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the result of economic progress and the changes necessary to meet
increased civilization, hundreds and hundreds of business enterprises
have gone out of business. We have not put them out, but other
agencies have come along and developed just gradually and they have
automatically demonstrated their economic advantage to the public.
and they have gradually supplanted the others and gone on and taken
their place, and the old agencies had to work into the new order of
things.

We do not think that a board as set up here, at least we would
hope for it and by past experiences of the Federal Reserve Board
and other agencies, that they would start out on that line, and if
the things that its opponents think it might have the effect prove to
be true, that they would not do any great amount of harm, and if
the good that is to come out of them that its proponents hope would
come out of it, that they would gradually develop, and if the system
of surplus control is advantageous to the farmer and to the country
senerally, that it would automatically succeed and other agencies
work in with it and become a part of or else pass out and thus be
succeeded? Would you not rather think that would be the ultimate
working out of this?

Mr. ANnpErsoN. Mr. Adkins, your question involves so many
premises with which I at least only partially agree—

Mr. ApKiNs. Yes.

Mr. AxpErsoN. If I agree at all-

Mr. ADKINS. Yes.

Mr. AxpErsoN. That to make a categorical answer, involves the
commitment to premises which I can not commit myself to. I do
not know whether the operations of this board would result in sup-
nlanting existing agencies or not.

Mr. Apkins. You do not think it would; do you?

Mr. ANDERSON. I do not think it necessarily would.

Mr. Apkins. I would not think so.

Mr. ANpERsoN. If it operated properly.

Mr. Apkins. One more question, and then I am through.

The CHAIRMAN. I believe you asked Mr. Anderson if he was in
favor of a board with powers set up in this bill to carrv out the policy
declared?

Mr. Apkins. I do not think Mr. Anderson is in favor of that.

The CuatrMAN. I understood vou to ask that question. whether
he is in favor of that.

Mr. AnpersoN. No.

The CuairMaN. Let me ask you this question. Do you favor
rarrying out the policy declared?

Mr. AxpersoN. No; I would want to modify those declarations
somewhat, Mr. Haugen.

The CHAIRMAN. Are you in favor of the control of the disposition
of surpluses of such commodities? That is a fair question.

Mr. ANpeErsoN. That is a fair question, and I must answer 1t 1n
this way: Within such limits as I think it is economically possible.

The Carman. My understanding is that you suggest setting up a
board to supply information and advice to the farmers?

Mr. AnpersoN. No. }

The CrarMaN. Well, what is the board for; what is the function
of the board? I understood you to say that. I may be mistaken
n that