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million men since 1949 and would
reduce it more II the West agrees
to Russia's disarmament plan.
Marshal Peng Teh-huai. de-
Tense minister and commander
in chief OF the army. made the
announcement at the congress,
Then Marshal Peng boosted
that his army-generally be-
lieved to number at least 3 mil
lion men-was being modernized
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Peiping Jurist
Calls for, New
Criminal Code

HONG KONG, Sept. 10 (P).-
The Eighth Communist Chinese
Communist Party Congress was
told today Red China must have
a new criminal code, and party
and government alike must obey
the law.
Tung Pi-wu, president of Com
munist China's court. said con-
tempt for law increased after
the Communists swept to power
in 1919.
In a speech broadcast by Peip-
ing radio. Mr.. Tung said it was
inevitable that for a time the
legal system should be incom-
plete in a newly established state.
But if the situation is allowed
to remain. it is bound to be a
serious problem, he said.
Mr.. Tung listed as urgent
needs a criminal code. a civil
code, a low Of procedure, a labor
law and a land use law.
Mr.. Tung said a small num-
Der of China's 1917 million Com
munist members. as well as some
Government workers, do not
pay attention to the legal system
1t is necessary to end all such
violations of the law"
The jurist declared China S
millions always had contempt
for law under the previous
regimes.
This contempt" he contin-
ued. was probably increased by
the mass revolutionary move
ments that swept the country,
because mas movements did not
entirely rely on laws"
While he did not say so, Mr.
Tung probably was thinking OF
the mass and summary trials
after the Communists seized
power. The Chinese Nationalist
have charged millions of anti
Communists were killed in mass
purgeS.
Mr.. Tung was a prominent
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jurist under the Chinese Nation
alists. He was China's repre-
sentative on the international
tribunal in Tokyo that con-
demned Japan's wartime lead
ers as war criminals.
Red China said yesterday it
had cut its massive army by 81
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with a breakdown Of our agri-
culture, but with a breakdown
of imagination and leadership.
What we need today is the con-
Germ and determination that
wrought the agricultural revolu-
ton Of the 1905.
So much for our program.
This is what l propose at New
ton IN 1856; this is what we will
do in Washington. I am not
ashamed Of what I said at Kas-
son four years ago; and will
not be ashamed of what / have
said at Newton today.
Obviously we can't put our
Democratic farm program into
action now--at least until next
January. But there is some
thing l can do right now, and l
have done it time and again and
will do it every chance / get.
i mean explaining the farmers
problems TO the rest of the coun-
try. And this, l think, is one of
the farmers greatest needs.
Politicians tell him all too often
what he wants to hear about his
troubles and their remedy, but
all too seldom are his troubles
explained to other people-the
city people.
AS have Travelled around this
Nation. / have been deeply dis
turbed by the lack of under
standing of the farmers prob
lens. The farmer needs spokes-
men, in part because too many
city people think of farmers as
selfish malcontents forever de-
manding handouts from the
sore-pressed taxpayers.
This feeling has been aggra-
waited by the administrations
setting city against country and
country against city.
For four years the admins
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preference clause, and by assur-
ing them adequate funds for
transmission, generation. an d
distribution.
We must conserve the greatest
asset we have inherited-the
soil, I feel very strongly about
this because l have seen the
frightful desolation of erosion,
over-grazing, deforestation and
over-use in many regions of the
world. We must strengthen the
agricultural conservation pro-
gram and the soil conservation
service. restore the role Of lead
ership to the conservation dis
tricts. restore the administra-
ton of agricultural programs to
farmers. and take emergency
measures when needed to pre-
vent another dust bowl.
And finally we must go to the
root of the causes of farm dis
tress today-the inability of peo-
pie both at home and in foreign
lands to buy the food that they
need and that you can raise. In
1882. you remember, our grocery
stores were bullying with food.
Yet people were hungry. Today
our warehouses are bursting, yet
half the world goes to bed hun
cry. And in our own country
many people on Social Security
and on public assistance don't
have enough to eat. We speak
OF a surplus of milk-but the
children who need milk are not
all in Calcutta-there are plenty
OF them in Chicago, too.
