The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-10-09
COOPERATION Is
ONLY WAY OUT
PERMANENT COMMISSION rs
HEADED BY GOVERNOR LOW
DEN-TAKE SURVEY

Chicago IA P.)- 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 lifted them-cOOperative
marketing on national scale-was
decided upon today by representative
cooperative and agricultural leaders
called into conference as the best
means of correcting the present ma
tional situation in wheat.
Immediate survey Of the six prin-
cipal wheat-growing states with the
view in mind of working through
present facilities where they exist
and creating them where they are
not, was voted by the conference,
which resolved itself into permanent
commission and elected an executive
committee with former Governor
Frank o. Lowden as chairman to car
ry on the work.
Eugene Meyer, managing director
of the war finance corporation; Frank
Mondell another director and M. g.
Yohe of the bureau of agricultural
economics, appointed by President
Coolidge to investigate the wheat sit
uation, sat in the conference and fol-
lowed its conclusion, declared they
saw in cooperative marketing the real
solution of the wheat problem and
assured the committee of the support
of the administration and of the gov
ernmental agencies that may be able
to help the plan.
Declaring the wheat situation to be
almost the only blemish on an other
national 9OrIcu It11rAl
situation and not including the
brightest spots in this situation were
the cotton and tobacco growers and
the California fruit growers where
cooperating marketing is at it's best,
Mr.. Bingham called the conference
to decide if such methods could i'm
prove the wheat farmers situation, if
the present time is appropriate, and,
the first being answered in the af-
firmative to decide upon plan and
put it in operation.
Attending the conference were:
Governor Lowden, Alexander Legge,
president of the International Har-
vester company; Professor H. G.
Holden, agricultural adviser of the
same company; Walter P. Chappell,
of Chanute, Kansas, representing the
North Dakota Wheat Growers asso-
citation; Clifford Gregor, editor of the
Prairie Farmer Don Wallace, editor
of the Farmer; w. c. Nettle of the
Indiana farm bureau federation;
Walton Peteet, of the American farm
bureau federation; Bingham, Will
Jams, Sapiro and Jewett.
Declaring the American wheat
20 ;c ficrI, 7e0
100000 bushel surplus in the United
States but also surpluses in Canada, |
Argentina. Australia, the Balkan
states and Russia, Mr.. Williams said
the wheat situation is not one for /
price fixing, but one of orderly mar
keting 1t was agreed he said, that
marketing was the only
sound economic solution offered for
placing wheat growing of the nation
on a paying basis.
Surveying the situation will be the
first work of the new executive COM
nittee which numbers in it's mem
bership, besides Chairman Lowden,
Mr.. Bingham, rr. hilliams, Senator
Arthur Capper, Mr.. Nettle, Mr.. Jewett
Ind Mr.. Wallace.
Herman Seeen associate editor of
Lie EIdlTlS r dTmGI, udS OSCn dp-
pointed executive secretary and work
will be started on the committees
within the next few days.
Plans of organization now in the
minds of the the committee members,
,ut not definitely decided upon, call
or an organization within the state
ufficient to control the commodity
md a federation of these state asso
iations into a national group with
eadquarters and national force to Y
are for the orderly marketing of the
rop. {
Mr. Meyer and Mr.. Mondel1, in at '
ending this conference. began an in /
estigating trip which is expected to S
over every wheat-producing state in t
he country being undertaken at the c
equest of President Coolidge with a t
lew of finding a way of improving
ne situation Mr.. Meyer said he t
ad not yet decided where he would il
ext go into the situation. il