The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06


Wisconsin needs more education and
less politics.
This is the opinion Of G. w. Nash,
president of the Nash Motors Co., one
OF the most widely recognized leaders
of the automotive field in America,
who addressed the st. Matthews Mems
club last night in Guild hall at the
last meeting of the season.
Mr.. Nash stated that due to the OPP
Grafton of the federal reserve system
the fact that this is presidential year
will not effect business conditions. He
prophesied that the country is even
now entering one of the most prosper
Gus eras since the Civil War.
Referring to the oil probe which is
III progress in Washington he said:
4 81, like lot of other men, would feel
better if we were not having the temp
/. est in the tea pot but / believe that
while there is undoubtedly some cor
ruption in high places yet there is a
good measure of politics mixed with
the oil.
Probe Shakes Confidence.
ut seems strange that the nation
doesn't hold truely great men men who
have sufficient honor SO that they can
90 to the capitol and resist the temp
tation of a few paltry dollars. It
shakes public confidence when leaders
who ! have had the highest honors of
the nation bestowed upon them yield
to temptation.
However, / believe that if we go
on and elect the present president,
who is a man of keen intellect and
sound judgment, we will enter upon
such an era of prosperity as this coun-
try has not seen since the Civil war"
Mr.. Nash, who is closely in touch
with business conditions throughout
the entire country, then touched on
conditionsain the south and Northwest.
Both sections are learning the lesson
which brought prosperity to the mid
west. Diversified crops and hard work,
he said, will bring these sections to
the front.
''The south is not at present as pros
porous as the midwest" he declared.
"For many years they have been prac-
tically dependent on cotton, which is
a one season crop. They planted their
cotton and then meagrely titled it
while they sat around enjoying life,
waiting for the hollis to blow white.
Then along came the boil weevil, which
in reality was blessing in disguise.
1t taught the south to use it's brain,
and showed that there were other
crops which could be made to pay even
better dividends.
Nov take North Carolina for ex-
ample. Down there they are building
roads, in fact they have one Of the
biggest road programs on any state in
the union with the exception of our
own state Georgia has found that
corn and pecans pay we'll. DIVERSE
fed farming is the solution there as
it is in the northwest.
Northwest is Learning.
''Uo until a few years ago the north
west thought nothing could be raised
there but wheat. They plowed the
ground shallow and after seeding did
nothing but wait for harvest / speak
Of the northwest as the Dakotas, nor
them Minnesota, and part of Montana
But, eventually the ground became
worn out, and the north west aMoke
1T is true that in this section of
the country there are 1,400 farmers
& who haven't even a COW or a pig on
sbsir farm Half this number haven't
avan chicken. They have worn out
the land until the wheat yield is sur
prisingly small, while about one-ffth
Of what is sent has to be culled out.
The failure of 400 banks has shaken
the confidence of the people so that
they carry their money in their
pockets rather than trust the banks.
They lack what we have, that is good
sound national banks But out of all
this grief has germinated the idea that
they have got to go to work. Thus
their trouble has taught them the di-
versifed crop lesson and few years
will see a different northwest"
Wisconsin Needs Education.
Tn discussing the situation in Wis
consin he pointed out that the average
citizen has level head but that he
lacks education along the right lines.
"The majority of people are all right,
but they need educating along the
right lines" Mr.. Nash stated. There
is probably no state in the union with
the natural resources which Wiscon-
sin has.
"With our great iron deposits on
+be north and our Great Lake water
ways wet do not have to pay freight
on steel products from Pittsburg.
Ehen Jnefe Us u pleHIl1uI supply VI
timber which is vital to manufacture.
We have the resources but we need
more people in the state to consume
the industrial products.
"We Of the Nash company have con-
fdence in the people of Wisconsin.
We believe that the pendulum will
swing about so far in the wrong di-
rection, and then the common sense
Of the people will exert itself and
give it powerful shove in the right
direction.
Nash Here to Stay.
"Let me say right here that the
Nash company is in Wisconsin to
stay" Mr.. Nash denied that he had
ever stated that his company planned
to move out of the state, unless, he
added, they are actually driven out
"The farmers need to be educated
to the idea that the state government
has no right to put a penalty upon
success" he continued. "When we
realize that only FIVE per cent of the