The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-02
HARDING SPEAKS
TO RURAL CROWD
Expands on Agricultural Pol
iCies-Nation Must Promote
Social Welfare Farm Life.
MUST CORRECT ILLITERACY
Nominee Insists Bettering of
Farmers Condition of Vital
Interest to City Folk.

S.)--Here NJ the junction point OF three
Ohio counties. Franklin. Madison and
Union. Senator Warren q. Harding to-
day addressed a crowd of thousands OF
farmers and their women folk, who
came by motor or wagon from miles
around to attend an old-fashloned pic
mic and flag raising,
Tho senator and Mrs. Harding mo-
tored from Marion, fifty odd miles
away. through clear. cold weather to
attend tho celebration. II was dis
tinotly rural audience. and Senator
Harding addressed them on topics rela-
tive 20 rural community life, expanding
on his agricultural policies as outlined
In previous speeches.
Agricultural Policy.
Senator Harding said his agricultural
policy Nes broadly divided into three
1. 90 all that 10 possible TO make
prosperous the land owning farmer
and oppose tho menace of lnoreas-
lnq tenantry.
tlon OF farm products and eneour-
Aoe CO operative buying and mar
ketlnu on the part OF farmers,
J. Protect American farm prod
uets against infiuxes Of cheaper
products by a permanently adjusted
"It is also tho nations business" he
said, ITO concern itself with the social
welfare OF farm life. We want pros
perity for the American farmer when
will allow him to hid for male labor.
This wear In many sections OF the
United states girls. mothers ana aged
women have worked In the fields. anu
much Of the work has been too hard
10 be consistent with wholesome mH>
ternlty nnd American standards.
Development Of inland waterways
not I'm competition TO the railroads, but
ms a cupartucr In solving the demands
was urged by Senator, IiardIng.
Mr.. Harding declared that ''one foi
all and all for one" must be the motto
OF Individual EFFORT II the nation is &c
achieve its full potential litiesl
81 want 10 SEQ American life b.
kHlt together" he nnid. and ever
that the welfare of his fellow Is hi
own welfare, that we will go forwar
to weave great and humane patter
OF united Americanlsm"
Making a particular appeal for bet
toring the condition OF the farmer. th
nominee asserted that agricultural pro-
ductiOn really In OF greater intercs
to those who live In cities than to thSsa
farmers themselves As part OF IN.
same community OF interest, he sale
transportation facilities must be stabii'
iyed and n rehahilltatod railway system
supplemented by inland waterways de-
Vciopment and by commercial use o
motor trucks 10 carry freight.
COOPERATIVE Marketing.
The senator reiterated hts better thu
farmers should he given the right 81
cooperative marketing. should DO. On.
couraged through the federal farm loar
syatem TO own the farms they live ons'
should be assured stable traHsportn-
tlon facilities md a stable labor sup
ply. aud should be given protection
against unfair competition from abroad,
Ho also advocated better syetaz,l o!
rural education and n higher standard
~ fuY
1--WE must" he said turn our hacks
on tho system OF pork barrel apRfo-
priatlons and under national hud&xl
system make our expenditures accord
Ing TO the counsel OF proper. conntinA
sion whose aim viii he TO develop
true national system OF inland water
ways"
Educational conditions in rural com
muniticE. too. must be- improved. the
I'VE must face the fact" he oh
served. that lliteracy II twice as com.
mon in the country as II ir In the city
and that the opportunity for country
education is all too limited"
while We have hoasted or America
being melting pot, he concluded. VIZ
awe sadly neglected furtherance of
education which is the true nuiwark
against extreme radicRlism
Senator Harding will motor back 70
Marion late today.
Must Educate Adults.
Discussing In detail the problem of
urai education. Mr.. Harding took oc-
aston to speak n word for the educa-
ion OF adults In current events.
"Wo must SEQ 20 IT," he said. that
- immediately raise the standards OF
nrnI education We have just awak.
ned 20 the fact that the education oi
ro American child everywhere has
alien below the standard necessary for
ir protection Of our future. We have
ad TO face the fact that our school
,achors anr unpaid We have had
, face tho fact that In physical train
W and IN the teaching OF American
.vli government and American his
,ry and the principles OF American
m and Amaricanizaton We have been
eplnrahly delinquent.
'But nowhere. think. is there norv
tusc for alarm than In the fact that
~ annual school term OF the rural
'hooi IN the United states only aver
rcH i17 dnvE year We must have no
lrynurucv OF the federal government
education hut We owe II To the child
1nd ~ tho nation 10 place AZ It's dis-
,sal the utmost Ia educational facil-
rA
~ Is my heliet that the conception ct
tult education will develop IN Amer
u Education Of the adult. which
aches the tncts uf current life at home
VI abroad. will be the true buiwark
.ninst extreme rndicslism and Win be
lev h1Hls OF am Intelligent free and
lrraut thought"