The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-12-07
RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by the Farmers National
Congress At Springfield, Missouri,
October, 1917.


The Farmers National Congress,
meeting at Springfield, Missouri. this
25th day of October, 1917, in its
thirty-seventh Annual Session in the
midst of the greatest crisis in our
country's history, does hereby affirm
the complete and answering loyalty
of it's members to the cause in which
the Nation is today engaged.
Believing that the pro-
gress of War can best be promoted,
and the objects of War obtained
most readily through the medium OF
united people, it is hereby
resolved:
That the great Wartime need for
food demands that men engaged in
farm labor should be exempted
from Army service to the greatest
possible degree.
FOOD CONTROL.-That on all
boards or commissions appointed
under the authority of the Food Con-
troll Act, or future Amendments
thereto, men actually engaged in the
production of food should be given
proper representation, to the end
that mistakes in the fixing of prices
and in the administration of the
Food Control Act may be hereaftHr
avoided, and public sentiment in sup
port of the administrators purposes
be preserved; and further, that pres
ant administrative boards under the
Food Control Act be enlarged to give
proper representation to actual pro-
ducers of food to the end that a
clearer understanding of the public
need. and a more equitable admin
stration for the public good be had
than is now apparent.
PRICE FIXING. bearing in
mind the fact that lack OF under
standing by the price-fxing board IN
the matter of wheat had resulted in
tremendous consumption of the
1917 crop for feed purposes, in the
reduction of the acreage of the 1918
crop, and in a general feeling tnat
the wheat farmers of America have
been unjustly Disseminated against
by comparison with other manufac-
turers and producers; any future
ATTEMPT at Federal Control of prices
of any agricultural product should
be made in proper and consistent
relation to the existing price OF un-
controlled products.
That since the Government has
seen fit to specifically set basic
price for the sale of wheat, similar
action should at once be taken with
reference to fixed standards and fixed
selling prices of -four, bread, farm
machinery and all other products
necessary to the maintenance OF life,
the production of food.
TAXATION.-Tha this Congress
fully approves the work of the Ma
tional Congress in It's taxation for
War purposes of excess War profits,
and that it specifically demands from
| the National Congress additional
LEGISLATION at the earliest possible
moment increasing the percentage OF
taxation on excess War profits to a
point at least equal to that now in
force in our allied Warning coun-
tries, to the end that the greatest
lrossible percentage of the cost OF
War shall be borne by those who
nrofit most from War, and in the be-
lief that the CONSUMPTION of wealth
ia a measure of necessity fully equal
20 the CONSUMPTION of men.
PROHIBITION we urge
Don Congress the desirability of
submitting to the States at the
earliest possible moment an Amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States providing for national
Prohibition.
/ MARKETING since the
proper marketing of farm products
IS fully half the battle of farm life,
/ it is desirable that cooperation
among farmers for marketing pur-
( roses be encouraged and that, to this
end, we urge upon Congress the
( necessity of continued effort to Sc
cure detailed market information, in
creased elimination of unnecessary
middlemen, and the maintenance and
operation of some National system
whereby producer and consumer may
be brought more closely together in
the sale and purchase of the neces-
stiles of life.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.--That
in the interest Of the common people
the Act authorizing Postal Savings
Banks be amended to require the in
vestment of Postal Savings Funds in
Government securities, and that the
ratefof interest to depositors shall be
that of securities purchased by these
funds minus only the actual cost Of