Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-02
HARDING..FOR UNITY,
HE TELLS RALLY AT
WEST JEFFERSON
Cooperative Marketing and
Rural Education Topic of
Speech Today.
BY the Associated Press.

WEST JEFFERSON, Ohio. October
c-Advocating an agricultural and
industrial policy to coordinate Amer
lean resources for the common good.
Senator Harding declared. in a speech
at republican rally near here today,
that zone for all and all for one"
must be the motto of individual effort
if the nation is to achieve it's full po-
tentialities.
Il want to see American life so
knit together" he said, land every
American so appreciative- of the fact
that the welfare of his fellow is his
own welfare, that we will go forward
to weave a great and humane pattern
of united Americanism.
Making a particular appeal for bet
tering of the condition of the farmer.
the nominee asserted that agricul-
tural production really was of, greater
interest to those who live in cities
Than to the ia rmers themselves. AS
2 part of the same community of in
tcrest he said. transportation facili-
tics must be stabilized. and a rehabili-
tated railway system supplemented by
inland waterway development. and by
commercial use of motor trucks to
carry freight.
United People Desired.
We are beginning to learn" he
continued, that we are not only in
name and in desire a united people.
but that we are so in fact, and I
point to the relationship of our cities
TO our rural population. and of both
TO our American railways as an exam
pie of our interviewer prosperity. 1t
is impossible. to pull one of the
threads of that great fabric without
starting the unraveling of the
prosperity of all of u.s."
nl T. so hA1s At
that farmers should be given the
right of cooperative marketing.
should be encouraged through the
federal farm loan system to own the
farms they live on. should be assured
stable transportation facilities and a
given protection against unfair com
petition from abroad. He also ad-
vocated a better system OF rural ed
ucation and higher standard Of farm
social welfare. and declared that
prof1teering must be squeezed out"
Rural Education.
Discussing in. detail the problem Of
rural education, Mr.. Harding took oc-
casion to speak word for ~ educa-
ton of adults in current events and
asserted that such movement would
constitute "the true bulwark against
extreme radicalism."
we must see to it," he said. that
we Immediately raise the standard of
rural education. We have j0St awak-
ened to the fact that the education of
the American child everywhere has
fallen below the standard necessary
for the protection of our future. We
have had to face the fact that our
school teachers are underpaid. We
have had to face the fact that in
physical training and in the teaching
of American civil government and
American history and the principles
of Americanism and Americanization
we have been deplorably delinquent.
But nowhere. 1 think. is, there
more cause for alarm than in the fact
that the annual school term of the
rural school I'm the United States
only averages 1871 days a year. We
must have no bureaucracy of the fed
eTal government in education. but we
owe it to the childhood Of the nation
TO place at its disposal the utmost
in educational facilities.
TT is my BELIEF that the conception
of adult education will develop in
America Education of the adult
which teaches the facts of current
life at home and abroad will be the