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Show FARMER BENEFIT t HARDING'S TOPIC Holds Agriculture Really of Greatest Interest to City Dwellers WEST JEPB ERSOX, ., Oct. t. Advocating an agricultural .and industrial indus-trial policy i ordinate American resources re-sources for the common good. Senator Sena-tor Harding declared in a speech at a Republican rally near here today that "one for all and all for one'must b( the motto of Individual effort f the nation Is to achieve Its full potentialities "I want to see American life so knit together' he said 'and every American Ameri-can so appreciative of the fact that the welfare of his fellow Is his own welfare, thai we will go forward to Weave a great and humane pattern of United Americanism "It is Impossible to pull one of the threads of that great fabric without starting the unravelling of the pros perlty of all of us." he added. BETTERMENT l FARMER Making a particular appeal for betterment bet-terment of the condition of the farmer, far-mer, the nominee asserted that agricultural agri-cultural production really was of greater intercsl to those who live In cltlee than to the farmers themselves As a part of the Siini, community of Interest, he said, transportation foclll-ties foclll-ties must bp stabilized and a rehabilitated rehabili-tated railway system supplemented by inland waterway development and by commercial use of motor trucks to carry freight The senator reiterated his belief that farmers should be given the right of cooperative marketing, should bo encouraged en-couraged throunh the federal farm loan system to own the farms they live, on. should be assured stable transportation trans-portation facilities and a stable labor supply, and should be given protection protec-tion against unfair competition from abroad. He also advocated a better system of rural education and a higher standard of farm social welfare, and declared that profiteering "must be squeezed out." wi it t i.aie - in'fjkv IH 1. 111 V . Discussing In detail the problems of rural education, Mr. Harding took occasion oc-casion to speak a word for the education educa-tion of adults in current events, and asserted that such a movement would Constitute ' the true bulwark against extreme radicalism.'1 "Rut nowhere. I think," he said, "is there more cause for alarm than in the fact that the annual school term of the rural school in the United Slates only averages one hundred and thirty-seen thirty-seen days a vefar. We must have no burea iicrae of the federal government govern-ment in education, but we owe to the i hildhOOd of the nation to place at Its disposal the utmost in educational facilities." |