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^'Organization" — ^the Answer 



Secretary Hyde Expresses Views In Atlanta Speech 



*(/^NE general answer to farm problems is 

 V^ organization. Organization to control 

 marketing, to standardize output, to eliminate 

 waste and duplication of a marketing and dis- 

 tributing system, which, generally speaking, 

 absorbs two dollars for every one dollar it 

 returns to the farmer. Thus the farmer can 

 approximate the position of industry, or of 

 other groups,'* declared Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, 

 secretary of agriculture, before the annual 

 convention of the National Educational As- 

 sociation, Atlanta, on July 4. 



**By the long arm of his own organization," 

 continued Mr. Hyde, **the farmer can make 

 himself felt beyond his line fences and in the 

 markets of the world. Through his organiza- 

 tion, the farmer can get information as to com- 

 modity supplies, can bring his production with- 

 in the limits of demand, can control the sur- 

 plus problem by preventing it. By organiza- 

 tion the farmer can take control of his own 

 industry; re-establish the independence of his 

 calling; win his own place in the sun of 

 economic equality, and having won it, hold it 

 against all the changing vicissitudes of the 

 future. 



Purpose of Bill 



"To assist in the organization of agriculture; 

 to take the problems of the various farm com- 

 modities out of the realm of politics and parti- 

 san bickering, and to meet them in the realm 

 of economics; to set up an authoritative tribu- 

 nal which shall study each separate problem, 

 and afford leadership for agriculture in all its 

 phases; and to do this, not by subsidy nor by 

 governmental dabbling in business, but by help- 

 ing the farmer to help himself through his own 

 organizations — this is the aim and purpose of 

 the farm relief bill. 



"In all the history of America, there has 

 been no program and no legislation in aid of 

 any industry comparable with it. Never has a 

 President heretofore called a special session of 

 congress to deal with the problems of one class 

 or calling. 



What The Board Does 



"President Hoover not only called the session 

 but he charged it in a specific message to deal 

 primarily and almost exclusively with the needs 

 of agriculture. In his campaign, he advocated 

 almost precisely the bill which was passed. He 

 has favored clothing the farm board with 



Arthur M. Hyde 



broader powers, defined with less limitation, 

 than have been possessed by any board ever 

 created in the government. He has backed his 

 faith by authorizing the use of $5 00,000,000 

 to effect the purpose of equalizing the economic 

 position of agriculture. He has acted prompt- 

 ly, generously, and wisely. 



"The board docs not biiy or sell. It has no 

 right to engage in business. Its job is to foster 

 the organization of agriculture, to finance 

 farmer-owned and farmer-controlled co-opera- 

 tives, which may buy, sell, process or store 

 farm commodities. 



Like An Architect 



"The board serves in exactly the same capa- 

 city as a supervising architect serves the builder 

 of a skyscraper or a bridge. The builder must 

 provide the necessary funds, and a proper plan. 

 The supervising architect must find the answer 

 to technical questions and see the job through. 

 Precisely this plain, simple, practical scheme 

 has been fostered and set up by the statesman- 

 ship of President Hoover. The plan is made; 

 the funds provided; the board is ready to su- 

 pervise the job. 



"Rome was not built in a day, nor will agri- 

 culture be emancipated over night. Much de- 



pends upon the character and ability of the 

 men who compose the board. But much de- 

 pends, too, upon the co-operative associations 

 which are already formed, or will hereafter be 

 formed. The board cannot function on its own 

 account. The initiative lies with the farm co- 

 operative associations. 



"It is not an evasion of responsibility, but a 

 statement of fact to say that the success of the 

 farm bill depends upon team work between the 

 board and the farm co-operatives, in whose 

 aid the legislation was designed and around 

 whom it is built. 



Never Attempted Before 



"I know it will be said that it cannot be 

 done; that agriculture is too far flung; com- 

 posed of too many millions of units; is too 

 individualistic; ever to stand organization. But 

 is it? Has the attempt ever been seriously and 

 persistently made? Has not the effort bixrn 

 rather to find a magic cure-all by legislation 

 which will by some mysterious wizardry whisk 

 the surplus out of the way, leaving agriculture 

 the pleasing task of increasing the next surplus? 



"Is not the stake great enough to justify the 

 undertaking? Let us not forget that the sine 

 qua non of successful agriculture is not merely 

 farming, but profit. We seek prosperous farms 

 able to maintain good schools and afford to 

 present and future Americans an American 

 standard of living. 



"In one of his campaign speeches. President 

 Hoover uttered this inspiring sentiment: 



What Hoover Said 



" 'My conception of America,' he said, 'is 

 a land where men and women may walk in 

 ordered freedom in the independent conduct of 

 their occupations; where they may enjoy the 

 advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the 

 hands of a few, but spread through the lives 

 of all; where they may build and safeguard 

 their homes, and give their children the fullest 

 advantages and opportunities of American life; 

 . . . where a contented and happy people, secure 

 in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, 

 shall have their leisure and the impulse to seek 

 a higher life.' 



"In this statement is the essence of our na- 

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