The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-05

named besides Mr.. Legge are Mr..
Stone already referred to, c. B.
Dnman of st. Louis, Mr.. Carl Will
Jams of Oklahoma City, Mr.. w. r.
Moscrip of Lake Elmo, Minnesota
and Mr.. Chas. C. league of Califor-
MIA. Each of these men while NOM
inally interested in farmers coop
eratives is actually connected with
big business as a director of banks,
insurance companies, real estate
and oil developments, etc. The two
others still to be named and who
are to represent wheat and corn
are giving the president more than
the usual difficulty. On the one
hand, they must be satisfactory to
the Chicago and Minneapolis grain
ring and on the other they must
have at least a semblance of accep-
liability to the northwest agricul-
tural section. The task appears i'm
possible but the president with the
aid of endorsement-wielding, So
called farm leaders, is expected to
accomplish it.
In the meantime out of the very
White House itself, figuratively
speaking, has come the declaration
that the Hoover program of farm
relief is due for the rocks. In an
analysis of the farm situation just
made public, Mr.. Edwin G. Nourse,
of the Institute of Economics,
whose study was made at the in
stance of President Hoover, when
Secretary of Commerce, the frank
admission is made that the present
farm bill is not alone futile but
will be followed by future legisla-
ton of compulsory nature intended
to accomplish by force what the
present program cannot do freely.
The analysis of DR.. Nourse in
substance shows that the Hoover
program depend for its success up
on the willingness of farmers to
join freely in the sterilization cor
porations which are to be organic
ed. The farmers, DR.. Nourse adj
mits bluntly, will refuse to join. He
does not give the real reasons for
the failure of the farmers past re-
fusal to join extensively into CO.
operative associations, namely, the
fact that many of the associations
have been operated by the enemies
of real cooperation. Nor does
DR.. Nourse indicate that there is a
provision in the Hoover Bill speci-
fically designed to favor the grain
spectators as against the cooper
atives, a provision which was de-
leted by the Senate but retored in
conference. when the farmers, 4"
DR.. Nourse predicts, "do not asso-
ciate in co-operatives and comply
with the requirements of such
groups, thus assuring the failure
of the present relief plans, legisla-
ton will be attempted which will
force the farmers to join" Thus
the farmers may expect as outlined
by the Hoover spokesman an era
of enforced Cooperation" under
the direction of such friends" of
agriculture as Mr.. Alexander H.
Legge.
The member who is generally ex-
pected to be named as chairman
of the Federal Farm Board is Mr..
James C. Stone of Richmond, Ken
lucky. Formerly a judge, Mr..
Stone is to represent the tobacco
industry. He is head of the Bur-
ley Tobacco Growers Association
which office places him in the pic
ture of "farm-minded board" as
promised by the President. But
actually Mr.. Stone is the head of
several tobacco warehouses and is
a large scale tobacco merchant. He
is a director of the Fayette Ma
tional Bank and the Joint State
Land Bank of his state. Mr.. C. B.
Denman is head of the National
Live Stock Producers Association
with headquarters at Chicago. In
formation about him has been
sparser than hens teeth but the
story is that the farm-minded live
stock grower with headquarters in
cattle-raising Chicago is acceptable
to the meat packers and grain ring.
If true. the story no doubt will
sooner or later be verified. An
other member, Mr.. Carl Williams
Of Oklahoma is~named as repre-
sentative of the cotton industry.
The connection is not clear but
such Is the announcement. Mr..
Williams has been the editor since
1919 ~ the "Farmer-Stockman."
His farmer-mind has enabled him