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vegetables, sugar, sheddar cheese.
fluid milk, oiIseeds and products.
feed wheat, dairy feed and miscel-
la0c0ps.
On the basis Of this showing. he
said, Congress would see that only a
small percentage" of the crops re-
auired support priCes--that other
wise, the price the consumer paid
the farmer was high enough.
In addition TO the CCC.proeram.
Mr. Roosevelt continued. the Recon-
struCtiOn Finance Corp. is paving out
about s45O0O000O to keep down the
price ot meat and butter.
Cites EoIiback's Success.
Other forms Of payments have
been made under the Agricultural
Adjustment Act, Mr. Roosevelt am
pltled and in consequence. the
rise IN the cost Of living which had
proceeded without interruption from
the carly months Of 1941 was
brought to an abrupt halt
In August 1943. he continued
living costs we're only 48 per cent
over those for September, 1912
the intended stabilization date for
prices and Wages-and while living
costs advanced again in September
1888, it was due mainly to an ad-
vance in the price of clothing.
The program recently announced
to reduce retail prices Of apples
onions. potatoes, peanut butter, lard
and other shortening. now is being
put into effect. the President said
and preparations are being made
to establish ceilings at levels sub
stantialIy below current retail prices
on other winter vegetables Mix
and bread are other commodities for
which lower prlCeSe are sought.
Most of these decreases. Mr.
Roosevelt explained, will be made
possible without the use of subsidies
and by means Of reduction in mar
gins and returns which are ex-
Cessivcly high"
Must Meet Shipping Costs.
IN some cases, however, he con-
tinued, 1T will be necessary in order
to hold the retail prices at reason
able levels for the Government to
absorb part of the cost of trans
poItation, to take a moderate loss
on purchase operations, and to make
direct purchases" There was no
estimate made as to this cost.
Preferring to call them war SUBJ
sides instead of producer or con-
suner subsidies, the President SAID
such aid is the same principle that
has proved so effective in the
production Of copper, lead, zinc anc
aluminium and which every nation
at war has utilized to hold down
living costs.
although this program cannot
hold the line without the enforce
ment of firm price control anc
without an adequa te tax and savings
program to absorb excess purchasing
/ power" he asserted, nevertheless
1t is equally true that the firmest
price control and the Wisest fiscal
policy cannot do the job them
selves without use of price supports :
Cites Farm Income Figures.
The President took cognizance of
the contention that the farm popu-
latlon has been receiving a de-
creased share Of the national in
come, declaring that this is true"
But he added, 1T does not
deny the fact that the average indi-
Vidual farmer is more prosperous
today, as compared with the rest
OF the population, than he has been
in 80 years"
Estimating farm income this year
at Sl2,475, 100000, as compared to a
yearly average of $4666 100000 in
the five-year period from 1885
through 1889, the message said: "Ir
plain language, the farmer, this
year, is not only better off in rela-
ton to others in the population
than he was before the war broke
out; he is better off than he was ir
the base period, 1910 to 1914, anc