Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-16
Of FARMER
UNION PRAISES
N.R.HEARST
Charles S. Barrett Declares Pa
pers Helped in Awakening Dixie
Farmers to Call Of Progress,

Los ANGELES, June 1.-THE
Hearst newspapers have been stead
| fast friends Of the Farmers Union,
and have given us invaluable as
sistance The personal interest Of Mr..
Hearst and the splendid editorial and
other help Of John Temple Graves
have done much TO enable us to &C
compllsh what we have done"
This was the assertion OF Charles
$. Barrett Of Union City, Ga, presl-
dent of the great and rapidly grow
ing Farmers Union. who in ten years
has become one of the most potent
personalities in American life. Mr.
Barrett was in Los Angeles Sunday
lie viii leave this evening for San
/ Francisco, on his way to Basin, Wyoa
and Bismarck N. Oak, to attend
! farmers conventions.
Mr. Barrett is the guiding genius
of the Farmers Educational and Co
operative Union. which has $4,000
local lodges and 5000 600 members
Union Awakened Dixie.
"Our otsanization is built on the
principle Of education and CO-opera-
ton among farmers said Mr. Bar
rett yesterday. 1.-THE South was back
ward In agricultural development, but
there has been a great awakening
and the Farmers Union In many
ways, has been the greatest fnancier
in the change The union was first
mainly a Southern OrE uiZatiOn, but
our greatest growth now is i'm the
Middle West
THE South has depended almost
wholly on cotton. The union taught
the farmers the necessity Of growing
other things, raising their own hay,
grain and meat, and this diversity OF
production is one Of the foundation
stones Of our new prosperity.
My own State Of Georgia was far
| down I'm the list Of States, but so re-
markable has been the progress made
that the Government reports place it
| fourth In agricultural products now.
Educate the Farmers,
we try 10 educate the farmers and
| then to bring them into cooperation
/ In any direction asihle. We have
not started many stores. In the South
| the lodges built and operate ware
houses. in the West packing plants
| and elevators.
nate candidates. We have not a thing
| TO do with partisan politics but we
retire "a man now and then 10 private
| life just by way Of example"
Mr. Barrett smiled remiuisCently as
| he drew this distinction between poll
! titles and politics,
"Dne of our bills aims at the pro
! hibition of gambling in farm products.
/ II has been passed twice by the
| House. but blocked by the Senate. and
! Murphy J Foster, Of Louisiana. one
/ Of our strongest opponents, is now
/ living quietly at his home near New
orleans In consequence. We had to
retire him.
Tells Of Retiring Foes.
| Uncle John Lamb. of Virginia
| chairman of the General Agricultural
/ Committee. fought us. We had to eN-
Cusc him from further public service
az the primary last August.
THE Farmers Union is a stauuch
advocate Of scientific farming Many
agricultural colleges have been estab-
/ Ifshad I'm the South through its in0u-
/ ynCe. and more liberal support given
I those already founded i'm consequence
/ of its demands
THE union was directly responsible
/ for the Bureau of Markets recently
established by Congress, the purpose
! of which lis 10 lend any possible as
/ siStgUce 10y way Of Information that
I viii help the farmers in marketing
/ their products.