The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-28
RESERVE BANKS
PREVENT PANIC
CHARLES S. HAMLIN TELLS
COMMERCIAL. CONGRESS q
AT MUSKOCEE
COL r. M. NIXON
MADE ADDRESS
Said Farmer is Lowest Paid Busi-
ness Man IN World-Needs
Organization.

MuSkOGEE. April 27.-Charles s.
Hamlin, governor of the federal re.
serve board. speaking before the
Southern Commercial Congress to.
day, declared the country is smiling
with prosperity as u result OF federal
bank act. He said under this system
financial panic like that In 1907
is now impossible. A number OF ad-
dresses were delivered. Doctor
Charles Brand. chief of the division
Of markets and rural organization of
United States department OF agricul-
ture declared the Southern farmer and
ranchman realized the need of being
more providcnt.
Mr.. Brandford Knapp. head of the
farmers cooperative division of the
United States department. of agricul-
ture. told, the delegates at the South
ern Commercial Congress here today
that self-supporting agricultural
South is the largest problem. He de-
Lclared that the. soluti9n4 required the
establishment of cash markets for the
locally grown produce. He said that
loans should be made on the condition
that the farmer makes the farm as
nearly selfsupporting as possible.
Col. Robert M. Nixon, South
Carolina planter, compared the
American farmer to an ostrich that
sticks its head In the sand and will
not see. He declared that the farm
ers refuse to use business, judgment
or meet the demand with supply of
the needed crops. He urged protec-
tion through the government OF the
state agencies of agriculture In the
South by warehouse system similar
to South Carolina.
The farmer Is the lowest paid busi-
ness man In the world and his crying
need is efficient organization on the
farm to encourage him to produce the
best and to produce something all the
time. according to Charles Dillon. OF
Topka. Kansas. editor. of agricultural
papers. who addressed the Southern
Commercial Congress here.
Mr.. Dillon suggested that because
of differences in effective organization
a farmer In Denmark gets 85 cents
out of every dollar the consumer pays
for his produce, while the American
farmer gets but 45 cents
+ The remedy, he said, was to modify
the system OF farming SO as to pro-
duce more livestock and relatively
less hay, grain and cotton for the
market, and to finish and standardize
the products on tho farm, instead of
leaving the grading and refining OF
products to any army of people in the
cities.
DR.. J. ID. Eggleston, president of the
Virginia Polytechnic institute, told
the Southern Commercial congress-
here yesterday that 81 out of every
hundred children "go forth into life
unable to apply their so-called educa-
tion TO the immediate problem OF max
ing living, The problem that i'm
nediately confronts them"
"A purely academic course of
study-the kind we now have"-said
the doctor causes the school to be-
come an active emigration bureau and
either depopulates the community or
keeps 1t at the least at stagnant
Year after year, he declared. edu-
Gators which the assent OF parents.
force children to go to school and
acquire arithmetic and adenoids. his
tory and hookworm. algebra and as
tigmatism. cube root and consumption,
Caesar and spinal curvature"
The speaker said manual training
could be started with "a boy, broom
hahde and .:iife" and that popular
cooperation with the demonstration
and extension work now In the hands
of the agricultural colleges swould
make farming communities blossom
like the rose"
He urged that every city. town and
village have school systems by which
young and DID, men and women.
iiissssihtt iiissssit not only learn to read, write
and figure but 10 improve and perfect
themselves In whatever line Of work
oh (<~,. +.