538 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



We recommend that the board be authorized to delegate any of its functions 

 which are to be carried out between meetings of the board to the executive 

 committee. 



We anticipate that the executive committee will make reports to the board of 

 the bimonthly sessions and from time to time iietween sessions ; that the board 

 members will be required to give more or less time to the consideration of 

 problems to the lioard between sessions : and that the basic compensation be 

 set at $2,000 per year plus $25 per diem and necessai-y actual traveling expense 

 when attending a board meeting or in transportation thereto or therefrom 

 or when away from home performing other services in the interest of the board 

 l)y order of the board. 



Great care should be used in the selection of the Ixiard to assure men of 

 experience and stability able and willing to devote the necessary time to the 

 affairs of the board, free from political motive or bias, familiar with the prob- 

 lems of the group they represent, and enjoying the coniidence and support of 

 the leaders in agriculture, processing, and distribution. We believe they should 

 be appointed by the President but to assure the type of men desired, we recom- 

 mend some safeguards in appointments which may be unpreceilented but which 

 in our judgment would contribute toward the selection of the type of board 

 needed to do the job. 



We recognize that it is not sound to tie the hands of the President and expect 

 to hold him responsible for the administration of a Board the members of which 

 have not lieen of his free choice, but we believe that if the purposes are 

 set forth deiinitely in the act the likelihood of securing the right type of Board 

 will be enhanced. 



We recommend that in the appointment of the members of the Board the 

 President be required to take ])ractical and reasonable steps to secure recom- 

 mendations from the recognized leaders of the various industries involved in 

 various sections of the country ; that up obtaining a list of nominations which he 

 deems to be representative of the desiies of farmers, processors, and distributors, 

 he consult with a joint committee rejiresenting the Committees on Agriculture 

 in House and Senate, reviewing the list before him and receiving recommenda- 

 tions from them as to the members on the list, or others, before making final 

 appointment. We do not believe it sound to require that the apjiointment be 

 restricted to names from sucli lists or recommendations, but we believe that if 

 confirmation by tlie Senate is required, it Avili lie a most excejitional case if the 

 President ignored all the wishes of those who participated in making the recom- 

 mendations. 



We recommend tlie term of office should be 6 years and that the terms sliould 

 be staggered so that four would be appointed each year. 



Mr. Pace. Are you ready now for Dr. Sanders to submit his 

 statement ? 



Mr. Goss. Yes. This appendix B we have in describing the Board, 

 we think, has some thinps in it which your committee will want to 

 review ; but we have tried to giA^e you the picture, and that is one of 

 the details we think we can take up afterwards when time permits. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Goss. 



Dr. Sanders, we will hear from you at this time. 



STATEMENT OF J. T. SANDERS, LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, THE 

 NATIONAL GRANGE 



Mr. SajStders. The broad outlines of a sound program for agricul- 

 ture have been given by Mr. Goss. I will undertake to show the under- 

 lying economic reasons for, and give figures backing up, our advocacy 

 of this program, to show how these economic reasons or forces deter- 

 mine the kind of program that we believe will or will not succeed; 

 and, finally, I will deal in some detail with specific parts of the pro- 

 posed program. This statement, therefore, is mainly supplementary 

 to the statement of Mr. Goss, but at places it is complementary to his 

 statement. 



