6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1970
Inter-State Economist Views Milk Marketing
“When Milk Ordei 4 was
changed to a maiket-wide bill
three years ago, this caused an
mciease in the numbei of dauy
produceis, paiticularly tiansfei
fiom New Yoik Oidei 2 to Dela
ware Valley Older 4,” explained
Dr Paul E Hand, Secretaiy and
Economist foi Intel-State Milk
Pioduceis’ Coopeiative as he
summarized Fedial Ordei ac
tivity to the dauy faimeis fiom
WASHINGTON REPORT Afr
Congressman Edwin D. Eshfeman JH|I
IM OUtrlat-Paaiuylvanki HSiHi
Should candidates be per
mitted to buy their way into
public office? This is a question
which needs an answer fiom
the Congress The issue of
campaign financing has become
quite serious, particularly since
the spending spree in many
Senatorial and Congiessional
races this fall
Congiess passed legislation
earlier this year designed to halt
the excessive use of money in
political campaigning The bill
was admittedly narrow in scope
because it dealt only with ex-1
penditmes foi radio and tele
vision But I voted foi this nai
iow effort as one step in the
right direction
The legislation stiuck Piesi
dent Nixon as being only a token
attempt in an aiea demanding
bioad-based refoim He vetoed
the campaign financing bill and
asked Congiess to consider a
more far-ieaching piogiam to
limit political spending Re
cently, when the Senate upheld
the Piesident’s veto, theie was
an indication that Mi Nixons
criticism will be heeded in the
future. The next legislative ef
foit, hopefully in the near
futuie, should encompass all
facets of campaign financing A
bill should be passed that
abolishes the enormous advant
age which big campaign spend
ing gives to men of wealth It
should assure that campaign
costs do not afford an opportun
ity for special mtei ests to “buy”
a candidate i
There has been far too much
tokenism already in the business
of political spending The Fed
eial Corrupt Piactices Act,
which now lequues candidates
foi Fedeial office to file
financial repoils, has become a
faice It is a modern farce be
cause it was not strong enough
medicine in the beginning Can
didates who spend hundreds of
thousands of dollais on then
campaigns legally can repoit no
contributions or expenditmes
under the law’s piovisions On
the other hand, the law actually
discouiages a candidate fiom
disclosing the complete stoi>
about his campaign finances
I can use my own expeuence
as an example I intend to be
open and above boaid about
contributions and expenditures
made on my behalf as a can
didate In othei woids, each
year I make a full disclosuie of
wheie my funds came from and
roi what they were spent But,
because of the way the regula
tions are stated, I must file a
technically questionable leport
In strictly hteial teims, my dis
closures are impioper because
they go beyond the scope of the
Important Decision
Chief Justice Marshall dc
scubed the most impoitant de
cision evei handed down by the
US Supieme Couit as beirg
the Maibuiy case decision
which held that the Supieme
Couit had the powei to declaie
invalid any act of Congiess it
eonsideied unconstitutional.
Delawaie, Maryland, New jer
sey and Pennsylvania at the
Philadeipma annual meeting le
eentlj
“lt is expected that the base
plan will discourage such tians
feis in the futuie until our Class
I (bottled milk) utilization and
blend price is substantially im
pioved,” he said
Di Hand announced to the
dauy faimers that “the pnnci-
law But in terms of self-satis
faction and the public interest,
I think my financial statements
are correct and justifiable Per
haps, if Congress responds to
this national problem, by the
time the next filing of campaign
spending statements rolls
around, all candidates will be
required to give a full account
ing of receipts and expendi
tuies
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State Milk Produceis’ Coopera- Valley for the first time Mar
tive was the merger of the Phil ket seivice payments,” Hand
adelphia, Baltimore and Wash- asserted, “have been used in
ington Milk Maiketmg Ordeis almost every othei Federal or
mto the Middle Atlantic Milk der except the New Yoik-New
Maiketmg Ordei The farm Jersey Order and the Philadel
price level for bottled milk was P kla Ordei The New York
altered slightly by the intro- ew Jeisey Maiket Order has
duction of the direct deliveiy had cooperative payments which
differential for dairy plants are a direct payment from the
■within 55 miles of Philadelphia, maiket administrator to qual-
There will be virtually no lf md coopeiatives,” Di Hand
change on the overall faim explained.
puces of the dairy farmeis Inter-State’s economist told
shipping milk into the Delaware the convening dairy farmers
Valley by the combining,of the that he had presented testimony
three Federal Milk Orders ” in St Louis, Mo during the
“During the past year there Federal Milk Hearing for the
w'as a further decline in the U. S Department of Agriculture
Class I (bottled milk) utiliza to consider an economic-type
tion compared to the previous milk pricing formula which
year This decline was at a would regulate milk pi ices
much lesser rate when .eompar- (Class I) in all 62 Federal or
ed to the previous year The im ders “This proposed formula,”
pioved relationship,” Dr Hand Dr. -Hand asserted, “would have
continued, “has been largely substituted ten economic fac
the result of a slight decline in tors,' including prices of the
the number of dairy farmers manufactured milk products of
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Wednesday, December 9 '
9 a.m.—District 4-H Beef Show,.
Sale at 1 pm, Lancaster
Stock Yards.
Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation Distirct
Farm and Home Center.
Thursday, December 10
730 p m Manheim Young
Farmers, Squaie Dance,
Brunnetville Fire Hall
7 45 p m —Quality Milk Control,
Garden Spot Young Farmers,
Field trip to Penn Dairies.
Extension and Home Economics
Staff Meeting, Penn State,
December 10-11.
Friday, December 11
7 pm—Pennsylvania Egg Mar
keting Association Meeting,
Schrafft’s Restaurant, New
Cumberland.
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