| Show I HIGH PRiCES TODAY SINISTER OF COMING tR Government Marketing Bureau Proposed by Sp Speaker aker at Farm Farni Credits C Conference I I April 0 Everybody er E at the I v- v a farm farm- cr credits con conference got Bot ot enthusiastic en- en toda today alid arid and some ome became ex- ex cited d in dIscussIng the high cost coat of li Ii log the tho mc meager ger returns s' s lo to the farmer on his products and the best beSl means means of or orI I readjusting readjusting- the tho economic problem among the agriculturists middlemen and the ultimate c consumer There wa was such n i a w wealth alth of ot opinion clamoring for expression that it co could l not be crow crowded ed lIto the thc thi two to se sessions slone provided by the tho program tn and a session w was s hel held toni tonight ht Prepared speeches wore delivered b by br Pratt Tudson Judson president Jl of time the University sit sity atty of or Chicago 0 e. V. W. Thompson of ot Minneapolis Ration flatten AY W. y Sumner of ot Dallas Te 1 If 11 IJ Page Pac of or Arkansas Arkanas and W. W T J Spillman of the department of or a agriculture at Washington Mr tir Sumner who Is a member of Congress s said aid that as th the tho necessities of ot tho the people han c-han change hange e the scope of ot government gov gor- mu must t e and that the that the matter of or farm credits r wa was wasa a legitimate legitimate mate concern of or th the the- national government govern govern- ment moot The Tho speaker said that with the rush from the tho farms farns to tho the cities which v followed ed th the introduction of or rapid transit the n margin between een farm pro production an and general consumption had become dangerously an narrow The rhe high prices of ot today loday r nr were the sinister l t r shadow of t coming hun er cast upon the land he lie assorted There is no s system stem s 's tem tern of carrying ct over- over the tho f surplus of of oC bountiful years tb to 0 caro r for forthe or the lean years ears lla nak Bak k to the farm arm Js is the tile Cf cry pursued put pur sue sued tilt tile speaker Men Jen J raised In iii the time ell city will vili not return to i the countr country under under un ur- der den conditions I thc thc-e are aro individual exceptions but the these e exceptions ex ex- ec- ec nB aro ro very cr much l prone to write articles lor me time Ii as soon saon asther as ns they ther get et bruk to ith the soil soU anti and for or or orth th the tho most part they return to the city in a afew J. J row few years ears The speaker point pointed tI out th that t a lf 16 balo bale cotton drof In Ih brought ht l OO Ita less a bale bi crop tin tilt p ous' year The corn crop crop I of oC 1912 was much larger than that I of 1911 li ho said but lut it brought rou tile the farmer fanter less What hal should hoUd tho time government go do lo ho Inquired It It should make male a definite start 2 at tim right lIKht and andIn andIn In the might light ht will way to give I e Its ls aid to the Iho of th thih e situation correction J. which so 80 vitally J conc concerns C r man woman an and child of ot Its citizenship In order to do tie that t It Jl must create to a marketing bureau bu bu- bu reau renu clothe It with almo almost t Unlimited discretion supply U t l with adequate ll funds and amid te upon It tho the rc responsibility pon l- l of Pt r working out out- and antI helping to appl such methods method of or sale and distribution distribution distri distri- button of farm arm products as would Insure In In- Insure in insure sure t to producers reasonable remunerative prices and and to the thc nation nation na na- na- na tion an ade Jata food su and I Imay Imay may mar add that t the thc in individual citizen the civic and business organizations of a 0 country t help heln in ir this great groat rat work worl It U is Es S a l o sorL- sorL l ro for th the nation nallon it must bo 10 n it wo ork l j y th the nation f q nn hh n farmers t aro are o er effectively organized 1 th thai l the areat r VeRSon ngoi was that they were un 1 to 0 o pay nou noush h money t t. t i able Also he said alil it vav 1 that th hey v should hould put e r ol e into an Rn organ organ- l aLlon J thin TIU nut put themselves SInto lo it |
