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Show I FARMS PROBLEM CONFAB OPENED I 1 6 A eS e O o C fr O 4 G I'.: 300 DELEGATES ' MEET; HIDING I MAKES SPEECH I President Sets Forth Six K Broad Questions to I Conference WALLACE IN CHAIR Better Conception of Farm- er?' Importance to Nation WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Attendee ? by approxlmati Ij 10 delegates rep- ! resenting agriculture interest phases H and the industries related) to farm- 1 ing. the national agricultural confer- j ence was convened here today by Sec- H teiary Wallace and Immediately heard H from President Harding a declaration ' of interest and sympathy" by the ad-ministration ad-ministration in the present plight of the nation's together with a cries of sug '. i '.s for remedying existing conditions. The president In ail address touch- I Ing upon the agricultural situation In all but without a'Jcmptlng to die- I i.it t .c the conference dis- I usslohs, outlined a half dozen broad questions. briefly included: i.H ESI OXS OU I T.INFD J Pn !tlcal dcvelopnieot of the water ipurces of the country, botb for transportation and power, including PH plans foi electrification of the na-f na-f ion's railroads. FriaAlbillty of the St. Lawrence-Grcal Lakes waterway is unquestioned, the president Bald. i ievelopment of n thorough code of law and business prdcedure, with the pro r machinery Of finance, through a.me agency, to insure that turnover capital shall bo as generously sup-plied sup-plied i the farrui . end on as reason-a. reason-a. id' teriic r Industries, COOPERATION UEGED. Kprmatlon of cooperative loaning, btiylns and Selling associations. Creation of Instrumentalities for . ollectfbn and distribution of useful and true information so as to prevent violent fluctuations of markets. Mel lodi for bringing about further imatlon-, rehabilltalJon and cxten-of cxten-of tin igricuhur.il area. Promotion of a new conception ,. the farmer's place in the national so-clal so-clal and economic scheme. The President, who walked tho four blocks from Hv White FlOUse to the New WUIar.l hotel where the confer-ence confer-ence i,s meeting, received ahearty I ovation when he appeared in 'th con Terence hall FREQUENTLY VPPLAUDED i i The delegates and others In atten ff dance, including a number of senator liV and house members, listened atten-tively atten-tively and frequently applauded tho executive's statements Kspecially strong applause greeted his declara- . tion for more adequate credit facilities .and applause tl.o broke forth when 'the President made a slight digression I to assert the present conditions in tho j agricultural Industry are ' truly of na-itlonal na-itlonal interest and not entitled to be I regarded as primarily tho concern of LH either a class or any section, or a bloc." ! W iLLAC E SPEAKS The President was followed by Sec- il retary Wallace who declared the con- IH forence had been called to consider r the present agricultural depression I-land I-land remedies for It and also the laylnR i down of a permanent policy for the i I upbuilding of a sustaining agricul- U jture. Al the close of his address, he I announced that Representative Ander- H ison. of Minnesota, chairman of the B joint congressional Inquiry comroJs- I islon would act as permanent chairman of the conference and Lr. H. C. Taj - l r chief of the bureau of market? and crop estimates, as executive soc- I THREE FIELDS OPEN Secretary Wallace told the delegates that constructive efforts might prop-erly prop-erly be made in three fields hich he outlined as follows: Kirt, what may be done properly through legislative action. ' Secnd. what may be done through administrative and educational effort, national and state, by the various IHJ agencies charged with the duly of fostering fos-tering agriculture." II "Third, what may bo and should be done by the farmers themselve-s in- dlvldually, and through their organizn- j |