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Partial Texts of Truman Speeches Pdrtial text of President Tru man's speech at Casper, Wyo.. follows: It's good to be back in Wyoming again. Seeing this Western country and talking to the people out here al ways reaffirm my faith in the vigor of this Nation and the glowing promise of its future. In this country, there have al ways been two philosophies about the use of natural resources. One philosophy is that our resources should be exploited by a privileged •few for their own benefit. This first philosophy holds that if we preserve or develop natural re sources for the benefit of all the people. That is “socialism,” or some other form of “ism.” The second philosophy holds that our national resources are the cornerstone of a strong, free de mocracy. As such, they must be used to advance the well-being and the prosperity of all the people. , . . You know which of these philos ophies I believe in. It is the same one that the great majority of the American people believe in. Seas Progress Since 1948. I am happy to be able to say that since I was out here in 1948, we have been making progress in strengthening the policy of using our resources for the benefit of all the people. This Congress has been moving forward-^not back ward. . . . Not so long ago, this part of the country was considered “way out west.” That phase meant something more than physical distance. . . . Too many people, both in and out of Government, just didn’t care about the future of this part of the country. You know where that spend thrift, careless philosophy led us. Much of the best range land was badly damaged—some almost be yond recovery. . . . For 17 years, with one brief set back, you have had a Government that recognizes its responsibility for helping to preserve and de velop natural resources. This is a Government that works with you, not against you. The contrast between the en lightened, democratic approach to the use of our natural resources, and the selfish, anti-democratic approach, is plain here in Wyom ing. About 50 miles north of Cas per lies Teapot Dome. About 50 miles southwest is the New Kortes Dam. Teapot Dome Cited. The name Teapot Dome stands as an everlasting symbol of the greed and privilege that underlay one philosophy about the West. It is not only a reminder that there were selfish or misguided individuals seeking special privi leges. There are always such indi viduals. It is almost a reminder of what can happen in your own front yard when you have the wrong kind of Government in Washington. Kortes Dam is a product of a different philosophy about re sources and a different kind of Government. High up in a moun tain canyon on the North Platte River, this dam is a new source of wealth and strength for the people of the West. This is an example of the right way to use natural resources—for the benefit of all the people. * * * * Furthermore, Kortes Dam is a part of the reclamation work ofi the Federal Government. The dam is built as part of a project which will bring more water to irrigated lands. The income from the power produced at Kortes will help repay the investment in irrigation work. The completion of Kortes Dam is thus a step toward developing natural resources for the welfare of the people. But this dam has another significance. It is based upon a recognition of the fact that water and land and forests must be treated together. We can make proper use of our resources only if we base our plans on that fact. ... It has taken years for us to organize our efforts in line with this concept of the interrelation ship of all resources. We have met great opposition from selfish or shortsighted people although I am glad to say that many have grad ually been converted to the right viewpoint as the soundness of what we are trying to do has been demonstrated. We still have far to go. But the progress we have made in the last 17 years is tre mendous. Irrigation Farming Expanding. You can see the results all about you. The city of Casper lies in the midst of an area .containing about half a million acres of irri gated land. Private enterprise and local, State and Federal govern ments are all playing a part in making irrigation farming more secure and more productive. Not the least part of the success of irrigation farming is due to the national investment in irrigation and power facilities by the Federal Government. Here in the western part of the Missouri Valley, we have also been working to conserve and im prove rangelands. For the long run success of livestock ranchers, a well-grassed area and well watered range is essential. Before 1934, almost nothing had been done to create that kind of range. Since then, much has been done on both private and public lands. We have found better grasses to provide improved cover and more profitable grazing. We have learned to build small ponds and reservoirs, as a defense against drought. . . . We should be proud of the work we have been doing on the range lands, in irrigation, in power de velopment, and all the other parts of our resource work. Green