THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MAY 24,
FARMERS BOLT
!. STATEFOOD MEET
Charles Graff and Hundred
Others Protest Against Be
ing in Minority and Hold
Bump Convention.
(ContlnUFd from Para On.).
we submit for your consideration the
following as an expression of what we
believe to be the farmers' attitude in
the present national crisis:
1. The patriotism and loyalty of the
farmer cannot be qucstioneed.
2. We recognize that the question
of food is the all-important one, and
tha.t in the solution of this question
the farmer is the most important fac
tor. Farmers not only recognize this,
but they are responding to it. They
could not worlj harder nor longer
hours than they are doing. Instead
of being necessary, therefore, the
widespread and insistent urging of
farmers to speed up only harasses and
annoys. Neither can farmers sud
denly change their methods to meet
the present crisis.
3. The policy of the government to
stimulate production bi holding up
the danger of a world famine we be
lieve to be bad. It encourages the
hoarding of products and promotes
speculation. That policy, we believe,
is largely responsible for the present
unreasonably high prices.
Would Discourage Firmers.
4. We believe that the threat to fix
prices on farm products discourages
production. Certainly we are opposed
to regulation of the prices of farm
products unless regulation is applied
also the products of mines, forests
and factories, and, unless due consid
eration is giveu to the high cost of
farming under present conditions. In
the general scheme of regulation, if
one is adopted, consideration should
be given to alloting enough steel and
other materials to furnish farmers an
adequate supply of farm implements
and other equipment necessary to
grow, harvest and market their croos.
5. One of the primary reasons for
the present condition of the food sup
ply is that the trend of population has
been cityward, due to legislation
favoring manufacturing and com
merce and neglect in the last fifty
years of the needs of agriculture.
This trend of .population away from
the farms cannot be stopped in t day
or a year or in time' to be of benefit
in the present crisis. For this reason
we decry the back-to-th-e-land agita
tion as an immediate remedy.
6. The most effective measures that
can be talcen, we believe, to meet the
present situation have to do with pre
venting waste jn distribution. Every
unnecessary agency in the handling
of food product and goods from pro
ducer to consumer should be elim
inated. 'We respectfully urge, there
fore, that steps be taken to establish
a simpler, less expensive and more
expeditious method of exchanging the
products of the farms and factories.
Should Adjust Taxation. .
7. War taxation ihould . be ad
justed so that it will wofk the mini
mum of interference with and dis
couragement to production and distribution-of
needed articles, in re
spect to the products of botH farms
and factories. Wc believe that some
of the taxes proposed on freight ship
ments not only would place added
burdens upon consumers falling
with disproportionate severity on the
poor but would act as a brake on
the 'wheels of industry to disconr
age production and interfere with
distribution. The same is true of the
proposed increase int tariff taxes.
Luxuries should be taxed heavily
enough to discourage their use, but
the. same kind of taxation that is ap
plied to luxuries should not be ap
plied to useful things. ,
8. Taxes upon the earnings of busi
ness and industry do not operate to
hamper production and distribution as
do taxes upon the processes of com
merce and the products of useful en
dravor. We urge therefore that heavy
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incomes. ', These taxes should be
iraduated and progressive, and should
be "very heavy in large incomes
much heavier than is proposed in the
war revenue bill. Inasmuch as our
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'lives for the cause of their country,
we believe justice demands that
wealth should be drafted heavily to
meet the financial, costs. Taxes on
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i merit of forcing the weallhy to prac
tice conservation.
Cities Are Inconsistent
n Mr i,Dcrf 'that It
' is grossly inconsistent tor people ot
the towns and cities to urge farmers
to produce more and waste less wnue
at tne same time nusxiess urgaiuia'
. tions are conducting a definite cam'
.;... n 1m tnr1 in "live nor
' mally" and to urge the adoption of
- the slogan "business as usual." i
We submit that if labor and ma
terials . are to be released for war
ourposes, consumption m every-aay
walks of life must he curtailed. It is
highly unpatriotic' for business men
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and newspapers, in order to stimulate
trade in things more or less useful,
to conduct a campaign to discour
age more economical living.
The resolutions are signed by L. H.
Gustafson, chairman; L, G. Herron,
secretary: W. J. Taylor, C. E. Slatt
and Kinney.
Ask More Delegates.
The farmers sa they are not suf
ficiently represented in the Nebraska
conservation conference.
C. H. Gustafson, president of the
Farmers' union; W. J. Taylor of
Mcrna, Neb., and J. O. Shroyer of
Humbolt today complained to Dr.
George E. Condra, executive secre
tary. Mr. Tavlor. a farmer, objected to
the treatment he received last night
when he spoke before the general
body. At that time Chancellor
Avery of the University of Nebraska,
who presided, ana ut. vonara, wno
followed with some announcements,
each made remarks which were con
strued by some m the audience as re
flecting upon" Taylor's patriotism.
"I was invited to come here and I
came,' said Mr. iaytor, "notwiin
standing the fact that I am a busy
man. Other farmers came when they
had to leave important work on the
farms to come. I am wondering
whether a farmer cannot come in here
and speak without being insulted."
Conference Not Scheduled.
