The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-13
Will Again Head Work of State
Agricultural Board.
III. w. Avery Slated to Succeed
Frizeu as President.
SESSION WILL CLOSE TONIGHT
Geo. e. Tucker Urges Building
of a Market System.
He Says Sixty Per Cent of the
Farmers Are Bankrupt.
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE OF
EICERS.

/ EICEI2S.
President-H. w. Avery. wakefield.
Secretary. G. MohIer, Topeka.
Board MemberS-F. w. Dixon. Hol-
| ton. to succeed NJ. j. Hines, Lancaster:
Paul Klein, lola; f. A. MiIlard. Bur-
den; +. H. Manning, Council Grove;
I'll: G. Kyle, Abilene, to succeed them
selves.
Election of the above officers was
the probable action to be taken by the
state board of agriculture at its final
session late today. H. w. Avery, of
Wakefield. retiring vice president.
was slated to succeed Senator E. E.
Frizell as president, altho early in the
day threats had been made that E. L
Burton, of Coffeyville, might be
brought into the race. J. c. Mohle~,
of Topeka, will be reelected as secre-
of Holton, is the only new member of
the board.
Sessions to Close Tonight.
Members of the board of agriculture
will close the most successful farmers
week ever held in the state when ad-
journment comes tonight. The ses-
sions brought delegations from every
formation of initial plans for carrying
out of a constructive organized mar
ket program.
George E. Tucker of Eureka, field
representative of the United States
employment service, told the farmers
today that they must build up a mar
ket orga nization if they are to main
tain existence. Farmers have deluded
! themselves into the belief that they
are an Independent class. when in fact
they are the most dependent people in
the world, he asserted. fuckers
speech was a feature of convention
week.
'I am going to tell you lot of
things you may not like" Tucker as
serted. But when he had concluded
the crowed seemed to like the talk and
Tucker won noisy applause.
sixty per cent of the farmers in
Kansas are actually bankrupt today, If
they should be forced to pay what
they owe" Tucker declared. ''I be-
lieve the record would show 80 per
cent of the crop producers of the ma
ton were insolvent if the same test
was applied"
Farm Products TO Pre-War Prices.
Tucker said prices of farm products
! had gone to pre-war prices while in
dustrial outputs had remained S5 per
cent higher. Selling organization was
responsible, he said, in a challenge to
the farmers to market their own out
put.
For generations smooth tongued
statesmen have come around every
two years and have told us farmers
what great men we are. They have
told us we are the brains and the
Drawn of this mighty nation, that had
it not been for us this country could
never have reached its present posi-
ton as world power They have
. told US we are the most independent
people on earth.
! Independent? Why, my friends,
the farmer is the most dependent
creature on the face of the globe He
can't fix the price of q bushel of
wheat or corn, or hog or steer, or a
dozen eggs or pint of cream. Oh, we
farmers are an independent bunch.
/ We're so Independent were helpless.
| Until We get over this independence
We won't get anywhere.
Have No Kick Coming.
But have we any kick coming?
Certainly not. We have been so busy
producing every stitch OF clothing that
Is used to keep folks warm and mod
est, and every morsel of food that
passes down mans esophaglIs to give
MN pep to run our business for US
/ We have had neither time nor in
cl1nation to devote to the problem of
marketing and distribution
Tucker spoke for the farm bureau
organization during the morning ses-
sion devoted to the purposes plans
and progress of the various farm or
ganizations. Ernest Mcclure of Gree
ley managing editor of the Grange
Monthly, tod of work of the grange.
Dan Nhurston, secretary, recounted
work and progress of the Farmers
union.
L. f. Call Speaks.
The morning session was devoted to
| the cause of the farmer organizations
/ r. of of
| big farmer bodies spoke before the
state board of agriculture members
and delegates during the morning
F, meeting. Ernest Mcclure of Greeley,
managing editor of the Grange Month
! ly, talked for the Grange. George
E. Tucker of Eureka, former repre-
, sentative and state senator and re-
Gently appointed to head the federal
employment organization in Kansas
told of Farm Bureau progress and
Salina, secretary of the Farmers
] Union, appealed for that organization.
To Reflect MohIer.s
/ Official business of the farmer or
ganizations win be concluded late to-
day with election of new members of
the state board of agriculture. J. c.
] Mohler. who has been Identified with
the department more than a quarter
of a century. will be reelected secre-
tary of the state board without op-
position.
L. E. Call, head of the agronomv
department at the state agricultural
college, Manhattan. will discuss the
problems of the wheat growers
What to Plant on 1922 Abandoned
Wheat Acreage" is the subject of hls
talk Call is a recognized authority or
soil problems and his speech is ex-
pected to attract much attention
among wheat producers in western
counties where large areas are being
abandoned
Farmers will go home tonight fol-
lowing complimentary BANQUET to