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that makes me 86 now and ... well, like George Goodling,
there’s plenty of life left in us yet because I’m identically the
age as Wilbur Mills.” (The audience burst out with
laughter, as they had done servcral times previously.)
“When I was a youngster there were 40 per cent of us on
farms in America ... now five per cent or less. If we had
known when I was a youngster how to make radios and TV’s
and nice air-conditioned automobiles and air conditioning for
our homes, bathtubs and central heating and all that stuff, if
we had ... we had none of that, I didn’t grow up with five
rooms and a bath... I grew up with four rooms and a bath.
On those cold mornings like this you learn how to do things in
a hurry. If we had known how to do that (build modem
conveniences, etc.) we couldn’t have spared the man-power
to do It —we had to have them on the farm with a pair of plow
handles in their hands. We were so inefficient in this whole
food business that it took almost half of us to feed the other
half, and then not very well.
“Now in the short span of a lifetime come to the position
where we do this tremendous feeding job for Americans and
miHiniM and millions beyond our shores with just a shirt-tail
full of man-power and a relatively small input of resources.
And we feed our people in this country for about 17 per cent of
their take-home pay. I think that’s pretty good. And a lot of
people criticize us. They say food costs are high ... they’re
always going to say that.
“Seventeen per cent of take-home pay less than any
other nation any place on the face of the Earth ... and we
feed them better too! In that 17 per cent.. .the food ... you
have all that built-in “maid service.” Frozen TV dinners,
they don’t come for cheap; we process almost 60 per cent of
our potatoes in America now ... that’s not for free ...
somebody gets paid for doing that. In that 17 per cent we have
over a third of the meals eaten outside the home in America.
That’s not for free.
“When these people get to rearin’ up and say that
somebody is rippin’ off by charging too much for food, let’s
make a few comparisons:
The only other nation in the world that's under 20 per cent
is Canada., .they’re at 19. The best nations in Europe are 22
to 28. In Russia it’s 35 to 40 per cent. You make the “great
leap” forward in China and it takes 75 to 80 per cent. “We’re
doing pretty we 11... and because we spend such a small
share of our income for food, we’re a nation with over 90 per
cent of our families owning an automobile, two-thirds of them
have two automobiles. Two TV sets. Most of the stuff isn’t
good enough for one (referring to TV programming).
“We can afford that because we feed ourselves with just a
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small share of our total productive effort. That's what this
tremendous American agricultural plant and agribusiness
have done. They’ve worked together. And when these
demagogues ... I've got other words for them sometimes
... and you had one recently as Secretary of Agriculture in
Pennsylvania here... (laughter, again) tiy to set one sector
against the other ... they’re doing a great disservice to the
whole food industry In America.
“Obviously you believe what I’m saying you’re nodding
your heads. I'm preaching to the converted ... I got the
wrong crowd here. Like the preacher on Sunday morning
the guys he ought to reach are on the golf course, or by the ski
slope this time of year.
“Food is the only thing left in American society we pay
cash for... we sign a slip for anything else. And therefore
once a week or twice a week the housewife goes to the check
out counter and thinks ’if I Just didn’t have to pay cash for
this I could buy a new record or another TV set for the rec
room in the basement.’
“The most popular committee in the House of Represen
tatives a year ago was the House Committee on Agriculture.
Twice, Speaker Albert enlarged that committee to make
room for people who wanted on it. There are members on
that committee who don’t even have a greenhouse in their
district. But they wanted on the House Committee of
Agriculture. Why?
“The first goal of nearly every newly-elected congressman
is to become a senator. The best way to do that is to get in
front of the TV camera. The best way to get in front of the
camera is to demagogue the food issue, because every
housewife thinks you’re great if you're going to give’em
cheaper food. The best platform for that is the House Com
mittee on Agriculture. That’s what I put up with down there.
Some of those characters wouldn’t recognize the working end
of a cow.
We got a PR job here in American agriculture. I just want
to discuss a few things with you nowthat I think are on the
plus'side.
“We’ve got the most positive food policy we’ve had in
years. It’s a policy we can describe in a single word:
PLENTY. A sharp contrast to the 40-year program of quotas
and allotments and cut-backs and curtailment... of holding
this great agricultural machine in check in a world that
needs food, we’ve turned it around. A policy of heavy
government payments, a policy of you fellows going down
after dark to the ASCS office to pickup your check - you were
kind of ashamed to get it - and sent it in by mail because you
didn’t want anybody see you depositing that ... a policy
where four years ago we were spending four-billion dollars a
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