The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-06-22
Group Four of State Cham
Der of Commerce to Meet
In Kennewick
RURAL UPBUILDING
is PROGRAM TOPIC
President Penrose, E.F.Ben-
son and President Hol-
land Speakers

Group Four of the State Chamber
Of Commerce to meet in convention
in Kennewick Friday of next week,
June 80. This meeting is one of a
series being held througout the state
by the chamber for the purpose of dis
cossing and studying problems Of
rural development and general up
building.
Group Four comprises the twelve
counties Of the Fourth congressional
district and indications are that all
counties will be represented and the
delegates will number possibly one
hundred. President N. b. Coffman,
Chehalis, will preside at the sessions.
In sending out the call for the meet
ing President Coffman is urging the
advisibility Of having in attendance
as many farmers as possible. He
points out that the State Chamber is
endeavoring to work out a program
for rural upbuilding throughout the
state and to do this it is necessary
that members Of the Chamber smeet
the farmer and learn from him first
hand his problems and get his ideas
as to how best to better his condi-
tions.
Fridays program, which has been
worked out by President Coffman,
Col. Paul Weyrauch and D. C. Scots,
directors of the fourth group, will in
clude some Of the states most able
speakers who will endeavor to discuss
different phases of rural development
in practical manner.
The meetings will be held in the
High school auditorium. The tenta-
tive program follows:
Morning
9:30-Call to order.
Address of welcome-Mayor H. w.
Desgranges Of Kennewick.
Respcnse-President Coffman.
9:45-"How to Make Farm Life More
Attractive"-Stephen B. L. PEN
rose, president Whitman college.
10:15-"Practical Rural Development"
-E. F. Benson, immigration COM
missioner, Northern Pacific Ry.
5-"Reclamation Needs"-M. M.
Moulton, Kennewick.
-"Washington's First Soldier
Settlement Project. C. Scott,
White Bluffs.
11:25 - Social Conditions on the
Farm"-E. o. Holland, president,
Washington State College.
IL 11:45-Discussion
12:15-Adjournment for luncheon at
site of new Columbia river bridge.
Afternoon Session
2:00-"Intelligent Cooperation"-Col
Paul III. Weyrauch, Kennewick.
2:3O-"S "Scenic Assets of the State Of
Washington" - Herbert Cuthbert,
manager Pacific Northwest Tour
lists association.
In announcing that the State Cham
Der has adopted "Rural Upbuilding"
as its slogan, President Coffman says:
Opening of new agricultural areas
and increase Of population does not
go to the heart of the rural problem.
The slogan adopted is 'Rural Upbuild-
ing" UPBUILDING contemplates
soundness and permanence of founda-
ton. 1t is more important that agri-
culture prosper than that it multiply.
The primary place to look for better
ment is on the farms that are now
being cultivated. Take the United
States over, what is going on in the
rural districts is not land development
but farm abandonment. Farming
must be made more profitable before
there can be sound and permanent
rural upbuilding. The whole trend Of
population and wealth is increasingly
toward the cities; and that trend is
the result of rural failures, discour-
agement and dissatisfaction. The
farms Of the United States are not
yielding adequate returns to those
who till them. The farmers of the
state Of Washington cannot be ex-
pected to become enthusiastic over
projects looking to large increase
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