Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors: For reddaee to papers after 13 (clock noon,Oct. 4 BENTON.MO. , Oct. I:--Before thousands of persons meeting here today in a "homecoming" celebration, Judge Harry S. Truman of Iniddependence, Democratic candidate for United States senator, extolled the farm re- lief policies of President Roosevelt. The benefits which had been given the farmer, he said,were reflected over the entire l'iddle West,where business conditions, ,he declared, were better than in the industrial East. The reason for this consition," he asserted, " is that the farm pro- cessing taxes, the corn-hog program and the general easement of debt conditions on the farm have brought about a situation of uniform betterment among all the people of the farm communities. " This is in contrast with the processing taxes given the manufact- urer in the way of a tariff. The manufacturer is the only one who benefits. He sticks almost the entire sum derived from his process- ing taxes in his own pocket. In spite of the fact that this tariff is now almost double the average tax under the former Fordner-Mo dumber tariff bill, the industrial regions still have their under- ARCKIVER ANL lift in RIBOROS BERNGE" paid millions.' This condition persists,he said,in spite of the fact that indus- trinl conditions are nearer normal than the situation in any other line of American effort. " It is true that the income of the American farm this year, accord ing to reliable estimates, will be nearly one billion dollars more than in 1933," he said. But farm income is still totally inadequate to make farming a profitable calling Until it is made so,the one- quarter of our people living on the farm and the 15 per cent of oth- ers dependent on ferm success to achiève prosperity, will constitute a permament national peril. It should be the proper concern of every member of congress to make farming pay. For fifty years, this nation has been a unit in an effort to make industry profitable. people have sacrificed