The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-02-23


and the fertilizer industry.
With the exception of the president
reception at the White house this cor
cluded the program for Monday. TIL
first day of the conference. Not L
mention the White house reception
would hardly be fair as a western
farmer does not have an Opportunit!
everyday to meet the first lady OF The
land and possibly there are not many
in the student body who have beer
accorded this privilege.
To be admitted to one Of these re
ceptions it is absolutely necessary t
have an invitation from the Whit,
house. and in this particular case i
was required to have the officia
badge of the conference, which gave
your name and address, in evidence
The guests were formed in line anC
presented to the president and hi,
composed of the President, his officia'
family and their wives ranking &C
cording to their positions.
In this line Vice President and Mrs
Coolidge, were ahead of the secretary
of state. After all had passed down
the receiving line, a rather elaborate
lunch was served, which is unusual at
White house receptions.
On Tuesday forenoon there were
three principal addresses by experts
on the following subjects: "The Euro
pean Situation in its Relation to Amer
lean Agriculture" The Financial
Emergency in Agriculture" THE Fl
nancial Policy in its Relation to Price
Levels"
At the conclusion of these interest
ing discourses, pamphlets were distrib-
uted showing the assignments on com
mittees, and the chairman announced
that the committees would meet at =
p. m, consider their subjects and make
their reports Thursday afternoon.
There were II different committees,
as follows:
|. Agricultural and Price Relations,
2. Agricultural Credit and Insurance.
3. Transportation.
1. Foreign Competition and Demand.
5. Costs, Prices and Readjustments.
6. Crop and Market Statistics.
Z. Marketing of Farm Products.
s.. Agricultural Research and Educa-
ton.
8. National Forest Policy.
10. National Land Policy.
II. Farm Population and Farm Home.
II. Cooperation of State and Federal
Legislation.
On Wednesday forenoon there was
an address on the Fundamentals Of
Cooperative Marketing and also one
on the Place of the Independent Dis
tributor. Then four 10-minute talks
were given on the subject of Market
ing Problems.
This was not all OF the program for
Oh Thursday forenoon four more ad-
dresses were given on the following
subjects: A Food Supply for an In
creasing Population, The Need of a
National Forestry Policy, The Need of
a National Policy for Land Utiliza-
ton, The Need of a National Policy
for Agricultural Research.
This took up to noon Thursday. In
the afternoon reports of committees
were received and this reporting con
tinued until 10 p. m. that evening, all
next day and up to Friday evening at
10 p. m. OF course there were repre-
sentatives of the press who reported
the conference word for word.
When the committee on Costs,
Prices and Readjustments reported,
they included something in regard to
the high freight rates, and recon-
mended a remedy which would in
volve the reduction Of the price Of rail
road labor. This brought Mr.. Comp
ers to his feet and he moved TO strike
out the Objectionable clause Of the re-
port. A vote was taken after the
portation assured the conference that
his committee had cared for this fea-
ture and the clause was voted out of
the report. The newspapers sen this
fact broadcast showing what Gompers
did, but later when the committee on
transportation reported with the ex-
ception Of a very few votes it was
adopted unanimously. A few Of the
committee reports were amended
slightly but as a rule they were
adopted as reported.
Secretary Wallace closed the confer
ence Friday evening. In doing SO he
summed up the weeks work. He i'm
pressed on each one that the results
would be far reaching, that it was
part of our own business. He replied
to the accusation made in the early
part Of the week that it was a hand
picked conference. He assured the
delegates that he did use considerable
discretion in selecting the delegates,
being anxious to have it representa-
tive of farmers and allied industries.
President Eli, the famous economist,
in his address summed up the situa-