Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-03
COX MAKES PLEDGE
TO GIVE BIG POSTS
TO DIRT FARMERS
Proposes Federal Regulation
OF Cold Storage and Co.
Operative Trading.
By tho Associated Press.

Ss SSSS So SA0Ub3s
By tho Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, September a.
Gov. Cox yesterday declared that II
elected President he would appoint dirt
farmers" to responsible government
positions. including the Secretary Of
Agriculture and members Of the Fed
eral Reserve and Regional Reserve
boards tariff commissions and the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
The democratic presidential candi-
date discussed agricultural questions
and outlined his proposed policies In
an address at the executive office to
about one hundred representatives. of
the National Board OF Farm Organi-
zations holding a convention here.
Federal regulation Of cold storage
facilities. q fair test of private rail-
road ownership and operation and CO.
operative buying and selling by farm
ers was advocated by Gov. Cox. He
also declared that business, labor and
agricultural interests must have de-
fined by law limitations which they
can understand and stay within in their
future conduct.
Declares Himself y Farmer.
Declaring himself to be "a farmer
and not an agriculturalist.s Gov. Cox
said he congratulated American farm
ers upon lending their Rip Van VIM
kle sleep" and moving toward organ
ICED betterment of their condition.
Farmers are not only entitled to
larger representation in government"
he said, ''but the public service will
have its efficiency advanced by
larger representation Of agricultural
Advocating appointment of farmers
to the Federal Reserve Board and
also regional boards. Gov. Cox added
81 mean by that dirt farmers; you
know what I mean.
Hopes for More Farmers.
IT wish there were more farmers on
them now. A great many interests dc
not look with favor on my election
because they want to change the Law
lthe federal reserve aot) by making
bankers only eligible for membership
Nothing could be more menacing to
the farmer.
Farmers are needed on tariff and
interstate commerce commissions
Gov. Cox said. to aid in supervising g;
respectively, agricultural experts and
transportation.
Il don't believe there is a man OF
| the I. C. c." he said, who knows
much. If anything. about farming.
| administration that have led to this
thing, but I'm contrasting what Is with
what ought to be.
eff you want cars or other facilities
for farm products, some good old hard
headed farmer who would know what
there. If any one is contributing
larger to interstate commerce than
! the farmer, I do not know 1t.
More than this. / favor appointment
| of a dirt farmer as Secretary of Agri-
culture. You may recall l gave that
of Non TO HoA
Compares lizard Pan" Dirt.
Turning to general agricultural
problems oSy Cox b,o T5ss ID
been his exclusive task for the las,
eight years. He compared "hard pam
dirt on the farm and it's treatment
with dynamite to the hard pan" OF
public sentiment
tinueadi. o4 fer - farming s TO 0 make ' the
same development in efficiency as
manufacturing. by buying as cheaply
as possible producing - much as
possible in q working day and having
a selling department on the farm. In
the past farmers have had only one
department, the selling.
1.-THE manufacturer is the competi-
tor of the farmer for labor.
"You can't get the help that you
want unless you organize your busi-
ness policy along the same funda-
mental 1ines. You've, got to buy
more intelligently than In the past,
and that means you've got to buy CO.
operatively in America"
Agricultural sales, the governor de-
clared, are involved in the conduct OF
cold storage, grain and live stock
marketing. Great interests. the can
didate said, control the purchase Of
farm products and also control
tA "a ha
supply just behind the demand"
More Terminals Urged.
Urging federal regulation Of cold
storage, Gov. Cox added:
'Unsupervised cold storage plants
have caused some city people to look
upon the farmer, without any justi-
f1cation whatever, as q profiteer."
In discussing transportation problems
Gov. Cox said that more terminals and
equipment are needed.
"But private ownership" he declared,
sis entitled to the very best test posi-
BILE. If service and prices can be salts
factorily guaranteed to the public, pri-
vate ownership-I think 1t has been
demonstrated as best in practically all
ownership not thought Of"
Gov. Cox also urged further Develop
mant OF waterways with federal aid,
particularly in tho Great Lakes and St
Lawrence river.
Advocating q definite statutory decla-
ration Of business conduct, Gov. Cox
said:
Farmers, laboring people and the
public must know their limitations. In
stead Of spying and shopping around
to say who il violating the law, we
ought to give help by telling you how
far you can go and let business and
labor know how far they can Co."
Presents 0overnor's Cup.
The governors statements were
applauded frequently by his audience.
He was addressed on behalf OF the
farm ORGANIZATIONS by A. G. Davis,
Grayette, Ark. who referred to
the farm organizations question:
naires sent to all presidential candi-
dates before the conventions and pri-
maries with questions regarding
what farmers might expect from the
candidates.
Mr. Davis also assured the gov
ernor that reports. given by repre-
sentatives of the farm organizations,
that formation Of q gigantic trust"
Of farmers was contemplated were
untrue.
After his talk with the farm rep
resentatives. Gov. Cox went to the
Ohio state fair and presented the
governors cup" for contest in q
race of Ohio-bred horses.
ARSINTHE IN DISGlIISE