fields, blue reservoirs, clear streams and shining new transmission lines tell of the advances we have made in the development and use of our resources. However, some of the most changing tasks still lie ahead. Another field in which greater effort is needed is the control of Insect pests. Here in Wyoming there is a serious plague of grass hoppers. The Federal Government should bear its full share of the cost of overcoming this plague through the excellent Federal State co-operative program that has been worked out. More Forest Roads Needed. In the forest, we need to build more roads, so that we can reach the timber and use it. Along the rivers, we need more sound irrigation projects . . . Minerals must be conserved, too in the sense that we must tak« out of the ground all that car economically be extracted, anc must increase our exploration foi new sources. Furthermore we need to gc ahead rapidly to conserve oui limited water supplies. . . . This w'ater problem is not onlj serious for farmers and for citie: and towns. In many parts ol the country it is also a serious problem for industries. For ex ample, down south of here in Colorado there are huge reserves of oil shale. In the years to come we may well need to obtain oil from that, shale. It will take a lot of water to do so, however, and there is a real question whether there is enough w-ater for that purpose. As we move forward in our use of resources, we must improve the organization of the Federal Government so that its part of the development can be done bet ter and with more effective par ticipation by State and local governments. The American people will con tinue to go right ahead, taking the practical, sensible steps that are needed to build a better fu ture. We are a strong, free peo ple. We know'that to continue free and strong, we must wisely develop and use the resources with which nature has endowed us. Engaged m World Struggle. Today, more than ever before, we can see how important it is that we take these steps to develop our resources. We are engaged in a world-wide-struggle to bring lasting peace to the world. In that struggle, we are being op posed by a cynical imperialism which asserts that freedom and democracy are soft and incapable of strong action. We can prove how false, how hollow, are the claims of com munism. But we can prove that only by deeds. We must demon strate that our free country, along with other free countries, can achieve strength, prosperity and growing welfare for our people. • To do so, we must continue to move forward in our use of natural resources. . . . In the tremendous conflict that exists in the world today, our fun damental strength is our belief in the worth of the individual, under God. Our whole democratic tradition rests on our faith that free men, working together in co operation, can achieve justice and well being for themselves and for one another. In that faith, we shall move forward on the path, of freedom and peace. A partial text of President Truman’s speech in Lincoln, Nebr., yesterday follows: Here in the center of the Nation, where the com belt merges with the Great Plains, we can see clearly the greatness and the importance of American agriculture. . . . Effort To Bring Peace. This country today, along with other countries, is engaged in a tremendous effort to bring about peace based on freedom and justice. Make no mistake about it, the strug gle we are in now is just as im portant to our future as was our victory in the last war. . . . American agriculture is directly concerned with the success of our program for peace. You here in Lincoln are directly affected by what happens these days in Berlin, in Paris, in Singapore. No one should know that better than the American farmer, because farmers remember what happened to them after the last war. In the early 1920's the bottom fell out of agriculture in this country. Export markets disappeared. Prices plummeted down. The price of corn dropped in 18 months from $2- to 42 cents a bushel. The price of cot ton fell from 40 cents to 10 cents a pound. Land values collapsed. The resulting agricultural depression in the 1920’s was the forerunner of the national depression of the early ’30’s. Trade Barriers Built Up. Those were the days when inter national trade barriers were built up and up, in a foolish and futile effort to gain advantage at the ex pense of somebody else. Those were the days when the farmers were left alone to struggle with their problems while the rest of the country went up and up on the bubble of the boom. When the bubble burst, the hollow nature of that boom was revealed. It is perfectly evident now how the world-wide depression paved the way for the Second World War. That is why we are doing every thing we can to see that the same thing doesn't happen again. . . . One of First Efforts. In 1933, we started in to attack the national depression at its roots. One of our first efforts was to over come the farm depression. We de veloped special credit programs, to rescue farm families. We stepped up agricultural research, to develop better