Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1924, Page 5

“I'll meet you in the P-B Boys’ Shop---” Boys aren’t the only ones who find the Boys’ Shop a regular hotel lobby. So many mothers meet so many of their friends there—we’re thinking of putting in a register book for visit- ors Can’t blame them—so roomy, bright, cheerful —the P-B Boys’ Shop is the best place to shop after all. 4 Boys’ Overcoats, $18:00 For boys 8 to 18 years New styles include box-back, belted and half belted styles. Warm fabrics for cold Winter wear. All colors. Other Overcoats, $15 to $35.00. Juvenile Overcoats, $9-75 For boys 2V to 10 years Little Boys like these Pebble Cheviot Coats, red flannel lined with emblem on sleeve. The colors include blue, brown, tan and heather. Others $7.50 to $30.00 Shoes for Boys Juvenile editions of Dad's Teck at six dollars. New leathers and styles for Fall and Winter. Official Headquarters for Boy Scout Equipment A Barber Bill Shop Where Kiddics Enjoy a Haircut e ———————— ) KNOWN STORE e IN STYLE-STANDARD HESS' FOOTWEAR—EXCLUSIVE | Agriculture. Under | rangement your colleges and experi- | perimentation (Continued from First Page.) you represent hold in the life of our country, that brings me to this gath- ering. You have under your direction the great land grant colleges of all the States in the Nation. I look upon you as the group in whose hands rests a greater responsibility for the destiny of American agriculture than can fairly be attributed to any other single body. The great chain of col- leges and universities under your care and guldance are institutions of practical economics. They are much more than merely agricultural col- leges. They are aiso concerned in the diffusion of a wide general cultvre, as all properly directed education must be. “Their interests are broad, sclentific and practical. They deal with mining, forestry and the application of science to many diversified industries. They are applied to the actual rather than the theoretical. They reach the work- aday phases of farming which involve dirt and tired muscles rather than printing ink and oratory. They have done a truly wonderful work, which has aimed at rescuing agriculture from an almost chronic status as the Cinderella in the industrial family, and placing it on a higher plane of sclentific accuracy and permanent prosperity. Origin of Land Grants. “It would be hard to find a better illustration of tho Federal Govern- peculiar opportunity for in- and inspiring useful effort. ad their founda- zislation fathered, m proud to recall, by a great and Senator from my own native te of Vermont, bearing his name and known as the Morrill act of 1860. It set aside certain public lands and provided that the income from these was to be the Nation's contribution for establishing what are now called our land grant colleges. “This basic enactment was follow- ed by the Nelson measure, providing for additional grants directly from the national Treasury; the Hatch act of 1888, to encourage agricultural re- search and establish the system of experimentation; the Adams act, which increased the appropriation for the experiment station work, and the Smith-Lever act, inaugurating the highly useful extension work through which the results of scien- tifio and experimental effort have been carried direstly to the farm “All the Stz n the Union have set up institutions under this group of laws. As these have grown and proved their have taken p appropriated liberally for them. The Fede ntribution, although com- paratively small, T believe now runs at about $8,500,000 annually. Expansion In Noted. “That amount in the heginning would have been accounted lavish, but today it is probably under $ per cent of the expense of these institution: Nevertheless, :deral participa- ans for unifying » that a healthy, al co-operation is secured all tr colleges and the and Departments of this wise ar- among Federal ment stations have expanded to the | point where they represent an invest- of more than $250,000,000 in 1 properties “They have become models, imi- tated by many countries in the es- tablishment of similar institutions r. indeed, has imitation go at T am told that in some countries natably Great Rritain and German e development of agricultural e and research is a scale fully justify- ment physic established on IN QUATLY N. HESS® SONS REMOVAL SALE —Every High Shoe, Every Low Shoe, Every Sport Shoe AT BIG REDUCTIONS SALE that will long be remembered for its remarkable value giving. Our entire stock to be sold prior to moving to OUR NEW SHOP AT 607 14th STREET HESS' SHOES are recognized as the best, and at the regular prices they are exceptional values. These special prices offer sav- ings that can never be duplicated. Buy several pairs of shoes for future use. Our $7 and 37.50 Shoe Values $5.90 Our $10 and $11 Shoe Values $77.90 Our $8, $8.50 ' $9 Shoe Values 56,90 Our $12, $14 Shoe Values $Q.90 813 and There are styles to suit all tastes, and a “Fit for Every Foot™ HESS’ 931 Pa. Ave. e STAR, WASHINGTON N | COOLIDGE HOPES TO FORESTALL REPETITION OF AGRICULTURE ILLS ing comparison with our accomplish- ments, “The fact that some other coun- tries ‘have followed