Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-15
DRIFT TOCITY
FROM FARM is
LAID TO WOMEN
Lack of Modern COnveniences
Blamed by, Federal Loan
Board Official.
BEFORE BANKERS

It is the farmers daughter, not his
son, who is causing the drift from the
farm to the city.
This was the declaration of Asbury f,
Lever, member Of the Federal Farm Loan
board, former congressman and author
of the Lever food and fuel control act, in
a speech to correspondents of the Fletcher
Joint Stock Land bank at dinner at
the C1aypool hotel last night.
while making trip in my own state
of South Carolina one day I noticed that
in eighteen out of twenty instances the
farm pump was located with reference
to convenience to the horse trough in
stead OF the Kitchen he said at am
told that a survey made by Cornell uni
versity discloses the same thing in New
York state.
"The board Of agriculture sent out
missionaries to q great number of
farmers wives, asking what they most
desired on the farm. The answers in
S955 per cent Of the cases was running
water,''' Mr.. Lever continued.
MODERN CONTINGENCIES
NEEDED ON FARM.
And there will not be any great
back-to-t the farm movement until the
farmers and the families of the farmers
have the modern conveniences that peo-
pie have in the Cities he added.
ave have been thinking too long of the
farmers earnings in the terms of wages.
This can not go on Farming is a
great profession requiring education,
ability and large investment. The boys
and girls of today, who are being edu-
Gated at agricultural colleges, who are
thinking in modern terms, will not permit
this to continue. And I think it ought
not to continue"
Former Congressman Lever spoke of
the results obtained by the operation of
the federal farm loan banks and the fed
eraI joint stock land banks, provided
for under the farm loan act.
Through these instruments the farmer
can negotiate long-term loaps, Of thirty
four and forty-year periods, paying off
the loan by annual payments Already,
he declared, the results are gratifying.
Farmers are able to extend their opera
lions, to make improvements and to plan
a business campaign years ahead.
FAVORS TWO
BANKING SYSTEMS.
The federal farm loan banks, he ex
planned, are operated on Il cooperative
plan and the joint stock land banks are
operated on non operative plan
Both have their advantages and both
should be retained, he said.
Evans Woollen, head of the Fletcher
Savings and Trust Company and the
Fletcher Joint Stock Land bank, said
that there now is being made an effort
to legisate out Of existence the joint
stock land banks The Fletcher institu-
ton, he said, has loaned nearly 5000 600
to farmers in Indiana in the two ana
one-half years 1t has been in operation.
Mr.. Woollen SAID he believed the joint
stock bank had contributed to the devel-
opment of the agricultural resources of
Indiana. If the joint stock banks are
legislsted out of existence the bankers
will continue to function in other ways,
he said, and told the correspondent-coun-
try bankers VINO were present that they,
who are Closer to the farmer than any
one, and the farmer should determine if
they wished the system retained.
William B. Schiltges, treasurer Of the
joint stock bank. presided at a round
table discussion Of various phases of the
business.