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...encourage planting, the U.N. also has rushed in seed, is handing out 10,000 hoes so that the Balubas can sow the dry, sandy soil before the end of the planting season in February. But some of the starving tribesmen are too weak to bury their own dead, much less till the soil. Others are so hungry that they toss the hoes aside and simply eat the seed...
Other members of NATO, of course, have other ideas. France will allow no nuclear weapons on its soil that it cannot control, for a rather broader reason than perverseness. General de Gaulle will explode a third bomb in the Sahara this fall, and although it is likely to take more than seven years for France to build an arsenal of its own, he insists on constructing a purely French striking force...
...keep the surplus within bounds, under the present Soil Bank plan, the government pays the farmer to keep land out of cultivation. Every year, however, advances in technology have brought forth more produce per acre than ever before. With less and less land under the plow, surpluses continue to average about six per cent above domestic and export demand...
...save money and diminish surplus, payments in kind should be substituted for monetary subsidies now meted out under the present Soil Bank program. Such a procedure will not only reduce crop levels in grain elevators, but will also eliminate the present something-for-nothing benefits going to farmers who let the government pay their bills merely by threatening to plant extra acreage...
...allowing the farmers from four to eight years to decide whether or not they will continue to farm, the government ought gradually to withdraw price supports. Coupled with a reduction in surplus, this action ought to leave the market on a fairly self-regulating basis. The payments-in-kind Soil Bank must remain in existence, an agricultural safety-valve to prevent the accumulation of further surplus...