Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-29
COLORADO STATE FARM BUREAU
ltNews Letter No L.
NATIONAL ITEMS.
Marked Attention Given to Farm
Bureau Representatives in Wash
bureau
ington -

uA Sou AsSPASscutdtAvCS In WASl
ington:-
All reports from Washington.
G. indicate that the Executive Cen
mittee. and other Representative
from twenty-six states, are attrat
ting considerable attention and ar
receiving many favorable comment
on their work from men who ar
authorities on national affairs.
Herbert Hoover. Secretary o
Commerce: Unless we can read
Just our railroad rates we will hav
to re-write the whole agriculture
geography of the United States. Oui
present rates will soon move our
granaries Of foreign shores, for to-
day 1t costs 80 cents per bushel &c
ship grain from Missouri to New
YORK and the same amount can be
shipped by water from Argentine
Tor 10 cents We should take
lesson from Europe and think OF
our agriculture. Those Industries
have developed industry to the de-
triment of griculture; have imperii-
ed their national defense and even
their civilization. We cannot af-
ford to depend upon overseas for
our food. for it undermines our
basic industry.
we cannot afford to protect our
foreign commerce without giving at
tention step by step to the devel-
opement and production of our agei-
culture. If we neglect this we will
place ourselves in the same lament
able condition occupied by a num-
Der of European countries today.
l cannot conceive the peasantry Of
Europe ever represented by such
able men are here studying the
problems of agriculture. / wish
to express my approval of the excel
lent work which the Ame yican Farm
Bureau Federation is doing. 1t is {
conservative in its approach and 7
gives confidence to the whole d
country"
Henry C. Wallace. Secretary of I
Agriculture, in addressing the Farm n
Bureau Representatives said ZAP /
preparations for the work for the u
department of agriculture is for the I,
benefit of all the people rather
han of the farmers alone. Such +,
ultimately benefit h
he consumers. The farmer can n
eventually adjust himself to any If
ondition, he will not starve. 1t n
the city folk who must be fed. s,
hey have the deepest possible in e,
crest in agricultural appropriations. n
The farmers of the United III
tates must now prepare to take C,
are of themselves in their own w
ght. They must not continue to Or
They must gather the M
acts and present them from the
point of view They must III,
II up more business like organiza- gr
ems than ever before. l hope of
lat the various farm groups Will Ar
It together in a working alliance. foi
griculture is too big to be misre- ma
esented by quarreling. If organ wa
ed farmers will fortify themselves tor
It'll facts and figures they will get thf
mewhere. Opinions as such are in
thing now, unless backed up by us,
e facts" Mr.
A National Legisls- pre-
re Program so
BY the end of this week: it is $40
pected that definite nationall
'islative policy will be announced the
the American Farm Bureau Fed rea
'tion. The executive committee far
In session in Washington, togeth- Far
with delegates from 26 state fed rea
lions, and is hearing reports of the
committees named last week. Ket'
frst week of the legislative con- VINO
ence- was devoted to the study tioh
the national problems of finance.
tx. taxation and transnor,at,o, form
speaking before the delegates, A. pom
Lever of the Federal Farm Loan Torn
Ird outlined plan for financing WIN
marketing farm products thru ia'e
banks and proposed that
farmere stor. .h. the
ded warebousos ns -. dust
ehouse receipts be pooled as
IS FOR issue and sale of deben- eee0
IS against them. He offered
as a relief for Tho sor,o,, ~ Farr
cy in which the farmer uan, ,ina Burt
self.
overnor w - after
Federal Reserve D., of t
the ex,ens,on =, '"e s's very
III ioS'n shou
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