Perhaps Is Not Enough

Into Sioux Falls, S.Dak. one day last week trekked Democratic leaders from 15 farm states. Their purpose: to decide how to use in the congressional-election campaign the Eisenhower Administration's new flexible farm price-support policy.

There to lead the search was Adlai Stevenson. He was for continuing rigid 90% of parity supports at present, but he did not think that rigid supports are "necessarily the permanent or only answer." Stevenson did not have a plan, but he had some thoughts: "Perhaps we should give more attention to the cost of what [the farmer] has to buy. Perhaps there is too much foothill land in grain . . . Perhaps the proposals to allow prices to find their level and provide direct payments to sustain guaranteed income . . . should be re-examined . . ."

The politicos listened, then decided that Stevenson's "perhaps" policy was not the meat on which successful campaigns feed. Forty assembled candidates for Congress issued a joint statement: "We still stand squarely behind price supports at no less than 90% of parity."

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