Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-28
Federal Banks Bring
Smiles Of Prosperity


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farmers wife mp through an agricuI-
tural industrial education, starting
with thee grade schools by corn clubs
and finishing In the universities"
MIR Rlakcslcc toldou the resultant
ach'lcmcnls I'm agriculture, saying
that the state is saving millions of dol.
lars annually which formerly was paid
Tor agriculture produced outside tho
state.
Although the place Of the 1916
meeting Of the Southern Commercial
congress viii not be determined until a
meeting Of the board Of directors sev.
crdl months after the close Of the
present convention, spirited contests in
AN attempt To- influence directors in
Their choice pf city have arisen.
Overturcs have been received from
Little Rock. Ark, Cincinnati, Charles
ton, ). c., Chattanooga, Tenn,
Roanoke Va, Raleigh, S. c., Balti-
more, 81. Louis. ana Richmond.
Farmer POOrl, Paid.
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 tfo
best and to produce something all the
time, according 10 Charles Dillon OF
Topeka, Kansas, editor Of agricultural
papers, who addressed the Southern
Commercial congress here today
Mr. Dillon suggested that because
OF differences in effective organization
a farmer IN Denmark gets S5 cents
ont 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 live stock and relatively
less hay grain and cotton for the mar
ket, and TO finish and standardize the
products on the farm, instead Of leav-
ing the grading ana refining Of prod
ucts to an army OF people in the
cities.
Goodwin Speaks.
Speaking i'm the interest of the Ma
tiOnal Marketing committee organized
at Washington last autumn TO seek
legislation to create n National COun-
ell of Agriculture, Representative
william $. Goodwin of Arkansas, told
the Southern Commercial congress
here today that billions OF dollars
worth Of American farm products an
nuallS go to waste. so long as ono
hINlfl VI Ib'dlb'S - NIlllldl htNfu OF a
hungry man is unfed," he said, I'VE
have an imperfect distributing sys,
tenn"
Representative Goodwin said that
the ultimate consumer pays one dollar
for the same agricultural products for
which the grower receives but 35
cents, the G5 cents being consumed by
clumsy, inadequate distributive meth
ods allowing waste ana decay. He
predicted that If market could be
found for all agricultural products,
railroad dividends would be the order
Of the day, Increased employment on
railroads and farms would follow and
immense increases would be rolled up
In the national wealth. He urged
system modelled after the
German or Danish plans, with ma
uonal, county and townships cooper
atinR TO bring producers and con-
Organization Lacking.
organization Of each farm in the
United States into an efficiently SUI
pervised factory, busy throughout the
year, which shall sell it's product
through cooperation with other such
factories, was urged by Charles Dillon
Of Topeka, Kansas, as a solution for
what he termed Zone Of the most
pressing economic problems the Amer
lean public Is facing In an address
here today before the Southern Com
mercial congress
THE fundamental weakness of the
American farm as an economic insti-
tuition Is in its failure to give prof
table employment to the owner, the
hired man and the family throughout
the year he said.
Mr.. Dillon then pointed out that the
farmer is the lowest paid business man
In the world because he and his plant
are idle from four 20 six months in
the year" A fact seldom realized, he
asserted, is that of all the army of un-
in the United States today
30 per cent Is on the farms He ad-
vocated using his idle time by modify
Ing the system Of farming now gen
orally in vogue so as 90 produce more
live stock and relatively less hay and
grain and cotton for the market, in
part by finishing and standardizing
the products of the farm.
Rcfincrics ON Farm.
IAN army OF people i'm the cities is
employed in grading stock and other
wise refining the products Of the
larm," Mr.. Dillon continued. Nearly
all of this labor could be done on the
'arm quite as well. farm factory
,an cure its own meat. IL can organ
re itself into the most complete form
IF business in producing, packing
branding and selling eggs
butter and other products 1t can ad-
,ertise these products. In brief II can
organize the business Of farming so
hat the farmer may get larger part