The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-07-06

w. mind Of America.
You cannot find such wonderfully
I inspired thoughts as that emanatins from
the crowded. congested districts OF tene-
ment quarters This is the inspiration
and the dream Of the man who lived out
doors, who co-operated with his neighbor.
who was not eIbowed about and embar
rassed by people jostling him about He
| thought along the lines OF the posterity
and the farmers OF America-ninety-hv
per cent OF the people living in America
at that time were farmers. They made
possible this Republic Of the United States
| Of America.
The Farmers Part.
They fought the wars. The monu
ments in Lexington and Concord, dedi-
| Gated to the memory Of those who fought.
are statues OF stalwart husky farm boys.
| Washington. Monroe. Jefferson and John
| Hancock lived on the farm. John Han
| cock lived on the farm and was the head
Of the Supreme Court; he was truly
| farmer. Our Constitution is purely the
contribution OF the farmers mind
After launching the Ship OF State, one
thing happened which possibly changed
the entire trend and thought OF the
| United States-the discovery OF the steam
engine. which made possible central fac
tories in central points. and then there
came the controversies OF the man who
owned the machine and the man who
| operated the machine. and the contro-
versy has continued between the man
| who owned the machine and the man who
| operated the machine until the problems
| OF capital and labor have been solved far
in advance Of those Of agriculture.
| l. - II
| ture facing us since the Revolutionary
! War, but instead OF solving them and
| fighting them out and occupying the cen
ter OF the stage as has labor and capital
agriculture has gradually retreated from
those problems. II the agrieulturi,t has
| had an acute problem in Kentucky. he
retreated to Ohio, and the expansive ter
rieory offered to the people OF America
has afforded relief to the agriculturist in
these economic problems and has delayed
the solution Of these problems possibly IS
years. The capital invested in agricul-
ture is so strong that il the farmers should
sell out, they could buy with that money
1 in hand all OF the railroads of the United
| States, all OF the manufacturing plants.
and then the next IS biggest industries OF
the United States. That is merely repre-
senting the capital invested
A Washington Conference.
I'VE had a conference last April in
| Washington-our Executive Commit
tee OF the American Farm Bureau FEEDER
ation-and we invited to this conference
representatives from every state in the
Union, leading agriculturists. hnanciers.
| and we asked them questions. What is
the difficulty with agriculture in your part
Of the country And they brought in va
| rious answers as to their difficulties that
we're affecting agriculture in that part Of
| the country. and we. after careful analy-
sis. were able to group them under prac-
| tically four heads-transportation di6i-
Guilty, financial difficulty. a marketing
| difficulty, and a tax or tariff difficulty.
Allied then and closely identified with
| those were the various groups under
which you could subdivide those heads.
but those were the chief problems.
What do you consider 10 necessary in
| a legislative way to correct these difficult
ties5 They outlined a program then to
be presented at Congress in this last
session. The Agricultural Bloc came
into being.
The Distribution Cost
| In dining with Secretary Wallace and
| Mr.. Hoover, and two or three more men,
bers Of that like standing. this point was
brought up for discussion. Under our
present methods OF transportation today,
the center Of production Of the United
States 10 about at ST. ouis, Missouri; the
center Of consumption 10 near Philsdel-
| phia in Pennsylvania. Under our pres
ent methods Of distribution IL costs more
to take food assembled at St. Louis to
Philadelphia than il does to 60 down to
Argentine Republic or New Zealand and
deliver that same amount 81 fcod to
Philadelphia.
There are tremendous responsibilities
placed upon the people Of the United
States; not Agriculturists alone. but every
body identified with agriculture is inter
ested In the correct solution Of these
problems. and there nevsr. was q time In
the civilization OF society where there were
States for the standard by which they
shall standardire their type OF civiliza-
ton al this time. When | look over this
whole country with that view, il seems
10 me there never was a call 20 great ~
that upon the people Of America today
to act in a cooperative. friendly. pstri-
otto spirit TO solve some OF these problems
The Farm Bureau has undertaken 10
solve these problems for farmers a. a
class. IL 10 the farmer organized. And
organized, he can do through his organ.
ixation, the Farm Bureau. what. IL he at
tempted sinyly, would result in miser
able failure"
A pair Of mems shoes weighs thres
pounds and is priced at $l0.s0. A COW
hide weighs hfty-hve pounds and thu
price today is seven cents per pound. a
farmer hauls hides TO town and offers e
| a.ad. thsun IN the siofekseDer for shoes