GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 703 



Mr. Andresen. May I just make this observation: Have you fig- 

 ured out what position the wheat growers may be in if we should have 

 an unfortunate crop year, should not have enough moisture next year 

 to produce a crop of wheat? We have produced bumper crops now 

 for about 9 years and it is about time we had a dry winter. 



Mr. Hughes. I think we have considered that to the best of our 

 ability. Of course that is a factor that we cannot determine in 

 advance. 



Mr. Andresen. And we cannot legislate how it is going to be. 



Mr. Hughes. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. White. 



Mr. White. Mr. Hughes, I understand from your statement, that 

 you believe it is desirable to have general price legislation as would 

 permit flexible support as in the Aiken bill. Can I persuade you to 

 agree with me, when I say it is necessary that we have stable prices, 

 that nearly all of the trouble between labor and management, the 

 trouble of unemployment, of bankruptcy of small business, comes 

 about during periods when the general price level is moving down to 

 an appreciable degree, and when I say further that a stable price 

 level is absolutely essential to peace between labor and capital, as 

 well as between the nations of the world; could I get you to agree with 

 me on that? 



Mr. Hughes. I think that a general price level definitely has a 

 great deal to do with it, and I hope we can have it; I think the whole 

 thing has to be considered. 



Mr. White. And prices must be stabilized. 



Mr. Hughes. Yes. 



Mr. White. Stability is the thing most desired. The Aiken bill 

 goes absolutely contrary to that, ancl I do not understand how people 

 can come in here and ask for a flexible support price on their com- 

 modity, which leaves the whole country'- up in the ah, because we do 

 need to have stability. 



That is all I wanted to say, Mr. Chairman. 



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



Mr. Hughes. Thank you. 



STATEMENT OF WARD SULLIVAN, REPRESENTING WESTERN 

 KANSAS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 



Mr. Pace. The committee will now be delighted to hear the first 

 witness on our list, who was called this morning, Dr. Ward Sullivan, 

 representing the Western Kansas Development Association. 



Mr. Sullivan. Air. Chairman, I appreciate very much this oppor- 

 tunity of appearing before this committee. However, I would like 

 to know now whether I will have time to complete my testimony 

 before adjournment. I do not like to speak to empty seats. I 

 wonder if I would have time after lunch? 



With your permission ma}^ I introduce, before I proceed, some 

 people we have with us. I have some friends here from western 

 Kansas: Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Blanchard, of Garden City, Kans., and 

 Air. J. M. Green, from Salina, Kans. 



Mr. Pace. We would like to have them come up and sit with you, 

 if they will. 



