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tually will lead to hunger, and, if we do have wheat in storage over 

 there, most certainly we can contain their philosophy and maybe put 

 them back where they belong. Of course, we will never be able to 

 put them back where they belong, so far as I am concerned. 



Mr. White. May I just make this suggestion there? I am in sym- 

 pathy with the charitable aspects of your program. I feel, thoug-h — 

 and am sure you agree — that it should be separate ; that we should have 

 two distinct programs, one a business program to take care of the crop 

 and the other a charitable program. And I point out this, that it does 

 not do much good to have the wheat over there in storage when the 

 earning power of the individual workers in those nations is nil, as it is 

 in most of those countries, and their wages have to rise to where those 

 people can buy this wheat. Certainly America cannot go on giving 

 it to them forever to stop communism, but you will have to have the 

 workers earning enough money to buy that wheat, and that system 

 has to be maintained not only by us but by the rest of the world. 



Mr. Parkinson. Yes. And I agree with the gentleman that when 

 you get that individual healthy enough to work, he is going to work, 

 and there is not a country on the face of the globe that cannot produce 

 something that we cannot use here ; I mean something they can produce 

 cheaper than we can and that they need to turn to us for the marketing 

 of those articles. 



Mr. White. May I say this? If we get a minimum wage over there 

 through some world agreement or some oj'ganization, through a central 

 government, they will consume their goods just as they do in this 

 country, and you would create a situation that would be healthy. 



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



There are two other witnesses I understand the committee was to 

 hear from. We will hear now from Mr. John Taylor, of Oklahoma, who 

 is presented to the committee by our colleague, Mr. Albert. 



(No response.) 



Mr. Pace. Is Mr. Kaseberg here? 



(No response.) 



Mr. Pace. We regret we miss an opportunity to hear their state- 

 ments. 



According to my list, that completes the witnesses. 



Air. Hope. Air. Chairman, may I inquire whether Air. Brown is 

 here? Air. Brown spoke to the chairman and myself yesterday about 

 appearing. I do not know whether he now desires to be heard or not. 



Mr. Pace. Air. Brown, would you like to make a statement? 



Air. Brown. I might, with yom" permission, make a brief statement. 



Air. Pace. We will be delighted to hear from you. 



STATEMENT OF OLIVER S. BROWN, LIBERTY, KANS. 



Air. Brown. Aly name is Oliver S. Brown; I am from Liberty, 

 Kans. I sort of belong to the western Kansas group and the eastern 

 Colorado group and even get down into Oklahoma a little. I am 

 engaged in the farming of wheat in the three States that are considered 

 areas of summer fallow, and in this w^ay I come here more as an ob- 

 server at these hearings with a deep interest in both the short-range 

 program and the long-range program. 



Naturally we are interested in a long-range program, but for the 

 time being we are very much interested in the short-range program 



