The Detroit times., 1915-12-13
|sUMER
INFLICTED BY.
|nIDDLEMEN.
1 sr1ner Gets One-third
Of "a Billions Paid
for Crops
RURAL CREDIT
EXPERTS MEET
VIII Discuss Problems
Of Agriculture in
United States
cHARLnsroN. 8. C. Dec. 49,

cIzARLDsTON. 3. C.. Dec. 1s.-
1(lne hiljion dollars II the price
5AnGgicen farmers get for their
<isoDo every year. while enough is
5000 By middlemen % that the
1nsES pay 81. 7.o00. 600. 900 for the
6&o crop. according to the state
4 hont o9 rural credit and marketing
ooets before the Southern Com
Y ogu1ai Congress, which opened here
Itn1ay. The House of Southern Gov
\ S6tnng0 also begnn . nve-day meeting.
11nn, credits and commerce will be
~ ~ subjects most discussed by
1n hodieA Peace and prosperity
\ {f1ne v1ll have place on the program.
v l1ombees oe the congress were
EIHoA ~ epeAkers favoring rural
1yuhle lsgislaticn that the farmer
4 'ou g cents and the middleman IS
$3.50 e each dollar the consumer
Z ~ toe tho farmers crops. There
( IN enormous amount of waste. es-
n1n1ly II psrishabls products, be-
s&iGno q he lank Of . central. direct
- InnShoe intelligence. they said.
~ hG1egasss were welcomed by
e1D0e John p. 0race. Of Charleston,
~ nAett, prssidsnt Of the Cham
~ u Cpmmerce. and Richard l.
mm1no. Govsrnor Of South Caro-
oeno&or Duncan u. Fletcher.
t1o11GAI president Of the congress.
E1 ~ annual address. John Bar
u M 11yector a. the Pan-American
r)Gn, a1Do spoke
Is No. Louise q. Lindsey, Nash
~ peooo1out Of the Woman's aux
I 1y, oponed the meeting Of that
1untion this afternoon. Mrs.
q h 1eath, New York, president Of
National Housewives league.
no Kate Gordon. New Orleans;
~ JcAn hyperion. and Mrs. Rut-
~ Umifh. Tennessee; Mrs. d. A.
~nouenll. Oklahoma, and other
\ n1nent southern women. also
~ en1GAt Dr. Nicholas Murray But
~ Columbia university. New
~ Vim speak on The Changed
Iooks and 3 number Of southern
1noss viIl join IN IN Informal
1SoGoca a Cotton. Commerce and
Z ~ Credits.s
~ exeeutives were invited here
& y CIV. 1fannins. Of South Carolina,
~ Durpoee of organizing the
J noo q southern governors. '"The
ognoFs q this and subsequent
tlngs wfIl discuss problems Of
oflon and law enforcement OF
ortnnce 10 the south" said DR.. c.
owon. 0f the congress.
othaf fsatures Of the program for
w seventh annual convention of
~ eUothern commercial congress
4 IeoAfllsatiou OF the Atlantic feet.
~ cr6er of the secretary Of the
Ivy, mobilization Of the National
IG11fd q south Carolina. conference
" Southern Cotton Congress. con-
x6gunce 0f Nsticnal Drainage Con-
loRoss, conference Of Southern Com.
.noEcial Secretaries. Rural Credits
eenNsfsnce under personal guidance
- DAVID Lubin, American Delegate
- ne international Institute Of Agri-
eulture, Rome. italy. conference OF
League 10 Enforce Peace, Of which
ox.president Taft Is president, TO be
rfeGided over by President Lowell,
q Harvard: conference on CONNER.
ell Education IN Relation to For
G1gn and Domestic Commerce, to be
pfeslded over by DR.. Glen Levin
ow1Ggett, assistant secretary gener-
4 of the international Scientific Con.
e5oes: meets of the American Com
mission on Agricultural organization,
4 United States Commission on Rural
Credits, and the National Marketing
Committee, the three organizations
called 20 meet IN Charleston by Sen
atof Duncan u. Fletcher. chairmsr
of IN three bodies, and a conference
On Agricultural immigration and
Labor, called by William B. Wilson,
suocretary Of labor.