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Mr. Wight. It cost us $327,000. If the Russians talk us out of some 

 money, if the British can talk us out of some money and use it to 

 compete, it certainly looks like our Congress might not be out of line 

 to provide some plan to support an industry that has all of the com- 

 petitors we have had. They have knifed us every time they could. 



We respectfully ask that this matter be given careful consideration. 

 As I said, I do not think we have sense enough to be selfish; if we are 

 going to depend upon somebody like the Chinese, like the Russians, 

 and like the British for working out om* salvation. Thank you. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much. 



Mr. CoLMER. Mr. Chairman, we desire to note the presence here 

 for the record of Mr. Cliff Liles, representing Mr. W. E. Anderson, 

 the commissioner of agriculture of Louisiana. Mr. Liles has come up 

 to Washington to show the interests of that organization in this 

 hearing. 



Mr. Pace. The letter I had gotten from your commissioner stated 

 that you would be present, and I said that in the record the other 

 day. Do you desire to make a statement? 



STATEMENT OF MR. CLIFF LILES, REPRESENTING THE 

 COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE OF LOUISIANA 



Mr. Liles. No, sir. Our whole State, and all of our Congressmen, 

 and the two Senators, and our secretary of agriculture are very much 

 in accord with giving these tung growers some help. They need it 

 very badly, and it would be a big help to the Government later on. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you. 



Mr. CoLMER. Mr. C. C. Hanson, secretary of the Association of 

 the Southern Commissioners of Agriculture, is present and we would 

 like to note his presence. 



Mr. Pace. The committee is always delighted to have him present. 



Mr. Hanson. May I make this remark. Mr. W. E. Hartman, the 

 personal representative of Commissioner Mayo, of Florida, is also here 

 and we just ask the privilege of filing a short brief. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection, you prepare the brief and file it with 

 the clerk. 



Mr. Colmer. We have about 20 more people here who would like 

 to be heard on this subject, but we realize that this committee has been 

 very patient, very gracious to us here today representing a small seg- 

 ment of the economy of this great country of ours, so we are not going 

 to impose on you further. 



We want on behalf of the various associations and the independent 

 growers and millers to express our deep appreciation for your gracious- 

 ness, your attention here, your consideration of our problems. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Colmer, I presume you are about to close, and before 

 you close, from the efforts you have made the last several years, I have 

 been rather intimately familiar with the repeated determined constant 

 effort you have made to try to get support prices for tung oil. As the 

 result of those efforts, are you convinced that the Department will not 

 support this commodity unless it is provided and directed from the 

 Congress? 



Mr. Colmer. Mr. Chahman, that is one of the questions one might 

 prefer not to answer. 



Mr. Pace, That is- all right. 



