CtENEEAL farm PEOGEAM (TESTIMONY OF FAEM 

 OEGANIZATIONS) 



THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington^ D. C. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace (chairman) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Pace. The committee will please come to order. 

 The committee will recall that Mr. Goss and Mr. Sanders represent- 

 ing the National Grange, completed their direct statements to the 

 committee on April 30, but due to the legislative situation on the floor 

 we were not able to go into the discussion of their statements. Mr. 

 Goss has kindly consented to come back today. 



I understand that he would like to make, without interruption, a 

 summary statement of the position that was set forth in his full state- 

 ment on April 30. Mr Goss, you may proceed at this time. 



STATEMENT OF ALBERT S. GOSS, MASTER OF THE NATIONAL 

 GRANGE— Continued 



Mr. Goss. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We do appreciate this chance 

 to come back and discuss the recommendations we made about 2 weeks 

 ago. 



As you will recall I presented the Grange's program and Dr. Sand- 

 ers followed it up with an economic discussion and some statistical 

 information, and I do think we will make time if I might just 

 summarize it. 



We pointed out that the problem is much more than the problem of 

 agriculture, and that there is a whole national problem of what we 

 are going to do with surplus products of agriculture and industry, 

 because of a certainty we are going to have them. And, we pointed out 

 that we think the position of agriculture is a most important link in 

 determining the solution to this national problem, and that we must 

 find some way of stabilizing our price level so we may maintain ample 

 production, because if we do not it is going to be mean shut-downs in 

 industry; it is going to mean reductions in jobs, with spiraling 

 deflation. 



So our job, as we see it, is to stabilize the price level with as abun- 

 dant production as may be necessary, of course, with a production 

 designed to be a balanced production as near as possible. 



I pointed out that the problem is very complex. We think that 

 the biggest mistake probably we have made in agriculture in the last 



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