792 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Every clear thinking stockman who wants to manage his own business will not 

 accede to Government control. The incentive for enterprise, risk, and individual 

 gain should be preserved to insure quantity and quality of wholesome meat. 

 Experience of past attempts to be regimented should lead to bitter opposition of 

 any regulatory controls of price and quantity of production. 



James B. Dunn. 



Sir: Your constructive statesmanship is highly commendable and in line with 

 true American principles. 



Your association activities need to be sold to more people. 

 Yours truly, 



Howard C. Myers. 



MiLLEDGEVILLE, IlL., ApHl 16, 1949. 



Dear Friend Mark: In regard to the Brannan program. I think that is the 

 darndest thing I ever read in any print. 



When will there be a time when we get some common sense men in our Govern- 

 ment instead of a bunch of educated, pencil pushing, theory-minded fools, with 

 no business experience and no common sense. 



I am sending you a clipping from our paper on Thomas Jefferson according to 

 Roger Babson;'you may have read it. For me, Mark, I say we should oppose 

 any program and instead of talking about the cost of meat in our diet we better 

 do something about the cost of Government, and especially the kind we are 

 paying for. 



Sincerely yours, 



Elmer W. Buffington. 



Vermillion. S. Dak., April 27, 1949. 

 Gentlemen: In marking this questionnaire I have conformed with your request 

 but I would like to add that I am definitely against any program that will further 

 our regimentation as producers and, that I believe is exactly what that bunch of 

 hijackers in Washington would like to accomplish. 



My father who passed away 2 years ago at the age of 85, was an early settler in 

 northeast Nebraska and at the age of 12 years drove four yoke of oxen ali summer 

 for 50 cents per day to help build this country and if we are going to give it to 

 anyone lets give it back to the Indians rather than a landful of dictators. 

 Yours truly, 



Vern Heikes, 

 Vermillion, S. Dak. 



Elgin, III., April 18, 1949. 

 Daniel Pickell, 



Chicago. III. 



Gentlemen: Inasmuch as you are going to Washington to answer some questions 

 and you have requested answers to some questions; I should like to offer my 2 

 cents worth by asking you a couple of questions, the answers to which seem of 

 far greater importance than what you are asking; perhaps you can find the 

 answers. 



Are you sure that farmers of America understand just what socialization of 

 America by the politicians means, namely the freedom for which our ancestors, 

 starved, fought, and died to get for us is being bartered and lost entirely in ex- 

 change for lihe return of a few paltry dollars which we ourselves earned by the 

 sweat of our own brows and which the politicians would tax away from us with 

 one hand and then pay back with the other less what they wasted or withheld for 

 their own parasite needs? 



Next are you sure that once farmers of America understand the above question 

 plus the great hoax that is being foisted upon them by the crafty, lawyer poli- 

 ticians who get themselves elected to Government office with a pack of smooth 

 lies and false promises all because as Harry Hopkins once said "the public are to 

 damned dumb to understand, so we'll elect and elect and tax and tax and spend 

 and spend;" end of quote? 



The whole idea that political control of our lives and work is the trend of the 

 future should be retired into the obscurity from which it is a pity it ever emerged. 



