The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-06

gues. but not more than the, country needs"
 He intimates that there are doctors and lawyers, druggists, politicians and statesmen" who would make excellent farmers. And thus in the very beginning of his career he attacks certain men in their tenderest spots. and may make life- long enemies. However. the public ap- plauds what MT. Meredith says.
 The farmer. one may deduce from the Meredith remarks. is much-abused in- eividual For instance, the secretary says:
 Tt is not a satisfactory condition for the farmer to receive reduced prices for his pork. wheat. hides. while the price of his machinery lumber and shoes IS advanced. It does not conduce to pleasant frame of mind on the part of the farmer to be obliged to sell his prod uots for half or less than he later sees them sold at retail. The dairy farmers wonder if they are treated fairly when they receive 35 and 70 cents for butter and see it sold at retail for & cents The pouitrymen wonder why, when they re- ceive from % to 70 cents for eggs, they retail as high as sl per dozen. The hog grower wonders if he is not in hazar-. deus business when he buys fencing and all other supplies at greatly increased rrlces. and then sees his produce fall So per cent and S0iu at dI dttudi A'NS in answer to a demand on the part of the rest of the population for reduced cost Of living
 The secretary urges that banks. rail- roads, wholesale houses. retail establish ments. factories. "sil of which are vitally necessary to the farmer, be speeded up along with him that the work now done by three men be done if possible by two and the burden of transportation and dis 4-tI 4fr.r, a,Hax~ t,N lfe,t F,, sists that useless employees" be put to the work of production. be returned 10 the farm. in other words. By "useless em- ployes'' he refers in addition to super fluous workmen. to superfuous doctors, -lawyers and Statesmen"
 The farmer asks that the laborer in the mines. Secretary Meredith continues, "the factories and the mills make an ef- fort to see that there is as little ex- perse as possible in each article turned out by their hands, thereby helping the farmers of America who in turn will help the laborer. This is not inconsis- tent with the views and desires of the loyal. intelligent laboring men who rec osnize the mutual advantage in an honest days work for an honest days pay. Given this and the manufacturers, job bers and retailers recognizing the harm that must proceed from a course Of profteering against the farmer, the ques. ton of the high cost of living will largely solve itself.
 If these things are not done, the dition will not improve. On the contrary, more and more will the younger men leave the farms. more and more win the older men become discouraged, and less and less will there be of farm produce for division. and higher and higher will go the price of that little which is pro- duced
 "The farmers of America are willing and anxious to meet the problem of re- ducing the cost of living as a mutual problem. They seek the cooperation, support and sympathy of the business world and receiving it they will do their part and more.'
 In course of his remarks, Mir. Meredith referred to the effort to amend the farm loan banking statutes as blow against the comparative ease with which in the present the farmer is able to secure nee eeeary mOney