Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11
BANKERS TO MEET
ION LONDEN'S FARM
Session July so win Be De.
voted Largely to Report
on G. Operatives.
Al con,solidlateti press.

BY Consolidated Press.
CHICAGO, July TO- -Co-operativ
marketing and politics will probably
get an airing on Frank O. Lowden's
[, on0,acre model farm at Oregon. I'LL,
July so. & .ss
At that tifns the Illinois Bankers
,Association plans q sunrise 70 sun
set conference on the Lowden es-
tate to consider agricultural prob
lens. The former Illinois governor ID
expected to tell the results OF the
study he now is making of co.opera.
tive enterprises In Denmark and
Sweden. Parties Of bankers and agri-
cultural representatives are to make
q survey OF the Lowden model farm,
and there win be q general considera-
ton Of farm problems. according to
plans.
Presidential Bee HUNS.
Mention Is made that this gather
ing may go quite q ways to stamp
former Gov. Lowden AZ the farmer
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination in 1923.
That suggestion, however, does not
come from the quarters OF Mr.. Low
den. He has been busy making q
thorough investigation into the highly
Denmark and other Scandinavian
countries. His experience on his
s ,000-acre farm at Oregon, Ill, and on
his 30.000-acre cotton plantation ct
South Bend, Ark. has made him q
consistent advocate Of cooperative
marketing as one means Of solving
the agricultural problem. There are
SO many difficulties in the way Of sue
cessful cooperation, however, that he
Is visiting the Scandinavian countries
to find how they have solved them.
Former Gov. Lowden during the
last few months has been going about
the country addressing wide audi.
ence of farm subjects. He Is getting
to be considered In the Middle West
as the spokesman for agriculture.
Years Of constant study of the subject
grew out of the problems Of the big
Lowden farm.
During that time the former gov
ernor has been gaining a reputation
for turning down more important ma.
tional political jobs than almost any
other man.. He refused the vice presi-
Dental nomination OF the Republican
party in 1924, refused an offer Of
President Harding to be Secretary of
the Navy and Of President Coolidge to
be Secretary Of Agriculture and AM
bassador TO Great Britain.
With the farm problem becoming
the center OF a political storm. former
Gov. Lowden's opinions are attracting
attention. In his addresses he tells
his audiences that the rational well
fare requires stabilized production and
a constant surplus.
IF the farmers should not produce
"a surplus, prices would. mount. meat
products would follow and there would
be hunger and want in industrial and
commercial centers," he says. when
they do raise q surplus this sets the
price on a world basis, which puts
agriculture at a. disadvantage with
other industries of the country.
The Nation should dispose of its
surplus farm products wisely, holding
sufficient for its needs as against q
less fruitful time, and dispose of the
rest In the markets OF the world upon
the most advantageous terms. IL pro-
-ducera were completely organized
they could exercise this control. but
until they are the Government must
help"
Former Gov. Lowden ID now finding
how the Scandinavian countries have
worked out their cooperative market
ing problem. He may have new sug-
gestions to make at the July 80 con-
ference on his farm. X