The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-17
OPEN LETTER TO NATIONAL FARM BOARD
TELLS OF THEIR FLOP WITH PROBLEM

The Producers News reprints
the following letter clipped from
the Helena Independent:
The following interesting open
letter, directed to Chairman Legge
of the national farm board, and
written by Mrs. E. @. Cooper OF
Canyon Ferry in this county, pre-
sents a farm view of the govern
ment's attitude toward farming
Eand points out some of the ao--
surdities and failures connected
with government treatment of the
whole farm problems, including
the waste of money in teaching
farmers to grow more wheat IN
the face of surplus, the burden
of the parasites that live off OF
the farmer and the gamblers IN
grain who complicate the farmers
difficulties:
Dear Mr.. Legge:
Since you represent the govern
ment in the farm aid movement,
l would like TO ask you a few
questions.
Since we farm too much land
and raise too much wheat, why
does the administration waste the
taxpayers money on new irriga-
ton projects when it will increase
both acreage and surplus?
"Why does the administration
pay little scientists big salaries to
find a wheat with the biggest yield
per acre when such a wheat only
increases the surplus, lowers the
price, further impoverishes the
land and aggravates our difficult
ties?
Experiment Trains
"Why does the administration
pay the expenses of experimental
trains to tour the country to adj
vocate cheap farming methods
when the weediest grain fields in
the country are a monument to
the failure of the type of nipple
ments demonstrated? The busiest
person on the train was a govern
ment paid man who spoke here a
few years ago advising the use of
two or more tractors on a farm,
naively admitting that, of course,
it would mean bigger farms. Why
does the administration pay such
men to advise the farmers to fol-
low a course that simply means
bankruptcy?
Doesn't it seem, Mr.. Legge,
that many of our best minds run
to Oratory? They don't seem to
know very much about practical
business. They forget that most
of the tax money is hard earned
else surely they wouldn't spend it
SO foolishly.
Joker in Tariff
eff the administration is sin
cere why don't they abolish gambl-
ing in food commodities? Food
should pass through only the ne
cessary hands in passing from pro-
Queer to consumer. Eliminate the
parasites.
"The U. S. chamber of commerce
passed resolution in which they
said, there has been imposed un-
bearable hardships upon business
enterprise Not a single business
enterprise except the purely para
site ones would be affected in the
least.
Surely the people have supports
ed these gamblers long enough.
at isn't alone the farmers
grievance. These parasites fitch
from the grain while entransit
from producer to consumer, a fat
and easy living. The producer re-
ceives less than he should. The
consumer pays more than he
should. There are more than
three consumers to each producer
therefore the consumers contribute
more than three-fourths towards
the wealth of these parasites.
Eliminate. Gamblers
"It is everybody's business to
eliminate the gamblers. When
progress demands protection for
the people let the parasites CLEAN
a living from something else than
wheat which they have neither
sowed nor reaped.
"Why doesn't the administra-
ton help the cotton and wool
growers by passing a truth in
fabrics bill? Does the plumber
kind object? Such a bill would
aid the producers by creating a
demand for their products. II
would aid consumers by enabling