Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-12-09
Country's Most Pressing Need Is for Standardiza-
 tion of Crop Handling.
JEWISH SOCIETY
 GIVES REAL HELP
Secretary of Jewish Agricultural So. ciety Tells How That Organization Has Established 3.151 Poor
 Families on Farms.


 pressing problem is that of "so standardizing warehousing and mar keting our crops as to serve the legi innate interests of farmers and con sumer alike" according to Carl 2 Vrooman, assistant secretary of agri- culture, who spoke here tonight, at :, dinner incident to the fourth annual National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits. Mir. Vrooman con- tinued:
 Among the factors that stanl ou, in the problem are rural credits, a satisfactory system of land tenure the cooperative purchasing of sup. plies. and facilities for marketing farm produde. These are subjects on which the federal department must do lot of constructive work before the problems involved are satisfac. torily solved. It is a herculean task but filled with promise for the entire nation.
 From the first the department and the state agricultural colleges have helped the farmer in his fight against the chinch bug. the army worm, the boil weevil, the cattle tick and otl.er insect pests, but for half a century there has been voiced a vehement protest from practically every far,l organization in the q ountry over ',le failure of either state or federal gov ernment to help the farmer in his fight against the usuler, the fake middleman and other human pests.
 "At last the farmer is being met half way. More economic federal legislation has been passed in the past four years than during the forty years preceding. The office of mar kets has been created, rural credits bill has been passed, a bonded ware house bill, a good roads bill, grain standardization act and other invalu- able legislation have been enacted. These laws are of revolutionary i'm portance. They are the beginning of new and more splendid epoch in American agriculture.
 Must Smash Land Monopoly.
 Private monopoly.. of the land and the railroads and of transportation. marketing, warehouse. slaughtering and cold storage facilities, is respon sible for the high cost of living, said Frederick c. Howe. commissioner of immigration of the port of New York, in an address this forenoon. Mr. Homes subject was "The People and the Land: the Problem that Confronts Us." Declaring that the high cost of living has become 3 problem to the people of America as well as to the warning nations of Europe and that the solution hinges on the relation of the people to the land he said in part.
 "The immigration problem is con- nected with the land and is the big gest thing to be solved before the peo- pie because all wealth comes from the land. AS long as there was land in abundance, under the Homestead act, there was no serious immigration problem. but now that the land is all owned the immigration situation has returned and now there is an indus trial problem also. The government must turn to the land question, to agriculture. to insuring just treat ment for farmer and consumer alike"
 In closing Mir. Howe said the prob lem of distribution was to get people back to the land under bearable con ditons
 Unless a big constructive program is worked out" he said. "I expect to see agriculture become less profitable and employ fewer people. Farmers and their sons will be driven to the cities as has been the case in Eng land. I expect to see the cost of liv- ing rise till the government under takes to get the people back to the land"
 How ToUic1, Gnoin<v ADouo%on
 The problem of the so-called in- solvent farmer was attacked and a remedy. based on actual experience, suggested by Dr. Leonard G. Robin son. of New York. general manager of the Jewish Agriculture and Indus trial Aid society.
 The recent rural credits law will not help the insolvent farmer, ac- cording to MT. Robinson, and he classified all tenant farmers and city men who want to have patch of ground of their own, as insolvent. | The last census. he said. showed that out of 6.000000 farmers in the United i States 2,354 ,000 are tenants. The lat 1 ter figure shows an increase of Is | percent over the previous census.
 MT. Robinson said that he did not | intend to criticise the Hollis farm loan act. It was remarkable maiden effort he said, but as it looked for perfectly good security it would not helr the would-be land owner. par ticularly the tenant. who has to hor- row on his mere ability to make the land produce. The speaker thought that the workings of the society of which he is general manager points the solution. In the sixteen years of it's existence he said it had estab- lished 3,151 families on farms in 35 states at total outlay of $2 2100.263.
 Mir. Robinson said the society was willing to accept any kind of col lateral available citing instances in which fifth mortgages. unsecured notes and purchase contradts on farms boueht from the society formed