Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-29
ADVISES FARMERS
TO DO MORE WORK
Dillon Declares Farm Should Be
Factory Providing Employment
Throughout Year.
SHOULD RECEIVE HIGHER PRICE

Every farm in the United States
should be an efficiently organized
factory, busy throughout the year.
in the opinion OF Charles Dillon of
Topeka, Kan. a farm magazine
editor, who spoke to the Farmers
National congress at the Rome hotel
yesterday afternoon. 1T should sell
its products through cooperation
with factories" he said. This is one
of the most pressing economic prob
lens the American public is facing"
The fundamental weakness of the
American farm as an economic insti-
tuition is its failure to give profitable
employment to the owner, the hired
ma nand the family throughout the
year." he said.
Mr. Dillon pointed out that the farmer
is the lowest paid business man I'm the
world because he and his plant are idle
from four to six pnonths In the year"
A fact seldom realized, lie asserted. is
that of all the army of unemployed in
the United States today 55 per cent il on
the farms. He advocated using idle time
by modifying the system of farming now
generally in vogue so as to produce more
live stock and relatively less hay. grain
and cotton for the market, in part, by
finishing and standardizing the products
of the farm.
Renneries on Farm.
IAN army of people in the cities is en-
ployed in grading stock and otherwise
refining the products of the farm" Mr..
Dillon continued. Nearly all of this labor
could be done on the farm quite es we'll
a farm factory can cure its own meat.
II can organize itself into the most COM
plete form OF business i'm producing, pack
ing. marketing, branding and selling
egges. butter and other products. II can
advertise these products. In brief It can
organize the business OF farming so that
the farmer may get larger part of what
the consumer pays for these products"
a general reception and social reunion
was held last night at the Commercial
club rooms In the Woodmen or the World
building. Delegates from almost every
state I'm the union were there 20 the num-
Der of several hundred. Members of the
Commercial club met them in an informal
social hour.
The rural school problem is to come up
this morning at the session scheduled
for $3.50 O'Clock today at the convention
hail in the hotel
Rights for Citizens.
Nothing short OF everlasting vigilance
will insure to the great mass Of common
citizens their share OF rights and privi-
leges. as compared 20 those little
higher up in the scale Of possible wealth.
and hence influence" This was a state
ment OF President w. L. Ames In his
opening address.
The assertion followed his detailed
treatment OF the subject of legislation,
"the little JOKER" the invisible" or
back door government" and otner forms
OF trick legislation. He declared These
tricks block and delay Justice until pa
tlence Is worn out and the memory OF a
crime or injustice Is so dulled by pass.
ing time that we finally become .ndif-
ferent to II.
Conditions are such that they not only
permit but encourage mayors. police
forces, sheHffs. servants. and even
judges, elected 20 guard and care
for our Interests, TO so polute
themselves with graft. political in-
trigue and fraud. as to land whole city
forces Of such servants IN federal prisons
as the history OF the last year records.
The president attacked the city for
laying its infant mortality at tho door OF
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