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Show NATION'S FARMERS WILL ENJOY j PROSPERITY SOON, SAYS HARDING Administration Doing All In Its Power to Bring Prices More In Line With Costs of Production, Produc-tion, Is Message Contained In Letter to Wallace. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 S. Belief that tho farmer will be among the first to rrt Kiibstnntlm recognition In a "m- rr:i of aotlvlt) ami prosperity, now rn tho way," wan expressed by President 1 1 i. r . 1 1 n - in a lttor- written to Secretary WaJlac of the agriculture agricul-ture department and made publla today to-day at th. White House. It was forwarded for-warded to the sermtary to bo road late today at a meeting of Republicans Republi-cans at Washington Courthouse. Ohio. "Agricultural production Is very pearly restored, taking the world as a whole, but agricultural prices are so low that it is apparent to all of us that the farmer Is not being compensated' compen-sated' the president said. "ne Washington administration has recognised this condition and has done everything In Its power to restore re-store a normal balance between prices and costs of production." .The executive further declared a grr-at deal already had been accomplished accom-plished toward that ond and added that the trend was strongly toward lett rj conditions for the farmer" The farmer was described by thel president as D captain of industry" tho letter adding that elimination of competition among farmers would l-impossible l-impossible without sacrifice of (he indl Iduallsm "that still keeps the farm the real reservoir from which the nation draws so many of the finest fin-est elements of its citizenship." WALLACE COMMENDED. Tho president took occasion so to deplore any movement by the farmers) looking toward decrease of production 1 and said th- natural result of such a movement would be famin prices Ho' commended Mr. Wallace for the al- ministration of the department of air-1 rlculturr and said that the department 'in the last tuo years had rendered I a particularly notable service along a somewhat new line " "There was a time." the letter continued, con-tinued, when the department of ag-riculture ag-riculture was looked upon as an Instrumentality In-strumentality for Inducing constantly 1 larc-T and larrer production irom thel farmers, rnthor regardless of the questions of markets and marketing, of transportation, of financing, and other things of that sort. Lately we have come upon a time when fTle-to questions demand attention, and I think the country owes a great deal to the fact that we have had a new direction given to Important activities of the department T mean that these, broader questions have been given a consideration and attention which formerly for-merly was not always recognized as duo to them. REDUCING PRODUCTION "The other day a farmer said to me that the- Carmen could themselves, rehabilitate agriculture very promptly If they would Just unite on a pro- I gram of reduced production I replied re-plied that the farmers would never unite on such a program because of j tho peculiar economic circumstances j of their lndustrv ESvarv farm is an . economic entlU of its own. EJfery farmer Is a captain of Industry. The elimination of competition among them would be impossible without sacrificing sac-rificing that fine individualism thut Bllll keeps the farm the real reservoir reser-voir from which tho nation draws some of Its finest elements of its citizens. cit-izens. 'Moreover, It would be a calamity if the farmers should unite In such a dimunltlon of production as WOUld force famine prices or something approximate ap-proximate to them The world can get along without a good many other l t lings but it cannot get along wtth-I wtth-I out tho products of the farm. I "It is rather a striking fact that I among the world's industries that of agriculture haa boen most rapidly rehabilitated re-habilitated since the war The crop statistics of the world for the) past I two seasons are proof of this. We 1 mav attribute It to that very Individualism Indi-vidualism and self-sufficiency of the farmer, to which I have referred PRICKS STIMi IAJW . "Agricultural production is very nearly restored, taking the world as a whole, but agricultural prices are so low that It Is apparent to all of lus that the farmer Is not being adequately ade-quately compensated The Washington Washing-ton r 'lmlnlstratlon has recognized this I condition and has done everything ln I Its power to restore a normal balancs between prices and costs of produc-. produc-. tlon. A great deal has been accomplished accom-plished anel I am glad to say that the trnd Is strongly toward better conditions con-ditions for the farmer. He has been the Leader In the difficult task of bringing the whole Industrial world back to normal conditions, and that I contribution is everywhere recognized. "Our own country, as evidenced by every index of business and commercial commer-cial conditions. Is on the way now to a new era of activity and prosperity In that new era wo can be. very suro that the farmer will be among tho first to get the substantial recognition which he needs and must have ror what he has done to make these Improved Im-proved circumstance possible. |