The Butler weekly times., 1917-04-26
FARMERS URGED 10
1NcREAsE As'1 4 \ : " j
Bankers Also Are Asked III b.
souri, Food Confereno1
to Help.
ARMY BILL MDoR y \

to Help.
ARMY BILL MDoRsD
Nearly 400 Delegates AttsndSJ r.
ferson City Meeting;
From K. @.
jefferson City, Aprila q, The
Missouri conference Of food pro
duction today adopted resolutions
indorsing the administration
army bill and requesting Missouri
congressman to support. that
measure.
The conference also adopted
resolutions urging congress TO
make effective the recommends
tion of the secretary Of agricul-
ture that the council OF national
defense be given authority to fix
maximum and minimum prices
for food, and to prohibit specula-
ton in food products. Nearly 400
delegates attended the confer
ence, comprising bankers, law
yers, business men, mayors Of
cities, school teachers, farmers
and stock growers
After heated debate the con
ference adopted a resolution in
dorsing the plan to forbid the use
of corn and other food products
for the manufacture Of intoxi-
cants during the duration Of the
war. ..-
Efforts to adopt resolution
favoring absolute prohibition
failed before a committee and on
the floor. A compromise resolu-
tion was adopted which contend
ed that the injection of the ques-
ton of prohibition into the meet
ing would destroy it's effective
ness and asked that the issue be
not considered. This resolution
was not adopted without a fight.
Chairman P. P. Willis first de-
clared the resolution out Of order
but after numerous charges of
"gag rule" he permitted it's con-
sideration.
Another resolution asked for
the Missouri council of defense to
cooperate with the national de-
fense council. Farmers were
urged to increase their acreage
and bankers were urged to loan
money to dependent farmers.
P. P. Ellis, chairman Of the
state board Of agriculture, pre-
sided over the meeting. 4
Governor Gardner in his ad-
dress dwelt at considerable length
On the paramount Importance of
The farmer in the present crisis.
He urged cooperation with him
md financial aid in every way
possible. He believes that two
changes should be made in our
financial system: First, the
Of thc federal reserve +:
system so that every
institution under the .
state laws with a capital of $780, II
700 and over could participate in
t; second, the adoption of a sim
,le and plain rural credits sys-
EN- that will be satisfactory to
he farmer. Is
The governor aroused great en-
husiasm when he advocated TAX
ng and keeping Mexico, if that
country try to get in at. the back Il
loor" during the war with Ger
many. Is.
Dean F. NJ. Mumford of the
Missouri Agricultural College fol-
owed Governor Gardner. III
Never before in the history of
his country, he said, has there !
,een such pressing necessity for r
greater production of food. +
rhe food reserve Of the world is n
It a very low ebb and the Mis-
ouri farmer is sure >of good prices /.
or everything he can produce.
lie urged greater diversity of 1
'rops and intensive cultivationt
long all lines. 1S
The wheat crop Of the country,
Dean Mumford said, is but 62 perl j
ent Of normal.ahd the wheat s
'rop Of the rest 81 the world id Ii
hort. II
Thomas Tobin, Of Kansas City.f.
epresenting the seed houses, told
he conference that there is plen- !,
y Of high grade seed corn in thefe
0uHfrv. hr1t cow neas Afil haan6IT i