FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1960 issues 1960 Brandow Foresees Lasting Farm Issue (This is the third of a series "Issues 1960" on the stands of the presidential candidates with interpretation by University professors.) What do the positions taken on farm policy by the Pres idential candidates mean to farmers? ,The farm problem will persist despite the Outcome of! the election, according to George E. Brandow, professor of; agricultural economics. 1 ' I "Basically, the rival carldidateshis surplus would not be cut in', and their platforms agree on aithe conservation reserves. list of actions that do not strikel Kennedy's program assumes directly at overproduction andl that controls will be necessary surpluses." Brandow said. indefinitely, Brandow said. His If Kennedy were to take of- I approach to the problem is to flee, his party would probably employ the quota system under follow, a liberal, more ambitious which the farmer would be program, while Nixon ?you'd be given direct payment not to conservative and cut down on farm and a stipulation would farm aid, Brandow said. ' be placed on the quantity he As the party platforms stand. } did farm. • both Nixon and Kennedy would! "Quota plans require a num-, push hard to expand outlets forber of decisions about how they i farm products. Each endorses•should operate and orcducers in food-for-peace. distribution of Idifferent regions can be affected, food to the needy at home. sAoolib y how details are worked out"; lunch and special milk uregramsißrandow said. and research to find new uses) For example, if national milk for farm crops. louotas were in effect and a new Nixon's plan to deal with the dairy product reduced Pennsyl surplus consists of two stages. ivania's price advantage over the First, Nixon would continue to midwest, the quotas probably support prices for not longer would slow down production than four years, cuf some acre- ;changes that otherwise would age allotment and have a con- take place between the two areas. nervation reserve in which he said. farmers could put some but not j Kennedy is optimistic about his all of their farmland. Payments iplan, Brandow said. "But farm for compulsory crop reduction :ers are slow to change and they would be given to the landown- !would probably resist indefinite ers. control." In the second stage. controls would be gradually lifted; the growing population is counted upon to increase demand so that agriculture would be left in a prosperous state. "Nixon doesn't take into con sideration the fact that there is surplus now or that there will always he a persistent one," Bran dow said. In the end, Brandow said Nixon would probably spend mer( money because he would find that Engineers and scientists who have or will achieve M.S., Professional or Doctor's degrees by January or June of 1961 are invited to ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWS with Mr. C. C. 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"He won't be helped by either policy because both can lidates consider mostly the fam ily farm group which is prosper ous, or reasonably so, now." Competition among regions and -ommodities is also a question 'llPt will be left unanswered, he said. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA H. S. Students Taken on Tour Of University Fifty-eight high school students from the Harrisburg area visited the University this week under the college caravan program. According to Red Ferguson. di rector of University relations, the trip was sponsored by the Amer ican Association of University Women in Harrisburg. The stu dents were on campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. Ferguson said, the program be gan with the movie, "Introduc tion to Penn State," in the Hetzel Union assembly room. Following the movie, there were talks by representatives from the different colleges and a representative from the admissions office. The group had lunch in the HUB cafeteria and then took a walking tour which included the Library, the Mineral Indus tries Museum and the Creamery Sales Room. A bus tour of campus concluded the students' day. IFC Sing-- (Continued from page four) haps in their pride they will be encouraged to try harder next time. Collegian ought to do likewise. Thom Riienbaugh '62 (Editor's Note: The Daily Col legian is a newspaper. A news paper attempts to record facts and, on its editorial page, com ments on these facts. A news-- paper is not a p.sychiartist. but it does attempt through critical analysis to open the issue to the public eye so that correc tive action map be taken.) CUSTOM tow Prices on Skating Apparel, Boots, 'Blades Have your Skates Sharpened NOW! SKATE SHOP Pleated Skirt and Guards For Information Call UN 5-4054 AD 8-2861 POLLOCK HALLS COUNCIL presents "BIG MIXER No. 3 " Friday, October 21, 1960 8:30 to 11:30 P.M. 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