Evening star., 1941-02-22
0'NeaI Says Farmer
Is Forgotten Man
In Defense Plans
US, With Big Surplus,
Faces Loss Of Foreign
Markets, He Warns
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, Feb a.
Edward A. ONeal, American Farm
Bureau Federation president, as
serted today that the American
farmer would be the forgotten
man" of the future unless speedy
action is taken to protect his in
terests."
Mr.. ONeal. a speaker at the Ma
tional Farm Institute, which is con-
sidering economic preparedness
and agriculture" held that "con-
trary to the belief of many urin-
formed people, the war and the
national defense program will not
ease, even temporarily, the farm
problem.
The present situation is critical
for farmers because, Just at the time
that our reserve supplies are the
highest on record, We face the vir-
tual wiping out of our foreign mar
kets :. The entire Western
Hemisphere is bulging with sur
pluses."
Farmer Out Of Balance.
Saying that national defense con-
tracts protect industry and that
wage rates are going Ito still higher
levels" Mr.. O'Neal contended that
these trends will throw the farmer
still further out Of balance with
other groups unless something is
done"
Representative Hope, Republican,
Of Kansas told the institute that the
British-aid bill should be used to
increase exports of farm products to
the United Kingdom.
/ Emphasis should be placed upon
the disposal Of those commodities
of which We have accumulated large
! surpluses, such as cotton, wheat and
tobacco" Mr.. Hope said.
Urges British Concessions.
The member of the House Agri.
] cultural Committee also suggested
that every effort should be made
/ TO secure from Britain such trade
/ concessions as empire preference in
the future, in consideration OF our
assistance now"
Discussing "Labor's Relation 10
/ National Defense" James B. Carey,
/ secretary of the Congress of In.
| dustrial Organizations. termed the
| unemployment of between 9 and 10
million workers and the tenancy
of almost so per cent Of the Nations
farmers the twin evils of our
/ economy"
He said that "the medicine to
make America we'll" lies not in war,
but in getting jobs and raising in
comes, and asserted that farm sur
/ pluses Go not consist Of what Is
not needed in this Nation, but "of
what cannot be sold here"
Achcson Urges Aid to Britain.
! Assistant Secretary of State Dean
/ AcheSon, discussing The World
/ Crisis and the American Farmer"
/ said last night "totalltarian aggres-
/ SION must be kept out Of all parts
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be kept out of the United States.
Unless we extend effective aid TO
Britain. We shall face, virtually
alone. the full impact of totalitarian
aggression in this hemisphere" Mr..
ACheson said.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Of the Ma
tional Defense Councils Office for
/ the coordination OF commercial and
cultural relations between the Amer
lean republics said United States ex-
/ porters have begun to handle adver-
rising in Central and South Amer
/ lean papers and periodicals in such
/ a manner that the advertising reve-
hue is not used to foster anti
American propaganda in those
/ countries
He also said another objective was
/ tine replacement of agents or en-
/ ployes of a United States company
| or its affihates in the other Amer
| lean republics wherever such agents
or employees are identified as con-
tributing to or participating in anti
American activities"