The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-08-31

never his master, the Republican par
ty is pledged:
To establish an effective, new re-
search program, fully and completely
supplemented to find and vigorously
promote new uses for farm crops;
To move our agricultural commodi-
ties into use at home and abroad, and
to use every appropriate and effec-
tive means to improve marketing, so
that the farmers can produce and sell
their products to increase their in
come and enjoy an improving level of
living;
To encourage the Improvement of
quality in farm products through ag-
ricultural research, education and
price support differentials, thus in
creasing market acceptance both at
home and abroad;
To further help and cooperate with
the several states as co-equals with
the federal government to provide
needed research, education, service
and regulatorye programs;
To develop farm programs that
are fair to all farmers;
To work toward full freedom in
stead of toward more RECOMMENDATION,
developing voluntary rather than OPP
pressive farm programs;
To encourage agricultural produc-
ers in their efforts to seek solutions
to their own production and price
problems;
e To provide price supports as in
the Agricultural Act of 1854 that
protect farmers, rather than price
their products out of the market;
To continue our commodity loan
and marketing agreement programs
as effective marketing tools;
To make every effort to develop a
more accurate measurement of farm
parity;
To safeguard our precious soil and
water resources for generations yet
unborn;
To encourage voluntary self-sup-
porting federal crop insurance;
To bring sympathetic and under
standing relief promptly to farm and
ranch families hard hit with problems
of drought, flood or other natural
disaster, or economic disaster, and
to maintain the integrity of these
programs by terminating them when
the emergency is over;
To assist the young people of
American. farms and ranches In their
development as future farmers and
homemakers;
Q To continue and expand the Re-
publican-sponsored school milk pro-
gram, to encourage further use of
school lunch programs now benefitlng
100000 children, and to foster
improved nutritional levels;
To provide constructive asst
ance by effective purchase and do
nation to ease temporary market sur
pluses, especially for the producers
of perishable farm products;
To give full support to farmer
owned and farmer-operated co-opera-
tives;
. To encourage and assist adequate
private and cooperative sources OF
credit, to provide supplemental credit
through the Farmers Home Admins
tration where needed, with an under
standing of the human and economic
problems of farmers and ranchers;
To expand rural electriflcatlon
through REA loans for generation
and transmission, and to expand rural
communication facilities;
. TO continue the improvement of
rural mail delivery to farm families;
To promote fully the Republican
sponsored rural development program
to broaden the operation and increase
the income of low-income farm faml-
lies and help tenant farmers;
To work with farmers, ranchers
and others to carry forward the
Great Plains Program to achieve wise
use of lands in the area subject to
wind erosion, so that the people OF
this region can enjoy higher stand
ard of living; and in summation:
To keep agriculture strong, Free
attuned to peace and not war, 10