The Sidney herald., 1961-06-14

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exported to have said he enjoyed work {
ng on the bill" {
But won't Congress object TO abdicaf-
ng Its function 10 legislate?
The present version of the bill is de-
to e this objection. In fact, the
Secretary even has the ~effrontery to sell
Congress on the idea that it Will have
more not less power. This, in spite of the
fact that Congress has only veto power
- with a time clock of so days to veto
attached. And it takes no novice to
know that each session thousands of bills
never get to a congressional vote. But
the generated pressure to pass H. r.
64OO will be tremendous.
How will this pressure be generated?
Big, centralized government has
tremendous propaganda facilities avail
able. In the hands of am Administration
that wants increased centralized power,
TINS machinery can be used very effec-
lively. 1t includes press radio, pam
phlets, press conferences and bureau
Gratis ON the Federal payroll willing 10
'go TO work." etc. But in addition, the
Secretary of Agriculture has some very
special tools available the envy of
other cabinet officers.
What are they?
One lis the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice. Traditionally, this has been a non
political, educational arm working in
cooperation with grant-in-aid colleges.
But Freeman has just replaced the Adj
miniStrator of this Service a career
educator, who had over rs years of
Civil Service with a New Frontier pol
ticial appointee.
Thus a program with over $4,000
educators attached to Land Grant
Colleges comes openly under the influ-
ence of partisan politics. Each of these
agents has just received a Sugar-coated
version of the wheat plan in the April
issue of the Extension Service Review.
This lis the Departments publication
aimed at teaching agents "how" to teach
farmers to accept new ideasl More will
come!
Whats the implication of this?
The Administrator reviews plans on
which Federal funds are made availabl
!. TO the so or so state colleges which
employ the county extension agents
With the farmers and homemakerS ex
pecting college objectivity" in tn
: educational material" they get, it i
: easy to see that when the Freeman pla
!. is presented to farmers by the college
: and county agents, a ready sale o the ur
I. county agents, a ready sale to the ur
: ~suspecting is made.
Are these the only agents" the Sc,
d retarY of Agriculture has available
work" on the farmers?
Oh, no. Located in the states an
. counties and being paid in whole or
. part from Federal funds, are near.
10000 full or part-time governmeu
. payrollers.
: Add to that those dealers who gai
Srom Federal handouts, like certai
o Warehousemen and limestone handler
and you have a formidable army for tn
) farmers and consumers to resist.
, How much pressure will be put c
d agricultural employees?
No limit - but let the record spea
! for itself. Here is what the "bosS man
d Horace d. Godfrey, the new Federal Az
: mniStrator of the Commodity Stablli
# alton Service told committeeman" at a
r area meeting in Atlanta on March 2
e 1861 Csee Congressional Record, pag
l. A2361 for April 10, 1860:
C Il think you're going to have to us
l. every means that you've ever used be
fore and borrow a few that you haven
v used before in order TO get the particiI
d alton that we want lin this program" an
d after giving suggestions ON what to d.
= continued:
i Nov, in your meetings with count
h people, in your meetings with your fielo
+ men that work with your county office.
e let it be understood that you - as tn
81 C%1%0 AD~-w0%~ae A~l C%1%0 nIrNIw@Ic{rr
" tive officers and program specialists :
n are expecting the fieldmen, county com
n mittees and county office employees t
do everything within their power to eX
e plain the advantages of this program
rs You let it be understood that yo
It expect them from this day forth to hav
Il a positive attitude because the attitud
e of county office employees and Stat
:. office employees will largely COVER
e participation i'm the feed-grain program.
n Then, about do it or else: 81 don
e think you're going 10 have difficulty i
securing a positive attitude On the par
s of State office employees or on the par
k of county office employees. But, let m
" hasten 10 say that if you have amy diff
ficulty, If there are any individuals in
# State office or In county offices that d
e not feel that they can adopt a positiv
attitude and attempt to work conStruc
lively for this program, hen they shoul
e be honest enough with themselves am,
with us to ~diSaSSociate themselves fron
S the organization. Second, if they are Nc
e honest enough to do that, then it Shoul
Ii be our responsibility, and it is your re
t sponsibility, to see that they find NOR
d compatible work outside
o 81 don't think you'll have any dif
n ficulty whatsoever in separating the EN-
4 DlOVeeS that are dedicated and have
: positive attitude, and those that want t
l. drift, DR. go back. And / think you hav
g the responsibility to separate them"
How many of these officials" wi
plump for the New Frontier?
al Well, they all know what side of tn
e bread is buttered and who buffers i
: And if the following excerpt from tn
is Wisconsin State Journal of April /,
p 1861, represents what's going on, yo
to can draw you own conclusions: