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Show FARM RELIEF IS TOPIC OF CONVENTION DENVER, Colo., Nov. 21 (UP) Farmers may need relief, re-lief, but whether they get it or not, they won't go hungry as long as they remain farmers, farm-ers, it was indicated at the National Farmers' Union convention con-vention here today. "And that," said Milo Reno, president of the Iowa Farmers' Union, "is something to be grateful grate-ful for, anyway." Most Are Not Happy Reno, a tall, gray-haired "farmer-turned-business man" from Des Moines, head of a farmers' mutual insurance company and a power in the livestock industries of Chicago Chi-cago and St. Paul, was the principal princi-pal exponent of satisfaction in a group apparently composed of men none too happy with their lot. . "The farmer needs a lot of things," Reno drawled. "He needs higher prices for his crops and his livestock; he needs better educational educa-tional facilities for his children, and he needs more of the comforts that his city neighbors take as a matter of course. I "But for all that he is not going! hungry he's right at the source of supply." Reno was in the midst of a group of his fellow delegates when he told the United Press of his disbelief dis-belief in, even the remote chance of the farmer starving. All of them admitted readily enoutrh the farmers' access to food, but they were quick to qualify his statement. "Food isn't all, not by a long shot," said C. C. Talbott, veritable giant of a man who runs a 1,000 acre wheat farm at Jamestown, S. D., and finds time besides to head the North Dakota Farmers' union. "We are not going to starve, but the way we are going, we are not going to miss it far." Talbott empnasized the need for the farmer to solve his own problems prob-lems and to do his own marketing and financing through cooperative associations, without the aid of government gov-ernment agencies.-' Don't Want Paternalism "We don't want paternalism," he said. "We think we are smart enough to do our own thinking and well that is what we are trying to do. "Our greatest problem is that of getting the farmers to thinking and acting together." "True," interrupted T. J. Lamn-drom, Lamn-drom, aged white-haired ex-farmer from Longmont, Colo., who has retired re-tired to devote himself to the keeping keep-ing of his bees and the playing of his fiddle. "But tell me just exactly exact-ly how you intend to get the farmers farm-ers to think and act together? I've been a farmer for 52 years and we never have agreed on anything yet." Talbott explained that that exactly ex-actly was the trouble and the reason rea-son for organization of the Farmers' Farm-ers' union. |