Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-08
Nebraska Farm
2Body Adopts New
!: Constitution
Youngs Favored for President
AT Coming Election in Lin
coln-Executive Com.
mittee Chosen.

the country, and those who can in
fluence the flow of freight cars have
the power to send farm price:
up or down. and should not be lef
without the benefit of the farmers
advice. he said.
Freight Rates Important.
II suppose there are men in this
audience who could have received
$l.95 for their corn if they could have
got cars. but who are now selling il
at about 50 cents" he ventured
Freight rates are another thing that
are vitality important to the farmer
and one that he should watch Care
fully. Right today the South Ameri-
can farmer can ship his corn and his
live stock to the eastern coast of the
United States for less freight charges
than the western farmer has to paw"
The Farm Bureau federation has
hired Clifford Thorre. rate exert,
at a salary of $1,000 month just
to watch transportation matters for
the farming interests. Mr.. Wallace
said.
IF farmers are to come into their
own, they must do t bv such great
organizations as this" he declared.
Sympathy or legislation is not 60
ing to do as much as self-help. There
has never been any research work
done by the farmers and they have
not the full information on their in
dustry with which to meet the knowl-
edge of world conditions Reid by the
packers. the railroads and other in
dustries. If | We're given authority
today to appoint three ,nen whom
considered competent to advise with
the manufacturing and transporta-
tion interests and protect the rights
OF agriculture, I would not know
where to go. Farming is the biggest
business in the world. but farmers
have never collected real Information
on its questions.
Shipping Board Blamed.
DO you suppose. folks. that if we
had had an adequate organization a
year ago when the secretary of the
treasury and the governor of the
federal reserve bank system decided
on such drastic defation of credit,
that we would have been where we
are today? I think the farmers
would have recommended that we
slide down the roof instead of jump
ing off"
Mr.. Wallace also blamed the ship
ping board for maintaining ocean
freight rates at triple prices, to the
cost of the farmers whose surplus
was shipped abroad.
Urging farmers to organize and
depend on themselves for their saliva
ton. Mr.. Wallace stated that the
members of the hod carriers union
in America paid more money to their
protective organization each year
than all the farmers paid to all their
organizations. He also spoke favor
ably OF co-op9ative buying and SELL
COOPERATIVE Buying Discussed.
1T is interesting to see some of the
people in the towns and cities who
fear that the farmers will put them
out OF business with cooperative
agencies" he said. Now Henry
Ford is wiping out the middleman
all along the line. and yet he is ap-
plauded as farseeing citizen. When
Mr.. Ford needed wood in large
quantities he bought forest. When
he needed iron, he got mine and
built his own smelter. But when the
farmer tries this same system of cut
ting down the number of hands that
intervene between producer and con-
sumer, they are many who try to
make it appear that the very exist
.enee of our institutions is menaced."
fn-recommendings sco-operative effort
to stfies county agents. Mr.. Wallace
told of NN,e success of cooperative
seed houses in Illinois.
Fair prices to the farmers are as