Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
MAKE new FARMS
bEl NEW FARME rs
hE,a COMMISSIONER OUTLINES
HIS POLICY WITH REGARD TO
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
QUESTION OF DISTRIBUTION
Plan TO Divert Newcomers From Big
cisies to. Agricultural Sections and
Give Them Government Assistance
q Establishing Themselves.

4 wv NnCH 6ObCIuHISHt SNobiSAaHS
u Establishing Themselves.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
WAshington.-Th new commissions
general of immigration has taken of
nce III the person of W. w. Husband
whe succeeds Anthony j Caminetti
Already the new commissioner has
outlined in part his policies. Here Ii
one fhing he has said which touches
the mmigration problem in relation
to the farming interests:
"qar plan is not to replace Ameri-
can Warmers with foreigners but to
crease new farms and make new farm
ers. thereby Increasing the resources
Of tl& nation. Our immigration problem
Is islaRgely sprOblem of distribution of
ts.S@s,-s-ssnigrants. The majority OF our
immlgrants are essentially farmers.
:" j. plan to group them somewhat
On Y European village plan, and Of
Ter hem the advantages of expert
agr fltural sand home demonstration
~~FfFF At~NAOi NAAAOhSlA luC 1tCDuI
OF hriculture, and to aid them in
tR advantage of the farm loan
a. HlBy handling the immigration
pG Fn In this manner we win do
fWNr LSith the Red danger"
I'M, "a on the strength of long resi-
IN Washington as a more or
JtM MlH terhups much less, accurate
@iSu;er of public events, it must be
ailAa n u words of this kind have been
#sAs efOre. The promise always has
II q sde after a change Of admins
As qfhat the immigrants we're to be
W. III u saS frpni the great cities into
NH \, laalsilFa eiistffets
l !. Must Wait for Results.
i(h,} ~ wants to write in a earning |
III ~ Ind such writing will not be |
u 4PThe hope is simply that Mr.. |
I'd flhd will succeed in getting agri-
&inI u immigrants into sections of
n ,e nntry where they can engage in
HTF lg without doing anything to in
Eyot the prospects of the American
az er. 1t can be said, however that
Gems to be the intention Of the
Department of Labor, working with
he Department of Agriculture, to put
he plans which they have formed in
0 effect and to carry the work through
D success. The promise is for today
nd the performance must be of to-
borrow. One must wait for results.
( During the last campaign for the
residency men of both parties dwelt
trongly and at considerable length on
hat 1t was necessary to do to
.rengthen the agricultural interests of
he country, and to make the dwellers
o the land happy and prosperous. In
act, prior to the Republican and
emocratic conventions of last year
Tery candidate for the nomination of
ther party spoke largely along farm
g lines. Men who dd not know much
,out farming from personal expert
ice talked with every assurance of
'rtainty of knowledge, concerning
nAnt farmer problems, owner farmer
wheat problems, cattle prob
ms, poultry problems and all other
'Oblems.
The problem of the farm will be ,,
e of the great problems of the pres !
t administration. The farmer prob ,,
ly has grown tired of hearing that ,
Is "the backbone of the nation," =.
he chief reliance of his fellow coun-
In tirnn nc mood ~ Nf
2 a good many other nice things :
out himself 1t seems to be taken
r granted in Washington that it is i.
ing to be hard thing so to direct :,
ltters. that the producer on the land ;,
d the consumer of his products both 7.
II be satisfied. 1t is only the truth :,
say that various representatives of :,
} farming interests differ in their Il
mands for action. The farmers know -
8 as well as anybody else and the I,
,ir problems Of today Is to coalesce ;,
various suggestions for action so a,
Il general satisfaction will be the !,
nit. .,
Hard to Get at Truth.
The emergency tariff bill which re
,sed the house of representatives cf
] was killed in the senate, was in d'
ded to be OF assistance to the agrl- az
tural interests of the country. 1t 81
t with opposition which was more pl
less determined In its activities. W
was charged in many quarters that pa
was unequal in its distribution of Tn
efits; and that while 1t helped here
hurt there. 1t is hard to get at SO
truth ip matters like this. IN
Vhen the extra session assemblies, &c
the tax problems are out of the III