Willkie offers 6-point plan for farmers
Opens his campaign for primary aid
Richland Center, Wisconsin (UP) – (March 18)
Wendell Willkie, opening a three-week campaign for Republican votes in Wisconsin and Nebraska, said tonight he was sure a majority of farmers were convinced “that a change of national administration is… overdue.”
Addressing several delegations of farmers prior to Wisconsin’s April 4 primary in which he hopes to demonstrate his strength as a candidate for the Republican 1944 presidential nomination, Mr. Willkie decried administration farm policies and outlined six “specific policies for desperately-needed farm production.”
For “the quickest winning of the war and for the soundest building of the future,” Mr. Willkie made these suggestions for “this year.”
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A manpower policy which “simply must not be permitted to strip our farm below the irreducible minimum of strength and skill.”
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A speeding of war machinery production so machinery now wearing out can be replaced “before it is too late.”
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“A workable policy for the fair distribution of food…”
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“Food policies that take account not only of production but also of marketing…”
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“Policies based on real horse sense in pricing for production.”
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“Complete elimination of partisan political scheming from the farm-producing agencies of government.”
In his “beyond victory” program for the “building of economic foundations of prosperity and peace,” Mr. Willkie said:
Thirty markets are a No. 1 need for the wellbeing of the farmer.
He added:
The second need of agriculture is for decent prices.