Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-29
IOWDEN TALKS
ON MARKETING
Former Ohio Governor Says Prob
lens of the Farmer is the Prob.
lem of All Glasses.


production, with the view of rescuing
rural civilization from the pcrils it
appears to be facing because of its
uncertain finacial position, was stress
cd by former Governor Frank O.
Lowden, of Illinois, one of the ma
tionally known champions of the
farmers cause, speaking at mass
meeting of farmers and business men
IN Charlotte last Friday. The meet
ing was held under the auspices of
the North Carolina Cotton Growers
cooperative Association.
Mr.. Lowden spoke to about 500
business men Friady afternoon at a
CWitan club meeting following the
saass meeting. He told the Civilians
and guests that America will commit
san awful crime" if the country
should over-develop its industries and
withhold its help in the solution of
agricultural problems.
Establishment of federal farm
board to serve agriculture in much
che same manner as the federal re-
ycrve board is serving the financial
Interests of the nation was suggest
cd by Mr.. Lowden as one of the
practical solutions of the trouble
some farm relief problems. This
beard, Mr.. Lowden pointed out, would
aid in marketing surplus farm crops
grown in this country advantageous
", farm surpluses being cited as the
major difficulty. in the ways of put
tng American agriculture on a
sound basis.
Mr.. Lowden called upon the busi-
ness man and the banker and men in
all lines of endeavor to realize that
the problem of the farmer is the
problem of all classes.
"The business men of the SOUTH"
hS said, "may not be able to become
aroused over conditions of agricul-
Sure in the middle west but these
conditions affect all classes of peo-
pie in this territory" The speaker
particularly scored those economists
who claim that prices of farm prod
asts should be controlled by supply
and demand, declaring that prices for
agricultural products must be put on
q stable basis if the farmer is to pros
per.
cooperative associations control
hing the available supply aedsp,thus
regulating prices was suggested as
the best method of attaining stabili-
zation. He suggested that federal
farm board be created with the CO.
operative associations having men,
bership and working in much the
same manner as member banks work
with the federal reserve board.
Mr.. Lowden declared that any fed
eral action should be taken with a
view to strengthening cooperative
associations and not weakening them.
SIT may be-" he said, that there
IN a better solution of the problem
than the one | have suggested. | am
not insisting upon ai.y particular
remedy. | only say that solution
must be found if we would preserve
onr civilization. There are many
earnest men who believe there is no
solution. / come across them with
increasing frequency. They say that
there has been always conflict be-
tween rural and urban civilization.
that in this conflict rural civilization
always has gone down, that there is
no reason why we should be an ex-
ception to the general rule that a
decaying agriculture always has
marked the first stage in the decline
of a nations greatness and that we
are helpless in the grip Of this re-
lentIess law of the rise and fall of
nations l cannot yield to this
gloomy view.
II do not agree that our rural civil
tization is in perilous state. gree
with them when they say our nation
cannot long survive the decay Of it's
agriculture. cannot follow them,
however, in their despair of finding
some power somewhere which will
arrest this decay. have more faith
in the capacity of society to save it.
self. Our civilization as contrasted
: with all previous civilizations has
been marked by an increasing con-
troll Of man over the forces of nature
and subsection of them to his own
use.
II believe we are entering upon a
new era in the domain of the social
sciences. Just as in the material
world man has increased his domin-
Non over the forces of nature so in
Nhe worla of men we shall learn more
and more how to make the institu-
tions Of men respond to the needs of
men. The instruments Of the complex
civilization which we have evolved
are all the creations Of man. 1t these
instruments are unequal to their task
then we must contrive better ones"
The Merchants Bank and Trust
Company; of Winston-Salem, closed
its doors Monday morning by State
D.xL Eva,,,linar ,atham Tho hank