Abundance is not blight but
a blessing. At home, we can
vastly expand our school-lunch
program. Did you know that less
than one-third of all school-age
children participate in this pro-
gram? And we can launch a
new food stamp program that
Will put food into the mouths
or the many who need it.
Abroad there is much we can
do with food and fiber to the
advantage of mankind and the
USA. We can encourage VOL
untary relief agencies to distrib-
ute surplus foods, and we can
create a world food bank and
materials reserve to help the
people of other nations. The re-
cent agreement to furnish agri-
cultural products to India
seemed to me like a step in the
right direction-and I am glad
the administration is moving at
last.
Today we are confronted not
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said the same thing many times
during that campaign. Al
Bookings, S. OAK, on october
4, 1852. he said: THE Repub-
lican Party is pledged to the
sustaining of the 80 per cent
/ parity price support and it is
pledged even more than that to
helping the farmer obtain his
full parity. 100 per cent parity,
with the guarantee in the price
supports of 90"
Those were not idle or casual
words. They were careful, cal
culated words. They were meant
to get farm votes.
Yet the same man who uttered
those words four years ago said
| in Washington three nights ago
1--WE must never in a spirit of
partisan warfare treat the farm
er as kind of political prize
to be fought for and captured I"
What happened to those words
OF four years ago-which could
only have been designed to cap
ture the farmer?
CriticiZeS Benson
First, President Eisenhower in
stalled as Secretary of Agricul-
ture a man who did not believe
in price supports. Then Secre-
tary Benson put in charge of
that program a man who, only
a few months before, had con-
demned price supports as mod
ern socialism" A committee
loaded with bankers, manufac-
turerS, and professors went to
work to see what should be done.
or how little could be done. They
paid no attention to Candidate
Eisenhower's promises. Also.
they paid no attention to the
farmers.
am not going to attack
President Eisenhower'S motives.
l am sure they are good and sim
cere. I am even willing to be-
lleve that he did not fully under
stand what he was saying to
Americas farmers in 1852.
But the President of the
United States must be a re-
sponsible man. Secretary Benson
was his hired man, and if a farm
is mismanaged the farmer is re-
sponsible. not the hired man.
We know that. And so should
the President.
On that day at KasSon, when
Candidate Eisenhower talked
about 100 per cent parity, prices
actually were above 100 per cent.
Today the parity index is go
down IL points. Then corn was
81 per cent of parity; it now is
81 per cent-down is points.
Wheat was then 83 per cent of
parity; it is now 79-down 4
points. Cotton was ITO per cent !:
1t is now 87-down % points.
Rice was SO per cent; it is now
n per cent-doWn 10 points.
President Eisenhower has said
that he will run on his record,
This is his record on price
supports.
zone Success"
But there is one success in the
record. Four years ago peanuts
were 80 per cent of parity; now
they have gone up to 88 per cent
This administration has fine
record on peanuts!
And something else has gone
done-the price of hogs. At the
time of the Kasson speech, hogs
were selling for $20.6O per hun
dred weight. Now they are
S16.20-down $40.
To sum up, your prices are
down, your overall costs are as
high now as they were four years
ago, and your credit is tighter.
Two or three weeks ago al
Sioux City farmer grabbed me
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plea quarter of all farm fam
lilies today have to get by on
cash income Of less than 81 600
a year The ramshackle tenant
house on WORKOUT land is a dis
grace in the richest country on
earth, just as is the city slum.
and the time has come for an
about attack on farm proverty.
Finally, there is another thing
that our people need to be told
about farming, perhaps the most
important thing of all. They read
speeches like the one I've made
today, and they think that farm
policy is nothing but lot of cold
facts and figures. They don't
realize that farming is the way
many Americans live. and that
the family farm is the backbone
OF American agriculture, as it
was once the backbone of Ameri-
can society.
Fabric of Rural Life
They don't realize that on a
family farm the most precious
thing that's raised is not corn
or cattle but children-children
who go to rural schools and rural
churches and who will inherit
the earth they live on and work
in. People don't realize that
when the family farm is in trou-
BILE, more, much more, than dol
lars and cents is involved. What
is involved is the whole fabric
of American rural life.
