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...years, I have been squawking about that cotton sheet stretched over rubber or plastic. It is responsible for more discomfort, sleepless nights, and barbiturates administered than any other single factor...
...fashionable explanation for criminal acts is a troubled childhood. Liston's was all of that. One of 25 children born to an Arkansas cotton farmer and his two wives, Sonny has hated authority as long as he can remember. "I caught a whupping from my father every day. If he missed a day, I'd have to go to him and ask, 'Why didn't you whup me?' " His mother walked out and went to St. Louis. At twelve, Sonny ran away to join her. "She put me in school," says Liston...
taxpayers $365 million a year, has failed to stall the inexorable decline of the 200,000 marginal Southeastern cotton farmers, who cannot compete in world markets because they are growing the wrong crop in the wrong place. It has gravely penalized the 35,000 bigger U.S. cotton growers, who could compete against any cotton growers anywhere if only given the freedom to do so. These efficiently automated farmers-mostly in the flat and well irrigated Mississippi Delta, the Texas plains and California's San Joaquin Valley-can work only a fraction of their productive lands because of acreage controls...
...whole Government cotton program is an abomination," snorts Indian Head's Robison. "It is completely ineffective and outrageously expensive. It is a deterrent to economic growth and an obstacle in reaching the goal of increased productivity of the nation." It has also cost the U.S. its leadership in world cotton. Since rigid controls began in 1933, U.S. output has remained fairly stable at 14 million bales, while foreign production has grown from 14 million bales to 30 million. Textile makers also complain that the quality of U.S. cotton has deteriorated because the U.S. stands ready to buy whatever...
...trade barriers to offset export subsidies to offset price supports, the net effect of his textile program will surely be to remove the industry farther than ever from the conditions of free competition. As for the strong medicine that would help the most-ending the whole costly absurdity of cotton props- that is a remedy that no Administration has dared hint...