Evening star., 1946-06-16

and abroad Will be Sumclent aftef
present emergency conditions have
passed to utilize the farmers greatly
extended capacity for production
have been raised by the United
States Chamber of Commerce in
recent publication by the organiza-
tons Agricultural Department.
In 24-page pamphlet prepared
under the direction of c. j. Abbott,
chairman Of the Agricultural De-
partment Committee, farmers are
urged to reach an early agreement
on sound agricultural policies and
on an effective program.
I'm the MAN," the pamphlet
states, "the same conditions of ex-
cess supply in relation to demand
which caused the various agricul-
tural adjustment programs to be
devised may be expected to recur.
The almost certain result of a
failure of farmers to settle at an
early date on sound policies and an
effective action program" 1t Is
pointed out. will be a depressed
agriculture, increasing Government
al regulations and an increased de-
pendence on beneficent Congress
and a complacent public for sub
sides in place of normal income" 4"
In a section headed, Farmers
Seek Easy Solution" the pamphlet
asserts surveys have disclosed a
certain weariness with respect to
restraints to which farmers have
been subjected for most OF the time
since 1888.
However" the report continues
this has not resulted in concerted
demand for more fundamental ap-
proach to the problem and a more
energetic attack on the problems
by the farmers themselves. Rather,
there Is q tendency toward an easy
acceptance Of, q pkusible theory
that the root cause of all the far
mers' difficulties lies outside the in
dustry itself and that, If other in
dustries will place their houses in
order, all will be we'll for agricul-
ture.
This leads to the wholly err
roneous assumption that trouble
some conditions within agriculture
itself may be disregarded and the
primary responsibility may be
placed on other industries and labor
for the maintenance of agricultural
prosperity through an expanded
and sustained consumption OF farm
products"
Warning that an expanding in
dustrial activity is not the sole
remedy, the committee states there
is parallel responsibility on the
part of farmers to exercise prudent
Judgment in maintaining prodic-
tion in relation to effective demalld.
SO far as it is possible to do so, 1t
is recognized, the committee said,
that a working relationship between
organized business and organized
agriculture in which each will per-
form its distinctive functions in
creating prosperous national
economy, is desirable.
The committee suggests that ma
tional agricultural policy be di-
rected toward such an income per
farm as will permit a return to
capital equal to that on other in
vestments of comparable security:
also return for management and
labor that will provide a level of
living on a par with the average
worker in other industries.
Such standard of income should
be based on farm units of economical
size, efficiently operated and afford
ing full-time employment for labor
and management"
Young People Stay on Farms.
For many years rural America
has run a poor second to large
cities in the opportunities offered
its most promising young men and
women. Any list of prominent men
and women will include many who
spent their childhood and early
youth in small towns or on the
farm, and in the ranks of labor, the
number of those who have left agri-
cultural and small-town jobs for
the better conditions" offered in
the larger centers of population, is
high.
That rural America is awakening
to the value of it's youthful leaders
was apparent here last week at
the 10th annual National All Club
Camp, held at the American Uni
versity. Here teen-age All Club