The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-21
The Farm and
The Farmer
BY William r. Sanborn

You say you like the idea of com
munity sales? Well, so do we. We
are also in favor of community build
ings, community lecture courses, com
munity sings and gatherings, and of
the community spirit of friendship and
neighborliness which sweetens and
brightens life in sparsely settled dis
tricts, of which the little village, the
4 township school or even the cross
> roads store and blacksmith shop may
be the center.
No man liveth to himself alone"
Nor should he. Nature does not so
design.
The farm bureau, resolved to its sim
plest and most concrete elements, is
a community affair, is the expression
of one form of the community spirit, |
manifest in business way and with
the view of benefit to the individual
membership. But the farm bureau
does not cover the community field, |
like blanket of snow, or like the rain
or the sparkling dew. which are the
common heritage, both in town and
country.
Briefly, then, there are neither class
or classes where the true, helpful, SYM
pathetic community spirit holds sway;
where town and country form one unit
ed whole in community enterprise and
for the common good.
Another Community Sale
The folks of the New Westviile, O., |
neighborhood have decided to hold an
other of their widely recognized COM
munity sales. The sale is not to be
held as a financial venture for the
benefit of the promoters; in fact, there
are no promoters for profit. They are
working for the good and in the inter
est of the Friends church at New
Westville, and the resultant profits of
the enterprise go to the church. The
work to be done by the men and WON |
en- back of the affair and the time to
be devoted to making the sale sue
cess is a free-will Offering on the part
of the participants.
There was quite a large gather
ing at the New Westville church on
Thursday evening at which the var
ious committees TO manage the sale
were selected. One committee was
named to handle the publicity, and
Nanother TO arrange for the auction
eering and to take care of the sales
and to solicit consignments TO be put
ND at auction. Perhaps the last, best,
and which many will consider the
most important of the committees,
was the dinner" committee, consist
ing Of five of the ladies of the church,
famed for the dinners heretofore
served at their community sales. This
leads us to remark that some husbands
are lucky and others are still luckier,
for we have sampled these New West
Vile church dinners, more than once.
The date set for the community sale
is Thursday, Feb. %. The president
or chairman of the executive commit
tee, and to whom all correspondence
should be addressed, is G. A. Laird,
Route c, Richmond.
Community Sale at Boston
Talking of community sales, what's
the matter with the one to be held at
Roston Thursday. Jan. 26. Not
thing, gentlemen, not thing. Forest
Druley. who is to auctioneer the goods
and chattels, has told us in strict con-
fidence that there will be coolies of
things YOU can buy, and also be much
10 enjoy. on that suspicious occasion.
The program of the day includes
GOOD dinner, music, basketball
game at II o'clock. etcetera, and so
forth. They are planning for a good
time at Boston on the day of the sale
aud have welcome" on the mats at
both ends of Main street, as an in
vitation to all corners to stop and
make = day of il.
The Agricultural Forum.
MANY Of YOU viii be surprised to
learn thai the great. boss-ridden and
L tremendously wicked city of Chicago,
y has an Agricultural Forum. body
which meets monthly and not merely
to dine but to discuss the real prob
lens confronting agriculturiSts.
At the meeting on Thursday. John
y. Phillips chairman Of a special com
mittee on farm financing of the Amer
lean Bankers association. said: The
federal farm loan act could be made
more effective by amending it so that
all banks may become members of the
federal land bank" 1t was his opinion
that there would then be competition
enough between the different banks
for the amortization plan to be put
into effective use in every community,
greatly relieving the farmer.
Mr.. Phillips, a seasoned banker and
former president of the Illinois Bank
ers' association, concluded by saying:
Farmers would be able to secure
long time loans and not have TO pay
more than seven percent on the inter
est and principal and their loans will
be liquidated at the end of SS years.
Buyers could find no security more
liduidating or more popular. oXceDt
government bonds, than these bonds
issued by federal land bands he said.
Mr.. Nouris Dissents.
L. G.. Nouris. agricultural economist
Of the Iowa State college, disagreed
with Mr.. Phillips lie believes these
two systems would not be sufficient
and that third class of farm credit
-nt,IH To he fal- IA
Nouris does not believe that the fed
-eral reserve banks and the federal land
0banks will be able to take care of the
Live stock and grain farmers that are
now being looked after by the War
Finance corporation.
Tuesday, at Centervlle
The Wayne County Live Stock