Show adu STRY HELPS A 9 E build V ME H b decentralization of manufacturing brings market for products closer to the farm gives employment and better standards of living tp 1 rural communities by to T R PREST PRESTON Preal president dent americal america Americ bankers association lass of people has been beeh more diligent in try trying ing to under S stand t tin d th the 6 agricultural problem than the bankers of oath thi country the agricultural problem is a real problem and dc m mands a n d s the best thought of everyone this country cannot continue along happy ahne ines a atz 1 51 fijoj with only sections of the country prosperous si prosperity must be passed around if any if body is long to enjoy it this question can k 1 not be solved by the farmers alone 4 hut tha p j majority opinion is that there is no legisla a i tive remedy for agriculture i 6 it is aw aleco ec 0 ay iy question pure and simple andjus and must be ij corked vor ked out accordingly A few years ago it was contended that J agriculture did not have sufficient credit i facilities that proposition was made a political question ido I 1 do not presume there ar are wany who will question the fact that S agriculture now has ample credit facilities mixing parma farms and factories it is a fact that no community and not state has ever become great purely front agriculture it is not to the interest of new york and others other great centers to see the small communities and the sections losing their wealth and importance in the end it will react upon them to their disadvantage there seems to me a real remedy for these small communities and alto alao for agriculture this remedy which 13 khe be mixing of industry with agrical wre Is now being applied in n many to cAlit les with will satisfactory results industry find and agriculture are belter balanced in ohio north Carol carolina ln I 1 and pennsylvania tha than n in anny other states stater of th the e union and in these thebe states stales chere there Is no ser serious lotts agricultural lem and wo wa hear bear little complaint from froin the farmers far mera this mixing of iii austry ing examples exam plea from own at state a te t to prove this ills proposition and I 1 these because I 1 am more familiar wilh conditions there thera than 1 twelve years yeara ago pan nesse nc sice e had find a population of areat industries like a large camera company a bl bu cement plan tand a number or etther r indus tries were scaled there partly brough Mr ough tile lie len m 0 ud an all hutst outstanding anding now new york siness im binm lu stitt fiur u W V X 5 14 g T Z mixing industry with means prosperity for rural districts and agriculture rl culture is Js called by some de centralization of industry F I would not suggest hat eliat manu fac institutions move fron from abo ho fieles to li the sm man n villages jim i do dju bank jt it would je je belter ron for vos lila boua try for or future industries to be placed in these small villages rather than JP to be urther further congested jn in the great C enters centers this would lu III part part also be A 9 solution of our gur labor problem the bringing n gan of industries Indus trio a to small villages es incel increases ases the market for agri cult products gives to 0 s surplus clr p ids labar elevates elev atea tho stand ag ards i d s1 sa of living An increases creases public revenue reduces taxes and vastly educational facilities two c striking examples 1 I 11 believe b e ie v e 1 can give you yogi two than twelve years these have brought tile the population ot of that city up t tn soy thousand just a few miles away nt at they are build in ins a great rayon bayou plant the first unit to cost the tha population ot of that town Is now liow two thousand but it 11 is estimated that this will be rouell plied by five in ins loss es titan llian two years yeara it is stated that the total investment in a manufacturing industry in n tha 1 acom eunit y gitlit within a period of five yeara will probably reach the balancing of industry and agriculture will sulva solve most of our BO so called agricultural problems and wo we will not net need such political measures ask aa will in ray MY opinion dohara do barm it enacted to the very vary class they pretend pretend to bene berodt lill |