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Show "m Ira m (By Alma Esplin, County Agent.) NATIONAL FARM CONFERENCE Tho National Agriulturul Conference Confer-ence to be held at Washington beginning begin-ning Jnnunry 23, Secretary Wallace announced, will include in its membership mem-bership nt least 200 persons of broad experience in virtually every phase of agriculturo and its allied industries. indus-tries. Every section of tho country will bo represented adequately bp ti.u best agricultural thought of the community com-munity and by lenders in tho various kinds of farm industry, qunlified to speak for their communities as a whole. , More than half of the membership of tho conference will consist of farmers farm-ers and their representatives, u outlined out-lined above The remainder of the delegates will bo men closely associated asso-ciated with agriculture through its allied industries. A number of notable no-table public men interested in agriculture agri-culture and its problems will alo attend. at-tend. Congress will bo represented by tho Joint Commission of Agricultural Agricul-tural Inquiry, of which Representative Representa-tive Sydney AsdcrBon of Minesota ! is chairman. ' It 1h not tu be oxpected that this j conference will settle tho troubes and problems of tho farmer. But, as tho Philadelphia Public Ledger well says in nn editorial, "it will help dra-! matizo them so the nation may sco them for what they arc. Tho conference confer-ence will be n 'Stoc, Look anc Listen' sign at the crossisg. The farm's cankering calamities will be brought out of tho nntion's great central plain so tho callous and cnrelcBs folk of the big towns and tho industrial centers may nee that all is not well with tucir meat nnd milk and bread. Tho Farm Conference will b1dw, for a brief timo anyway, a situation that is dangerous dan-gerous and becoming nforo so. Tne call of thd President is not an idle gesture. There is big trouble on American farm. We aro passing through the most savage agricultural depression we havo ever known. We havo come to a place whero we must mako up our Americas minds whether wo aro to bo a lopsided industrial nation na-tion liko England or a symctricnl, balanced, bal-anced, and rounded country something someth-ing liko wo were in 1900. As the President and his Secretary of Agriculture, Agri-culture, Ilcnty Wallace, sees it, the conference faces two tasks. Ono is to relieve what the President calls n 'temporary' difficulty, tho other is to chart nn agricultural policy for the future," Tho very fact that tho call for tho conferenco caused a great metropolitan metropoli-tan paper to direct itself to a study of agricultural conditions and to write nn editorial of understanding concerning con-cerning tho farmer nnd his job, shows tho wisdom of holding a national farm conference. |