The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
DAWES PLEDGES BEST MINDS AID TOU.S. FARMERS Declares Party Will Bend Energy To Study Of
 Problem WHEAT BELT DRIVE OPENS IN LINCOLN Holds Question Is Non Partisan And Non-
 Political

(By Leased Wire to The -Hesald)
 LINCOLN, Neb., August 29. Under the flares of calcium lights in the speakers stand, erected in the center of the gigantic Nebraska Memorial stadium, Gen. Charles C.. Dawes, republican candidate for vice president, Friday, night "cum home" to Lincoln and opened his campaign for the farmer vote of the middle west.
 Twenty thousand Nebras- kans, many of them old friends, who knew Dawes 35 years ago at the start of his career as a young lawyer, had climbed into the stands for the occasion
 Thundering applause greeted the gem eral as he concluded his address at 9 :14 o'clock. Immediately thereafter a dele gation of Omaha women presented a banquet to Mrs. Dawes, who was in q box in the west stand.
 From the stadium, Dawes was taken to the home of s, H, Burnham, presi- dent of the First National bank of Lin- c0ln, where he planned to spand the night. No formal schedule was set for hia Saturday activities. Dawes planned to rest at the Burnhan home unfif 4 40 I aa. Hl1en he will leaF1 for ChieagB.
 4ntaa reMA iAt cafn nnt ta hanr him WREe many dstimers who kneW him in tho old days before his s.E1eli, Maria, and upaid6-dOWn pine had be. come mafterH, of national interest, M
 Speaking to thess friends and to thr0ngs of farmers that had come into town, the general made this promise for the adminstrationI
 Make One Piedga
 we make but one promise that tho republican party, utilizing the best minds and those by training best fitted for the task, will bend its energy to the study of our agricultural problem, to the cad that through legisiatien eB Othap means it's solution may be accomplished, Whoever promises more than this is entering into q contract which cannot be filled, .l %
 DaweF eatire speech was an analysis of the agricultural problem. There is no question, he said, but that it is the most serious economic question confrentz ing eur nation today, Upon it's sOluteli depends our national prosperity: It is non-partisan economic question. It must not be and cannot be either dis cussed OF settled as party question.
 A O8nplax Tssie
 fft is a most complex issue, In it's solution we have RQ precedent to fol- low for never ia the history of the world, so far ss I can fiRdi has there been country producing and exporting in large volume, at the same time, both the products of the farm and of indus try. z
 'iThs problem, in the most simple terms, is how ehq' equality iR earning capacity be secured between agriculture and industry. DispaEity in earning ca paeity of agricultural and industrial population is evidenced in undeba table manner by the marked increase in say ings deposits in industrial centers as compared with those in agricultural sec tiOns of the country.
 eAfter two years of discussion upon this subject, as extensive as was ever devoted in the United States in the same space of time, to an economic problem, it Is at present clear that there is no consensus of either agricultural or eco homie opinion upon any of the legisla- tive remedies now under consideration. Under such circumstances, the sane, common sense method of procedure which led to the settlement of the diff fnlties of Europe should be followed in the search for the settlement of the az ricultural problem.
 Commission Recommended
 What is demanded at the present time is the consideration of this prob lem by an impartial, non-partisan, com potent commission, under economic guidance, with a view to suggesting means of protecting agriculture from in- equality with other industries"
 Dawes derided the absurd and demagogic claim that recent advances in grain have been engineered by the so- called interests for political purposes. "
 1t should be emphasized" he said, "that all the factors contributing to the present price level of grain are tenn pOrary in their nature and cannot be counted upon in the future. The recent improvement in the agricultural situa- .t (COntinued on Page TwO)