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WANTED: Some Words. The other day a lot of grain elevator men from the middle west appeared before the Senate Agricultural Committee in Washington and described the operations of the federal government as represented by its Commodity Credit Corporation as "IN' CREDIBLY INEFFICIENT.'' ***

If this agency, which handles the crop buying operations of the government, is "incredibly inefficient" with regard to its grain operations, what words that ever fell from mortal mouth could ever even attempt to describe its efforts in other directions, such as its handling of the potato and egg situations? * ,F :r

To charge the government with nothing worse than "incredible inefficiency" in these directions, would be a supreme masterpiece of understatement. The more I read of the facts and figures in these directions, the more futile seems the English language as a medium of description and thought exchange. * ,k ,k

Words "like cannonballs," as Emerson put it, fall far short of the mark, and only serve to demonstrate the complete inadequacy of Mr. Webster's famous book. I have read hundreds of editorials by the strongest writers in the country, and every one of them seems stymied in the effort to describe the unbelievable idiocy of the egg and potato situations. They end up by almost stuttering. There are others, of course, but these two stand out.

You've heard and ,."a Lr, "0"* the potato situation, and more in recent weeks than ever before. Countless millions of bushels of this good food which the government bought for the one and only purpose of keeping up the market price of potatoes, are to be destroyed. They are bought at high prices, then either destroyed or sold for less than nothing for other than human use. The government gives them chemical treatment to make them unfit for human consumption. The fact that there are hungry people all around these potato piles, enters into the business not at all.

And now comes the latest and worst side of the sorry business. Canadian potatocr are being brought into the Southeastern and Southern ports of this country by the shipload, and sold to our American pcople for less money than thcy can buy our native product for. Can such things be? We AmericanE pay with our tax money for the millions of bushele of potatoes thc govcrnment buye and wastes, and then can buy foreign Potatoet delivered here, for lees than the domestic price.

Suggestions from countless people that good food be distributed in some fashion to the needy, fall on deaf ears. Again I recall what a simple Louisiana farmer said to me once when he saw them plowing under a field of half grown sugar cane. He said: "Do you think God will forgive them for such a sin?" I didn't think He would then. I don't think He will now. There can be no explaining, no forgiving such nottoT.

Last reports state that something like FIFTY MILLION BUSHELS of potatoes will be rendered unfit for human consumption in the near future, and then allowed to rot away. Do you wonder f search in vain for words to express my indignation? When someone recently said that "our farm economics defy all the battering rams of human logic," he, likewise, was an understatement champion. Personally, I hope that the guilty ones some day have to pay through the nose for the wanton destruction of food in a hungrt *or,,ld.

And the egg mess grows messier with every day that passes. One editor writes that the government egg program shows better than anything else, "the absurdity, the insanity" of the whole program. The egg buying project in 1949 was "the reducto ad absurdum" of the price support program, he says. It did not cost the taxpayers as much money as some other crop supports, but its complete absurdity seems more glaring than the others when exposed to the spotlight of common;.T..

The government now owns, mostly in dried form, more than two-and-a-half billions of eggs. In spite of which they are stepping up their egg buying. In January this year they bought and took off the market over five million pounds of dried eggs, as compared with about three million pounds in January of last year. Reports say they have built an extension to the tremendous storage cave in Kansas where they have been storing eggs for some time now. Buying of eggs will really go into high gear in the spring when the weather always increases the egg production. The government has purchased enough eggs to last this nation for four years if every hen quit laying to-