The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-17
The Farm and The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

OF the old-fashioned Swiss cboouo =.
W res ears ago We imported the
CO.. fa . "isS "heels" at a much lower
0oS' LOT the genuine article.
The Little Internation.I
The Little InternationaI - 49,.
annually by students of the 81 Sadd 1n
and Sirloin club. is said to he +b>o o11i,
live stock show in Ohio where ari, uis
count nothing and condition auar,.
thing. Students adopt cattle borsce
ana swine in the university barns ana
put IN long hours after classes nro.
panng their selections for show Pin
placlngS are wholly on the hasis NJ
showmanship; the award is to the
student and not to the entry
Will Surely Prevail.
Chairman Gustafson. of the co,,,,;,
Tee OF Is, head of the United Statae
train. Growers, and the responsible
manager of the Equity elevator svs-
TEN IN the northwest with a large cen
traI elevator at st. Paul, was among
the speakers at the state farm bureau
convention at Indianapolis. The Star
Vi mat city quotes him as saving.
we farmers need not waste any
'line resolving that we are dissatisfied
Win the present marketing arrange
ments. | for one have no patience
win those radical farmers who are
seeking special privileges or who
want public money, national or state
ana VIII have nothing TO do with anv
enterprise Of theirs. Let us get our
cooperative plan to work and let II
prove itself in open and fair Compel
uon. Ii 1t is better than the present
I way IT will be sure to prevail"
Farm Bureau District Directors.
Farm burtau district directors are
elected Tor two years. This year di.
rectors were elected at INDIANAPOLIS
for the odd numbered districts as fol.
lows: First district l. H. Hull, who
viii succeed J. A. Warren; third dis
tr1ct, Burton Honon, who will reDlace
c. S. Moore; fifth district. oscar
Larm. who was reelected; seventh
district. Addison Drake. reelected.
ninth district, ]. H. GwaItney. re-elect-
led
FliVver Upkeep Is Lowered.
Wen, say, brother farmer, how
would reduction in the price of tires
appeal to you, tires being quite a
hefty part of the high cost of living?
1t would be the proper caper, you say
All right, here's a notice to that effect.
The Goodrich Rubber company has
reduced the price on its entire line of
pneumatic and solid tires, ranging
from 10 to 80 per cent Prices of
tubes have been cut approximately IL
per cent"
In addition to the pressure of falling
prices in nearly all lines are two sub
stantial reasons for the recent gradual
fall in tire prices. Several months ago
it was admitted that crude rubber was
at the low point since the automobile.
was invented, and every one knows
that long-fibered Sea Island cotton.
the quality cotton for tires, is ever so
much cheaper than during the high
time. Wages in the rubber industry
also have been reduced this year.
Farmers Must Retrench."
A gentleman named Acksrson ad
dressed the farm bureau convention al
Indianapolis on Tuesday. He empha-
sized this statement: 1T is necessary
for the farmer to retrench, at once.
as his buying power is but two-thirds
what it was before the war"
If Mr.. Ackerson hasn't discovered
that our farmers have already done a
whole lot of retrenching, we are
pleased to enlighten him. Farmers
have retrenched so much that it is
now habit, and the crying demand in
trade circles is that they spend as
literally as they are able, to acceler-
ate the movement of goods into con
sumption.
On second thought we recall thai
Friend Alderman is a county agricul-
turaI agent and knows how the need
for retrenchment by farmers has al
ready affected the business interests
in his own county.