The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-14
TO STUDY MARKET
Problem of Marketing Products
Concerns Farmers.
A Want Money For
Their LabOrs.
LEVER URGES WAREHOUSES;
To Sell Farm Crops During En-
tire Year.
j. II. BurrOW Advises Farmers
TO Sell Wheat.
LEVER URGES WAREHOUSES;

ing the FARMER OF today, but the prob
lem of marketing the goods which he
does produce, and getting a fair price
for them That has been the key note
of the meeting of the state board of
agriculture from start to finish-how
to get the money for the crops
"A plan which would distribute the
marketing of farm products thru the
year. instead of examining per cent
OF them on the public in four months,
taxing the ability of the railroads to
t transport them, and the public to alb
sorb them, and driving the prices
down for the producers. was explained
and advocated by A. F. Lever, of the
gresham from South Carolina, at the
Thursday afternoon session.
Lever urged the construction of
central and regional warehouse, with
the issuance of bonds on farm pro-
ducts and the organization of Coop
eratlve corporations to handle the
bonds. By this means the goods could
be released on the market as they
were needed, the farmer would receive
a fair price for them, and could get
the money when he needs it, Lever
declared.
Conquest of Nature.
Complete conquest of nature, the
vain hope of all ages in the past, will
probably become a reality in the fu-
ture. thru the development of modern
science, E. H. Lindley, chancellor of
the Kansas university, said in his ad
dress Thursday night.
THE most important discovery of
the last century," Chancellor Lindley
declared. lis that men are now in
sight of means of control of their
minds and there is the possibility of a
directive psychology which will Danish
thoughts.
Armed With Test Tubes.
Just as the pioneers who won the
west set out with gun and axe and an
unconquerable spirit and opened for
mankind new zones of safety and of
opportunity, the new pioneers are
armed with test tubes, microscope and
minds richly stored with modern
science.
THE new pioneers are pathfinders
who solve problems instead of dodg-
ing problems. The pioneer spirit has
sion for progress. Life is a ceaseless
adjustment to changing conditions
Old ways of doing cannot meet new
situations; so there is a rupture of old
habits and a premium placed on
thinking.
THE great business of education is
to stimulate the pioneer spirit which
is inherent in childhood. The children
come to school filled with initiative
and eagerness to solve their little
problems. If progress is to be MAIN
tained, the whole system of public
education must concentrate its ener-
gies in developing to the utmost this
passion of childhood and youth. We
may well take off our hats to the
past, but We must take off our coats
to the future. The finest heritage for
our children who are to live in the
new era will be such an education as
would enable them to help themselves
to the utmost. and to find supreme
satisfaction in overcoming the obsta-
cles induced by new and complex con-
ditions.''
Farm Daughters Hope Chest.
Helen B. Thompson. dean of the
division of home economics of the
State Agricultural college, spoke
Thursday night on 1.-The Farm Daugh-
ter's Hope Chest" urging better liv-
ing conditions and opportunity to
study the right kind of dressing for
country girls.
which there has been much agitation
in the past six months. should not be
repealed unless there is substituted
tax which will prove better way OF
raising money for the operation of the
from the net income or
the taxpayers, H. c. Mckenzie. of
Walton. N. Y, chairman of the taxa
ton committee of the federated farm
bureaus, told the members of the
board and the delegates to the meet
ing this morning.
Against Gross Sales Tax.
Mckenzie declared against the pro-
posed gross sales tax which is being
denouncing it as 'funda-
mentally unsound," because it would
either be passed on to the ultimate
consumer or paid by the producer. in
which case it does not bear any rela-
ton to the amount of the income OF
the person who pays it, and would
work an injustice.
The overturn or gross sales would
nit the farmer either way it was as
sessed If he paid as a producer, his |
lax would be in addition to his income
tax If he paid as consumer, it
would still be an extra burden on him. |
Mckenzie declared.
The lack, of a tariff on farm produce
which would protect the farmer from
A free trade market is due to the lack
Of organization of the farmers them
selves Thru organization manufac-
turers and labor have secured tariff
which iusures them high prices and
high wages in industry. That is the
explanation for the desertion of the
farms and the movement of popula-,
ton to the city, Mckenzie declared.
NICK enzie declared that the exemp-
lion of securities from taxation works
4 hardship on the farmer, because it
applies only to securities, most of
which are owned by city business men, |
He favors a constitutional amendment |
which will exempt no securities from
taxation.
Music was furnished last night by |
members of the Niodoc club.
H. c. Mckenzie. chairman of the |
on taxation of the Feder- !
ated Farm bureaus. spoke to the MEM |
bers of the board on taxation at this |.
mornings session.
Community centers in rural COM |
in the interests of the reli- /