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Dates: during 1960-1960
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However, using modern equipment acquired during the war, the farmer still produced too much. While the large farmers increased their holdings, the smaller ones fought not to be overwhelmed. (At present 57 per cent of the total farms account for eight per cent of salable products...
Although it has no concrete plan for acreage reduction the Democratic program does not present such a complete threat to the small farmer's existence. Kennedy proposes to raise price supports to 90 per cent of parity and to reduce the acreage under cultivation by 25 per cent. (Parity is an ephemeral standard based upon the relation between prices of farm produce and those of consumer goods in 1914.) At present, prices stand at about 75 per cent of parity for most crops...
Since the present farm program must cater to international politics, as well as to corn farmers in Kansas and apple growers in upstate New York, it has failed to cater to anyone. Hence, the difference in candidates will mean almost nothing to the farmers when they pull the levers on Nov. 8. It seems almost inevitable that most of their sons will be city dwellers...
Instead, reaching back into school years, they dredge up the alternatives they once rejected, looking for a solution to the present problem in a reconsideration of the past decision. The situation is easier for the prep school product, for he is often more accustomed to accepting a B as a satisfactory grade, something which is harder for the high school graduate who has always led his class. But since preppies generally do not work as hard as their high school confreres, the difference tends to even...
...psychology, coping with a present crisis by reverting to a past critical decision is known as regression, usually with highly perjorative overtones. There need be nothing wrong with reconsidering high school decisions--often it is essential if the Freshmen is not to become bogged down in an intellectual dead end--but it is ironic that he often is forced to change those attitudes which originally led him to Harvard: his views on the meaning of education, his own intellectual pretensions, and the relation of intellect to his own social outlook...