The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-06-26

much 1noney--even public money, to
turn the farm mind to its un-Ameriean
program. And while the farmer class,
in every period of our history, has
proven itself absolutely loyal and true
to America 5 idealism, yet we must
realize that a protraeted period of adj
verse economic conditions, coupled
with social discrimination and disqual-
ification, may crush out, even in a
stout and noble heart, the spirit of
loyalty. IF we would avert national
crisis, more threatening to cur national
life than any we ever faced before, it
behooves us TO recognize and grant
the just needs of agriculture.
AS I see it, from the farmers ex-
perience and point of view, and as one
who has given more than an ordinary
lifetime to farm problems, I find that
these needs are, and should be granted,
in the following order:
l. Education
2. Organization
3. Representation
4. Legislation
5. Elimination
First, EDUCATION: The farm bus
mess, from the side of production, de-
mands the scientific mind, and to prop
erly market farm crops calls for the
highest type and quality of salesman
ship. And yet we have attempted to
both produce and market farm pro
ducts, in the vast majority OF cases,
with unframed minds, resulting in mis-
cradle failure, as is self-evident all
over the and today. The on-coming
engineers, the farm boys and girls who
will be the future executives of this
most important, most problematicai
biggest and best business in America,
should have the very best general and
scientific training Our Agricultural
Colleges should be the foremost insti-
buttons of learning, and the several
states, as we'll as the Federal Govern
ment, should lose no time in making
them such as quickly as possible.
We can only claim to be the fore
most among the nations of the world
in the march of civilization so long as
we are willing to give first considera-
tion to questions of primary Import
ance. There can be only one basis
industry, and that has always been,
and always will be as long as the hui
man race ,endures and requires 1.-THE
earthly necessities of food and clothing
the farm business When compared
with other industries it towers high
over all, not only as the basic and
most problematical, but in its elemen
;al or monetary values as well. For
Instance, according to governmental
figures for 1922, we find that
rhe capital invested in
the coal mining indus
try is ----------...--$ 2,35s, ss5,332 !
The total capital, SUR
PLUS and undivided
profits Of all the
banks in America is 1884 ,949, 1924
he total valuation of
all the railroads, ac- :
cording to the valua-
tion by the Interstate :
Commerce Commission
is only --.--..--.-...-.---.-- 100000, 900 Z
he total valuation of =
all Americas manu- 8
featuring businesses -
numbering several
hundred thousand in
stitutions, from ne
doughnut factory to "a
steel mills is---..-. 445ee,5 es, III fu
at overtowering all by "a
far, as the Woolworth nc
Building in New York so
overtowers everything 10
in sight and far be- Tn
yond it, is the Ameri- DO
can farm business, tn'
with valuation off, 1924, 100, 1886 zen
Thus we find that the agricultural ma
1ustry is 33 times as great in value an
all the coal mines in America; more olr