Dr. Condra assured him that he
did not refer to Taylor's speech when
he said men who come to air selfish
interests would be out of order. He
said he meant that as a general prop
osition for the whole conference.
"You are right. Mr. Taylor." he
said, "distribution as you held in your
talk is the big item. Production and
conservation come next."
C H. Gustafson then stepped in
and in a moment there was a lively
little committee meeting which was
not scheduled on the program.
"I don't like the attitude of the
management here toward the farm
ers," said Gustafson, "and you might
as well know it now as any time, I
Want to say, too, that 90 per cent of
the farmers in the audience last night
and of the farmers in tike state are in
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accuru wiin wnai ivir. jayiur .uu
night. Distribution is a big problem
and must be met."
Mr. Gustafson said he recently
bought a )ce of round steak in a
restaurant, tic felt it was pretty
small for the 20 cents charged. He
did not eat it, but wrapped it in pa
per, took it out and weighed it. lie
said he found the eating house was
charging him about $1.35 a pound
more than the farmer got for the beef
on the hoof.
, Who Oeti Profits?
"Now, I'd like to know where the
.35 went," he said. .
This illustration he ffave bv wav of
showing that much is Tost in distribu
tion, or between the crop and the
consumer ana urgca mat mat is
where the work of the conservation
conference should begin,
"You have given the bankers 100
delegates," he said, "and the various
farmers organizations' have titty eacn.
Is that fair? I didn't appoint a single
delegate tor the reason that I Knew
there was no use when I saw the way
it was lined up."
J. O. Shroyer of Humbolt com
plained that farmers who go to the
stock yards now to buy steers to lat
tcn are confronted with the possibil
ity of having the selling price of those
steers fixed for them before tlicy are
fit for market, '
"There is talk of shaving that price
down," he said, "but not one word
said of shaving down the note the
farmer has to give -the bank to buy
those steers." )
Mr. Shrover also had his little il
lustration. He said be bought a pack
age of a well known brand of break
fast food, wnicn is essentially wneat
He weished it at home and discov
ered he was buying wheat at the rate
of $26 per bushel, He wanted to
know wnere me oinercucc uciwcch
the price of wheat to the farmer and
the x oer pustiei naa gone.
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WHITE TELLS OF
93-FOOT PLUNGE
DOWNELEVATOR
Koatlniwa (ram rain Ona.)
gineer to lower the concrete buggies.
He did not notice the cage was mov
ing and started to step on.
This picture shows the elevator
tower and shaft. The arrows show
the starting and stopping points. Top
arrow, 110 feet high, where White
fell. Bottom arrow, where cage
stopped, ninety-three feet from top.
He plunged headlong down the
shaft ninety-three feet, bouncing from
side to side in the elevator tower as
he fell. . 'r
When he had fallen eighty feet the
engineer, Frank I'arker, saw him. The
cage was about eight .feet below the
falling body. Parker so manipulated
the engine that thenufage and White
were falling at abottrthe same speed,
fifty feet per second,
When the impact took place White
had fallen a distance of ninety-three
feet.
The caee was lowered to the ground
and White got up and smiled to Leo
btephans. , " i
"This is "worse than foot ball, ain't
it, old boy?"
After he had been given some
water he continued: "
"1 surely fell down. Some rick-
ochettingl
When seen at the hospital today
.White said:
"Although I was in the air only a
ftw seconds, every sin I had ever
committed flashed before my mind.
I even had time1 to repent. It was a
peculiar sensation. I never thought
that a human mind could recall so
many things in such a short time.
Some of them I had forgotten for fif
teen years. As a result of this I sha'1
probably be a better man, because) I
TIRED Wl?visrNEKD ""
Honford' Aetd PhMphat ,
Banttlclal to the ner.v and brajn. Re
tlitvei th atratn of overwork and meatal
worry. Bur a. bottlo.
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1 Dean of Bryn Mawr
Philadelphia, May 23. It was an
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that Miss Helen Herron Taft, daugh
ter of former President Taft, had
been elected dean of the college.
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about the danger. I do not remember
fear that when I die my evil deeds
will have to be accounted for."
"Didn't you think of death?" con
tinued the reporter.
"Only once I thought of life. I
gave myself up as a goner. The rec
ollection of my relatives and friends
was so interesting Jhat I forgot all
hitting the cage nor saying anything
after the impact.
"Probably I do not realize how
much Parker did for me, but as soon
as I regain my former self I shall
show my gratitude."
In sneaking of the accident, Parker,
the engineer, said:
"I thought somebody had thrown
down a coat and paid no attention to
it. But on looking again I saw it was
a man going to his death. My cage
was ten feet below him when I saw
him and was coming down full speed.
I slewed it up until it was falling as
fast as the body and then stopped it.
I don't believe White even felt the
impact."
Psrker is modest about the heroic
deed. He declared he only did his
duty to one of his brothers. The
boys on the job gave him a gold
watch this morning.
White is a college graduate. His
father is a New York City business
man. The young man was a star half
back on his college team. He was
visiting Leo Stephans, a former col
lege friend. He will leave for his
home soon. ' . - .
As a result of the falling another
man, E. Nelson, fainted and would
have fallen to his death had it not
been for Leo Stephans, who caught
him by one of his feet as he toppled
over.
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