The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-12-03
farmer IS FACTOR
IN COMING SESSIONS
AT NATIONS CAPITAL
By WILLIAM r. SANBoRN.

If too many cooks, and too much |
seasoning spoil the broth, the men who |
are to mix up farm legislation potions |
at Washington and elsewhere, are IN |
danger of overlooking vast les1s' |
lative mixture, this winter. we can
safely assume that every agricultural
state holding a legislative session, vii.
also tly to solve some Of their local
farm problems, by law, framed IN the |
interest of the man of the soil.
There is a natural fear that the ex'
perience of farmers with the sudden
deflation of prices may react upon !
production. 1t may seriously cut 1000 ,
production next year, which would not
only be an American. but a world ca !
lamity to the great body OF consumers.
although of benefit to food producers
in other countries.
A joint meeting of the house and
senate committees on agriculture Is
being held in Washington. They are
discussing the revival of the war IL
nance corporation, the extension OF
credit to Russia and Germany. to en-
able these countries to buy In this
country according to their agricultural
needs. If the finance corporation
again goes into action, its restricted
purpose will be to aid in the financing
of the sale of our farm products
abroad.
AS to German credits, we now have
s500.0o0.0o0 of German property, still
held by the government, as security.
Adequate Farm Credits.
The tentative program to come be-
fore, congress includes providing ade.
ouate form credits to obviate the need
for dumping farm crops on the market
at loss.
Full authority for nationwide coop
erative marketing. This is provided
for in the Capper-Hersman bill
Strengthening and broadening of the
farm loan system.
Protection for wool growers, and
tariff enactment and revision covering
our agriculture, as needed.
Farmers should be afforded all the
credit facilities through long and
short time loans. that the situation
may warrant, at all times, just as
other productive lines are cared for,
with any further provision that may
best suit their peculiar requirements.
from season TO season. said a mem
ber of the committee.
Fight on Sho6dy
A fight will be made to pass the
Capper-French truth-in-fabrics bill
This bill provides that where shoddy
is used it must be shown in the weave
or clothing, so that one desiring to
buy allwool of virgin ma terial will
know that he is getting it. A vast
amount of "all-wooI' goods has been
made, running over so per cent shod
dy, the latter cleaned from old clothes,
wooden carpets, wornout blankets,
largely imported in Eurapean rag
stock European countries do not al
low that kind of cloth manufacture
for clothing. In the meantime there
is no demand for home grown fleeces.
Fair and open markets for all farm
products, free from speculation and
middlemen,' is one of the phases Of
the problem to be considered, this
aiming at the obolition of the boa rds
of trade.
We are to see lively times at Wash
ington this winter, with the farmer in
the spotlight for many a day. That
something, sane practical and of gen.
eral benefit to both farmer and con-
sumer may be the outcome, all most
fervently desire.
Do not imagine that the fight toI
come is simply to save the farmer
from loss or even bankruptcy in thou
sands of cases. The field is much
broader than that, wide as that scope
may be. The ia rmer is the founda
tion of the whole superstructure and
in saving the farmer who feeds us
we are saving the nation.