The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-10-19

Chicago, Oct 15.-Lifting the wheat
farmer from his present slough Of
financial difficulties and low prices to
the level of the cotton and tobacco
growers by the same means that lift
ed them-co-operative marketing on
national scale-was decided upon to-
day by representative cooperative
and agricultural leaders called into
conference, as the best means of cor
recting the present national wheat sit
uation.
Immediate survey of the six prin-
cipal wheat growing states with the
view in mind of working through pres
ent facilities where they exist and
creating them where they are not, was
voted by the conference which resolv-
ed itself into a permanent committee
with former Governor Frank 0. Low
den as chairman to carry on the work.
COOP LEADERS ATTEND
Robert W. Bingham of Louisville, a
| leader in the tobacco cooperative mar
keting movement and present chair
man of the national Council of Farm
ers' Cooperative Marketing associa-
tons, who called the conference, invit-
ed such cooperative leaders as Carl
Williams of Oklahoma City, president
of the American Cotton Growers ex-
change. Aaron SapirO, of New York
and San Francisco, organizer of the
California Fruit Growers and numer-
Gus other cooperative groups; George
| C. Jewett, general manager of the
Northwest Wheat Growers association
and others.
| Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing dir
ector of the War Finance corporation;
Frank MOndell, another director, and
M. G. YOhe, of the Bureau of Agricul-
! tural Economics, appointed by Presi-
! dent Coolidge to investigate the wheat
| situation, sat in the conference and
following its conclusion, declared they
saw in cooperative marketing the real
solution in the wheat problem and as
sured the committee of the support of
the administration and of the govern
mental agencies that may be able to
help the plan.
DECIDE ON WHEAT RELIEF
Declaring the wheat situation to be
almost the only blemish on an other
wise prosperous national agricultural
situation, and noting that the bright
est spots in this situation where the
cotton and tobacco growers and the
California fruit growers, where CO.
operative marketing is at it's best, Mr.
Bingham called the conference to de-
eide such methods could improve the
wheat farmers situation, if the pres
ent item is appropriate, and, the first
two being answered in the affirmative
i do nj IN
ton.
Attending the conference were Mr.
Lowden, Alexander Legee, president Of
the International Harvester company
Walter P Chappell, of Chanute, Kan.
representing the Farmers union
George Duis, of North Dakota Whea
Growers association. Clifford Greg
DRY, editor of The Prairie Farmer
Don Wallace, editor of The Farmers
w. G. Settle, of the Indiana Farm Blu
reau federation; Walton Peteet, of thu
American Farm Bureau federation
Bingham Williams, Sapiro and Jewett
ORDERLY MARKETING is SOLU
TION
Declaring the American whea
farmer is fighting not only 100000
900 surplus in the United States, bu
also SURPRISES in Canada, Argentina
= Australia, the Balkan states and Rus
STA, Mr.. Williams said the wheat sit
uation is not one for price fixing bu
one of orderly marketing. 1t wa
agreed, he said, that cooperative mar
keting was the only sound economi
solution offered for placing whea
growing of the nation on a payinI
basis.
Surveying the situation will be tn
: first work of the new executive com
! mittee which numbers in its member