Imperial Valley press., 1929-07-15
AID FOR
FARMERS
STAR
Federal Board Addressed
By Hoover Prior To Be-
ginning Work.
PLANS INDEFINITE
President Declares Long
Time Will Be Needed To
Perfect Operations.
BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
UNITED Press, Staff COrreSpondentl

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WASHINGTON, July Is. UR--
The gigantic task of farm relief
passed into the hands Of the feder-
al farm board today.
After spending an hour with
President Hoover at the White
House the board retired to tempor-
. ary quarters in a down town hotel
to begin it's first meeting.
Chairman Alexander Legge said
he could give no indications OF
what the board would take up first,
but said he planned to have its
members "get to work Immediate
ly."
In delivering his formal charge
to the new board, President Hoover
said one of the principal purposes
of the federal machinery would ge
to adjust more clearly production
to consumption and to create per-
manent, farmer-owner business in
stitutions for marketing agricultur-
al products.
He warned the farmer that such
a program could not be accompan-
led by a "magic wand or an over
night action.o
The text of the President s farm
board statement follows:
"I have no extended statement
to make to the federal farm board
as to its duties. The wide authority
| and splendid resources placed at
your disposal are well known.
81 am deeply impressed with the
responsibilities which lie before
you. Your fundamental purpose
must be to determine the fact and
find solution of a multitude Of
agricultural problems, among them
to more clearly adjust production
to need; to create permanent busi-
ness institutions for marketing
which, owned and controlled by the
farmers, shall be so wisely devised
and soundly founded and well man
aged that they be effecting econo-
mics and giving such stability, will
| grow in strength over the years to
come. Through these efforts we may
establish to the farmer an equal
opportunity in our economic system
| with other industry
81 know there is not thinking
| farmer who does not realize that all
this cannot be accomplished by q
| magic wand or an overnight action.
Real institutions are not built thar
! way. If we are to succeed it will be
| by strengthening the foundations
and the initiative which we already
have in farm organizations and
building steadily upon them with
| the constant thought that we are
building not for the present only
but for the next year and the next
decade.
"In selecting this board have
| sought for suggestions from the
many scores of farmers coopera
tives and other organizations and
yours were among the names most
universally commended; you arc
thus in sense the representatives
! of organized agriculture itself. I
congratulate each of you upon the
| distinction of your colleagues and
upon appointment l invest you with
responsibility, authority and re-
sources such as have never before
been conferred by our government
| in assistance to any industry
Owing to difficulty in finding
man to represent the wheat produce
ing and marketing interests, Presi-
dent Hoover had designated only
seven of the eight members Of tho
board in time for today's meeting.
Announcement of the eighth name
is expected within few days.
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
will be an ex-officio member of the
| board.