The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09
FARMERS TO MEET
Kansas Agriculturists VIII Be-
gin Convention Tuesday.
To Discuss Financial and POIit-
icaI Problems.
SPEAKERS OF NATIONAL NOTE
May Pave Way for National
Marketing Plan.
Address of Welcome by Lieu
tenant Governor Huffman.
SPEAKERS OF NATIONAL NOTE

Kansas will hear the sorrow song
of the farmer and stockman this week.
Coming to Topeka from every section
of the state for numerous conferences
and conventions, the men who have
weathered the season of debated farm
values and paid increased taxes, may
be forgiven if they talk about their
sore toes for a few days. The farmer
stockmen meetings in Topeka this
week will hold interest in agricultural,
financial and political circles.
Various meetings scheduled for the
week are directly or indirectly con-
nected with the Kansas Agricultural
convention which will be in session
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
This gathering is in connection with
the fifty-first annual meeting of the
state board of agriculture.
Many Prominent Speakers.
Speakers of national and interna-
tional note will be in Topeka for the
president of the American Farm Bu-
reau federation; Jane Adams Of Hull
House, Chicago, and Henry c. Stuart,
former governor of Virginia.
Standing out prominently thruout
the meetings, tho, will be the trouble
stories of the men from the farms and
feed lots. Kansas and the nation will
hear a lot of the troubles which over
took the folks out in the rural dis
tricts last year. Nor will it all be
sweet melody to those who hear or
read. There is a growing suspicion
that good many delegates are COM
ing to Topeka with meat axes and
determination to make the acquaint-
ance of some of the people responsible
for increased taxes and reduced farm
values.
Meeting Opens Tuesday.
Sessions of the farmers and stock
men will open Tuesday with a mar
keting conference in the state house.
This conference was called by J. c.
Mohler, secretary of the state board
of agriculture. Farm organizations in
every part of the state have indicated
plans to send delegates to this meet
ing. Special railroad rates during the
week are expected to Increase atten-=
dance during the conferences.
1t is not improbable that Kansans
may pave the way to agreements re-
garding a national farm marketing
plan. A number of prominent Kan
sas farmers have been identified with
the marketing movement and will be
present during the discussion of mar
ket plans.
Lieutenant Governor To Speak.
The farmer convention opens at 4
o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
der way at night with addresses of
welcome by Lieut.. Coy. Charles S.
Huffman, representing Governor Al
| len, and Mayor H. J. Corwine, of To-
peka State Senator E. E. Frizell, OF
| Larned, president of the board, will
respond. The principal address of the
evening will be by the Rt. Rev. James
Wise, bishop of the Episcopal diocese
of Kansas, Topeka.
! Thursday is crowded with impor-
! tant sessions. In the morning E. Il.
I DanieIson, secretary of the Nebraska
State Fair, Hutchinson, will discuss
| the object of agricultural exhibitions
J. r. Howard, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation, is
the principal speaker at the afternoon
session. His subject is Some Present
Day Farm Problems" B. c. Bigger
staff, associate editor of the Daily
| Drovers Telegram, Kansas City, and
c. C. Isley, Dodge City banker, are
| also on the program
Two head-liners are on the night
program. Jal-e Adams will speak on
Disarmament or World Starvation" !"
Ex-Governor Stuart who is a veteran
stockman, will speak on the subject.
'In the Days of Our Reconstruction"
Farm Organization Session.
Friday morning is farm organiza-
| ton session. Ernest Mcclure, manag-
ing editor of the Grange Monthly,
Greeley; George E. Tucker, of Eureka,
the Farm Bureau: and Dan Thurston,
state secretary. of Salina, the Farm
ers' Union. DIR. L. E. Sayre, dean of
| the K. U. school of pharmacy, will dis
cLss beverages at this session.
The convention closes with a $50
| o'clock dinner. complimentary to the
board and delegates, given by the To-
peka chamber of commerce.