Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-06-03
ORGANIZATION THEME
Visitors From Three STATED
Spend Day In Country. 4,

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of farm products was promised
by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry c. Wallace yesterday att
ernoon In his address to the S.
600 farmers and their friends
at the farm bureau picnic. This
assistance, he explained. will be
supplementary to that which has
been given by the government 4
in the past to the farmers In
the production and educational
fields and marks a clcan.out
extension Of the governmental 4
activity in the interest OF the
farmer.
At the same time Secretary WaIsl
lace warned the farmers that th0j
enlistment of governmental aid WIFI
mean nothing unless 1t is met withi
a hearty and determined spirit Of
cooperation on the part OF the farm-i
ers of the country m whole as
we'll as individually; and TO indicates
to the farmers specifically wherein
their duty lies he suggested thar
they discontinue their kickinki
against other groups of workers whof
have learned the lesson of organsl
ization and cooperation. and in.
stead OF the protests devote theiti
brains and hands to learning thiaI
Same lesson. stxss,J
Afternoon OF Addresses.
The address by Secretary Waki
lace was the principal ono of thai
afternoons program which continsI
ued for more than two hours ana
included addresses by A. i. Levers
of South Carolina president OF thel
Farm Loan Board and former con-l
gressman from his home state. the
Honorable Frank w. Mish. of Wash.
ington county, Maryland, we'll
known busness-farmer the Honor
able Gray Silver. Washington rep
resentatiye OF the American Farm
Bureau Federation. and very brieel
remarks by President III. Il. Smith,
of the Berkeley County Farm Bu-1
reau. who appealed for a practical
application, in the form Of bureau
membership. of tho advice of Sec.1
rotary Wallace, Luther w. Sutton.
superintendent OF the Reymann
Farms at Wardensville who issued
n general invitation to the people
to come and see for themselves
what the state university is doing
in scientific manner in the way
OF producing thoroughbred cattle, /.
d. VanMetre, Sir, whose guests tho
visitors were at the picnic. and |.
u. VanMetre, Jr., who recited a
verse Of welcome Professor j. ID.
Muldoon, of Shepherd College, was
in charge OF the platform introduce
lions.
Urges Commodity Bonds.
Mr.. Lever whose interests arc
rot exclusively those of farm finan-
cling, spoke ON his own field, and
supported the plan which, he said,
hc hopes will be evolved whereby I
the farmers will DO able to put their /
staple and non-perishable crops in
warehouses. have warehouse re-
ccipts issued for these crops, have !!
Commodity" banks. distributed |
throughout the country similar to
tie distribution of federal reservs |
lanks at present, accept these re-
ceipts as bases for the issuance OF
commodity" bonds which might be
cold TO the people az the farm loan
bonds are sold today
Mr. Mish introducing himself as
a farmer among farmers, spoke on
farmer cooperation and organiza.
ton, declaring that the farmer IN
being driven today by sheer neces-
fity to organization, that he is be-
ing ground between a merciless or
panized business on the one hand
and organized labor on the other
hand, and that The farmer will get
in money for his labor only what
he fights for. He spoke in strong
to the mounting taxation
on farmers, spoke in favor Of the
of the present excess
profits tax and against the proposed
sales tax which, he said, would
shift the burden from the business
which should hear it to the farmer
and consumer
Cray Silver On Program.
Silver hearing a message OF
ereing from President J. r. How.
ard. Of the federation, who was
echednled TO make the address for
the federation at the picnic. ex-
planned why it was necessary to
have farmer organization in
why the farmer was
compelled to match his organiza.
tion with those OF the other inter-
ests which look after both legisla.
ton and administration in the cap
ital, and then went into some detail
as to what the federation has done
and IS doing for the farmer.
Secretary Wallace, prefaeiug his
remarks with the explanation that
he was an experienced hand at
7peaking before farmeiepicnic
crowds referred to The existing
and difficult economic sit
aation IN which the farmers find
themselves. but explained that it.
was not A new experience. that
the farmers Of the past had faced
the same conditions and they had
the same remedies which
are being suggested today as
means OF escape The difference.
he said, is this Today the farmer
have started on the ROAD toward
adequate organization for lheir owa
protection. movement which the
farmers have always felt in psst