Evening star., 1930-12-09
LIFE OF FARM WIFE
IS DECLARED BEST
Woman Honored by Fedora
tion Paints Rosy Picture
of Rural Home.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, December g. Mrs. Ellis
worth Richardson of Abba, Iowa, first
woman to receive the Distinguished
Service Medal from the American Farm
Bureau Federation, has no daughter,
but If she had, she said today, she would
want her to be farmers wife.
Mrs. Richardson, the mother OF two
sons, was one of three persons who to-
day received the federation's highest
award for meritorious service to agri-
culture. She was selected because OF
her efforts in organizing the farm wom-
en- of the country.
"I can offer no better recipe for hap
piness to the young women of America" :"
she said, than this: Become farmers
bride The rural home offers the great
est opportunity for happiness that can
be found. Surrounded by natures
beauty, the rural home and its family
life afford to the wife and mother a
Joy that nowhere else can be found"
The other medal recipients were Dud-
ley Myers of Mendon, H., and Prof.
T. L. Hacker of Lincoln. Nebr
Myers is credited as being largely re-
sponsible for the development of the
Adams County Live Stock Shipping As
sociation. the largest in Illinois, which
has become the model for the national
expansion Of the cooperative market
ing of live stock.
Prof Hacker is known to farmers
as "the father of the cooperative dairy
system in Minnesota"
Smoking Law Proposed.
Fifteen hundred farmers attending
the convention last night were ponder
ing the most radical resolution ever to
come before the organization. The pro-
posal, In effect, asks the federation to
urge legislation prohibiting smoking on
any American farm.
When 1t was reported among the del
egates that a resolution had been sub
mitted asking the federation to recon-
mend legislation prohibiting smoking on
the farms, many delegates were inclined
to treat the subject as joke.
One of the delegates said the reso-
luton had been introduced in secret
committee session by a non-voting dele
gate from New Mexico, whose name was
not disclosed, in behalf of woman who
argued that:
Arguments Advanced.
Smoking was a menace to farm prop
erty.
Smoking always has been barred in
dairies as nicotine taints milk.
Smoking encouraged loafing on the
part of farm labor and decreased effl-
cheney.
Smoking by hoboes was serious
menace.
Smoking set a bad example to All
Club members.
Smoking by women in the convention
hotel was so common that some of the
convention visitors were shocked, mem
hers said.
The committee also heard arguments
favoring reversal of the federation's
policy against public ownership of
Muscle Shoals, and a stand favoring
revision of the farm loan credit system
The committee In addition listened
70 advocates of a federation stand
against excessive farm taxes, and a
policy favoring enactment of legisla-
ton to provide drought relief to the
agricultural sections of the country.
Boston Mayor Speaks.
The committee will present its recon-
mendations at Wednesdays session. Its
open session yesterday, followed upon
addresses by Mayor James NJ. Curley
Of Boston, G. c. league of the Federal
Farm Board, and President Sam
Thompson Of the federation, advocating
further Government efforts In behalf Of
agriculture.
There Is a field for stabilization
measures" league declared, but sue
pends on the support farmers them
selves give the effort"
Speaking at an exhibition Of antique
agricultural implements last night. DR..
Arthur w. Gilbert, Massachusetts, Com
missioner OF Agriculture, expressed hope
&hat the East and West might reach
common program to safeguard their
mutual welfare and end the silly dilly-
Ganying In Congress"