Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-16

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1rm bill:
RECOMMENDATION by ever stricter
production controls would be the
end result.
It is inconceivable that We
should ask farm families to &C
deeper into this self Indicating
round of cause and effect.
THE provision for duoI port,
would result in q permanent
double STANDARD :"
2. The provision for dual parity
would result in a permanent
double standard of parity fol
determining price supports
Four crops would receive pref
erential treatment out of l6C
products for which parity
prices are figured. There /.
no justification in logic or il
equity for such preferential
treatment.
Particularly is this true because
under the working of the mod
ernized parity formula enacted
by the Congress, increasing
the parity prices of some com.
modities automatically lower.
the parity prices of all other
commodities. If parity price:
for wheat. corn, cotton anc
peanuts are to be higher. ther
parity prices of the Other
products must be lower.
To whatever degree prices
would be further artif1cially
raised there would be a cor.
responding stimulus to produc.
ton, more controls on farmers
reduced consumption, increased
accumulations, and lower prices
in the market.
Such a device for parity man
ipulations could destroy tn,
party concept itself. It places {
potent weapon in the hands O.
opponents of all price support
for farmers. We have no RICH
to place the welfare of our farm
families in such jeopardy.
The market for feed groin.
would shrink )"
3. The provision for mandator.
supports on the feed gram
would create more problem
for farmers. The market TO
feed grains would shrink al
livestock production woult
come to depend more on for,
age and less on grain. TIL.
flow of feed grains into Gov
eminent stocks would increas'
and production controls woult
necessarily be intensified
Price relationships between
feed, livestock and livestocl
products would be distorted
Producers of feeder cattle
feeder lambs. and feeder pig
would be faced with downward
pressure on prices. An imbal
ance would develop between
feed crops and livestock prod
ucts. with all its adverse con
sequences.
a. The multiple-price plans TO
wheat and rice would hav
adverse effects upon producer
of other crops. upon our re
lations with friendly foreign
nations. and upon our con
SumerS.
There are other serious defect
in the bill such as certain provi
sions found in the section dealing
with the dairy industry. Still
other features are administra
lively bad and would require tn
hiring of thousands of additiona
inspectors and enforcers.
I recognize that the restora
ton by H. r. II of wartime man
datory 80 per cent price support
applies only to 1856 crops. This
in combination with other OBJ
jectionable features of the bill
would put us back on the oil
road which has proved so harm
full to farmers.
Bad as some provisions of thi
bill are. I would have signed it i
in total it could be interpreted
as sound and good for farmer
and the Nation.
The bill is contradictory an,
Indicating even as al
emergency relief measure :
After the most careful analy
sis 1 conclude that the bill i
contradictory and self-defeatinl
even as an emergency relic
measure and it would lead t,
such serious consequences in ad
|ditional SURPRISES and produc
tiO,o n0ntrolc &c N f,,rf I, a.