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A farmer ran an ad in his local paper that read: "Farmer 38 wishes to meet and marry woman about 30 who owns a tractor. In replying, please enclose picture of tractor."

In these dear decader.:"; Jr,.r, tr,. entire population of the nation is being forced and coerced into guaranteeing the high prosperity of the farmer, the above might easily happen. Honest Junior-it COULD.

No Junior, he was "..:".; ,l"r,tion.a. r am speaking of Mr. American Consumer, and the huge volume of discussion that took place in Congress prior to the passing of our latest farm price support law. Almost nothing was said about the economic vise this new law tied him into; the financial handcu,ffs that were locked on his wrists.

In this price support business, Mr. Consumer, this vital, tragic figure, is the forgotten man. FIe pays the bills for this folly, pays them double, and when lawmakers rise to discuss the details of his enslavement to the tail of the farm chariot, there is none ": n:ot as to do him honor.

Scarce a voice was raised to suggest that farm price supports of stratospheric character are, in time of peace, unconstitutional, undemocratic, unjust, unrighteous, and just plain pocket-picking. It was discovered in the elections a year ago that he who loses the farm vote is lost, and he who opposes handing unearned wealth to the farmer, loses the farm vote. It's that simple. And since, unfortunately, all members of Congress are at all times candidates for re-election, it is understandable why no doughty champions rose to question the fairness of the farm support deal.

Reminds me of what Finley Peter Dunne's famous character, Mr. Dooley, once said to his friend Ffennessey: ,.If ye'd turn on the gas in the darkest heart, ye'd find it had good raison for the worst things it done, a good varchous (vrituous) raison, like needin' the money, or punishin' the wicked, or tachin' people a lesson to be more careful, or pertecktin' the liberties i"*-TOi*nU, or needin'the money.',

If Mr. Dooley were on the job today he would without doubt add to that redoubtable list of "raisons" the following: "Or needin' the votes." That last would explain most of the weird antics and economics of Washington these days.

The so-called "crop "orlari,, L* p."".a in 1938, which was the beginning of the present system of price supports, covered five basic crops; corn, wheat, cotton, rice, and tobacco. Today price supports cover nearly everything raised on a farm, and hold up the price of practically everything the public eats, of the cotton and wool the public wears, and of the tobacco the public smokes and (yes, it's true) chews'

This is done mostly by buying up large portions of the crops and retiring them from the competitive markets, and by making loans to farmers, which loans are gifts because they do not have to be repaid. Besides these, there are other and lesser methods used to keep up the price the consumer must PaY' :F * *

In buying these crops, does the government seek ,.a price"? Far from it, Junior. (Why do you ask such silly questions ?) The government fixes the price itself ; fixes it higher than the prevailing market price. No pretense is made at any time or in any part of these operations that anything practical, sensible, or businesslike is being done. There is no semblance of any effort except the effort to put up and keep up the price*of *these commodities.

Most of what the government buys becomes a heavy burden on said government. ft cannot be sold for human consumption. It cannot be sold in competition with the rest of the same crop. The law forbids such things. On July first, 1949, the government held in storage more than one billion dollars worth of farm products that it bought just to bolster the price, and does not know what to do with. The opinion is frequently expressed in Congress that our farm support program is economic imbecility, but they don't dare take the political ?.U*ot attacking it.

California has a bumper crop of grapes this year. Cali_ fornia grapes are processed into practically all the nation's supply of raisins as well as domestic wine. So a bumper crop of raisins would seem to mean more and cheaper rai_ sins for the kids to eat, and the housewife to buy. But it would only seem so. For Uncle Sam, through his Wash_ ington planners, has taken care of that. So you can quit drooling, Junior, over the raisin prospect. It was an_ nounced that federal agencies would buy 120,000 tons of California raisins, to keep up the price. Most of this huge amount of good human food will be fed to hogs. Junior ! Stop using that kind of language !

What a joy it is to see a spark of light in the midst of murky darkness! I just read about an organization of small truck farmers in South Texas who publicly announce that its members "Do not ask or accept aid from state,