The real tragedy of a farm
like this one is the
human tragedy of young people
forced off the farm, cherished
belongings put up for sale, of
human heartbreak, of the end
Of a family's chosen way of life.
1t is the tragedy of mounting
debts, Of ill-clad children, of
men and women searching the
Continued on Page ALL, Col. l
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tration has dinned 1t into the
ears Of city people that their
high living costs are the result
Of high rigid farm support prices
For four years now we have had
an administration dedicated to
the proposition that the farmer
is getting too much. In fact
last year one of Mr.. Benson's
personal assistants said that the
years of Democratic prosperity
on the farm were-and / quote
him-"a dream world. and no
one expected it to last"
/ think it's time somebody
told the rest of the country the
truth about farming.
Farmers Share Drops
I want to tell the housewife
that it isn't the farmer who is
getting the high prices she has
to pay. She ought to know that
while her market basket has
been costing more and more,
your share of her food dollars
has fallen from AZ cents in 1852
to 38 cents in 1856.
I want to tell the man who
works in the farm equipment
factory-or used to, before it
shut down--that without a de-
cent farm program, his job is
gone for good.
The man with the hardware
store on Main street already
knows that when the farmer
can't buy a new stove for his
wife, his store is in trouble. But
l want to say to the businessman
who distributes stoves and shoes
and wallpaper, and the manu-
facturer in a distant city who
makes them, that the same thing
applies to him. Every American
has a stake in farm prosperity.
I want to say to the American
people that the farmer just isn't
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getting a fair share OF our ma.
tional prosperity.
Many people don't fully UNDER
stand the uncertainties of farm
ing and the necessity for price
stability. They never stop to
think that a farmer doesn't
know what price he will get when
he plants a crop, or when he
harvests it, or even when he
loads it on a truck and takes it
to town.
Built-in Supports
General Motors has built-in
price supports. Suppose General
Motors production depended on
the weather; suppose it had to
sell all its automobiles in three
weeks; suppose 1t didn't have the
capital to hold its products off
the market. 1t would need pro-
tection-and from this present
administration it would get it,!
There are many other facts
more people should know about
agriculture. They should know
that for every four dollars a
farmer got in 1852 he now re-
ceives less than three. They
should be told that asking farm
ers to accept less than a fair
parity price is like asking wage
earners to accept less than a fair
minimum wage. They need to
know what a tight money policy
really means to farmers-that
when dollars are scarce, they
always leave the small town first.
Our people need to understand
that farmers. because of their
isolation and other circum-
stances, have Jagged behind
standards for schools,
highways, medical care, Libraries,
and many other things. They
need to know that the per capita
of farmers has never
up with that of city peo-
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l am glad, for several reasons
that the national blowing con-
test takes place this year here
In Iowa.
1t brings me, for one thing
very close to home. My farm
which 1 see all too little any
more-is only few hours drive
east of here, and l don't fee
like a stranger in Iowa.
And I'm glad-if you don't
mind some politics land I sure
hope you don't, for I've got some
in mindD-to come here to Iowa
to express my sympathy to the
Iowa delegation to the Republi-
can convention in San Fran
cisco. You probably saw the
story about how the agricultural
E inspectors wouldn't let the Iowa
delegates bring in fresh-cut
cornstalkS to wave at President
Eisenhower, The inspectors said
they were afraid the corn might
have some borerS in it. Know
ing my prejudices you won't
mind my saying that so far as
/ could tell that was the only
corn kept out of that convention
and the only borers that didn't
get it!
l am glad to be here, too, to
greet my old friend Spike Evans
We both served in the Triple-A
back in the early 1905. That's
q long time ago-way back when
the Government in Washington
was trying to help the American
farmer. Spike Evans was one of
the top men in that heroic eff
fort to save American agriculture
from the ravages of the depres-
sion-and II years of Republic
cans in Washington
Statutes Evans
American farmers and all the
citizans of Iowa owe Spike a
great debt for what he did in
those days, and they need his
ability and experience in Wash
ington now. In fact, they never
needed it more. l am sure I
salute him as your next Senator
from Iowa.
