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dustries, and that the farmer is being crowded between two mill stones of 

 small income and large outgo and it is getting to the point where he has 

 not any more to go out. So they are just kind of shifting along now, the 

 farmers as a whole throughout this country. We don't want to attack any- 

 body. I have no personal campaign against the retailer getting 98 per 

 cent, I don't know how many farmers would do the same thing if they 

 could do it. But we ought to educate the public who are buying to the 

 fact that there is a certain fair relation between what the farmer receives 

 and what they should pay. The county and town fairs can help do that. 

 I can tell you where to get the data if you want it. When you put upon 

 the bulletins and when you make public the fact that the relation between 

 the wholesale price of a certain product and the retail price should be, let 

 us say, as forty is to fifty, and that is normal, and then you show what 

 the wholesale price is now and show what the retail price is, then if the 

 public finds it is as forty to eighty, or as forty to a hundred, they begin 

 to talk; they will be getting educated. If the dealers are prospering they 

 can't stand talk along that line very long. You will find prices beginning 

 to tumble quite generally. When prices go down labor will be more will- 

 ing to accept reductions, which means so much to the cost of everything. 



I want to close with one more suggestion. If there is anything we need 

 right now it is cool heads and it is good leadership. We want to have 

 men in our towns and in our counties who are thoughtful, who are not 

 excitable, who will get the facts, who will be kind and who will deal with 

 their neighbor as they would like to be dealt with, who will present the 

 situation to their neighbors correctly so they may talk it to the other 

 neighbors and all may know. And when all know the facts as to this 

 present situation, then the best remedy I know of — there are others — will 

 be effective. And I repeat that our fairs have a wonderful part in this 

 emergency. I thank you. 



President Cameron: We will have to vary our program this 

 morning as Secretary Corey received a wire from Mrs. Spaulding, 

 who was to be on the program this morning, stating that she was 

 sick and unable to be here. But we have with us today Hon. John 

 Hammill, lieutenant governor, whom I take great pleasure in intro- 

 ducing to you gentlemen. 



HON. JOHN HAMMILL 



Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I am sure I am pleased at this 

 opportunity of talking briefly to you this morning. The secretary has 

 suggested that I take up the question of the relationship that should exist 

 between the county and district fairs and the state fair, and their co- 

 operation, and the effect of that relationship upon the growth and develop- 

 ment of the state. 



The legislature at the last session took the view that the county, dis- 

 trict and state fair were essential organizations in the state. They be- 

 lieved that the state fair depended upon the growth of the county and the 

 district fair. In order that they might succeed the legislature aided In 



