The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-13
Too Much Toll Between Crop
81 Grower and Consumer.
Farmer Gets Only 8 Billions
Out of % Billion Yield.
MEN CRY OUT AGAINST WASTE
House of Southern Governors
COnyenes at Charleston.
Many Notables Gather to Bring
About Market Reform.

Charleston, s. c., Dec. 13.--Nine bill
lion dollars is the price American
farmers get for their crops every year
while enough is added by middlemen
so that the consumers pay twenty
seven billion dollars for the same
crop. according to the statement OF
rural credit and marketing experts De
fore the southern commercial con-
gress, which opened here today.
The House of Southern Governors
also began a five-day meeting. Cotton
credits and commerce will be the big
subjects most discussed by both bod
les. Peace and prosperity also VIII
have place on the program.
Members of the congress were told
by speakers favoring rural credit leg
islation that the farmer gets thirty
fire cents and the m iddleTnan sixty
five cents of each dollar the consum-
er pays for the farmers crops There
is an enormous amount of waste, es-
peciaIly in perishable products. be
eoause of the lack of a central, dlrect-
ing market intelligence. they said
Distinguished Men in Council
.sr5The delegates were welcomed by
Mayor John p. Grace of Charleston.
a G. Rhett, president of the chamber
of commerce, and Richard l. Manning,
governor of South Carolina Senator
Duncan L. Fletcher of Florida, presl-
dent of the congress, read his annual
address. John Barrett, director of the
Pan-American Union, also spoke.
Miss Louise G. Lindsey, Nashville,
,nresideut of the woman's auxiliary,
6pened the meeting of that organiza-
stion this afternoon. Mrs. Julia Heath,
{ New York. president of the National
Housewives league; Miss Kate Cor
don New Orleans: Mrs. John Epper-
son and Mrs Rutledge Smith, Ten
nessee: Mrs. d. A. McDougal Okla
homa. and other prominent southern
women, also spoke.
tsovernors Discuss Farm Credits.
Tonight DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter of Columbia university, New York,
will speak on 1.-The Changed Outlook"
end a number of southern gocernors
z$raal join in an informal discussion or
ssGotton, Commerce and Rural Cred
sssrhe executives were invited here by
Ezpvernor Manning of South Carolina,
10 organize the House OF Southern
aCfovernors.
-EzAsrhe governors at this and subse-
kuent meetings will discuss problems
of legislation and law enforcement of
Importance to the south said DR.. c. J.
Owen of the congress
other features of the program for
the seventh annual convention of the
southern commercial congress are:
IN o bilization of the Atlantic fleet, by
order of the secretary of the navy;
mobilization of the National Guard of
south Carolina; conference of south
ern, cotton congress; conference OF
national drainage congress; conference
Of southern commercial secretaries;
rural credits conference under per
sonal guidance of David Lubin, Amer
lean delegate to the International In
stitute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy;
conference of League to Enforce
Peace, of which ex-President Taft is
sDresident. to be presided over by
President Lowell of Harvard: confer
ence on commercial education in re-
'lation to foreign and domestic COM
u4erce, to be presided over by DR.. Glen
general of the International Scientific
Congress; meetings of the American
Commission on Agricultural OrganiZa-
ton, United States commission on
rural credits and the national market
ing committee, the three organizations
called to meet in Charleston by Sena-
tor Duncan L. Fletcher, chairman of
an three bodies, and a conference on
agricultural immigration and labor,
-ealled by William T. Wilson. secretary
of labor