I'm glad also to greet Herschel
EovelesS. l feel sure you people
are going to elect him your Gov
ernor this fall. In addition to his
own qualifications. Herschel
Loveless has a great advantage
In this election. Unlike his OPP
ponent he doesn't have to re-
pudiate his own national leader
ship to get a platform on which
he can run. He stands for the
same things that Estes Kefauver
and I and the Democratic Party
stand for. And that's fair break
for everybody. including the
American farmer.
Four years ago at the blowing
match at Kasson, Mimi, both Mr.
Eisenhower and I discussed the
farm policy of our respective
parties. I'm sorry he isn't here to-
day. for I want to take up right
where We left off that day -four
years ago. There are some chick
ems. frankly, that have been
waiting long time to come home
to roost. Here they come!
Quotes Eisenhower
I want to start with Candidate
Eisenhower's own words at Kas-
son. Here is what he said:
"And here, and now, and with
out any ifs or butts, l say to you
that stand behind-and the Re-
publican Party stands behind
the price support laws now on the
books. This includes the amend
ment to the basic farm act
passed by votes of both parties
In Congress, to continue through
1854 the price supports on basic
commodities at 80 per cent Of
parity"
And" Candidate Eisenhower
continued. "a fair share is not
merely 80 per cent of parity
1t is full parity"
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by the arm and said it better
than can. Governor" he
said. I'm a dairy farmer and I
know how to milk cows. But
those Republicans are smarter
than l am. They know how to
milk farmers"
l told him they were even
smarter than that-only Repub-
licans could keep the stock mar
ket up and the farm market
down at the same time. They
did 1t the last time they were in
office with Hoover at the helm
and they're doing it again now,
This talk about the Repub-
licans not treating the farmer as
a kind of political prize doesn't
square very well with the story
that appeared recently in For
tune magazine journal never
suspected of Democratic lean
ingS. This story told of how q
delegation of Republican Con-
gresSmen asked the administra-
ton for a floor under hogs at
$3.50 a hundred weight last
January when they were selling
for about $11. And a high off,
cial said: Gentlemen, do you
want higher prices now or next
November"
Why November? Well, the
election is in November, of
course. Do the Republican pol
iticians want higher prices in
January or November? That
summarizes pretty well, !
thought, the attitude toward the
farmer of this administration.
First they say nothing can be
done for the farmer but cut
prices and reduce production
and also reduce farmers. Then,
with an election approaching,
they advance the soil bank pro-
posal which they had rejected
only a few months before, they
raise the support prices they
have long denounced, and they
even offer $1.25 for unlimited
corn production while hollering
about Democratic SURPRISES"
'Brazen' Expediency
Now after what happened at
KaSson four years ago 1 don't
suppose we should be surprised
about such brazen political ex-
pediency. But I must object
when the President at the same
time says from aloft-we must
never treat the farmers as a
political prize.
But let's talk about the future.
not the past. Let's talk about
what lies ahead.
This year we have the best
farm plank in our Democratic
platform that any party ever had.
1t is a plank designed to estab-
lish not merely price parity but
income parity-a fair share of
the national income for farmers.
1t spells out ways and means. It
is one that farmers can under
stand.
We propose to support basic
commodities at go per cent of
parity.
We propose to extend pro-
lection to perishables through a
combination of direct production
payments, marketing agreements,
and production adjustments.
We will administer vigor-
ously the soil bank, a good Demo-
cratic idea. And I would urge
consideration of what could be
called a "legume bank" to change
the emphasis from reducing cash
crop production to increasing
acreage of soil-building crops.
Senator Kefauver and l have
many times talked about broad
program with a variety Of meth
DDS to balance production and in
come: we are for them now; and
we will be for them next January.
The first step is to stop and
reverse the decline, in farm
prices.
But that is not enough.
We must go on to assure ample
credit at fair rates to the farm
ers who has to borrow money.
We must protect REA co-opG
hY Safeguarding and using the
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Text of Stevenson Speech
At Iowa Farm Meetino

NEWTON IONA. Sept. % OFThe teTt of speech pre-
pared by Adlai SteUenSon deuey the National Field
matches.
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