Farm Supports

From an unexpected and unlikely quarter, Richard Nixon last week got some help in his effort to persuade the voters that Jack Kennedy's farm program would bring higher food prices for consumers and entangling red tape for farmers. The helping voice: Henry Agard Wallace, 72, Agriculture Secretary under Franklin Roosevelt, Vice President during F.D.R.'s third term, presidential candidate of the Red-tinged Progressive Party in 1948. Said Wallace: Kennedy's "parity of income" for farmers (TIME, Oct. 3) would push up retail food prices by an average of 25%--the same figure that Nixon has used in campaign speeches. Furthermore, Wallace went on, the Kennedy farm program "would require a large staff of public employees to handle licenses and inspections. I studied mathematics, and I have dealt with farm affairs since 1907. I can't believe that anyone with any sense would try to put over a program such as Mr. Kennedy's."

Was old New Dealer Wallace then planning to vote for Nixon? Wallace declined to say, explained that he is "permanently out of politics."

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