Guaranteed Wheat

To farmer constituents at Glenham Park, Suffolk, last week Stanley Baldwin, onetime Prime Minister and today leader of the Conservative Party, made a thumping promise.

He could not promise a tariff on wheat, he said, for every farmer must know that the urban electorate would vote down such a measure. But when the Conservative Party returned to power he would guarantee the farmer a fair price for wheat, "a price sufficient to enable wheat to be produced remuneratively on ordinary lines."

In bidding for rural votes with the highly controversial principle of "price fixing," Mr. Baldwin justified his stand by dramatically proclaiming: "Agriculture today is in the worst state since the Seventies!"

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