The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-26
CUT FREIGHT
RATES, PLEA
OF FARMERS
Railway Transportation Sub
Committees Report Urges
Corporations and Labor
Share Deflation.'
CONSIDERING REPORTS
CBy Associated Press)

fBy Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Reduction
OF freight rates on farm products aud
products of allied industries and shar-
ing by both railroad corporations and
labor of "deflation OF charges now az
fecting all industries was recon-
mended in the railway TRANSFORMATION
subcommittee report prepared today
for submission to the transportation
! committee of the national agricultural
! conference.
The committee declared labor
should not carry the whole reduction.
but the railroads should take their
! share, saying the railroads made
$3.50, 100000 profit last year when far
! mers lost $1,000 900, 600.
The committee also recommended
| withdrawal by congress of authority TO
| the interstate commerce commission
/ to fix valuation of real estate held by
| railroads at more than its actual cost
! or more than the value of similar ad-
joining lands in making up the capital
account of the railroads
Recommendations
Repeal of the guaranty clause of
/ the Transportation Act, restoration to
the state railroad commissions of full
powers as of date when railroads were
| taken over by the United States gov
eminent but retention by the COM
mission of control of movement of
| empty cars in interstate business were
| urged
Recommendation. It was declared,
should be made to the interstate com
merce commission that the present ~
| lation between the charges for long
and short haul in the inter-mountain
regions be not disturbed.
DR.. II. J. Waters of Kansas City,
chairman of the general committee on
transportation said today that the re-
port of the subcommittee would be
considered later in the day and re-
port prepared for the conference
Must Decide.
The United States is approaching a
condition of adverse food balance and
must decide whether to retain a prop
,er ratio between agriculture and in
dustry or permit the latter to take a
dominant lead at the expense of the
former. DR.. Ed Ball, director of sci
entific work of the department of
, agriculture declared in an address to-
day before the national agricultural
conference. The nations balance be-
tween the two fields of endeavor will
, be last he warned unless the tend
ency toward industrial dominance, "is
made one of the major problems for
national consideration"
The critical period in which de-
, termination must be made is close ID
hand" he declared. adding that the
: situation requires a complete reorgan-
lzation of the national life since the
, problem of increasing the food supply
for an increasing population must con-
: Germ every industry.
Pleads for KNOWLEDGE.
: If American agriculture is to sue
ceed in competition with the skill. nat.
, ural resources and cheaper labor OF
+. other countries, I'VE must depend upon
, our superior knowledge" RAYMOND A.
Pearson, president of Iowa State col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanical
Arts told the conference. in a plea
for increased agricultural research.
New methods for reducing cost cf
= production. the better distribution of
!. farm products and better methods OF
marketing are sorely needed at thi,
time he said, adding that "such
methods will help to reduce the cost
n of living"
o A national policy for agricultural
v research Mr.. Pearson declared, should
: provide for a liberal federal and state
= financial support. Higher salaries he
# said. were needed to attract able men
: to the research work since the scien-
o tific ranks were being depleted rapidly
by industrial concerns offering greater
a. remuneration. He also advocated
n special scholarships and fellowships
g to provide competent men for the
J. work.
o Hear Reports.
d Winding up the program of forma
e addresses the conference was expect
n ed to prepare for consideration o
committee reports and resolutions. /
4 was thought possible that some of tht
! committee recommendations might b'
taken up by the conference late today
Recommendations covering an in
termediate credit system 10 pTovid,
farmers with working capital alread,
have been drafted by the committee
!, assigned to this problem, little opposi
= ton to its report is anticipated. since
President Harding and virtually ever.
other speaker before the conference
p has suggested such a program TO re
to lieve the present situation of the pro
e. ducers.
n Certain delegations who favor en-
" dorsement by the conference OF tn
rs activities of the agricultural bloc il
r. congress were understood today TO b.
still undecided whether to introduc
Ii such resolution.
at Among matters on which the cor
e. ference is expected to take action ar
or resolutions dealing with readjustmen
rs Of railroad labor pay, reduction 0
y, freight rates, crop insurance an
tn waterways transportation.
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