The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-19

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-Bolief that the
farmer will be among the frs. to get
substantial recognition In new era of
activity and prosperity" now on the
way was expressed by President Har-
cling In letter written to Secretary
Wallace of the Agriculture Department
and forwarded to 1.-The Secretary to be
read by him at a meeting of Republi-
cans at Washington Court House. Ohio.
Agricultural production is very near.
y restored, taking the world as whole !;
hut agricultural prices are so low that
It is APPARENT to all of US that the
farmer Is not being compensated" tho
President wrote. THE Washington Ad-
ministration has recognized this condi-
ton and has done everything In its
power to restore q normal balance be-
tween prices and costs of production"
The President said a great deal al
ready had been accomplished toward
that end and added that the trend was
strongly toward better conditions for
tie farmer" The farmer was described
by the President as "a captain of in
dustry," the letter adding that elimina-
ton of competition among farmers would
be impossible without sacrifice Of the
individualism that still keeps the farm
the real reservoir from which the ma
ton draws SO many of the finest ele-
ments Of its citizenship"
Against Lower Production.
The President took occasion also to
deplore any movement by the farmers
IL oking toward decrease of production
and said the natural result Of such q
movement would be famine prices. He
commended Mr.. Wallace for the admin.
istratioA of the Department of Axricul.,
ture and said the department 'in the last
two years has rendered particularly
fotable service along a somewhat new
line"
There was a time" the letter con-
tinued. when the Department OF Agri-
culture was looked upon as an instru.
mentality FOR inducing constantly larger
and larger production from the farmers
rather regardless of the questions of
markets and marketing. OF Transports
tion' OF financing. and other things OF
that sort. Latterly we have come upon
time when these other questions de
mand attention, and think the country
owes a great deal to the fact that we
have had new direction given to i'm
portant activities of the Department.
mean that these broader questions have
been given a consideration and atten-
ton which formerly was not always rec
ognfzed as due them.
THE other day farmer said to me
that the farmers could themselves re-
habilitate agriculture very promptly II
they would just unite on a program OF
reduced production. replied that the
farmers would never unite on such a
program because OF the peculiar eco
nomic circumstances of their industry.
Every farm is an economic entity by It
SELF Every farmer is captain Of in
dustry. The elimination OF competition
among them would be impossible without
sacrificing that fine individualism that
still keeps the farm the real reservoir
from which the nation draws so many
Of the finest elements OF its citizenship.
World Needs Products.
Moreover, It would be a calamity II
the farmers should unite in such a dimi-
mutton OF production as would force
famine prices or something approximate
to them. The world can get along with
out a good many other things but It
cannot get along without the products
OF the farm.
ut Is rather a striking fact that
among the worlds industries that OF
agriculture has been most rapidly re-
habilitated since the war. The crop sta