The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-21
(Oficial City, State and County Newspaper)
Backs Tincher Bill

Backs Tincher Bill
Farm delegations at Washington. D. c.. are d
pleased with the action Of Secretary Of Agricultu
Jardine in accepting in substance at least
Tincher farm relief measure. This bill seeks to ca
the situation by extension of credit to cooperative
Merchandising is one Of the big problems tn
confront agricutursts and if credit can be extend
in times of great emergency to cooperative socet
so as to assist at least in solving the surplus pre-
lem, progress will have been made. In
statement to the house committee on agriculture
Gently, Secretary Iardinc declared that the finch
bill was the most workable and came nearest
meeting the approval of President Coolidge of a
of the pending farm relief measures.
The attitude of the administration on the gre
economic issue Of farm aid is summed up in the f
lowing quotation from statement Of Secreta
Jardine:
1T has been thoroughly impressed upon
me, moreover, that the basic surplus prob
lem is not confined to any one section. 1t
is a problem that dairymen fruit growers,
livestock raisers, cotton growers, potato
= growers, grain producers, tobacco raisers,
and producers of nearly every staple farm
product have to grapple with from time to
time 1t is a nationwide problem. 1t has
seemed to me fundamental that legislation
designed to affect the prices of farm prod
ucts must have full regard not only for the
common interests, but likewise for the
flicting interests Of all regions We can
get nowhere with national legislative pro-
gram that helps some farmers at the
pense of others.
There are, as take it, two general ave-
nues of approach to solution of the SUR
plus problem One is through the better
arrangement of the production. The other
is through marketing and distribution. The
first will not discuss here, for our legisla-
tive approach does not fall within that
field
"in the second field Of approach we have
three major issues. There is the problem
Of storage Of given harvest pending con-
sumption during the year or season and OF
storage for the carry-over. We have them
in all storage questions, the immediate prob
lem Of credit. Beyond these two questions
of storage and credit we have the third
problem. And that is orderly control of
the stream of supplies to the consumer. We
can solve the first two Of these issues by
better provision of facilities, but we can
solve the third only by collective action.
my own conviction is that the central
problem in this whole matter is of mer-
chandising. Under that view it follows that
legislative action should aim to supplement
the efforts of farmer controlled agencies
and should enlarge their facilities by every
possible and proper provision of credit,
standardization warehousing, ETC., such as
will tend to promote orderly distribution"
The politicians are more excited over the farme
problems than he is himself. He realizes that
World War worked havoc with his industry. La
values hit the sky and the process Of deflation "
so rapid as to almost engulf him. Conditions 8
better today than twelve months ago and shou
as time proceeds, improve even more. If the IL
eral government can aid in more orderly mark
ing, that probably is as far as any government c
be asked to go. Revision of the tariff and pr
fixing nostrums would effect permanent cure a
might prove dangerous economic experiments.