Evening star., 1939-11-16
Agriculture Declared
beset With Many
Human Problems
Dr.. Beon Addresses
lond-Gront Colleges
Convention

Neither business recovery, now
under way, or any probable increase
in exports resulting from the Euro
pean war can solve agriculture's
human problems, DR.. Louis H. Bean,
economic adviser of the Agriculture
Adjustment Administration, declared
today at the SD annual convention
of the Association of Land Grant
Colleges.
Speaking before general session
of the convention delegates in the
Willard Hotel, DR.. Bean asserted 80
per cent of the existing farm popu-
lation" can produce what the market
requires in the way of farm products.
Without letting the production
fall below the demand, wheat and
cotton combined could get along with
one and half million fewer working
persons" DR.. Bean said. Present
prospects for domestic and foreign
takings, with allowance for the pos
sible effects of the war" will not
solve this problem, he continued.
The speaker asserted that the
decade of the 30s was the first in
the history of this country to show
no decline in the proportion of the
total population living and working
on farms.
Denies Agriculture Decay.
DR.. Charles M. A. Stine, vice presi-
dent of E. I. du Pont de Nemours
& Co., another speaker at today's
session, branded as false the idea
that agriculture Is decaying in
dustry, asserting that unrealized
possibilities of agriculture expansion
probably are greater than those in
any other industry.
DR.. Stine declared it is by no
means a fantastic prophecy that
future houses, highways and auto
mobile bodies may be fabricated from
annual farm-grown crops.
Hector LaZo, executive vice presi-
dent Of the Cooperative Food Dis
tributors of America, told the con-
vention there is need for intellectual
honesty and detachment in con-
sidering the price spread between
farm and retail prices.
Mrs. Margaret Dana, merchan-
dising counselor, told the delegates
there Is a need for manufacturers
to pay stricter attention to values
given for the dollar and a greater
need on the part of the consumer
in considering the actual value and
need of an article for which he pays
certain price.
Section Discussions.
Section discussions of problems
affecting resident teaching, ex-
perimental station, extension, engi-
neering, home economics and gradu-
ate work were to be held this
afternoon.
Among those scheduled to be
heard are DR.. F. J. Kelly, chief of
the Division of Higher Education,
United States Office of Education;
Dean G. o. Appleman OF the Uni
versity of Maryland, DR.. c. E. Kel-
logg of the Bureau. of Chemistry
and Soils, DR.. A. l.. Patrick, chief
Of the Division of Watershed and
Conservation Surveys, and M. S.
Eisenhower, co-ordinator of land
use planning, Department of Agri-
culture; Undersecretary of Agricul-
ture M. L. Wilson and Miss Beulah
Coon, United States Office of Edu-
cation.
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
speak at 6:45 pm. before the gradu-
ate work section in the Washing
ton Hotel.
DR.. H. r. Tolley, chief of the Bu-
reau OF Agricultural Economics; DR..
G. w. Warburton, director of the
Department of Agriculture Exten-
sion Service, and r. w. Trullinger.
assistant chief of the Office of .Ex-
pertinent Stations, will be among
the speakers before various sections
at 8 pm. sessions.
The convention is to be concluded
tomorrow morning with a general
session, during which Mrs. Roose-
velt and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace are to be the principal
speakers.
"State-Federal Relationships At
fecting Agricultural Programs" was
discussed last night by Undersecre-
tary Wilson before joint session
OF the three convention subsections
on agriculture.
DR.. Tolley assisted in leading the
discussion following Mr.. Wilson's
address.