The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-10
Practical Business Methods Dis
cussed at Conference.
Much Evidence of Harmony
Among Rural Organizations.
HERE FROM ALL PARTS STATE
Governor Allen and II. G..
Waters Start the Meeting.
Senator E. f. FrizelI Chosen
Chairman of Session.

Application of hard sound, practi-
cal business methods to the farming
business in Kansas-plus cooperation
were features of suggestions before
| the marketing conference today in
representative hall. The meeting got
under way with much evidence of
harmony among rural organizations.
There was a decided show of enthu-
siasm and more apparent determina-
ton to get results than has been in
| evidence in former market confer
ences.
Farmers from every section of the
state were in the hall for the opening
| session. Meetings scheduled for the
week promise more important devel-
| opments for the farming and livestock
interests than any gathering held in
Kansas in many years. There is not a
| farmer organization in the state which
| is not strongly represented. The mar
| ket conferences started off with an
abundant evidence of fire and fight
among the crop producers. Today's
i sessions will be followed Wednesday
| by a conference of farm interests
| with bankers regarding financial
plans.
Gov. Allen and H. G. Waters Speak.
! Governor Allen and Henry G. Wa
ters, former president of the State
Agricultural college. started the meet
| 1ngs with true pep speeches. They
urged the farmers to strike out alone,
| to organize and to get down to real
| practical business methods. Governor
Allen told the farmers there were but
| slight differences in the various plans
| proposed. but that there was vital i'm
| portance in the adoption of some defi-
mite policy.
Waters emphaticalIy told the farm
ar 1,.,
| ing things over and passing resolu-
] tions. He said results would not be
secured by resolutions and mass meet
1ngs- The only way to get results, he
said, was to get busy.
| Frizcll Is Chairman.
| Senator E. E. Frizell of Larned.
| president of the state board of agri-
culture. was chosen as chairman OF
Etoday's sessions. His election followed
the formal opening of the conference
! by Ralph Snyder of jefferson county.
| 1t was largely due to the efforts of
Snyder and J. c. Mohler. secretary of
| the state board of agriculture, that
connection with farmer week meetings
| in Topeka.
A rules committee appointed at the
| beginning of the days activities pro-
vided for business and limited ora-
tory 1t provided that each organiza-
| lAOH represented IN the meeting might
have twenty minutes in which to pre-
sent any proposed plan. An individual
might talk five minutes. With this;
provision for the regulation of
speeches. the meeting settled down to
cool deliberate consideration of prac-
tical plans during the afternoon
Urged Farmers to Organize.
| While committees worked during
the morning Clifford Thorn of Chi
cago. freight rate expert, told the
farmers they must organize. He told
| them not to waste much time waiting
for government aid, which might or
might not come. The essential, he
/ said, was organization.
Carl Williams of Oklahoma City.
president of the American Cotton
Growers Exchange, told ofresults ac-
complished thru cooperative mar
keting plans by cotton growers. He
! urged Kansas farmers to organize for
! the marketing of their crops
Early this morning-a1most the hour
for completion of barnyard chores
! the farmers went into session The
Kansas Agricultural council went into
session at $3.50, but recessed for the
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