The midland journal., 1916-08-11
FARMERS DAY AT PORT DE
POSIT.
Third Annual Meeting Largely At
tended-Distinguished Speak
ers Present.

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tended-Distinguished Speak
ers Present.
The third annual meeting of the
Allied Farming Interests of Cecil
County was held Saturday in the
memorial hall of Tome School, Port
Deposit. The attendance was larger
than at any of the previous meetings.
From Pennsylvania came peace
advocates of Philadelphia Friends
Yearly meeting, but they were denied
an opportunity to present their plea.
From Delaware came represent
atives of the Delaware legislature
and of Delaware College. Maryland
furnished Governor Harrington,
David J. Lewis and Joseph 1. France,
the Senatorial candidates, and Con-
gresham Price and his opponent in
the First District, Robert F. Duer.
j. H. Kimble, chairman of the
legislative committee of the Farm
ers' National Congress, called the
meeting to order.
The different phases of farm life
were discussed by p. P. Claxton,
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation. His address had to do
chiefly with the national system of
rural education. Miss Katherine A.
Pritchett, state home demonstration
agent, pictured to the women the
model country home.
Gov. Emerson c. Harrington, in
the afternoon session, told the farm
ers of the work done In the 1916
Legislature and especially commend
ed that body for the economies effect
ed and the educational measures
passed
He said that he surely approved
the wave of preparedness that is now
sweeping the country and urged pre-
paredness against the predatory dis
eases to plants and animals in farm
life. He was accorded an enthusiastic
welcome.
Oliver Wilson, master of the Ma
tional Grange, insisted that the farm
er would not come into his own until
the middleman was obliterated by
organized effort and the farmer
could deal directly with the con-
sumer. He alleged that the pros
perity wave for farmers was myth.
Congressman Lewis. Democratic
candidate for the United States
Senate, reviewed the comparative
worth of the parcel post to the
farmer as compared with the express
companies, and declared for Govern
ment ownership of the telegraph and
telephone. DR.. France, his opponent
for the United States Senate, stated
that he stood not for the extension
of the Government functions, but
for the more efficient performance of
the things we now do. His aim was
for better social conditions, not by
further socializatfon by the states
which curtails individualism, but by
making the state perform its present
social function so perfectly that
finer and purer individualism would
result.
The music was by special choir
of the Valley Grange. The follow
ing associations were in attendance:
Cecil Farmers Club, Valley Grange.
Ninth District Farmers Club, West
Nottingham Community Club. Eighth
District Community Club, First Dis
trict Community Club, Pleasant Hill
Community Club, Elkton Farmers
and Diarymen Club Association and
Rising Sun Milk Dealers Association.
Frank Evans, of Elkton, was the
presiding officer of the meeting. j.
H. Kimble, the national legislative
agent of the National Grange. was
temporary chairman. DIR. Thomas
S. Baker, the director of the Tome
School, bade the visitors welcome.
The Rev. Mr.. Huffman, OF West
Nottingham Presbyterian Church,
offered the invocation. Among the
distinguished visitors besides those
mentioned were Secretary Of State
T. w. Simmons, State Senator Hous-
ton, Delaware; DR.. Mitchell, presi-
dent Delaware College; DR.. Howard
dean Delaware College, and B. John
Black, master Maryland State
Grange. n N.j
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