Show OUR PUBLIC FORUM IX peter radford on back to tho the soil with wall street NA when wall street wars good business men sho she usually goes back to the soil to get them that financial thoroughfare Is said to be honeycombed with men who M have plowed barefooted who have drunk branch water eaten cornbread and molasses and slept on the aba floor in their early days A man Is bhore more capable of at holding the tha reins of business who known how to drive a team at 0 mules shear a sheep or put a ring in a shoats nose A man Is better equipped to meet the problems of life who la in his youth has walked the log across the creek to get to school courted the girls girla at husking bees and pitched horse horsa shoes saturday afternoon A man who has spent the moonlight nights of his youth possum hunting going to protracted meetings and occasionally turning down the community at a ri spelling match has the arnht sort of stuff stud in him dm to make a good business bursi noss man the active of moat meet of oc the larzo larco business organizations of america it Is said were with a very low few exceptions barbed rafted on the farm and could swim the creek pitch hay chop wood milk the cows or slop tho the hogs as easily as aa they can run worldwide world wide business institutions the far farmers look to these capable and loyal sons i i the eoll to assist in the of tile the business problems of agriculture wall street la Is reputed to be capable of financing everything from a Y al C A to a war so why not finance agriculture it la Is not sufficient to lend money to a correspondent to lend to a local ba banker nIcer to lend to a broker to tg lend to a merchant to lend to tile the landlord to lend to a farmer such a financial system sounds like the house that jack built and la Is just abou taa useful neither is assistance corn cain when money Is thed buyers to move the crop what the farmer wants la Is money to hold the crop what better security Is there than a warehouse receipt for a bale of cotton a sack of wheat or a bushel of corn und and why will such securities not travel by the side of government bonds the american farmer fainter is a capable plowman lie ile always has filled and al ali ways will nil fill the nations granary larder and wardrobe but he has nothing to say may in fixing the price of his bis products the problem confronting the farmers of this nation today Is marketing and its solution depends first upon the farmer organizing for concert of action and the operation cooperation co nf the financial interests in marketing tho the crop agriculture is the biggest business in america led the only one oae that has not A financial system adapted to its uso use |