The Mena weekly star., 1921-01-27
|S COTTON AND |RE FOOD URGED
'..l Conference Recommends .s;s Plan for Reducing Pro-
 <. if Fleecy Staple-Mena
 |r,5;,or Tells of Meeting.
,v V W ST JOHN.


 \ ~r;no and, as an essential if to be with the crowd, headed \ Marion hotel. Only a little { a. m., but found-the first Zr face in ..sight-our own Ir L. Johnson, fianked by TH. ". Finger, J. c. Allen, o. 5berspoon and B. P. Lichlyter, R Polk county and soon J. G. See accompanied by Mrs. pce and daughter, appeared. {sn. for an hour or so, before, and after breakfast, there &aIing hands with old friends ssting new people that may or no, be Misunderstanding as of life may steer the way. <tle before g o'clock the home f;on joined in the general 4 toward Liberty hall, two .way There Governor McRae |btroduced. near one thousand ] faced men arose to their feet =nnlauded the popular chief Ee-and, in all truth. the evl- fl Gov. McRae's popularity is @bere seen and felt.
 *out flourish or attempt at ora- Effect. the governor launched s subject. He commented on Dusual conditions confronting bple of Arkansas, and of the of his hearers in the finding |ution of such conditions, re- them, however, that we were be in trouble, but that we were, much better off than other and states, as the United was immeasurably better off M other section of the globe. l6gernor offered the faith cure thing most needed, faith in Ees, in our neighbors; faith of Illness man and banker in the and the farmer in the busi- an and banker, and then he shed each to keep the faith. led attention to the fact that ' debt that made life hard in Sis, and how he had felt sure eflation and price reductions Inevitable following the war, H urged economy. He said the Bees of products were not so much by the lack of a real r them, that the demand was ted on the number of people >nt and need these things, but Xsed on the number of people Gbuy. He spoke of the war-im- 1ed world, and said when Ger 1ad reached a condition where uld pay whatever indemnity Icted of her, then England, Italy, etc, could pay the Unit les the $10,000,000,000 they He then called attention to the bte, and how of each dollar our bent received from the people 93 cents was used for the De navy and pensions and but for other activities. He here that both the high cost of Ind the high cost of govern hst be stopped" and the cheers be rafters.
 the governor referred to his D, and of his promise to pseless offices and commissions re fattening at the public land insisted that on his plat ere should be no compromises led his hearers to let theil
 and representatives know shes to insure that he. had upport. He referred to the U developments, and smilingly kd that Arkansas oil might Arkansas with money to Tiff fession, but here seriously ad- 5Eth the farmers "to lease theii the oil men on the best terms and then let the oil men look oil-that this sort of thing for the farmer to undertake. declared against farmers buy leases and oil stocks, saying led more money had been talk.
 the state for these things
 total value of the cottor e closed by calling attention atistics which showed that 1T le year just past the people United States had squanderet 100, 0,O00 on luxuries alone nough to pay our entire wal q then he pleaded for econ. # industry as the saving graces Dr. Bradford Knapp.
 Bradford Knapp, dean of tho # of Agriculture of Arkansas
 introduced. Dr. Knapp saiC pluch harder to steer . safe times of declining than 1T riees. But he declared tn, conditions were temporary trated the meaning of his de py the following story:
 Be good old days before tht
 law, he said he attended { pn Tn Little Rock. Before noor
 bring perfected it's temporary flon and adjourned. On re ng one delegate unsteady 1T
 and speech, arose and made
 to make the temporary or
 permanent. Another go' o6jected, declaring that tho
 aker was drunk and didn'
 difference between temper permanent. But the man wh,
 motion insisted, and to il
 that he knew what he wa, bout, said: "Yes, I'm drunk
 5 temporary; your a blanl
 mats permanent"
 app declared that there wa
 wise course to pursue. H, 70 l9l4, and the "buy a bale
 and how then he and other!
 the doctrine of diversified
 ops. In 1915 the boil weevi
 put the same doctrine, ant
 time the south gets int pat safe and sane remedy il
 d asked; Why in the San
 We stick to the program 2
 done so, he continued, muci
 saster of 1920 would hav'
 lded. But we were back
 nd related:
 T came to a verv religion.