The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-11-29
To Eliminate Waste IS One Object
Of National Conference on
Marketing and Credits
Opening Tomorrow
CHECK GROWTH
OF LANDLORDISM
Problem Of Tenaniry to Be Discuss
ed; Rural Credit Bills Will Be
Considered; Prominent
Men to Speak
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. pa permanent
organization, to work for the estab
lishment Of practical cooperation, in
the production and distribution of food
stuffs, will follow the national con
ference on marketing and farm credits
which opens here November 30. Al
the request OF the United Press. Mr.
Charles w. Holman of Madison, Wis.
secretary of the conference prepared
a statement showing the character and
scope Of the movement.
Mr.. Holman's Statement.
What does II mean when leading
citizens. representing finance farming.
transportation, manufacturing, distrib-
uting industries. and university
thought. join with state and federal
government officials to discuss waste?
what does it signify when the inter.
ests that people are accustomed to
view as antagonistic come together to
eliminate waste.
Coming to the Chicago conference,
are delegates from almost every state.
They win represent various classes.
but the dominant class win be the
farming interests. For organizations
representing over million farmers
have already arranged 10 send dele
gates These people and those Of
other classes are animated by com
mon desire-to eliminate waste from
American life. They differ in their
IDEAS about going about the process.
But most OF the delegates desire more
light.
The delegates believe that one of the
greatest and most immediate wastes Of
American life concerns the production
and distribution Of national food and
garment supplies This waste begins
with the cultivation of the soil. anu
ends with the preparation Of food for
the table. and throwing away of the
half-used garment. Vital problems con
nected with the waste are the prepa-
ration of the farm product for market
IN uniform grades, the securing of ade-
quate transportation vehicles and the
medium necessary for successful sales.
or vital need here is a uniform or
ganization Of farmers societies. At
present the unorganized condition OF
the farmer permits hundreds of mil
lions OF dollars worth of food products
10 90 to waste in unrealized profits
and sometimes in unharvested, whose
value is loss TO society because the
farmers cannot ship and sell enough to
warrant the trouble. have seen thou
sands Of tons OF farm produce thus rot
in the unorganized districts. But in
the sections where farmers have
soundly financed and constituted soci-
cites, this kind Of waste rarely occurs.
The crops are moved to somewhere,
and somebody gets benefit from the
plenteous yields. So the delegates are
going 10 discuss agricultural co-opera-
tion-the kind needed and the ways
to get it.
The other great wastes to be dis
cussed at this conference have to do
with the distribution of population, and
with the financing of land purchases
and farm business. While other coun-
tries have been busily conforming their
tenanted farmers into homecoming
farmers. the United States has let
carelessly slip away the public domain
until there is but little free land left.
Tenants have multiplied faster than Is
good for the commonwealth. They
have gotten at outs with their land
lords at some sections. The impover-
lsalnent OF soil and Of manhood from
this system constitute national
waste of grave character and alarming
magnitude. Delegates will earnestly
seek measures to check the growth Of
landlordism and to find ways to turn
tenants and landless men into home
owners.
The conference will deal at length
with the perplexing wastes that spring
from unsuitable rural credits systems