The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-02

would 1 said of course He showed
me one check for SIS, 600. 099-00- an
other for S57.990.o00 and the third
for 0-000-0a0- This shows we are
dealing and thinking now IN this coun-
try in big figures of big problems. of
big brave humanity
Now. Mr. Haskell of the Beatrice
Creamery said he would Ike to have
someone explain To him how you are
going TO solve food problems and
thought that, being a farmer myself
on the side, I would tell you one way
1 Just came in from an hours visit at
MY farm Cedarcrest- and found ev-
erythIng growing We have potatoes
coming out of the ground We are
now eating our own radishes; we have
some peas six inches high and beers
and beans growing we have already
had on our table our asparagus and
pie plant We expect TO raise about
all that we eat this summer We
should have large Quantities OF fruit
from the looks Of the blossoms small
and large fruits and tomatoes TO eat
and can; in regard to eggs. butter
and potatoes, I am not particularly
concerned personally, but I am for
the rest OF you. for We produce
our own eggs and we produce our
own butrer-Mrs- Mac Lehman makes
it; we have I5e chicks scrar chlng
to beat the band and the food menace,
we are not eating potatoes at our
house much till our own crop Is dug.
I had to pay for seed potatoes S3-25
bUsheI and. Of course, Mr. Anderson
got q small amount Of that being
commission man
Farmer Must Have n Fair Return
7 want TO say to you in regard to
Secretary Mothers statement that an
effort should be made TO give the
farmer d fair return on his labor
Mr. Bowman Of the Seymour Packing
company told you he Is paying the
farmer 35 cents for eggs; the farmer
used to get and cents, and Mr.
MohIer spoke of the great effort to
increase the price OF wheat cents
per busheL You gentlemen know
that two years ago last summer you
could buy wheat for % cents per
bUsheI from the farmer Today, Mr.
Bowie tells me, the farmer got $40
and a few days ago he got S2-S6- Mr.
Anderson tells you he has paid the far
mer I2L cents a busheI for potatoes
now he pays S3.06. I am glad the far
mer has come into his own He de-
serves good prices and more of them
I am glad that Mr.. Anderson Is able,
uoUWithsta nding his twelve hours
hard work per day, to own and enjoy
an automobile. I believe most Of you
Board OF Trade men here have auto
mobiles. At least one of the four news
paper men here tonight has one, too
Mr. Treadway, a real farmer, to-
night makes the statement that II you
sent a city boy to the farm it would
take several real farmers to look after
the boy and that they would lose in
the end My paper has advocated
and many papers are so advocating the
dismissal of colleges now in order that
more farms may be planted in corn
and that necessary food production
may be extended I want to say to
Mr.. Treadway in al good hUmor thar
the cataIogs of the University of Kan
sas. of the Agricultural college and
the Normal school all show that more
than half the Students in these insti-
tution9 are farmer boys Those are
the boys we want to get on the farm
now while the corn planting is on
think the newspap ers can do nothing
better than advocate that those
schools be dismissed now with main
tenance of grades These boys should
be dismissed and allowed to get into
the corn fields they know the work;
Cthat's right shouted Treadwayl. they
have been raised on the farm and they
are the men that can help increase
food production. City boys who drive
autos can easily drive tractors
Respect for Each Other
There is another thing gentle
men: when you refer TO something in
the neWspa per, say. the newspaper
says IN Just the same way you would
wish Us TO say, for instance. the Board
Of Trade says. or a member of the
Board of Trade says You represent
a high calling and the newspaper men
represent a high calling
of neither one of US should it be
implied that because II was in the
newspaper, or given out by a Board
of Trade man it IS 10 be discounted or
doubted because both Of Us are en-
gagged in an honorable business and
We both desire the truth and mean
10 utter il TO the best of our knowI-
edge and ability. whether It be news
or markets. or quotations on wheat or
reports of world battles or the corn
crop
Advocates Whole Wheat Flour.
The State Journal is advocating
the abandonment of white flour and
the use Of whole wheat flour You
miIIers all know that you have catered
to public demand for this white flour
and you not only make it as white as
the wheat itself permits but you have
bIeached it Now we want you TO 90
10 making whole wheat and It
viii be better for you and better for
US We have got TO have more food
In this country and We have got to
have the most nutritious food The
hotels of New York while I was there
IN a shirt of Corporation decided they
would reduce their menus. Instead
OF having eight or ten kinds of SCUM
they would have only four or five: in
stead OF having six or eight kinds of
salad they would have only three or
four kinds. 1 noticed they were also
conserving the portions but thew didn't
conserve the prices If We are going
10 get good products We will have to
pay the producer good prices
he newspapers of this city recently