Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-05
Coolidge Says Euery Prospect
Indicates Coming of Nep Era
Wiser Production, Efficient Marketing,
Intelligent Use of Meat Products,
Way Out of Depression.

The full text OF President Coolidge's
address last night before the Inter
national Live Stock Exposition in Chi
cago follows:
I'm coming this year to visit the
international Livestock Exposition,
have been able to crafty wish OF
many years standing. This exposi-
lion is striking testimony to the
marvellous advance of American agrl-
culture IT is also a convincing proof
of the present soundRess and future
security of this great national in
terest
I'VE are entitled. I think. to look
upon livestock as one Of the most
highly developed products of the agri-
cultural industry. To bring that in
,Iustry to its present high estate has
required a continuing cooperation OF
unflagGing industry. determined cour-
ss-c, sound business, a widespread
2 nd Intelligent application of scien-
tifC methods, and the recognition Of
tho practical advantages to be de-
rived from our American system of
agricultural education. The annual
exposition has marked perhaps more
accurately than any other index the
steady progression of agriculture from
IN unorganized and rudimentary oc-
cupation to the point where II has
taken on the character OF a profess
sion, and has summoned to its aid
the most effective methods in bust
ress oreanizat ton, economic analysis
and scientific methods.
Sees No Danger of Corner.
All OF this, impressive as is the
accomplishment which IL has wrought,
would not be a sure guaranty of
soundness and permanent security in
The realm of agriculture if the bust
of n
concentrated management. If these
striking advances could be attrib
1Ited to the wisdom and vision of any
narrow group of men: If they were
me accomplishment of some limited
rumber Of particularly capable lead
eos, dominating the industry as a
hoard of directors might rule a great
corporation, the results which we see
here would not justify all the conf
dence with which we view the future
of the American farming community.
IN such situation, we might well
fear the possibility that leadership
would one day fall into the hands OF
less capable, less understanding, less
far-sighted management with dis
astrouS results. Fortunately, there
is small danger of this.
Here we have an industry which
is absolutely essential to the national
welfare. Its success depends upon
the skill and wisdom OF millions of
men who must qualify as competent
executives, capable of utilizing the
best of business methods, of scfen-
tifc knowledge and of sound eco
nomic understanding, all applied to the
intensely practical problems of every
days work and every seasons plan
ming. The real achievement has con-
sisted far less in breeding up our
grains and fruits and live stock to
present high standards than in train
ing up a generation farmers who
can confidently be in listed with fu-
ture manag cement
Pays Tribu 10 Farmers.
IF anybody questions that the farm
Ing community of this country has
become a community of men and
women capable of dealing with af-
fairs in the broadcast and most in
elusive sense, I should like to have
the doubter share with me the priyi-
lege OF discussing the problems of
agriculture with some of the men and
women who come straight from the
farm to the White House for that
purpose. I should like to have him
give an occasional hour to the sort OF
conferences which have become so
familiar with me. In these confer
cuces the men and women of the soil
students of international relations,
aS organizers of big enterprises, as
keen commentators on the problems
OF finance, OF international trade, of
supply, demand, consuming capacity,
producing possibilities and market
ing opportunities. i should like to
have the doubter know, as we'll as
know, that even in his times of mis-
fortune tho farmer demonstrates a
most reassuring capacity to keep his
common sense intact and to do his
economic thinking on sound lines.
There is altogether too much dis
position in some quarters to assume
that the farmer is peculiarly given to
wild ideas and unsound notions about
business, finance and economics. On
the other hand. every distinct test in
these respects has resulted in an
overwhelming verdict from the farm.
ers in favor of sanity, soundness,
moderation, sense and reason in deal
ing with their problems. Nobody is
going to advance his own interests
lay playing upon the presumption of
The farmers Ignorance, or selflshness.
ar incapacity to think accura tely.
The visionary and the demag ogue in
Nsria bly, discover that the farmer
does not want their unsound pro-
posaIs of panaceas. He does not de-
1aand special treatment and class
favoritism. He wants a fair show,
.and when he gets 1t he can be relied
upon to take good care of himself and
o contribute substantially toward
taking care of the rest of US.
Measured by Cows
From the beginnings, the prosper
ity and efficiency of farming have
been very accurately measured by
the development of it's livestock fea-
do L j1Yc Et.hp "a
discovery was made that the profit
able mode of marketing products of
the farm was to drive them away on
four feet. But / do know that this
was so long ago recognized in the
Did New England country of which
] am a native that it gave rise to d
quaint colloquialism which was en-
ployed in stating the size and ca
pacity of farm. When 1 was boy
in Vermont, a farm was described,
not as containing 60 acres, or so
acres, or 100 acres, but as .10-cow
farm, or a 20-cow farm. or a 30-cow
farm.
And I am not sure but this old
fashioned mode of measurement was
more accurately descriptive than any
unit derived from the activities of
the surveyor. The real gauge of both
the lands productiveness and the
farmers capability was much more
Intimately related to the number of
cows than to the number of acres.
1T was the realization of this rela-
ton of live stock to successful farm
ing that animated the men who found
ed the International Live Stock Expo
sition. AS this years exposition
marks the first quarter centennial an
niversary OF the International, 1t will
not be amiss for me to say a word
about its organization and develop
lnent. 1t has been preceded by the
old Chicago Fat Stock Show. The