Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-10-08
FARMERS ARE GIVEN
j. s. c. c. VERSION Of
MARKETING PLAN
FOUR HUNDRED ATTEND MEET.
ING AT OTTAWA HIGH SCHOOL
w. E. RUMMELL OF CHICAGO
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER OF EVEN
ING.

Inc real winter weather last UlBHl
failed to keep the farmers from com
ing to town in large numbers to at
tend the meeting at the high school
held to explain the u. S. Grain Grow
ers, Inc, and the plans for the mar
keting of the farmers grain under tn,
new organization. About 400 men
and women, practically all Of whom
We're either farmers or farm owner,
were In attendance.
The meeting was presided over by
Charles Lucas of Freedom township,
who has been active in the formation
of the u. s. Grain Growers, Inc,
among local men John HoT led in
community song service, getting his
audience to join with him in singing
some of the old time songs and estab
fishing a spirit of fellowship among
them.
James b. Stevenson, who for sew
cral weeks has been travelling through
the state speaking for the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association and the Farm
Bureau, was the first speaker intro.
duCed to the audience. He made an
interesting short talk. explaining how
very few of the farmers knew of the
organized farm societies and bureaus
and how they Immediately became in
terested and ready to cooperate when
they learned about them.
The farmer is now up against the
worst period in history" he said
I'VE have been hit the hardest in the
present great financial uph2aval" He
predicted that the farmers only saliva
tiOn from financial distress was in or
ganization to market their products
The address of the evening was
made by w 70. Rummell of Chicago,
a former high school principal of
Iowa, who for a year has been travel
ing throughout the country, speaking
on agricultural associations ana the
Il. S. Grain Growers, Inc. Mr.. Rum
nell delivered lengthy address
which struck hearty response in the
bigger portion OF the audience, al.
though many of his hearers expressed
themselves as disappointed that he
did not devote more time to the T. s
Grain Growers, Inc.
Possessing a very pleasing speaking
voice and being an orator of ability.
the speaker of the evening made a
favorable impression. He spoke of
the feeling of unrest at the present
day, telling how nothing could be com
pleted and perfected at once, He told
Of how the world was making strides
and discoveries along all lines, and
had even reached the point now where
astromers had measured the uni
verse.
He went on to tell how agriculture
had always been neglected until re-
Gently, how it was only within the
last few years that agricultural col
leges had been established and the
vocation was being considered as an
industry.
He spoke of the matter of finance
in relation to the question of the farm
er, declaring that they we're neither
too big for anybody to understand
The relative value of agriculture to
other industries were taken up by
Mr.. Rummell, who stated that last
night there was sS0000,000, Geo invest
ed in the farming industry in the
United States. He explained that this
was one-third of all the money wrap
ped up in all the industries in the
United States. Railroads were the
next valuable industry to farming, he
announced, and said that the value
of all the roads in the country last
night was S20,000000,00
At the present time he claimed 49,
100000 people were engaged in the
farming industry. Each farm in the
country was said to be a factory.
He spoke at length on the farm as
4 basic industry, explaining how each
farm was not only producing plant
but consuming plant
He expressed wrath for the proprie-
tor of bucket shop, which he brand
ed as semi-religious gambling parlor,
whom, he said, had stated few days
ago that the farmers were ignorant.
They made money during the war
and got all stuck up"
He went into farming as a business,
urging the men present to think of
their business in terms of deprecia-
ton, profits, interest and cost of
labor, as the business men did, and
not to merely think of getting by"
| Agriculture is a business" he said
"The farmer should have costs and a
fair profit"
He predicted as a solution of this
problem that the farmer should mer-
chandise his own products. He went
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