Arizona republican., 1921-12-18

while agricultural prosperity is abo- lutely essential to the general pros penjty of the country.
 Congress has sought very earnest ly to provide relief. It has promptly given such temporary relief as has been possible, but the call is insist ent for the permanent solution. It is inevitable that large crops lower the prices and short crops advance them. No legislation can cure that fundamental law. But there must be some economic solution for the ex- cessive variation in returns for pro duction.
 Shocking Conditions
 Tt is rather shocking to be told, and to have the statement strongly supported, that 9,000,0 bales of lot ton, raised on Ameriran plantations in a given year, will actually be
 worth more to the producers than 13, 900 900 bales would have been. Equally shocking is the statement l that 0,000,O00 bushels of wheat raised by American farmers, would bring them more money than 1000, 00O, 900 bushels. Yet these are not exaggerated statements. In world where there are tens of millions who need food and clothing, which they
 cannot get, such a condition is sure | to indict the social system which
 makes it possible.
 Tn the main, the remedy lies in | distribution and marketing. Every proper encouragement should be giv-
 CT to the cooperative marketing pro- grams. These have proven very help ful to the cooperative communities | in Europe. The Russia the co-opera | tive community has become a recog-
 nized bulwark of law and order, and saved individualism from engufmen1
 in social paralysis. Ultimately they
 will be accredited with the salvation
 of the Russian state.
 The Farmers Right 1 There is the appeal for this eX- pertinent. Why not try it? No on' challenges the right of the farmer tC | a large share of the consumers pay for his product, no one can dispute that we canot live without the farmer He is Justified in rebelling agains the transportation cost. Given Tai 1 return for his labor, he will have lesi occasion to appeal for financial aid and given assurance that his labor' shall not be in vain, we reassure al 1 the people of production sufficient t meet our national requirements an' guard against disaster
 | President Harding also suggested an amendment to the constitution s' as ito end the issue of non- -taxaDl | honds." Opposition to the issue O 1 tax-free securities has long been : 1 fundamental plank in the Farm Bu
 reau's tax platform.
 |. Other references by the presiden
 to the governments agricultural pro
 gram were as follows:
 Deserting the Farmers
 "The base of the pyramid of civili :. zation. which rests upon the soil, 1
 shrinking through the drift of popu lation from farm to city. For a gen
 eration we have been expressing nor
 or less concern about this tendency Economists have warned and states men have deplored. We thought fo a time that modern conveniences an the more intimate contact would hal the movement, but it has gone stead fly on. Perhaps only grim necessit will correct it, but we ought to fin
 less drastic remedy.
 "The existing scheme of adJustin freight rates has been favoring tn passing points, until industries are at } tracted to some centers and repelle II from others. A great volume of un
 economic and wasteful transportatio . has attended, and the cost increase
 accordingly.
 Concentration Evils
 "The grain milling and meat-pack ing industries afford ample illustra