The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-12

Henry q. stuart, VINO will speak before
agricultural meeting, tonight.
B. Needham master and national lee
turer for the Farmers Union, today
carried the burden for beating the
farm bloc approval by an agricultural
council resolutions committee. Need
hams machine which seemed to run
smoothly in the council meeting, is
now facing a big repair bill. If the
state board of agriculture endorses
the bloc, the move will tend to dis
credit Needham and his organization
with the farm interests.
Do Not Favor Needham Method.
Representative of several farmer
Organizations were today quietly wait
ing for Needham with a brick. In an
effort to get to cover it was apparent
that Needham might direct Secretary
Whitney of the agricultural council to
make q formal statement regarding
the resolutions. Even this course may
not pacify a number of farmer inter-
ests which do not favor the Needham
method of unscrambling eggs
The entire mornings session of the
state board was given over to fair
probIems-everythin from the race
track to the concession stands on the
midway.
Fair Problems Discussed.
I S. Mahan general manager of the
Oklahoma state fair; Phil Eastman
secretary of the Topeka Free Fair; H
S. Thompson. president, and A. l..
Sponsler, secretary of the state fair at
Hutchinson, were among the speakers.
Every phase of the fair problem was
discussed. The local town and county
fairs were given a hearing and repre-
sentatives of several successful county
fairs appeared on the program,
Secretary Eastman told of the sue
hi Fe,fr xp1rr,
He told of the plan which had boosted
the shows attendance from 10000 to
100000 Miss Kreigbaum. in charge
of the boys end girls department at
the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka, told
OF the success of her work.
.. II. Howard Speaks.
Cooperative marketing will prove a
solution for the present market trou-
bles of the farmers, according to J.
r. Howard of Chicago, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. Howard was the top line attrac-
ton at the afternoon session of the
board
Il advocate cooperative marketing
as the antithesis to and the panacea
for socialism," Howard said. Under
the principles of cooperative market
ing the producers receive their share
of the profits and have direct control
over the distribution of the products
thru governmental agencies can be
directly obtained thru cooperation,
without any sacrifice of personal ini-
tiative, which is a priceless heritage
dissipated under socialism.
"A big national engineering propo-
sit.on for the next quarter of CEN
tury. vital to all interests. will be the
decentralization of industries" How
ard continued. THE United States is
the only country which ever built up
Its industrial centers 1900 miles and
more from the areas of production.
THIS was made possible thru railroad
transportation. It is uneconomic be-
cause the farmer must pay the freight
bill The Kansas sheep grower, for
example, ships WOOL to Boston, re-
ceives woolen cloth in exchange, and
pays the freight both ways"
To Use Electrical Power.
Howard prophesied that within the
next few years electrical power will
be made available to every section Of
the country and every farm home. by
uanufa curing electricity from coal at
the mines and distributing it by means
of high tension lines This develop
ment will come as rapidly as that of
rural telephones. he said. and will be
a big agency in decentralization of in
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