recommendation from any source.
"There is no limit to the Boards
, discretion or the power that can be
exercised by it. The Federal Board
would be supreme. Farmers would
not be consulted.
1.-The Federal law, as proposed in
! the McNary-Haugen bill, would be
mandatory. No farmer could escape
the penalty Of paying his assessment
on a farm commodity which the Fed
eral Board would take over to mar
ket for him.
"Thc McNaryHaugen bill would
plunge the country into an era of
profiteering the like Of which we
have never experienced since the
war, and all at the expense of Amer
! lean farm producers and consumers"
Radio tests to determine the per-
manency Of the carth's crust will be
conducted this fall by the Intcrna-