Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-27
have been sustained by proof.
 Price ReadiustmAnt.

Price Readjustment.
 The government of the United
 States, in keping it's contract with
 the farmers of the country to main
 tain the price of whea until June, 1920,
 should arrange, through it's own
 agencies, to take over the marketing
 of the entire wheat crop, and should seek by means of generous credits ex- tended to the nations, whose food supp , plies have been depreciated by the war, for the marketing of the surplus
 above home requirements Whether
 in doing so the government shall seek to impose upon the domestic and for
 eign consumers, by means of it's con- trol aver the distribution of the wheat
 crop and the needs of foreign credits,
 the guaranteed price paid to the pro-
 ducers of the wheat crop or shall dis
 pose of the crop at a loss, to be
 charged to the account of the war,
 must be edetermined by conditions that will hereafter arise. As nearly as possible the crop should be so marketed as to restore the normal ba- sis of supply and demand and permit the prices of all food products to be determined accordingly.
 HI OO04lA6 tWAtA CAO PllCCo OA OSAA" CT food producted in this country, control during war conditions, good faith should be shown by the govern
 ment towards those who responded to
 it's request to increase the supply. Pivotal Industries. The pivotal industries that came to
 life of were enlarged at the request
 of the government to meet he nces- /, sits of war should now be protected
 by proper measures against their col 1 lapse and ruin because ot sudden end 1 ing of war conditions.
 | We Recommend that the secretary of agriculture call together repre- Isentatives of organized agricultural 1 bodies for the creation of a national chamber of agriculture, which shall serve as a clearing house for agricul-
 tural activities, particularly those re- lating to production and marketing. We urge upon congress the immedi- ate passage of an amendment to the ! federal farm loan act increasing the 1 loan limit to twenty-five thousand dol
 lars.
 The farm bureau organization
 should be increased and supported,
 and we urge their extension wherever i possible and their adequate support l by fderal appropriation.
 We recommend uniform sanitary ! rules and regulations to govern the
 shiment of live stock, so as to protect the states into which shipments are made, and at the same time incur
 the minimum Of expense and trouble
 to the shipper. So far as possible | these rules should agree with the
 rules of shipment laid down by the bureau of animal industry.
 i We believe that the livestock indus | try in the West would be stimulated
 by a system of longtime credis on tbreeding stock. .. I Tn the semi-arid regions of the
 Trans-Mississippi country there are
 millions of acres of land occupied
 and under cultivation where, becase
 of lack of sufficient moisturefi, crop
 production is uncertain and averages | approximately One-third of what is possible. In these regions sufficient moisture can, by a system of canals
 controlling, the flood and uunsed wa l ters now going to wwaste, he stored
 in the subsoil to supply the dificiencv | anu lIdN0 d IClldOAO klVP EAVAASAA0 territory. We urge that this work
 be undertaken by the federal gov
 ernment.
 i Water Power.
 We recommend legislation looking
 to the early development of the water
 power now going to waste on the public domain.
 1 We believe that the people of the
 western states should be given the
 same right to develop the natural re- sources of their states that has al
 ready been exercised by he people of the eastern states. Protection of Investors. We favor the enactment of rigid
 b|ue sky laws for the protection of the inexperienced investor.
 We denounce the exploitation of the owners of liberty bonds by the pro- moters of questionable enterprises. Freight Rat0 Differentials. We call the attention of congress and the United States railroad admin isration to the fac that the advance l in freight rates has changed the mar gin of differentials formerly applying ! to the shipment of western products, with the practical effect of eliminat- | ing the established easern markets open to the western producer. We urge that differentials applying to shipments west of the Mississippi riv- CT be readJusted so as to rotect es- abolished markets.
 Tu5lic Utilities.
 We recommend that careful cOnstd- eraticn be given to the present condi- tion of public utilities which have faced difficult problems arising out of the war. We urge that fair treat
 ment be given these companies so as to enable them to avoid bankruptcy
 and to render efficient service. We
 1orIcdo tIto traaf1,a ant now generallv