The Prescott daily news., 1915-04-28
URGES PREVENTION
 OF HUGE FARM LOSSES
Congressman W. s. Goodwin Speaks At MuskOgee, Okla.. in Behalf of the National Marketing
 Commission.

,... ., "Aiioi Sidl congress here was the address on Tuesday of Con. sressman w. $. Goodwin of Arkansas oh The Need of National Market Ing commission" The convention opened Monday. the purposes of the congress being to advance Southern agriculture. immigration. municipal eff. Lclency and foreign trade. Arkansa, sent large delegation to Muskogee to secure the 1916 meeting for Little Rock.
 Among the speakers of national prominence were Senators Robert L. owens Of Oklahoma, and Joseph F. Ransdell of Louisiana: Mvron + Herrlck of Ohio, former ambassador to France. Congressmen Moss of In dlana, Goodwin of Arkansas, and Hamlln of Missouri; Secretary of La DOT Wm. E. Wilson, Secretary of Az r1culture David F. Houston and Sec rotary of the Treasury Wm. c. Me- Adoo.
 Congressman Goodwin's speech was well received and bids fair to result in substantial activity along the lines proposed by the various interests rep resented in the Southern Commercial Congress. He said the most expen. si1e and unjustiflable marketing sys. tom in the world causes a two billion dollar crop loss in the United States annually. and the National Marketing Commission which he urges is to pro- vide better distribution and market. ing of farm products.
 During the last session of Congress MT. Goodwin was active for legisla. tion to create such commission. Since adjournment commission ap- pointed by the president without leg islative authority has been advocated and has met with favor in the cabi- net, according to the congressman.
 Under the plan" said Mir. Good win. the president would appoint a commission to survey the entire coun- try and to plan for a system includ- ing state, county and township con- missions. who would cooperate and report back to the president.
 The Farmers Union, the National Grange, the Society of Equity, the Cleaners. boards of trade, chambers of commerce., agricultural schools and colleges. boys corn clubs. girls to- mato clubs, and many other organi- zations might be federated to work ii harmony with the rules and regu. lations prescribed by the national commission"
 MT. Goodwin's Speech.
 rIr. Goodwins address follows ir full:
 Mir. President and Gentlemen of the
 Southern Commercial Congress-:
 The pleasure to me is unfeigned to be privileged to address this splendid gathering of the builders of the new South, whose purpose is so finely ex pressed in the motto of your great organization, "A Greater Nation Through a Greater South" Since it was organized in 1908. The Southern Commercial Congress has speedily moved forward with splendid achieve ment following splendid achievement to the accomplishment of this high resolve.
 From the northernmost New Eng land State of Maine to the North Pa cifc commonwealth of Washington, the people of the North, as well as we of the South. have been richly benefited by your activities, thus mak irg the nation your debtor for having already produced a greater financial freedom. sounder commercial and a better agricultural development, and creating, finally, a broader and more sympathetic national under standing.
 A Greater Agricultural South.
 You have succeeded as an organi- zation because all your work for a greater South is based on a recogni- ton of the fact that the solid, endur- ing foundation on which greater commercial South must be built, is a greater agricultural South. And so the prosperity of the farmer thus far has been, and, l venture to assert, al ways will be, a. matter of prime con- cern with you and occupy leading place in your councils.
 It is because of this interest in and devotion to a greater and more pros uerous agriculture, that l was invited tc briefly outline to you the purpose and scope of the National Marketing Committee and the stupendous work for the advancement of agriculture it has undertaken.
 Enormous Wastes.
 The acknowledged obstacle in the way of the development of a better agriculture and the building up all through the South as indeed. else where, of prosperous farming commu- mites is the enormous wastes in handling and distributing farm prod nets These wastes are due to many causes. all of which by the adoption of more scientific methods in gathering. grading standardiZing. warehousing. together with a national cooperative system in quest of markets can be eliminated or greatly reduced. These wastes. taking the nation as whole, .- ..f d.alIn nIc llI.. .