The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-15
COUNTY F. 8. MEETING

COUNTY =. q. MEETING
Wayne county farmers are to meet
in annual session in the Richmond |
high school auditorium on Saturday
night, for the hearing OF reports on
the various county farm bureau activi-
ties and the election Of officers. Al
very interesting program will be given
and It is expected that there will be
a large and representative gathering
to hear and enjoy.
Brief talks will be made on the work
Of the recent state convention, also o.
the happenings at the American farm
bureau annual meeting, held at Chi
cago this week. An educational film,
Milk as Food" and a comic film en-
titled, "By Fowl Means" will lend
variety to the occasion and will be
appreciated. The officers of the var
ious townships form the nominating
committee and all have been inform
ed of the date and purposes of the
meeting, and some of the township
officials have sent out cards to all
their numbers, requesting their attend
ance at the county convention.
The principal speakers are A. L.
Pittinger of Delaware county, who
was recently elected district director,
and Earl Crawford. of Milton, who IS
now retiring from that office. Both
are able and convincing speakers and
are well known to the farmers OF
Wayne county, as well as over a wide
area of the state.
The ship subsidy bill, now pending
in congress, proved to be bone o.
contention at the American farm bu-
reau convention on Wednesday, A
pretty fight was staged which resulted
in the tabling of the resolution op-
posing the bill 1t was the sense OF
the convention that the federal land
bank should make the system more
easily accessible to the smaller banks,
and it also went on record as fayoring
cooperative banking
, Plan for Federal Reserve
In giving the convention his opinion.
Benjamin Strong, governor of the sec
ond federal reserve district, New York
City, said that he believed the system
could assist in solving the problems
of agricultural credit by doing all
that is possible to stabilize credit con
ditions in this country and by enlarg
ing the membership of the system"
In discussion of the immigration
law, Harvey ]. Sconce, o. Illinois, ad.
vocated a law on q basis of selection
rather than restriction. He criticised
the present three per cent clause
What this country needs is moro
producers and fewer peddlars," he de
clared. THE way 70 attain this re
suit is to first to repeal this three pc
cent immigration law and then enac-
an immigration law similar to the Ca
madam law, with its new regulation
with its ocupational test"
A poultry man OF the old schoc
tells us that: 1.-THE heartless decep
ton practiced by the modern poultry
men on their layers, by means of ele2
trio lights in chicken houses, has beer
intensified through dimming devices
which makes the dawn come slowl!
and naturally" We wonder how the
hens will take this matter and if the
will be convinced that the days ar,
getting longer, regardless of cold anC
snow.
President Byram's Idea
When a railway president talk:
freight rates and the importance o.
ample facilities to move farm com
modities, he should cay something o
interest to farmers we'll worth print
ing, regardless of who may differ OF
his conclusions. For that reason, ant
to give our readers a new idea on tn
freight rate problem, we are quotini
few remarks made in an address b
. President Byram, of the Chicago, Mi
: waukee and st. Paul road.
Reduction of freight rates unde
present conditions, would do NOR
harm than good" he told the Wiscor
sin Manufacturers association. IF tn
wide spread agitation for immediat
reductions of freight rates should
successful the certain effect would
TO intensity and protract the shor
age of transportation, while at tn
same time it would have little or n
effect upon the prices farmers get fo
their products.
The farmer has continually Dime
into his ears the thought that freigh
rates are responsible for the lo'
prices he is receiving, when it ca
easily be shown that the fluctuation
which occur in the prices of farm prC
ducts within short periods greatly e,
coed the total freight rates paid upo
them
Low Rates No Remedy
The farmer has no assurance tha
reductions in freight rates would ad
dollar to his own revenues. TIL
market price of his product might b
changed so as to much more than al