Mr. Chairman. this program has succeeded in helping rural people to help themselves far better than any such program in the Nation and at less per capita cost to the Government. Its record is unparalleled in helping seasonal and migrant workers first to learn a trade or skill and then to form a company among themselves to utilize those trades or skills in the production and marketing of salable items. I have worked closely with this organization and have been personally involved with it in the development of many privately owned. privately operated. ruraloriented small industries in our State. Poor people have formed companies to produce handcarved furniture which today commands top prices and is in great demand throughout the country.