Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-20

purposes was embodied in tl1is cir cuar. Any careful reading of tht circular would lead a fairmindec man to the conclusion that peanut acreage ought not to be increased except as farmers needed more pea nuts to feed their hogs or where farmers were raising hogs in good peanut territory and had not pro- duced peanuts so far.
 Was Never Consulted.
 Now, permit me to say that have never been consulted regarding the Profitable Farming committee's campaigns in Arkansas this spring. l never gave any such campaigns my endorsement because l knew nothing of them. l was shocked and surprised to find that the Extension forces in which the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture, and this De- partment are so vitaly interested, permitted themselves to be whipped into line in the campaign which were ill advertised and also had stood mute when transformation was being peddled out to the farmers. Instructions through the Director of Extension are being sent to them and to all other states to say that the Department does not wish to enter into any relationships whatever with any organization which proposes to dictate campaigns to be conducted in the State and that it will censure it's employees who fail to correct cases of socalled agricultural information peddled out to farmers, no matter from what source they may emanate.
 "The propaganda type of agri- cultural ed cation went pretty well during the war because people were aroused to a patriotic fervor beyond that of ordinary times. Some people have been deceived into thinking that this type of education had come to stay. It did not succeed in time of peace before the war, nor do I think 1t will succeed in time of peace after the war.
 Mistakes Farmers Attitude.
 "The Profitable farming commit tee also seems to be mistaking the attitude of the farmer To close an alliance between the extension ser vice and business mems organiza- tions at the present time will do against the extension work than any more to prejudice the farmers other thing. My contention for years has been that the Extension Service in each State must remain free from any alliance with anyone which would be calculated to preju- dice the farmer against the service sought to be rendered by the Exten- sion workers. I might quote numer- ous statements which l have made in public addresses to substantiate this statement.
 At the same time I have repeat edly said both in recent addresses and for years past, that the business interests must not be neglected in our agricultural work. At Baltimore at the meeting of the American Agri- cultural Colleges 1 stated that part of our educational effort in agricul- ture must be directed towards busi- ness men to get them to understand agricultural problems because they are so vitally connected with the fi- nancing of agriculture and the dispo- sition of it's products. That does not mean that the business man should attempt to teach the farmer how to- farm. I have repeatedly said that the attitude of the business man to-, ward what I call "safe farming" or more diversified system of agricul- ture in the South. has been the chief reason for the slow growth in the South of more dependable agricul- ture. In all of my campaigns to bankers and to others I have not wanted the business interests to go to instructing farmers but I wanted the agricultural interests to instruct the business men in what agriculture needed. l suppose l have utterly failed to get this through. the heads of some of our business men. Nevertheless, some, including the members of the American Bankers Association, and their Committee on Agriculture, seem to have absorbed this :, principle and are busy now seeing what they can do to assist the agricultural forces and are not en- gagged in the business of dictating to them.
 Best Way to Help.
 Business men can be ot assistance in agriculture in three ways:
 "First-By helping to create the necessary public sentiment for fi- nancial support to the publicly con- stituted agricultural work of the State and the Nation.
 "Second-By striving to under stand the farmers problems in order that they may take a more active interest in financing agriculture on proper basis and in furnishing the