It seems as though we are consigning these people to hopeless misery merely because they do not resort to demonstrations. As chairman of the Rural Development Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee. I held hearings on the effect of Federal programs on rural America. The Federal programs do have an effect on rural America but not for those people who are starving. In one Florida town. for example. the second largest business is the production of coffins for migrant children. What are Federal programs doing for these children? The hearings make it all too clear that the agricultural establishment would rather deal with hogs and sugar quotas than with people.