New Britain herald., 1928-08-04
SAYS AGRICULTURE
 MUST AID ITSELF
Otherwise It Will Be "Whining Lame Dog" Speaker AYOWs
DISCUSSION AT WILLIAMS
University of Toronto Professor Talks to Institute of Politics on the Farmers Problem - Chinese Matters Heard.

Williamstown, Mass, Aug. {Pt- Agriculture must look to itself for it's salvation or it will become a lame dog whining for special aid, Dr. C. K. Fay, professor of political econ- omy at the University of Toronto, declared today in an address before members of the Institute of Poli- tics.
 Several Reasons
 This, he said. is due to several reasons.
 Majority power he said is per- manently in the hands of industry and commerce. Another, he said, is the impossibility for farmers to maintain standard of life com parable with that of the towns un- less their production per man is constantly growing. This means the replacement of man power by ma chine power wherever possible.
 Agriculture he said, is not one, but many industries. each having it's own marketing problems de- manding solution. whereas govern- ment can only legislate for the mass. A measure of farm relief which aids one section. he pointed out. may be of negligible interest to another. Or it may be directly hos tile to the interests of another, if. Tor example. it's purpose is to man. tam the price of certain products which a second agricultural section uses as its raw material.
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 Internal price control is formid- ably difficult he said. In external trade. he contended, a stringent tariff would not bring an immediate remesis by prohibiting foreign trade as imports can take the form of purchases of foreign securities by United States citizens, of other re- mittances abroad. and of tourist ex penditures
 Wants Stability
 The important needs of agriculture he said are not that it should set the pace to the rest of the nation, nor even that its members should in- Crease in wealth as fast as the ranks of industry and commerce, but rather that as a group of industries 1t should attain comparative econ omic stability. that the individual standard Of living should rise ab- solutely. and that the group con- sciousness of agriculture should content. This latter. he said, probably was the greatest need of all and could be best attained cooperation.
 At another round table discussion Prof. Chas. w. Hackett, of the Uni versity of Texas. speaking of recent Inter- American relations and prob lems said one of the greatest finan- cial problems before Mexico at the present time was that of liquidatng her Agrarian bonds, some of which are held by American citizens. issued when Mexico appropriated large tracts of land some ten years ago in pursuance of her Agrarian policy.
 Three Provisions
 Mexico. he said. is enforcing three
  provisions of the constitution of 1917 bearing on lands. namely. Agrarian reforms. standardization of sub soil deposits and the curblng the ac- quisition of property by foreigners.
 Action taken by the Mexican gov ernment to enforce a further con- provision. said Prof. Hackett designed 10 effect educa tional and religious reforms, has not been considered by the United States as subject for diplomatic protest. Nevertheless, because of the action of the Mexican govern ment in enforcing this fourth con- provision, many individ uals and some organizations in the
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