The nature of the farm problem is being explored almost daily in the Congress. Today we present the views of Hep. Charles II Brown, of Missouri. Would you listen to a voice in the wilderness for a moment? For the last 15 years X have visited with thousands of fanners all over America That was the way I mat farmers, getting the story of their operation and writing their case his tories. I do not profess to have any magic answers to the farm prob lem. and I have learned here in V\ else ha But could we restate a few funda mentals here, ami s t ■ if they !:a v <■ any merit? First of all. what this Congress is trying to do here, apparently, is to patch and plug a basic crop flexible price support, soil bank farm pro gram that has already been patched and n patched too m'any times. This is another law that will fur ther complicate the network of com plicated farm laws; when the truth is the laws have been getting more and more complicated as we go along and more and more negative in their cutbacks and controls. S > complicated, in fact, that it now takes a large army of employ -e. in the Department of Agriculture to police them. The Government is now spending a record $5 5 billion on a crazy quilt farm pieman:, unci what has it accomplished1 The greatest farm depression since the 1920s. Now, 1 submit, the real funda mental we must face is that auri

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