712 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



400,000,000 bushels; that this storage be built in strategic places close 

 to the main traveled waterways of the world, yet near enough to the 

 people living in areas that are now and will continue for a number of 

 years to be classed as underprivileged peoples. For example, storage 

 in north Africa, 100,000,000 bushels; storage in Israel, 50,000,000; 

 storage in or near Arabia, Iraq and Iran, 75,000,000 bushels; storage in 

 southern China and Korea, 100,000,000; storage in or near India or 

 Pakistan, 75,000,000; making a total of 400,000,000 bushels. The 

 funds used for construction could well afford to come from the Marshall 

 plan funds, I believe that the farmers of this Nation would be willing 

 to accept certificates of credit from the Government for their propor- 

 tionate share of the 200,000,000 bushels and that the price they would 

 receive be determined by whatever those nations using this wheat 

 could trade us or barter to us. 



It is my belief that a program of this nature can be carried out suc- 

 cessfully for many years. Now, you men may be thinking that surely 

 I've been standing out in the sun with my hat off — maybe I have, 

 maybe no; you may be correct, yet who knows; that this proposal is 

 pure and simple idealism. 



You may be correct but again who knows. Today there exists in 

 the world about two main philosophies that clash, and will continue 

 to do so for how many years, I do not know. Our way, the Christian 

 democratic way of life; communism — ungoldly and ruthless. We 

 know from experience in World War II that Communists are not 

 afraid of bullets. We know that the atomic bomb cannot stop the 

 advance of their philosophy, but we do know that food and food alone 

 contributes more to contain that philosophy than any other single 

 weapon and most certainly in an instance of this nature, food can be 

 referred to as a weapon. People with a full stomach aren't easily con- 

 verted to that way of life. Secondly, it would prove to the world that 

 we are a peaceful nation interested in establishing a peaceful economy 

 throughout the world. Third, it would permit us to produce up to the 

 extent that we would not damage our soil resources, and would en- 

 courage soil conservation. 



I would like to bring up just a personal problem there. For 

 example, in western Kansas, when we had plenty of wheat pasture, 1 

 year I spent all of September and along in October bringing in stocker 

 cattle. Sometimes I would get them from Texas, Oklahoma, and 

 Arizona and have gone into Louisiana and Mississippi when I had 

 great acreages of that fine, green crop growing, that runs about 

 20 percent protein, and I bring stockers out into our country and go 

 into Colorado and bring in thousands of sheep and put them on that 

 soil of ours. It is helping the wheat and can certainly help the 

 cattle man. Then we ship to the East — Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana — 

 and the corn farmers take them over and feed them corn, and then 

 they go South and buy cotton cake and feed them cotton cake. 



I believe now and always will that anything we can do to encourage 

 increased production of livestock will automatically encourage 

 increased use of our wheat, because every time an individual eats a 

 pound of beef, he is eating either seven pounds of wheat or seven 

 pounds of corn and, incidentally, quite a little cotton cake — I do not 

 know how much. 



Fourth, it would discourage production of wheat in countries that 

 cannot raise it as cheaply as we can. Look at our automobile and 



