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what you are doing, by getting the cooperation of everybody who is 
concerned with the marketing of the commodity and making it to 
the commercial and financial interests of everybody concerned to help 
you bring about stabilization rather than to make money as a conse- 
quence of the fluctuations in price. So far as we are concerned, we 
would greatly prefer a stable price to an unstable price. 
Mr. FuLmer. But on the part of producers in the past there does 
not seem to have been anybody trying to assist them in bringing 
about a fair price. They have had no control over their surplus 
and the other fellow has taken advantage of it and fixed a price at 
the expense of the producers. 
Mr. AxpErsoxn. I have said, that I think that there is a problem 
here, and I think something can be done about :* But I do not 
think it can be immediately done on the vast scale «. .2aich I fear 
it is contemplated here. 
Mr. FurnMmER. You realize it would be just as bad on the part of 
this machinery or board to attempt to put the price too high as it 
is now with the price too low? 
Mr. ANDERSON. Yes; and I fear that might happen. 
Mr. FuLmer. It is a matter of controlling a surplus, when we 
are blest with one, so as to bring about a fair price in accordance 
with the size of the crop; in other words, if you had a small crop of 
wheat, for instance, it might bring $2, it would not be the conten- 
tion of the board because we had an extremely large crop to get 
$2.50 per bushel when perhaps that crop would have to sell for 
$1.50. But over a period of vears by averaging the prices you 
would get a higher price for the surplus of the large crop. 
Mr. ANDERSON. We do not disagree about what the problem is 
at all; if we have any disagreement, it is, I think, about the speed 
with which we can get at it and the kind of machinery which should 
be adopted to do it, and the underlying policy which would govern 
both the board and the commercial organizations created to deal 
with 1t. 
Mr. Furmer. Do you favor this plan, Mr. Anderson? 
Mr. AxpeErsoN. I have already said, I think perhaps before 
you came in, that we think a board such as proposed here, if soundly 
constructed, would be of material aid in fixing the limits of the 
problem and in aiding and in organizing the necessary instrumentali- 
ties to deal with it and in financing those organizations. 
Mr. ANDRESEN. Mr. Anderson, you believe that that board 
should be given sufficient money to carry out its judgment as to 
what should be done?" 
Mr. ANDERSON. Yes; subject to proper limitations. 
Mr. AxpreseN. If that board were given sufficient money, do you 
not believe it could do just the same as any private individual could 
do in the handling of these commodities? 
Mr. AxpERsoN. No; I do not. I have had a good deal of experi- 
ence with board, while I was a Member of Congerss and since. They 
do not function commercially. Business is essentially autocratic. 
You have got to fix responsibility and its responsibility must be 
promptly exercised. It is often more important that a thing be done 
and done wrong in business, yet done immediately, than that a lot 
of time be taken in order that it be done right. If I were doing it 
myself—and I am approving this board—I think that if the board