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GEORGE 1 BENSON
COSTLY DREAMS
♦ Before the middle of 1945, and
of the federal fiscal year, some
weary worker in Washington will
yank a crank or touch a button
and watch a calculating machine
grind out some tell-tale totals
about Uncle Sam as a farm exe
cutive and plantation operator.
The figures will not be flatter
ing but enough preliminary data
are available already to cushion
the shock for his admiring pub
lic.
About ten years ago a foolish
notion grew suddenly, almost
mysteriously, popular. The idea
was that poor farmers got poor
(anyhow didn’t get rich) because
they never had a chance. Big,
fat capitalists, it seemed, kept
the juice squeezed out of them
all the time. So Uncle Sam, with
Rexford Guy Tugwell standing
on his shoulder and whispering
in his ear, dashed to the rescue.
RESCUE THE FARMER! |
A famous federal project, one
of many, to fortify hand-picked
relief cases ‘‘back on the soil,”
was the 2271-acre Deshee farm
near Vincennes, Ind. It was taken
for granted that 42 families could
make a living there after the
government had paid half a mil
lion dollars for the land and one
of 20 agricultural lending agen
cies had helped out with $100,
000 more. It was, however, too
n*uch to expect. They couldn’t
make a living.
With 50 acres per family, homes
clustered in artistic groups like
chairs at a lawn fete, the “farm,
ers” were supposed to do spec
ialty production of top-grade
produce and truck to yield fancy
prides* Unfortunately, somehow,
the plan didn’t work. Deshee is
being sold, as are many of the1
government's other pipe-dream
farms. Among them is the 3453
acre Lake Dick farm near Pine
Bluff, Ark.
PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIEF
An early discovery at Deshee
was that specialty farmers don’t
often get on government relief
i^olls. The relief farmers knew
little more than the need to plant
seed and scratch the ground. By
this method of operation Deshee
had 20 families too many. Fin
ally thg community shrank to
eight families. Many of them left
because they didn’t like the sur
roundings. People on relief be
come fastidious.
High prices on just about
everything of value, an aspect of
war-born inflation, is what saves
our country from charging oiflf
j th°se highfalutin agricultural
' experiments, almost completey. j
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j Losses on Deshee, and others to
sell soon, n^ay be small because
■of well-timed sales, but this
fails to prove that the govern
ment can farm, least of all with
| human misfits on the land.
NO FUTURE IN THIS
Up to now, th^ Federal Se
curity Administration has sold
quite a few of the government’s
resettlement projects. The total
number disposed ol before the
end of 1944 cost the taxpayers
of America some 71 million dol
lars. All the government realized
from th^ sales was 27 million dol
lars. It means that th^ FSA is,
so far, liquidating these cost,
ly dreams at less than 40 cents
on the dollar.
In farming, government man
agement is showing a loss of 80
per cent. We have no right to
expect that losses from govern
ment management would be less
in manufacturing. If they ran
only 50 per cent, it would mean
production cut in half, wages
lowered accordingly and prices
advanced; perhaps doubled. Un
dertaken on a big scale, it would
mean living standards half as
high as we are used to—for all
of us. I’m in favor of keeping
our private enterprise system.
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American development
of nylon and rayon in
dustries to offset the loss of
silk from Japan may result in
a large decrease in silk im
ports after the war. These
figures are from the National
Planning Association.
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