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...hackles, as it was a brief endorsement of it in the letters-to-the-editor column of the February issue of the magazine. "I have read the article," the letter said, ". . . with a great deal of interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later...
...fracas in the Senate quickly ricocheted to the Agriculture Department, 14 blocks away. There, after five hours of checking the facts, Benson's staff sheepishly invited the press in. The Secretary was away in the country, but an aide read a statement from him. He had not read the article, nor had he signed or even seen the letter. The letter had been written in his office as a routine thank-you note for an advance page proof of the article, and signed with Benson's name by an assistant who is authorized to handle...
...Letter Carriers is working for higher wages; the Clothespin Manufacturers of America is trying to limit imports of foreign clothespins; the Sioux Indian Tribal Council is demanding compensation for lost agricultural and game land; the American Farm Bureau Federation is pressing the Senate Agriculture Committee to broaden Agriculture Secretary Benson's soil-bank plan. As she has for some 50 years, Miss Alice ("The Little Quakeress") Paul is buttonholing Congressmen in her pursuit of equal rights for women...
...still keep up farm prices. Another cause of impotence, however, is the Administration's reluctance to increase the government's loan program on behalf of those farmers who most need help, the relatively inefficient and marginal producers. To them, amounting to one-third of the agricultural population, the Benson program offers little hope...
...latest one seems a great improvement. With some justice Republican policymakers can blame previous administrations for their present predicament, since the surpluses are mostly Democratic surpluses. This, however, does not relieve them of responsibility for trying to stem overproduction and to aid distressed agricultural areas. In making the attempt, Benson has shown that, despite his optimism, he realizes that the farm problem can be attacked only on a short-term basis. Any farm policy that claims to be a cure-all is likely to be a lemon...