crops and broader markets. We started national soil conserva tion programs, to restore the basis for abundant production. We de veloped a price-support program, to assure farmers a fair income. . . . Of course, these new farm pro grams were opposed by selfish or short-sighted people. It was the san;e kind of mud-slinging, name calling opposition that you hear now every time we bring up a new proposal for the benefit of the people. . . . These laws led to freedom and prosperity. They were and are strong bulwarks for our free and democratic society. Remember that fact when you hear people today croaking the old charges of “social ism” and “regimentation” about every new proposal for progress. Proved Worth Again. Then, when the war came along, our farm programs proved their worth all over again. The soil con servation, research, and education programs made possible an enor mous rise in farm output, even though fewer people were available for farm work. The atored-up aur j pluses of cotton and wheat and | other crops, which had been bitterly criticized before the war. turned out to be extremely valuable. The price-support system was adapted to wartime need*. It was used to encourage farmers to in crease total production and to turn out the right amounts of each es sential product. . . . The tremendous expansion of production during the war was equally valuable when the shooting stopped. In the years since the war, literally millions of people have been saved from a starvation diet by the products of our fields. Today, our farm programs are ! undergoing new tests. They have proved their worth in bringing about economic recovery and meet ling the demands of war. During the last few years, we have been faced with the problems involved in readjusting to peacetime needs. Two Things Made Clear. Two things have been made abundantly clear. First, that our , programs have served us well— have indeed been our salvation—in preventing the kind of disaster that followed the first World War. Sec ond, that there are defects in the present system which require cor | rection One of the main reasons we have had no serious economic downturn since the war is the farm price ! support system. . . . However, our present farm price support program is not fully sat isfactory. . . . In the last two years, farm in come has dropped more than 20 per cent. That is nothing like what happened after the First World War. Nevertheless it Is serious.... Furthermore, the present law pro vides no satisfactory basis for deal ing with perishable crops. . . . Defects Led to Clamor. It Is foolish to have the Gov ernment buy and store food that people want to eat now. It is even worse to have the Government buy food and destroy it, but that some times happens under the present program. Everyone knows about the shame j iul potato situation. This can lead | to public resentment strong enough | ;o discredit the whole farm pro gram. The taxpayers should not be expected to foot the bill for buying food which has to be wasted. . . . We must preserve the good fea tures of the present program. They are built on a solid foundation. They are necessary for our own S welfare and that of the free world. But we clearly need to improve and strengthen existing legislation. This administration has made a very careful study of the changes that are necessary to adjust our farm support program to present conditions. A series of recommenda tions were worked out within the administration and were presented to the Congress last year by the Secretary of Agriculture. . . . Effective Proposal. No one claims that these rec ommendations are perfect in every detail. We are constantly looking for ways to improve them. . . . The essential purposes of these proposals can be very simply stated. First, they are designed to obtain the amounts and kinds of farm products that are needed in an ex panding economy, and- to assure farmers the opportunity to earn a fair income for producing those products. . . . ■ Under the proposals we have made, farmers would be given in centives to make the needed shifts !in production. Farmers would be assured of support for all the crops which yield a major share of farm income. At present, some of the most important ones are left out. • • • It would continue to be necessary, in some cases, to limit production to genuine consumer demand, in order to avoid surpluses greater than amounts which are needed for storage. . . . The second purpose of the ad ministration’s proposals for changes in our support program is to pro vide a method for using our entire supply of perishable products, in stead of taking part of it off the market and putting it on the shelf. Under our method, all direct pro duction payments to farmers would make up any difference between the average market price and a fair return. . . . I have heard this system attacked on the ground that it would cost too much. Most of the fantastic estimates of cost you hear are made by those who don’t understand how it would actually work. When you study the facts, you will see that this plan should cost no more, and may