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after election ask leaders of the type 

 I have named, irrespective of party, 

 to enter upon this task. I shall join 

 with them in the discharge of their 

 duties during the coming winter and 

 present to Congress, immediately upon 

 its convening, the solution recom- 

 mended by the body of men best fitted 

 to render this signal service to the na- 

 tion. I shall support the activities of 

 this body until a satisfactory law is 

 placed upon the statute books." 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 





GOVERNOR SMITH AT 



OMAHA, NEBR., SEPT. 



18, 1928 



HT STRONGLY believe in co-opera- 



X tive marketing. It is clearly all 

 right — as far as it goes. I have en- 

 couraged it in my own state. In New 

 York today we have over one thousand 

 co-operative marketing associations. 

 With our major cash crops and with a 

 device for taking care of the surplus 

 at the cost of the commodity benefited, 

 co-operatives would be given a great 

 opportunity for development. 



"Their field is limited, however, with- 

 out such a device, for the reason that 

 when the membership alone is com- 

 pelled to pay the whole cost of the at- 

 tempt at stabilization, those outside the 

 membership receive the benefits of the 

 increased prices without bearing any 

 of the burdens incident thereto. And 

 the attempt at stabilization is in large 

 measure impaired by the activities of 

 the non-members. 



"The fundamental fact is that none 

 of the methods can function with re- 

 spect to the major cash crops unless 

 they are coupled with the control of 

 the exportable surplus with the cost of 

 lifting it out of the domestic market 

 assessed back on the crop benefited. 



"Various people have attempted to 

 misrepresent and confuse my attitude 

 with respect to the McNary-Haugen 

 bill. I do not propose to leave the 

 slightest doubt in anybody's mind on 

 that subject. 



"As I read the McNary-Haugen bill, 

 its fundamental purpose is to establish 

 an effective control of the sale of ex- 

 portable surplus with the cost imposed 

 upon the commodity benefited. For 

 that principle the Democratic platform 

 squarely stands, and for that principle 

 I squarely stand. Mr. Hoover stands 

 squarely opposed to this principle by 

 which the farmer could get the benefit 

 of the tariff. What remains of the 

 McNary-Haugen bill is a mere matter 

 of method, and I do not limit myself to 

 the exact mechanics and method em- 

 bodied in that bill. 



VOU HWE TCM POTATOES AND HAUe) 

 To OIMIOE THEM BETWEEN THREE. J 



PERSONS. WHAT /~ -^ 



VVOULO ^OU 



Pledges Prompt Action 



'Here is a clean-cut issue, which the 

 ] armers and the voters of this country 

 iiust decide. It remains but to work 

 ( ut the details by which this principle 

 shall be put into effect, and I have 

 I ledged myself to name a non-partisan 

 commission of farm leaders and stu- 

 cents of the problem to work out these 

 c etails. 



"I shall make that appointment, if I 

 am elected, not 'when I take the oath 

 of office as President, but immediately 

 after election; and I pledge to the 

 f irmers and to the people of this coun- 

 t:y that no stone will be left unturned 

 t(i give immediate and adequate farm 

 r ilief, by legislation carrying into 

 p -actice this definite principle for 

 which my party and I stand. This 

 c< urse alone gives promise of rescuing 

 tl e farmers of this country from the 

 c( mplete ruin which threatens them to- 

 ri; iy.» 



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GOVERNOR SMITH AT 

 CHICAGO, OCT. 19, 1928 



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FTER commenting upon the Re- 

 publican Party's past record and 

 f u ture proposals for farm relief, Cov- 

 er lor Smith said : 



"On the other hand, the Democratic 

 Ps rty, in a clear-cut, concise, and 

 definite platform plank, recognizes 



! great underlying and fundamen- 

 difficulty confronting agriculture, 

 ani promises immediate solution of 

 thi ! problem with a constructive pro- 

 gr im for its relief. 



'I stand hard and fast by that plat- 

 fo)m, and I promise you that if I am 

 eh cted President of the United States, 

 it ivill be entirely unnecessary for me 

 to seek excuses for non-performance 

 in the carrying out of that pledge, be- 

 cause I shall make good that promise, 

 ani I I shall not be scurrying around 

 United States to look for words to 

 bu: Id up the reason why it was not 

 doi le." 



Our forefather* fought for the 

 pri rilege of self •determmation in gov- 

 ern ment. Exercise the right they won 

 for you by voting at the polls en Nov. 



Dean Mumford Returns 



DEAN H. W. MUMFORD, College 

 of Agriculture, Illinois, recently 

 returned from a three months' leave 

 of absence spent in 

 Germany. While in 

 Europe, Dean Mum- 

 ford served with 

 nine other men on 

 the American Study 

 Commission formed 

 for the purpose of 

 obtaining first-hand 

 information regard- 

 i n g agricultural 

 conditions and or- 

 ganization in Ger- Oean H. W. Mumford 

 many. 



The members of the Commission 

 travelled extensively from farm to 

 farm, and through packing houses, 

 creameries, stock yards, and shipping 

 centers. A special study of the meat 

 and dairy situation was made. The 

 report submitted by the Commission 

 to the industrial and banking inter- 

 ests of Germany will be published at 

 a later date. 



Dean Mumford, former member of 

 the staff of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, served on the National 

 Farmers' Livestock Marketing Com- 

 mittee of 15, which set up the pro- 

 ducers' co-operative livestock com- 

 mission agencies now operating on 

 all the principal livestock markets. 



Lack of Efficiency in 



Retail Selling Analyzed 



THE cost of retail selling in stores 

 was analyzed recently in the De- 

 partment of Commerce. The report 

 indicates that one of the most difficult 

 problems facing the retail merchants 

 today is in connection with the costs 

 entailed in actually selling his wares 

 over the counter. 



Less than half of the clerks' time 

 is used in actual sales. In a promi- 

 nent retail establishment having stores 

 in four large cities, it was found that 

 the sales force were idle one-third of 

 their time. Taking care of stock re- 

 quired 17 per cent of the working day, 

 and interviews without sales another 

 eight per cent. Only 42 per cent of 

 the sales person's time was taken up 

 in the actual selling of merchandise. 



These figures were based on 1927 

 business and represent a more favor- 

 able situation than existed two years 

 previous. 



REASONABLE DISPATCH OR 

 promptness in transporting perishable 

 goods by a common carrier is a ques- 

 tion for the jury, where farmers suffer 

 losses on perishable products in tran- 

 sit. Farmers can sue and collect dam- 

 ages if the plaintiff can prove that the 

 carrier was negligent in expediting de- 

 livery. 



Frank D. Barton, vice-president of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 was the principal speaker at the re- 

 cent annual meetings of the Mercer 

 and Marshall-Putnam County Farm 

 Bureaus. 



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