Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-26


! to enact relief program as provided
| in his opening address to the conference
with an added price guarantee or other
insurance features.
/ A new complication to the already long
! list piled up during the three days Is
promised when Sam Gompers, president
of the American Federation Of Labor, 4
delegate, places labors position before tn
conference. Gompers fears that cuts in
freight rates will be translated into lower
wages for workers all along the line.
/ He viii tell the conference that labor
cannot be expected TO be the goat"
BITTER BATTLE
/ IN PROSPECT.
! Feeling was tense as the conference
neared the end of its speech making pro-
| gram. At the afternoon session the com
mittees were to make their reports and
recommendations to the conference. The
insurgents are ready to bring in minority
reports on every question that does not
meet their approval and to introduce res
olutions which they think vital to agri-
culture This is expected to preclpitate
a series Of bitter battles. The Insurgents
believe they will be defeated by the over
whelming conservative vote.
If the insurgents carry out their plans
they will hold a rump conference Friday
night But If the saner leaders prevail
their strength will be thrown into a
/ fight for adoption of President Harding's
| program. In this the leaders believe they
will be successful as the Administration
! forces will be compelled to support the
/ Presidents suggestions. An effort will
/ be made to add Il price guarantee point
/ If the Administration will legalize CO.
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rates, extend liberal credits and give the
| farmer some sort Of insurance against
heavy loss, such as price guarantee or
! some other form Of price sterilization,
| agriculture will have all the desired Iegis-
/ lation the most far-seeing Of the pro-
/ gressives declare.
NEED PRE-WAR BUYING
POWER OF DOLLAR.
Unless Uncle Sans dollar gets back
to pre-war buying power so that the
supply and demand for foOtstufTs in the
/ United States can be eGualiZed, America
will be essentially food importing ma
ton within from fifteen to twenty years,
/ DR.. Z. D. Ball. director Of scientific work
| in the United States Department Of Ag-
riculture, told the National Agriculture
conference.
/ Aggressive action must be taken by
| the whole American people at once or
/ foreign markets viii have to be relied
upon If the millions of Americans wish
to eat, DR.. Ball said.
Those who believe the Nations farm
| ing depression is due largely to over
production and no market demand, re-
ceived a staggering blow from the
! speaker.
WORLD SUFFERS FROM
AUTHORIZATIONS.
1.-The fact is there is no overproduction"
/ he said What the world is suffering
/ from Is undercOnsumption. There is not
+ enough food In the world at present to
/ provide for normal consumption. The
Nation is rapidly coming to a condition
! in which the food balance is going to
/ be definitely against US, unless 1t Is
made one Of the major problems for ma
tiOnal consideration.
{ Conference delegates, ready to receive
committee reports which viii demand
! Government intervention in agricultural
difficulties were told by other speakers
that agrarian perplexities cannot be LETT
| solely to the Government for solution.
| with the insurgent movement in the
| parIey, out in the open, the session
promised verbal pyrotechntcs.
[ DR. Bali was the first speaker on
lengthy program given over TO discus
sion Of national policies for land utlliza-
! ton aErlcUHuTdl EeSedECu anu tA0 HNIN
OF conservation Of forests.
''If the day comes that the United
States will have to reply upon foreign
markets for foodstuffs, the West win
suffer loss of much Of its manufacturing
industries" DR. Ball declared. Con
tiuuation of the alternate excuses and
deficiencies Of production viii mean, too,
reorganization of national life, an In
creased cost OF living and q general
migration to other lands
SAYS L. s. POWER RESTS IN
AGRICULTURAL SITUATION.
Americas retention Of its power and
| influence among the nations Of the world
depends largely on how it meets and
remedies the agricultural situation"
Conservation OF forest lands ia a nee
essary aid to agriculture, declared Rich
ard Ely, professor of economies Univer-
| sity of Wisconsin, who next addressed
the conference. Professor Ely deprecated
the proposal to remove control Of forest
land from the Department of Agriculture
He assailed attempts at price fixing.
Price fixing will never bring prosper
ity," he said mo price can be men
toned which would make all the farmers
prosperous. Price fixing tends to strait
fication and to stationary economic CON
| ditions''
clifford Pinchot Of Pennsylvania and
Raymond E. Pearson, president of the
Iowa State College of Agriculture and
Mechanical Arts, addressed the confer
ence on the need of we'll defined national
policies on forests and agricultural -xe-
search.