The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-07-06
,.,,;dent Of State Chamber
IF + Commerce Pleased
With Session
,nI. I1pBUILDING
0c11RJECT OF TALKS
p,i;ness Men and Farmers
Consider How to Make
Farming Profitable

:. need Of better understanding
:, :, .,oser cooperation between the
..';,.,.. commercial and farming m
-. - vas the keynote Of the meeting
O.. 4. fourth group Of the State
c.nber Of Commerce held mere las'
hiday. ,.orresented
!, ! ,''r p,.e;dent N. B. Coffman pro-
,..d 81 4 one Of the most successful
~. vet held in this state. A
- Il farmers were present and
. part in the discussions which :
,,1o.a the addresses OF the day. 4
,..t.e of Group Three Of the Wash
;e,tn State Press association had
n c.lled for hte same day and a
,,rber Of Yakima Valley editors, in
.hdue Chaplin D. Foster, state presl-
Int. we're in attendance.
After brief address of welcome by
r,yor q. W. Desgranges, President
cdffm,n. in a splendid address, out
med the purpose of the meeting and
tae aims and objects Of the state
chamber. He said that eliminating
lie three cities Of Seattle, Tacoma and
Spokane, the state Of Washington is
purely rural state, consequently
rural upbuilding is in fact state up
building. The object Of the state
chamber he said is to create state
Of mind to the end that the problems
Of the farmer will be considered in
the light Of problems of the whole
people and that the larger cities will
realize that their upbuilding can be
carried forward only through the up
building Of the hinterland.
He declared that it is more inn
portsnt that agriculture prosper than
that it multiply. If it is to prosper
+ must no longer be left to shift for
it,ef but adequate provisions must
b made for financing, protecting and
Safeguarding it. It must be considered
= business and from a business
standpoint. New methods of rural
credits be devised and home life on
ne fam made renumerative and at
taetive.
D: Penrose, Of Whitman College,
sm =. T. Benson, Of the N. p. Rail-
y ssy company, were not present. M.
: a0ulton gave a brief talk on Re-
s'.nauon Needs. He said the great
= neeo Is for continued and en-
sso program Of federal aid for the
anatlon OF waste lands. He said
!. xsSp'e VINO had come to the reclama-
a ssates OF the west had the right
s4pect the government would COM
's'e Tue work it had started and that
: old reclamation succeeded now onos
'u Oe started. If this is to be
ssl. about the West must stand
sus0 ! behind a demand for such =
- ne said the Smith-McNary bill
- pending was framed to meet the
m. s'saolng need Of reclamation and
: ssso =. that the West unite in support
u's measure and not divide it's ef-
,ss MA; At this time in promoting anv
hteular project. 's any
~, :. :. :, Scott, project manager of the
81 = lsnd settlement at White Bluffs.
H.. u : what is being accomplished
d u. ne gave in detah the progress
.,,.; i Undertaking as it has been
,l;nss i0rward step by step. He ex-
IA { each Gem Of cost connected
ud ~ lpleparlng home for the settler
ler - method Of payment by the set
u ,h.u ns said that they were getting
ye,.sa aant supply of water at an
he sss sss.. depth of forty feet. He said
ens,. ea'est handicap which the state
ersa asas a":le had encountered was ad-
i sons t,.islsm y q which had appeared
eddlas Sl''s Of the newspapers or had been
,outb q aDout the state by word of
bat ~ ne called attention to the fact
land st : this states first attempt
lent thu H.. settlement; that the settle.
Tho ss as actually been started and il
ssums uu1y Of every good citizen to
aserve in in, attitude of helpfulness and
erimsn.. .uagment . until the states ex-
t tba mad been given a fair trial
0neiuslon of his talk Mr..