our exam; should be a satisfaction to us. We want to see agriculture looked upon as a universally important interest. We realize that this attitude toward it abroad assures that it is coming to bo given the full recognition’it deserves. The misfortune of agri- culture in our country since the World War has been very much like the experiences in most other coun- tries. We rejoice that its restoration has been effectively begun here, so that it promises security and per- manence. Experiences of Others Helpful. “Whatever improves the estate of the agricultural producer, wherever he be found, will benefit the rural population of our own country. There will always be considerable exchanges of agricultural staples in international trade. Some areas are naturally adapted to producing sur- pluses in certain directions, while unable to meet requirements in others. So there must be exchanges, and when these take place between countries which have widely different standards of living, the tendency must be to the disadvantage of those having the highest standard. “We provide a safeguard, in part, for American agriculture by the pro- tective tariff. But we welcome all other efforts. So we may well be gratified at every evidence of con- scious systematic effort to improve agricultural conditions in other countries. Our colleges have had an effect that is coming to be world- wide. “The permanent maintenance of | our country's superior level of hu- man comfort and well-being will re- quire that our agriculture be made and kept the most efficient in the world. Our agricultural community must be maintained, through con- stant improvement of methods and consent strengthening of the place it holds in the social structure, more prosperous, better educated, more contented, than that of any other nation, “If we ever permit our farming population to fall to the level of a mere agricultural peasantry, they will carry down with them the gen- eral, social and economic level. Every citizen among us has a personal con- cern for the welfare of the farmer. The fortunes of all of us will in the end go up or down with his. “The general effect of your col- leges has been to raise agriculture to a new standard. It can no longer be associated with a rude and uncultured existence, but has become the occu- pation of a broadly trained and well educated element in our social struc- ture. The men and women on the farm no longer pursue their calling in a haphazard rule of thumb method, but with a scientific accuracy that in- sures the best possible results. No longer content with a narruw and for- lorn existgnce, they wish to raise crops, but they wish also to read books. They want to kncw the mar- ket quotations for their products, but they want also to know what is going on in the world. “Up to the present time the main emphasis of our agricultural educa- tion has been placed upon production. I believe that was right, because un- less there is economy and efficiency in production, there is no need for thought in any other direction. But our experience of the last few years has demonstrated that it is by no means enough. Farmer Also Merchant. “The farmer is not only a ‘pro- ducer, he is likewise a merchant. It does him no good to get quantity production—in fact, it may do him harm—unless he can likewise have a scientific marketing. 1 feel that too little thought hag been given to this most important phase of agriculture. I want to see courses in co-operative marketing and farm economics along- side of soil chemistry and animal husbandry. The agricultural problem of today is not on the side of produc- tion. but on the side of distribution. I want to see a good farmer on a good farm raise a good crop and se- cure a good price. “Tt is for these reasons that I em- phasize so carnestly the responsi- bility that rests upon you men and women of the land grant colleges. The record of what you have done and are doing today warrants all con- fidence that vour accomplishments hereafter will be adequate to the de- mands upon you. Without assuming that your work is by any means lim- ited to the industry of agriculture, I recognize it as highly important in that field. “You are concerned in contributing in every possible way to making & better rural civilization. Your efforts comprehend all the problems of bet- ter farming methods, of larger and cheaper production, of conserving all resources of the soil, of more eflicient marketing, of better homes, better rural schools, ligious worship, and more intimate and helpful neighborly kindness among the people of the open countrs They look to wise and intelligent co- operation in all the business opera- tions which affect the farmer, so that wasteful and unnecessary processes may be eliminated. They contemplate the establishment of a closer contact, a better understanding, a more sym- pathetic and helpful relationship, be- tween the people of the farms and better places of re-| D. ¢, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 1924.