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The U.S. Supreme Court last week gave the Federal Power Commission a power it did not seek and does not want: authority to control natural gas prices charged by "independent" producers, i.e., those who are not affiliated with interstate pipeline companies. In the gas-producing states of Texas, Oklahoma and...
Ever since 1935, when Congress established the Service to improve the ineffective state college conservation programs, the colleges and the reactionary Farm Bureau Federation have striven to return conservation "to the grass-roots." Admittedly taking politics into account, Benson has complied: in spite of his vigorous denials, conservation seems destined...
The new decentralized conservation program will sacrifice economy, talent, and effectiveness. Administrative costs, among the lowest in the federal government when the Service was run from seven offices, will skyrocket under the control of forty-eight states. With state control, the staff of trained men from the Soil Conservation Service...
The Benson plan requires that the states pay a large share of their conservation expenses; this means that poor but deeply eroded states like Arkansas will falter in land-saving measures. Threats of floods encompassing entire river-valleys will find separate state conservation agencies powerless to employ the control measures...
If in the past the Soil Service has made slightly inflated claims, its boasts have kept both the farmers' eyes on conservation and the service performing ambitiously. The widely-acknowledged success of the Soil Conservation Service is reason enough for Benson to leave Conservation under national authority. When millions of...