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Fight For Your Farm Program/ 



Secretary Wallace Addresses Mass Meeting At Springfield 



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ECRETARY of Agriculture 

 Henry A. Wallace returned to 



the corn belt Oct. 14 and was 



enthusiastically greeted by more than 

 5,000 farmers, most of them county soil 

 conservation committeemen from Illi- 

 nois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other 

 states in the state armory, Springfield. 



In his address which was broadcast 

 over a national radio chain, the Secre- 

 tairy of Agriculture urged farmers every- 

 where to fight for the best farm law they 

 have ever had. 



"The agricultural adjustment act of 

 1938 does not represent ultimate perfec- 

 tion. But it does represent a complete 

 charter of farm equality," he said. "It 

 is capable of being improved with ex- 

 perience in the future, because the basic 

 structure has been built strong and well." 



The meeting was conducted by Lee M. 

 Gentry, president of the Ogle Gjunty 



Farm Bureau and chairman of the Illi- 

 nois soil conservation committee. The 

 Secretary was introduced by Earl C. 

 Smith, president of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, to whom Wallace 

 referred as one of the leaders largely 

 responsible for effective farm price leg- 

 islation who had most to do with writ- 

 ing the corn loan features of the bill. 

 Congressman Scott Lucas was praised 

 for leading the fight in the House for 

 the corn loan provisions of the AAA 

 of 1938. 



Secretary Wallace said that the farm 

 program is complicated because its op- 

 ponents insisted that Gjngress write 

 every last detail into the bill. This is 

 old stuff, and a trick frequently used by 

 enemies of any particular legislation to 

 make it difficult to administer. 



"One reason for trouble (recent low 

 prices) was that the farmer's control in 



the first Adjustment Act had been swept 

 away by the courts in 1936," the Secre- 

 tary said. "In 1937 farm surpluses be- 

 gan piling up. Farm prices started down- 

 ward. As the farmers got hit, business 

 in the towns and cities began losing cus- 

 tomers. . . With the help of the farmers' 

 program farm cash income this year will 

 be only about 1 2 per cent below the peak 

 of last year. In the face of a business 

 situation in which factory employment 

 and payrolls are down over 30 per cent, 

 to hold farm income so nearly steady is a 

 real achievement. 



"The national com acreage goal last 

 spring," Wallace said, "was 94 to 97 

 million acres compared with a 10-year 

 average planted acreage of 102,000,000 

 acres. Actually, the com acreage turned 

 out to be a little less than 93,000,000. 

 That is coming pretty close to the mark. 

 It is an inspiring thing when a millioa 



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