° those of the citles and the industrial areas, giving you a large order, my rejoin- der will be that we are going to omit no effort to prevent a repetition of the misfortunes which in recent years have involved agriculture. We are not nearly a generation ahead of the time when our country will witness a reversal of its relation to world agri- culture. I mean, that in a very few years the natural increase of popu- lation and the inevitable tendency to industrialization, will place us among the nations producing a deficit rather than a surplus of agricultural staples. “We were fairly on the verge of that condition when the World War gave a temporary and artificial stimu- lation to agriculture, which ultimate- ly brought disastrous consequences. Even today if in making up our bal- ance sheet we include our require- ments of coffee, tea, sugar and wool, we already have a considerable agri- cultural deficit. It may not be gen- erally known, but even now we con- sume more calories of food in this country than we produce. e main reason is that we do not raise Dear enough sugar. “Our only agricultural exports of consequence are cotton, meat prod- ucts and wheat; and as to the two latter, it must be plain that the scales will shortly turn against us. We shall be not only as agricultural import- ing nation, but fn the lives of many who are now among us, we are likely to be one of the greatest of the agri- cultural buying nations. U. S. Farmer's Outleok. n this lies the assurance to the American farmer that his own future is secure enough. But he must re- | adjust his methods of production and | marketing until he comes within | sight of the new day. Our imme- diate problem has been to carry him | through the intervening period of abnormal and war-stimulated sur- 'pluses. After that, we shall face the | real problem of our long tuture; the | problem of maintaining a prosperous, sclf-reliant, confident agriculture in 4 country preponderantly commercial {and industrial. It has been attested by all experience, that agriculture tends to discouragement and de- cadence whenever' the predominant interests of the ocountry tum to manufacture and trade. “We must prevent that in America. I believe the land grant college is the main great agency for its pre- vention. Tt has added a new element to the equation which has never be- fore been in it. You must make that clement decisive. It is true there are some countries in which the balance | of these elments has been so well maintained that agriculture has con- tinued to flourish alongside prosper- | ous industries and successful com- | merce. But these are found where the population is approximately static * Jrom_the AVENUE o NINTH+ REGISTERED 440 Lvd'S'n At the height of the season—the lowest price ever made on the highest quality Overcoats ever made Famous Worumbo Overcoats 362 .50 One usually classifies the man who wears a Worumbo with an income tax of fiv e figures. Worumbos are just that sort of Overcoats. They are made of the highest priced woolens woven by any American mill. They are hand tailored, stitch by stitch, by skilled crafts- men who think of Worumbo as the ideal of the tailor’s art in America. ‘And tomorrow you can buy a genuine Worumbo for about the same price you would ordinarily pay for the average good Overcoat. We don’t know of any other establishment that could have made a purchase similar to ours in order to make such an extremely low price on such an extremely high quality garment. The Worumbo Overcoats on sale tomorrow come in three colors—brown, deep blue and smoke gray. servative models, velvet collars, beautiful plaid backs. All are semi-con- .'IFY “If you make retort that I am| and the community comparatively self-contained. It is not our destiny to be a community of that kind. We |} must look forwgrd to a long continu- ing increase of population. We must realize . that our relationships with the outside world, already enormous- 1y important, will increase in rumber, complexity and importance in their influences on our social structure. “We cannot begin 100 soon to pre- pare for this future. It may seem contradictory to suggest that in a time when we are embarrassed with surpluses for which markets are not easily to be found, we must begin to plan for exactly opposite conditions. But it is not really a contradiction. The organizations and methods which look to economies and efliciencies in producing and distributing will be equally useful, equally necessary, in either set of circumstances. in establishing these instruments will commit us to that most inexcusable of economic sins, a deliberate policy of sheer wastefulness. And waste- fulness, whether in disposing of a surplus or permitting a deficiency in the end can only result in calamity. “Finally you will remember that America has but one great staple product. We till the soil, we operate our industries, we develop trans- portation, we engage in commerce, we encourage the arts and sciences, but these are only means to an end. They are all carried on in order that America may produce men and women worthy of our standards of citizen- ship. We want to see them endowed with ability and character, with patriotism and religious devotion. We want to see them truly American, while ready and eager to contribute a generous share to world welfare. 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