—Ljaarcaster- Farming, Saturday, December 16,1967
18
Grange Master
Newson Issues
Challenge
Master Herschel D. Newsom of
tfoe National Grange challenged
Grange members to equal the
national farm-rural organiza
tion’s first century of service as
it embarks Dec 4th on its sec
ond century.
“Let us here and now, then,
dedicate ourselves to an accep
tance of the challenges that are
ours,” he said, “and to deter
minat on to capitalize on the op
portunities for growth and ser
vice as we prepare to enter into
a greater second century.”
Newsom attded: “With firm
determination to promote mem
bership growth, and thus give
new blood and new ideas to the
Grange as a basis for greater
progress, let us determine that,
through the Grange, we will
stimulate people; we must gen
erate opportunities for rural
Americans, both in and out of
agucultuie, we must build the
type of community life that de
velops human growth, increases
hope and lifts aims and pur
poses ”
He charted the following
among the objectives for the
Grange in his 62-page report of
the delegates and members:
“It is time to make crystal
clear the fundamental fact that
reasonable Supply Management
is as important to individual
enterprise in American agricul
ture as it is to those entrepre
neurs in any other business in
the United States,” he'said.
Newsom explained that agri
cultural indebtedness (in per
cent of total assets) at its
highest level since 1941, has
destroyed much of the gains in
farm income achieved in re
cent years through the long
advocated Grange supply-man
agement farm program.
He pointed out that “Not only
must the Grange continue to
plead the cause of just and
equitable relationships between
farmers and rural people on the
one hand, and the remainder of
the U S economy on the other;
but we must, in cooperation
with farm organizations in the
rest of the world-working both
bilaterally and multilaterally
through IFAP (International
Federation of Agricultural Pro
ducers) vigorously seek to
incorporate agricultural pro
grams within the national pro
grams of our respective coun
tries ”
He added, “We must continu
ously puisue the matter of in
corporation of agricultural
trade requirements on’ a just
and equitable basis, into the
U,S trade policy and into the in
ternational policies of the sever
al countries of the world.”
In addition, he said “The ne
cessary machinery, fertilizer,
seed and other factors, requir
ing capital investment, will not
be developed in these countries
without the incentive that can
come from price stability in
agriculture Reasonable, equi
table price levels and price sta
bility are necessary ingredients
to the peace of the world and
for the solution of the food
versus population crisis.”
He warned that “To fail to
recognize this fact . . . may
very well result in driving many
countries of the world ... to
the conclusion that capitalism
and incentive cannot work in
agriculture in time to meet the
nutritional requirements of
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their people in the World Food
Crisis.”
Turning to the tax increase
standstill and. rising interest
rates Newsom said that rates
“have gone up tp the point that
we have now been compelled to
go before the Congress and ask
for a removal of the six percent
ceiling on interest rates. This is
an unacceptable position in
which to be placed.” ,
He concluded: “It, however, is
unthinkable that we should per
mit the financial structure of
our cooperative credit agencies
to be impaired. Nor do we dare
stand idly by and permit the
capital structure of these agen
cies to be jeopardized at a time
when American agriculture is
still engaged in Substitution of
Capital for Labor, and when the
capital must be borrowed.’-’
Newsom, Master of "the Na
tional Grange for 17 years, also
compared the need for “Grang
er laws” 100 years ago with the
possible need today for some
control of so-called “conglomer
ate” firms.
He said that the concern with
post-Civil War monopolies
which led to the creation of the
Grange and its revolutionary
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campaign to make all corpora
tions subject to government re
gulation when the public inter
est was endangered has “now
been replaced by the necessity
of great concern and of careful
examination of the growth of
conglomerate firms and cor
porations.”
“Is it not possible,” he said,
“that we may be unwittingly
condemning ourselves to a me
diocrity that retards progress
and diminishes the growth of
prosperity?”
Did you know—That 35 State
municipalities have either all
or a large part of their water
sheds within the State Forests,
and many have water supply
impounding dams wnthin the
State Forests. (Dept, of Forests
and Waters)
• Cereal Leaf
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agriculture department will con
tinue to, survey vajapus 'areas of
the state in attempts >to locate
new infestation points, Nikon
said. New points of infestation
will be immediately added to
the quarantined 'area.
Cereal leaf Beetle was first
found in ithie United States in
■1962 on a farm in Michigan.
Since then it has spread to In
diana, Illinois, Ohio and Penn
sylvania.
The beetle is also found in
most of Europe extending as
far east as Siberia.
If the earth’s surface was
completely smooth, all paits
would be covered by about two
miles of water.