Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-07-04
SQUARE DEAL FOR
FARMERS DEMANDED
Educational Aids to Organization

ference on Marketing and Farm
Credits at Chicago, April s.;
-Four men with improved machin-
cry and the help of science, now pro-
duce as much as formerly was pro-
duced by fourteen men. Where are
the tent" With this question, Henry
}. Waters, president of the Kansas
Agricultural College, began his ad-
dress on Educational Aids to Or
ganization."
One of the chief difficulties with
the present system, President Wa
tiers said, is the fact that the ten men
forced out of the field of production
by modern methods and machinery,
have not found employment that is
profitable to society, no matter how
profitable it may be to themselves.
While the farmer has become,
through better methods, or improved
machinery, a much more efficient
producer than in other years, some
thing, said President Waters, had in
terfered to deprive him of II large
part of the advantage that this in
creased efficiency naturally would
be expected to bring. Something,
also, has deprived the consumer of
whatever advantages were expected
to accrue to him. through these bet
Ter systems.
Organization. President Waters be-
hcvcd TO be the panacea, the remedy
that would make Things rs They
Ought 10 Be. But this organization
must be efficient.
Organized ineficicucy will not
do" President Waters said. IF We
are Ia make n success of this organ
i2ation we must continue 10 educate
men 81 they may take their proper
places, properly. The farmer al
ready is more efficient rs producer
than as Il buyer or seller but this
does not mean that We should cease
To teach him the details of produc-
ton. else the world would soon so
hungry. We must add 10 our re-
sources in this direction, equally pro
found studies of the great questions
at marketing products and coming
the income into higher standards of
life ON the farm. We can never know
too much about anything that Is
good. Very little can be expected
from an organization Of men who do
not know how to conduct the bust
ness or enterprise they seek To con-
troll. BY knowing how | mean hay
ing the best first hand information
always ready.
President Waters said that the ia
cllitics for distributing and market
ing farm products never were so am
Pile and adequate rs at present, yet II
is costing more TO get these products
To the consumer than at any time in
the past. The cost of living also Is
higher than ever, although the land
never was 80 intelligently titled.
in my Judgment" said President
Waters, III is n clear ease of too
large Il proportion of those who have
quit producing, finding way to get
II living by i.hlping the food products
on their way to the consumer. The
distribution and sale of typewriters,
calico. shoes. ice, dressed beef, evap-
Grated fruits, and other things have
been reduced To- definite system and
all unnecessary expense eliminated
But the distributing and marketing
of farm products still are left to
chance.
Until recently we were concerned
chiefly in the worlds markets that
took our surplus; that which we mar
keted ut home was of comparatively
little concern. Domestic consump-
ton IN this country has caught up
with production. Our exports are
less than five per cent ot our total
production. The distribution and
marketing of that which is To he con
sumed ut home has become our chief
problem. Yet we have not until to-
day gotten around to studying this
question in any serious way. The
cities have organized in the interest
of advantageous rates, but no one
has studied how Ia eliminate the
largest waste We have, the mneces
sary moving about of our products
The high freight rates of which We
complain are trivial compared with
the waste mention; the many hands
through which our products pass
without anything being added To their
value.
President Waters said the farmer
has been more difficult to organize
than any other man. II is a common
notion that he will never be interest