South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-28
AGRICULTURE and STOCK-RAISLNG

which this paper is to tell you about
It.
But first let me say why call
farm products the key-log IN tie
business jam.
First, farm products lead all 9TH
ers In value and tonnage. And they
are stopped dead in their tracks
They lie on the farmers hands LIKE
an ice crop in Greenland-just as II
nobody wanted them. And the
world is starving for them
People who could pay for them II
they had the chance are dropping
down by the roadsides and dying for
them. Women are pressing starved
infants 20 dry breasts.
People are eating the bark Of
trees. and fling their agonized
stomachs with clay and earth 70
deaden the pangs Of starvation. They
20 naked and barefooted for lack Of
clothes. God never looked down on
this world so agonized. 80 dead TO
hope. so lost 20 promise as now.
Americas Crops Rot.
And our crops ere rotting on our
their debts. many Of our fields are
going untitled, our wonderful farm
ing class are beginning 10 doubt the
Divine guidance Of the world. be-
cause nobody can buy their wheat
and corn and fat stock and cotton
and wool.
If the devil has had the making
OF things all 10 his own Internal will,
ne couldn't have schemed out a
worse nN for the world. For Il ~
running the world financially. moral
ly, and spiritually.
And If the farm crops could move
TO market, the hungry and naked
could be fed and clothed the idle
could be set 70 work. the farmers
could begin 10 buy and build and
pay their debts, the factories could
begin TO operate, the mines could
start up. the railways could begin to
haul loaded trains-the whole frozen
stream of human functions would be
thawed. and things would move not
only in our country. but in all the
world.
This thing can be brought about
by a simple act of congress which
will merely enable US 10 do what ev-
eryone knows we could and ought to
and want to do.
The Remedy.
The plan I am advocating, ard
which ] want every community in
the United States TO advocate in pub
lie meetings. petitions, and resolu-
l . L.
that they have the command from
the people TO act, is TO pass a bill
which by the time this is read, or
very soon thereafter, will be intro
duced in congress, to establish an
! agricultural foreign trade financing
corporation to extend proper credits
! to nations. to corporations. to coop
/ erative societies, or 10 individuals
wishing to buy our surplus farm
| products and having real security 10
offer. This means cotton. wool,
/ pork, corn, oats, wheat, rye and like
staples
The demand is there In Europe.
/ European peoples have got used TO
consuming our products. The farm
ers last year gave TO Europe under
! the "gift-cOrn' project some 500
, tons of corn. Up TO that time most
of the European peoples did not
\ think that corn was fit for human
/ food. But Howard, the head Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
started the movement to give away
! the corn 10 Europe's starving peo-
! pies and Carl Vrooman, formerly
| assistant secrettry of agriculture,
/ took hold Of the movement and car
ried il through TO a certain level OF
success.
Europe learned to eat corn!
Belgian Gains.
Hoover started grinding corn in
/ Belgium In 1915. His little mills
ground a few hundred tons a month.
| Now these same people have their
own maize mills and are eating 5000
\ tons a month.
Some of the gift corn went 10 20
land where the great food of the