The Nevada County picayune., 1915-04-30
DODW|N URGES PREVENTION 0F HUGE FARM LOSS
,uc9E sSMAN SPEAKS AT MUS
 'oceE IN BEHALF OF NATlON- .I MARKETING COMMISSION.
WO BILLION WASTE IN U. s. ANNUALLY
|ouoht About By Expensive and Un, ustifiable Marketing System
 Proposition to Remedy.

uuskogee. Okla-A feature of the
 uthern Commercial Congress here
 s the address on Tuesday of Con
 pssman W S Goodwin Of Arkansas
 "The Need of a National Market
 Commission. The convention
 ened Monday, the purposes of the
 kngress being to advance Southern triculture, immigration, municipal eff kiency and foreign trade. Arkansas
 Int a large delegation to Muskogee to
 cure the 1916 meeting for Little
 bck
 Among the speakers of national $ominence were Senators Robert l..
 Nens of Oklahoma, and Joseph F.. hnsdell of Louisiana; Myron T..
 errick of Ohio, former ambassador
 France. Congrossmen Moss of In lana, Goodwin of Arkansas. and tamlin of Missouri Secretary of La r Wm E. Wilson. Secretary of Az |cuture David F. Houston and Sec ttary of the Treasury Wm C. Me hoo
 1 Congressman GoodW in's speech was | ell received and bids fair to result ] substantial activity along the lines Opposed by the various interests rep tsented in the Southern Commercial lOngress. He said the most eXpen- ye and unmstitiable marketing sys- km in the world causes a two billion bllar crop loss ill the United States tnually, and the National Marketing |ommission which he urges IS to pro bde better distribution and market bg of farm products
 During the last session of Congress ff Goodwin was active for legisla- lon to create such commission |ince adjournment a commission ap- Einted by the president without leg Eative authority has been advocated bd has met with favor in the cabi- let, according to the congressman Under the plan, said Mir. Good |in the president would appoint a bmmission to survey the entire coun. fy and to plan for a system includ. fg state, county and township com Essions who would cooperate and eport back to the president
 The Farmers Union, the National range, the Society of Equity. the 'leaners, boards of trade. chambers I commerce, agricultural schools and olleges, boys corn clubs. girls to- lato clubs. and many other organi- ations might be federated to work ! harmony with the rules and regu- atlohs prescribed by the national 
 MT. Goodwin's Speech.
 Ir. Goodwin's address follows in nll:
 ir. President and Gentlemen of the
 Southern Commercial Congress:
 The pleasure to me is unfeigned to @ privileged to address this splendid a;hering of the builders of the new outh, whose purpose is so finely ex. TeSsed in the motto of your great rganHation, "A Greater Nation trough Greater South. Since ii 'as organized in 1908. The Southern commercial Congress has speedily loved forward with splendid achieve lent following splendid achievement the accomplishment of this high asolve
 from the nOrthernmost New Eng lhd State of Maine to the North Pa pe commonwealth of Washington. le people of the North, as we'll as Q or the South, have been richly ehellted by your activities, thus mak 'P the nation your debtor for having ready produced greater financial eedom, a sounder commercial and
 better agricultural development lu creating finally, a broader and lore sympathetic national under anding.
 A Greater Agricultural South.
 YOU have succeeded as an organi- liion because all your work for a 'eater South Is based on recogni on or the fact that the solid. endur K foundation on which greater 'Amercial South must be built is n 'eater agricultural South. And so '' prosperity of the farmer thus far N oeeh' and, l venture to assert, al- avs Will be, a matter of prime con fh with you and occupy a leading ace In your councils.
 Il lS because of this interest in and .No''oh to a greater and more pros 'ouS agriculture, that l was invited
 orlehy outline to you the purpose l1 scope of the National Marketing llnmltlee and the stupendous work V the advancement of agriculture
 nas undertaken.
 Enormous Wastes. iue arNnow ledFod obstacle in the rrio,.I, "L me dcNelopment of a better ron"t' ana th" building mp all 5era7 me south. as indeed. else- tia'' "' pl"Sp"ruus farming commu- ,gS '0 the enormous wastes fn .t aS and distributing farm nrod
 Ahroe wastes are due to many 5r,' a'S' aH Of which by the adoptiop or .a5i,, 'thlIhc methods in gatheriDp getLS, SlandardtziuE. warehousing tl'' "lth national co-opprative m quest of markets can be ast.s t.,. greatly reduced. These ,9 'n'o hll'io~s of dollars a ...l,r,,. !, .r.. le- 'f even small part of s-e,n,o',,.l' o-- amount means not only , of tb,, .'g4S c'rease in the prosner- -esn,,,,., lH"Ta but. necessnrilv. a 'Aufacturing. ''''''e'ee ana he c.. Farmer Gets 35 Cents. Ihuqli,, WITS ol this country produce .5eo o6o crop for which they recatye '''V'0Vo'9oV and for which i, is Sa;5