Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-06
FARMERS WIFE
TELLS SENATE
WHAT'S NEEDED
Mrs. NeLs RGdick of FULdd,
MINI, Says Country Life
Isn't All Honey.
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
| BY CONSTANCE DREXEL

BY CONSTANCE DREXEL.
WASHINGTON, March 6.--Astonished
at the price Of meat and produce on the
diner coming East in comparison with
| what is paid on the farm, Mrs. Eels Rad
| lex of Fulda, Mimi. stepped off the train
from the West all primed to tell the
woes of a farmers wife to a Senate COM
mittee.
1t is not often yon find a real farmers
wife in Washington. That is one who
still does her own work and is still rails
ing children and chickens and whose
natronly form is dressed In a plain white
shirtwaist and black skirt Of this year 8
vintage.
But such is Mrs. Radick. straight from
her -80-acr farm two miles from the
tow of Fulda which boasts a popula-
ton Of 600. This Ia her very first trip
farther East than Chicago. and she has
only been there once, but was she awed
at Washington? Or afraid when she had
to get ur and talk before that august
Senate committed
Not a bit Of it. In effect, she said
afterwards she wondered why folk on
the farm were so shy about making
their wishes known to Congress. But
then, perhaps that Is because her par
ents wanted her to have a good educa-
ton, and she had been a teacher in a
3.
THINKS CONGRESS
QUITE HUMAN.
Mrs. Radick visited the Senate gallery
for couple OF hours, but even looking
down on Senators as they debated the
affairs o. the Nation, did not awe and
she is going back home TO tell the folk
they needn't have bit OF hesitancy IN
writing Of their heartaches to Representa-
tive or Senator. Just nice and human, &"
she said.
Mrs. Radick was brought to Washing
ton through the efforts OF Benjamin c.
Marsh, mana ing editor Of the farmers
national council, which Is active in pro
noting farmers interests in Congress
and is one Of the forces behind the so
called farm bloc" She spoke IN favor
Of the Ladd- Sinclair bill, which the SEN
ate Committee on Agriculture has under
consideration.
Briefly the measure calls for gunran-
teed prices TO the farmers for their pro-
ducts and the revival Of the Grain Corpo-
ration.
Being vice president Of the United So
ciety of Agriculture, Mrs. RRdick knows
the situation on farms in the Northwest
intimately. but better still. she is
farmers wife herself, hiring a few extra
/ hands" when they can get them, and
knowing all her neighbors' problems as
we'll as her own.
She told tho Senate committee the
farmers wives and children are IN dea-
perate condition on account Of the ter
rible dehation Of price In farm products.
MANY Of the farmers In my neighbor-
hood have had to take their children out
Of school and do work beyond their
strength on the farm 10 get every posi-.
u ~
gathered
PRODUCTION COST
EXCEEDS PRICE.
cit cost us ~ cents to produces q bu-
shell CT oats and oats are now bringing
80 cents II bushel We lost 81 700 on
two carloads OF cattle IN May, 1920 and
twelve farms in our one township have
been advertised for delinquent taxes. We
had to sell our Liberty Bonds to pay our
taxes, after these bonds had been driven
down tea to fifteen points.
Farmers live by bopsa faith and Rc-
cident, We pillow and SOW in hope. live
In faith and market by accident The
farmer. his wife and his family got about
8 cents por hour for last years work
Children OH the farm are Just vocal agri-
cultural Implements. Six million farm
women are fighting for their children"
she finished.
She urged the Government stabilize the
price Of simple farm products for a few
years, and create a farm products ex-
port corporation TO finance the purcha ga
and sale abroad Of surplus farm prod
ucta. all OF which practically arc the pro-
visions OF the Ladd Sinclair bill
Mrs. Radick today addressed an audi
ence Of city women at the home OF Mrs
Gredon Norrtes at o0S Park avenue,
Washington. She also viii talk at Bee
thoven Hall in New York this week.
Copyright. 1922, by Public Ledger Com
pany.