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serve—surplus—reducing part, of the soil bank—not the conser-1 vation reserve part and not the so- \ called ACP payments, an older program which is entirely separate ^ from the soil bank.
In my remarks to the House last spring, I pointed out that the bulk, , of the'soil bank money had gone < to a few so-called' one-crop areas, 5 As a matter of fact, .one-third of j the States stood to receive nearly . ■ three-fourths of the money. On the basis of sign-ups *at that time, with the totals prorated among all i farms of the Nation, the average Virginia farmer’s soil bank share 1 would have been $24.96, as against j £736.47 for the average Kansas 1 farmer,' 1
The big money has continued to 1 go to the big farmers, and it seems reasonable to ask, Again, what we > should try to do in our national f farm policy, bearing in mind that*_ e “7-whcther it is based on price sup- t ports, soil banks, conservation pay- a ments, a combination of these,—-or . f something entirely new—the costs must be borne by all taxpayers, , and that includes all farmers. V
Should we have ended the soil bank a year ago and concentrated on-a program aimed at placing farmers of all classes—and of all -*C crops, on a sound and equitable basis ? Or. did it I make sense to mail checks in 1957, as the Agriculture Department states it did. ip such,amounts as these: $278,187.38\ to Garvey Farms, Colby, Kansas,’for not planting wheat; £209,701.80 ffe Warris Ranches, Sahaurita. Arizona, for not planting cotton; $138,122.20 to Ray. Flanagan, Red Top, California, for not planting cottqn and not planting rice, and $50,000 or more to at least 65 other big operators? ,
Two women who were maneuv- V ■ ering their car into a tight parking space gave up after a vpl;ant struggle when the driver shut, off the motor and said to her companion: “This is close enough. We can walk to the curb from 'here.” / x
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