well cost less, than the present system. And it would have the tremendous advantage of using instead of wasting, perishable products. . . . Our third purpose is to encourage the conservation and wise use of our land and water resources. A price-support program can do this in two ways. The first is by encouraging livestock production. If we produce the livestock products that our people want, we shall need more land in grass and hay. And that is one of the major things we need to do in order to conserve our soil. The second way is to make soil conservation practices a require ment for anyone who wants the benefit of price support. The whole Nation has an interest 1n soil con servation and benefits by it, just l as the whole Nation has an interest , In and benefits by a sound price support for the individual who is deliberately ruining his soil as we provide for the good fanner who is keeping his land productive for future generations. . . . Family-Size Farm The fourth purpose of our recom mendations is to give the most sup port where it is most needed—that is, to the family-size farm. The present program channels too much of its benefits to the largest farms. These are the four major pur poses of the recommendations this administration has made for im proving the farm-support program. They are designed to contribute to a stable and prosperous agriculture as part of a strong Nation. They will encourage a sustained, realistic abundance of farm production as the basis of rising living standards for our people. They are an expression of our faith that we can all go forward together toward well-being and abundance—farmers together with city folk—the people of the United States together with free people everywhere. That is the only way to assure peace and prosperity for ourselves, and for the world. TRUMAN UNDAUNTED BY RAIN—Lincoln, Nebr.—President Truman walks under umbrellas as he leaves the rostrum to return to his train after delivering a major speech on farm policy to an estimated crowd of 10,000 persons who turned out in the rain. The speech was Mr. Tru man's first major address on a cross-country tour. —AP Wire photo. Truman Trip Has Appearance Of Quiet Seminar on Fair Deal By Joseph A. Fox Star Staff Correspondent ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU MAN’S SPECIAL TRAIN IN WY OMING. May 9.—President Tru man's Western trip is taking on the appearance of a Fair Deal seminar. It seems designed to prime the voters for a "give-'em-hell” cam paign a little later in the year, when the chips are really down in the battle for control of Congress. Up to now, and within limits, the 16-State tour which will carry the President to Grand Coulee Dam, in Southeast Washington, is living up to its advance billing as a non-political undertaking. That is, there is no free-swing ing name-calling such as that which characterized the June "non-political” swing of 1948, when the President could blame the Republican-ruled Congress for all the ills to which the country was heir. Now', when insurgent Democrats are giving the administration as much trouble, mainly on key do mestic issues, as the Republicans ever did, Mr. Truman for the mo ment is using what might be called diversionary tactics. He is drag ging out old Republican skeletons while he treads lightly around the edges of intra-party shortcoming, as he makes what he calls simply a report to the people. For in stance, as he came into Wyoming this morning, and opened a 15 hour speaking day in Casper by discussing development of natural resources, President Truman res urrected the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the Harding adminis tration, but refrained from going into any background. me Casper speech, delivered in Matrona High School, was sort of a dedication in absentia for Kortes Dam, on the North Platte River, some 50 miles to the south west. The President originally in tended to leave his train and go to Kortes. but it was decided that the weather offered too much of a risk at this time of year when snow always is a possibility. The President was on the plat form for 13 hours yesterday and made nine talks in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska before calling it a day. In a six-hour stint in Iowa, where he made four trainside talks over a route where sleek cattle, fat hogs and rich farm land stood as visible evidences of prosperity, the President kept hammering away on the twin themes of peace and prosperity —and the Fair Deal program that he emphasized is the guarantee of these goals. “We must make sure that Iowa farmers never again have to burn their corn for fuel like they did 20 years ago,” he said in Ottumwa. And again, in plugging for the Brannan farm plan which he has been trying for months to put across: “You hear today a lot of wild charges that anything new which we proposed for the farmer is ‘socialism’ and ‘regimentation.’ That’s an Old cry that has been going on for a long time, in fact, ever since 1887.” Benjamin Har rison, Republican, took over as President that year. Will Come Back Later. The President, however, in veiled fashion, did give passing note to the stumbling blocks the comfort, plus Mr 2000 modern rooms ■ bath—radio—Muzak spotless comfort at LOW rates -y^^^oTEl TAFT NEW YORK M IMS SNUC II MM COT mm. act • hk » nK a«t Democratic majority on Capitol Hill has been instrumental in throwing in the way of his pro gram. Reciting in Burlington, Iowa, the “progressive, forward" issues he is seeking to advance, the President said challengingly that a lot of people are expecting him to “talk about what the 81st Congress has done on the matters, just as I told the country two years ago the truth about the 80th Congress. . . . “I will say one thing, and say it emphatically, the 81st Congress has done a lot better than the 80th ever did, and it is going to do a lot more than it has done up to date. “The record of the 81st Con gress is not complete yet, but when it finally finishes its work and goes home, then I w'ill be ready to come back and gi"e you the full details, and let the chips fall where they may.” That was the first public indi cation from the President that in transigeant Democrats could ex pect him to have something to say about their record. The President's first day out of Washington — which found him trailed by a Republican sc Out. was marked by good crowds at every stop. The turnout was particu larly noticeable in Iowa, where Mr, Truman scored a surprising victory two years ago. Labor Groups Back Demonstration. At Ottumwa, w’here CIO and AFL joined in fostering a demon stration, a crowd estimated by police at from 25,000 to 30,000 heard the President speak from a decorated stand overlooking a huge parking lot. At crossroads where the 13-car special did not stop there were also sizeable turnouts on several occasions. The route the President fol lowed covered territory that he by passed in 1948. One interesting, development of the day was the opinion expressed by some Iowa newsmen who traveled through the State on the presidential train that the charges of Communism in the State De partment stirred by Senator Mc Carthy, Republican, of Wisconsin, are getting no reaction from Iowa farmers. Cort Klein, city editor of the Hawkeye Gazette, independent Republican paper of Burlington, summed it up by saying that opin ion generally follows party lines, but that “not too much attention is paid to it.” At Pacific Junction, the last stop in Iowa, where several times the town population of 150 were on hand, a uniformed Legionnaire, middle-aged Ralph Purdy, of nearby Glenwood, said he spoke the sentiment of the community when saying the Communist charges were having no effect. Brannan Plan to Get Test. Iowans, incidentally, look for a test on the Brannan plan for June! 5, when the senatorial primary is held. A field of six Democrats is contesting for the nomination for an opponent for Senator Hick enlooper. Republican, the field having been reduced from seven. Albert J. Loveland, former Un dersecretary of Agriculture, who left the Federal Government with high praise from President Tru man, to run for the Senate, is an avowed Brannan plan man. Nelson G. Kraschel, former Democratic Governor, is an anti and former Representative Wear in, who rates as another top man in the race, is moving down the middle. It is said that the ultimate win ner may eventually depend on party convention, as that is the Iowa procedure when a candidate fails to poll 35 per cent of the total vote. t The President also got a good reception in Nebraska where he started off in early evening with a Brannan plan speech to a Lin coln audience which stood in a pelting rain to hear him talk from a stand erected near the Burling ton station. Minister Grateful— Overcomes Irregularity •*’ am a retired minister and very grateful that eating ALL-BRAN overcomes my constipation. I shall boost this good break fast food every chance Iget.’’E. H. Harmer, 726 Lincoln St., Sno homish, Wash. Just one of many unsolic ited letters from ALL BRAN users! If you need help lor consti pation due to lack of bulk, simply eat an ounce of crispy ALL-BRAN daily, drink plenty of water! 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He denounced as an "economic monstrosity" the controversial Brannan farm plan which Mr Truman told a Lincoln, Nebr., au dience yesterday would help world peace and prosperity. Urges Reversal of Policies. Said Senator Wherry: "Even leaders of the President's own party in Congress have spurned the Brannan plan. 1 challenged advocates of the plan to present it in the Democrat controlled Senate, and they re fused to do so. "They knew it would be kicked out the window by a thumping majority, but that does not seem 10 dissuade the President from dangling it before the farmers." Senator Wherry went on to pre dict the election of a Republican Congress in November—"a Con gress that will cut taxes, cut the national debt and restore consti tutional procedures in domestic and foreign affairs"—and he de clared: "Mr. President, there is still time for you to reverse your ruinous policies and to start winning the cold war. 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