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power of agriculture. Thus, we should 

 not ignore the importance of industry to 

 agriculture and conversely, industry 

 should not ignore the importance of agri- 

 culture." 



Noble Clark, associate director of the 

 experiment station, University of Wis- 

 consin and chairman of the committee 

 on postwar agricultural policy, created in 

 1943 by the Association of Land Grant 

 Colleges and Universities, said that 

 "Farm folks have much to gain by using 

 their influence to induce other occupa- 

 tional groups to follow a policy of a 

 free market and the widest possible 

 opportunity for individuals to make the 

 most of their talents and their labor." 

 Clark also said his committee belie\'ed 

 that the social security program should 

 be extended to farm laborers; that state 

 health committees should be organized in 

 every state to promote rural health pro- 

 grams; that electric service and rural 

 phone service should be expanded in the 

 postwar period, as well as an expansion 

 of all-weather farm to market roads. 



Hon. Kenneth S. Wherry, Senator 

 from Nebraska, who has been active in 

 the fight for agriculture, declared that 

 "If we are to stabilize our national econ- 

 omy and continue to pay high wages to 

 organized labor economic balance must 

 be maintained for agriculture. Lincoln 

 said, 'I believe this government cannot 

 endure permanently half slave and half 

 free.' Neither can it surv'ive half broke 

 and half prosperous. This means full 

 production, and fair prices for that pro- 

 duction. Anything which retards full 

 production will retard prosperity." 



Hon. Tom Stewart, senator from Ten- 

 nessee, declared, "I have ser\ed on the 

 agricultural committee of the Senate ever 

 since I have been in Washington and I 

 have had opportunity to view a pretty 

 good cross section of the American farm- 

 ers' problems during these very serious 

 and most unusual times. . . I must say 

 to you that in this organization, that 

 is, the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration, the American farmer is more 

 nearly ideally organized than he has ever 

 been. . . I cannot stress too strongly the 

 idea of the overwhelming importance of 



continuous unity among the fanners in 

 all sections of the United States." 



David Nichol, foreign correspondent, 

 Chicago Daily News, a featured speaker 

 on the program, told of his coverage of 

 the war front with particular reference to 

 Russia. He declared that Russia's main 

 desire is for peace in which to rebuild 

 her war-ravaged country. He also said 

 he believed that good relations should 

 continue in the postwar period be- 

 tween the United States and Russia, 

 with each following its own economy. 

 Russia, he said, does not want charity, 

 but it does want to trade with the United 

 States ands purchase materials which are 

 needed for its national building program. 



Awards for distinguished service to 

 agriculture were made at the AFBF con- 

 vention to William W. Waymack, direc- 

 tor of the editorial section of the Des 

 Moines Register and Tribune, and to 

 Lloyd R. Simons, director of extension of 

 the New York State Colleges of Agricul- 

 ture and Home Economics. 



AFBF directors elected from the Mid- 

 western Region were: Frank W. White, 

 Minnesota; Allan B. Kline, Iowa; and 

 H. E. Slusher, Missouri. 



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