Show Hoover the Farmers Farmery I I F Farmers U ners are arc expecting great thin things s of the new Administration t They have every right to believe that the new President will give their problems a sounder and more intelli intelli- intelligent intelligent gent viewpoint n th any chief executive executive executive tive of this generation Everything that has been said by Hoover on farming in the past tw- tw twenty tw twenty enty years leads agriculture to ex- ex ex t te t- t pert t th mt J that he w wt will attack tte the Pl problem m G first of all tall from the sound economic attitude of l reducing marketing eting costs between Every cent that can be saved be- be be between tween the farmer and the intake door or the retailer wrote Herbert lIeo el in an article in Farm and amI Fireside ei eight ht years ago means in- in increased in- in increased in increased creased returns to the tha farmer The fhi editor who published that ar- ar article ar article hashe from Hoovers Hoover's pen in 1921 has he been en going over the things that Hoover said at that t mc and finds them all sound agricultural doctrine ne neat I at the present time It is idle to talk of eliminating the middleman he says But the present partnership partner partner- partnership partnership ship bc those tho who provide food and those th se who v-ho distribute j ii it is shadow and unsatisfactory Most farmers will grant rant that inas inas- inasmuch inas- inas inasmuch inasmuch muchas much as the job of provisioning the world is a shared job the rewards for cloin doing the job must be divided nut But when the consumers consumer's dollar comes limping back to th the farm farmer fanner r looking like even even less than the proverbial thirty cents most farmers cant can't help endorsing Hoovers Hoover's viewpoint the viewpoint want know know to attitude altitude which desires to inquire where all the rest of the money money went and whether nil all the ea- ea e which consumed it ere efficient wise vise Never before in the nations nation's history have the waste motion the high costs and the frantic competition of the middleman exerted as heavy a drain in agriculture as they do today That Thatis Thatis Thatis is Hoovers Hoover's problem and one which he is is particularly p qualified to meet f f hv lv and ami I |