The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-11
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CHICAGO DIVINE AND WASHING
TON, ID. C. FARM SPECIALIST
GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS.
Those who attended the weekly
luncheon of the Moscow chamber oi
commerce Wednesday were treated
to two exceptionally fine addresses
along entirely different lines, but both
filled with constructive thought. DIR,
Bert E. Smith, of Chicago, national
leader in religious educational work
in the Methodist Episcopal church,
who spoke on the need for consecrated
and constructive leadership, and DR..
w. J. Spillman, of the United States
department of agriculture, at Washing
ton, D. c., who talked on the prob
lens of the agriculturist.
The Need for Leadership
Dr. Smith, who was introduced by
DR.. H. o. Perry, pastor Of the local
Methodist church, said that looking
to the production of higher type
of life in the coming generation, we
must have leadership, atmosphere and
educational facilities for character
building. He said the time had come
when instead OF self-delegated leader
ship, the people reserved the right to
chose their leaders and that they were
choosing men of character, whose in
fiuence would be toward better citizen
ship. He said there was everywhere
increasing interest in every move
ment to elevate the moral standards
of young men and women for scien-
tific religious education.
The day of arbitrary authority,
which disregards the rights and de-
sires of the people, is past, DR.. Smith
said He said that authority is
granted to individuals by society and
that the greatest need of the age in
business, in society, and in education
is Ieadership-men with great lives
and with an appreciation Of the rights
and needs of others; men who are
consecrated to the right and to their
work and who will guide the coming
generation along lines which will pro-
tect democracy. This, he said, must
take the place of coercion. He said
that power, profit and pleasure for
the few must give place to a recogni-
ton of the rights of ALL He said that
lin order to Christianize the sinners,
we must humanize the saints.
The speaker had the closest atten- |
tion throughout.
Reasonable Diversification
Dr. w. j. Spillman, who is well !
known in the west, as former head /
of the department of agriculture at
Washington State college, and as the
man who made the crosses and bred
,hybred No. 12S, and other varieties of
wheat which have proven wonderfully
successful in the Inland Empire, was I
introduced by Dean e. J. Iddings, as
author, scientist and teacher, and one
of the nations great men in his life. +
DR.. Spi1lman expressed his attitude
t0x 10 ci
by saying that when coal miner had
more coal above ground than he could
sell, and found the price going down,
he Immediately opened up more mines
and took out more coal; that when
lumbermen found their yards filled
with lumber, the market glutted and
the price going down, they immedi-
ately put more saw mills in operation
and that the farmer, when there was
a surplus OF any product, and a con-
sequent drop in price, Immediately in !
creased the acreage and consequently /
the production. This satire was taken
as keen expression of the noted agri-
cultural expert on the basin project
Price Fixing Not Antidote
Dr. Spillman said that he under
stood there had been considerable agi-'l
tation in this territory for a govern
price for wheat, but gave
as his opinion that this would not
prove an antidote for the farmers t
difficulties. He said a surplus would {
finally result which would bankrupt
he government. He said the logical o
way to bring the price of wheat up
% a profitable figure is for the far '
ner to cut down the production. He +
said if this was done, the price would 2
advance. a
Some 20 or more years ago, the
speaker said, the farmers in the Pa
ouse country felt they were in clo-
yer when the price of wheat reached !
70 cents bushel, but now they were =
lot making expenses at 81 a bushel.
Part of this he credited to the in =
lbility to produce 40 or more bushels
o the acre, which was an ordinary
yie1d in those days. He said the pro- L
luction cost per bushel is naturally v
much greater when the yield is small. tt
He did not advise going too strong a
n diversified farming, as the result a.
would be a glutted market and low n
rices. He said, however, that there ts
vould be good profit in producing O.
logs, if the production did not ex- IL
eed the demand for pork products in b.
he northwest; that dairying would
e profitable in the Palouse, if not Is
dl Ilcu OH tOO SAlCHSl'Olyt dllu ludt "
he extent to which farmers in the S:
liddle states engaged in dairying
rould affect materially the success of s,
he industry in the northwest Dairy
1g on a conservative scale and the
reduction of some beef cattle and b.
ONE hogs, was recommended, the in
took thus consuming oats, alfalfa, at
nd barley, all of which are good w
alouse country crops. This, in turn, p
-ould cut down the wheat acreage, fiji
nd would result in stiffening of in
le price of wheat. tn
DR.. Spillman said that the farmers nj
, Iowa, Illinois, and ether middle pc
.ates, would not engage in dairying TT