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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, PHOENIX. SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 11, 1921. (Section Three) MUE THIKTBJSN FARM BUREAU NOTE ay Bureau Publicity Committee Resolutions At Last Session Of Am, Farm Bureau 'erU??aT Of the thai yZl . i , xsureau federation 21 ti'J11 Aanta. Ga., November at ,; Uf" gono down the great t Kng?" reCOrd ln ther- i! 8or,r'r that the fu,l detailed ?2 t 0f aU the dolnKS cannot be J eVery Perso- We think the resolutions passed at the last session or the convention of sufficient inter esl to Justify devoting most of our allotted space this week in reproduc ing them here. Give them careful consideration. We think to do so will convince the most skeptical that farmers can think and figure Just like other men. We believe you will find in, these resolutions from beginning to end that only things are asked for that are right and needful, and. if secured for the farmer, making him prosper, would reflect through his prosperity the prosperity of all. File this copy so you can refer to it later. Resolutions Adopted at Third Annual Convention, at Atlanta, Ga, November 23, 1921 CONGRATULATIONS The delegates to the third annual XVT 9 GHRISTII vjllf aS "e( 0im' . press upon you J Hh t llllltP the need of your nurry: ww joining Payments of a few cents now will start a Christmas fund for you. And next year, ten days before Christmas, you will receive a Christ mas Check. ' ' , , " - ' Think of How handily you could use this money now, if you had it. Next Christmas you may find the check just as welcome. RT ART TODAY.' Our Christmas Club" is open for members now. We can handle only a JJ nmiteu numuer 01 meiuueiss. inciciwc, uimi TODAY, before the limit is reached. . The National Bank of Arizona ft convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation congratulates the officers and members on the splendid accomplishments of the organization during the past year. We are proud of the fact that the program outlined at the second an nual convention has been carried out to a state of completion in many in stances, and in others to a gratifying stage of progress. PLEDGr. We pledge ourselves anew to carry out the objects of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which are to de velop, strengthen and correlate the work of the State Farm Bureau Fed eration; to encourage and promote cc -operation of all representative ag ricultural organizations iu every ef fort to improve facilities and condi tions for economic and efficient pro duction, conservation, marketing. transportation and distribution of farm products; to further the study and enactment of constructive agri cultural legislation; to advise with representatives of the public agricul tural Institutions co-operating with the farm bureaus in the determina tion of nation-wide policies, and to inform Farm Bureau members re garding all movements that affect their interests. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT We urge, in the contemplated reor ganization of the federal departments at Washington, that the present ef fectiveness and services of the de partment of agriculture ba In nowise lessened. We ask, on the other hand, that the department be further devel oped to the end that it may serve even better those wnom It is intended to help, in order that the business of agriculture may be put on a par with the other business interests of the nation. TARIFF We request of congress the enact ment of tariff legislation at once which will give to the farmers of America that measure of protection that may be necessary to equalize the difference between the costs of production of farm products in this country and in competing nations. TAX We heartily endorse the following principles as the foundation of our national tax policy: 1. The. measure of ability to pay taxes for the support of the national government is net income, and the bulk of the taxes should be levied and collected on that basis. 2. The tax should be progressive that is, the greater the Income the higher the rate. 3. As this is a country of all the people, all the people should have some Dart in supporting the govern ment; hence, a certain part of the revenue may justly be raised by means of consumption taxes. 4. While recognizing that the fifst consideration in any tax measure is the raising of revenue, its collateral effects must not be lott sight of and. in so far as it is practicable the taxes should be so laid as to tend to the distribution of wealth in the hands cf the many and not to its concen tration in the hands of the few. 6. We are opposed to the issuing of all tax-free securities, and request that congress submit a constitutional amendment to the several states to cure this defect In our tax system. We disapprove the repeal of the ex cees profits tax. We are opposed to the principle of a general sales tax, or any similar plan such as the gen eral manufacturers tax. FINANCE We ask: (a) Proper credit for farmers on 12 and 24-months paper. Instead of lens Piece Suits Cleaned and Presse 75 c the short term credit now available. (b The proper authorization lor commodity financing based upon warehouse receipts. (c) Live stock financing. Dasea upon a proper pledge. Cd) Personal rural credits, secureu by proper insurance features, and the creating of machinery mat wm aiiow co-operative societies to get money direct. (e) That the federal reserve boara direct its policies so that primary production may be given the consid eration which It merits. CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING We insist upon the early enactment of laws clearly defining the right of farmers to market their products co opera tively. PUBLIC BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS We urge that appointments on all boards and committees should be so made that the interests of agriculture may be protected and conserved. TRUTH IN FABRIC We ask congress, in the interests of public welfare, to enact truth-in fabric legislation. FILLED MILK In order to prevent filled milk or modified milk products from destroy ing the American dairy Industry and injuring the health of the consuming public, we insist that the manulac ture and sale of filled dairy products be forbidden by law. TRANSPORTATION (a) We denounce the principle of guaranteeing Income upon fixed valu ation to the railroads of the United States, and ask the repeal of section 15-a of the Esch-Cummlns law. (b) Since the Adamson law pro duces conditions In the conduct of the railroads which operate against the interest of the public, we ask its re peal or modification as speedily as Dossible. (c) We object to the carriers be ing granted the privilege of charging more for the short uaul than for the Ions haul in rail freight. (d) We urge the development of the St. Lawrence deep waterway and other inland waterway projects which will make possible water transporta tion to many of our inland sections, (e) We urge congress to restore full rights of the state railway com missions as they existed prior to the PUBLIC RESOURCES We urge congressional action to the end that public resources of ail kinds be conserved and reserved to the end that special interests may not exploit them for private gain, but that the public receive the lull bene fit of their development. PITTSBURG PLUS We 'condemn the Pittsburg plus principle, which adds a fictitious freight rate to the price of steel and other commodities, and we urge the correction of this abuse. SUBSTITUTES AND CONTAINERS In preventing abuses in the sale of substitutes, and the use of deceptive containers, we ask a passage of sucn legislation as will correct these evils. BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS We urge the immediate passage of federal legislation appropriating suf ficient funds for the continuation of the work of eradicating bovine tuber culosis. MUSCLE SHOALS We recognize in the Muscle Shoals nitrate waterpower project in Ala bama such an essential measure to secure the preservation of our soil resources as well as to develop the industrial and transportation Xacill ties of our nation, that we urge the congress of the United States to au thorize the secretary of war to enter into such contract or contracts with Henry Ford for the completion and continuous operation of the project as well protect the public welfare. If such authority is not promptly uiven. we reserve the right to Insti tute such action as wtyl guarantee the completion and operation of this enterprise under federal supervision. FOKfclGN UNANtE We urge congress, without delay, to enact Into law the export credit feature of the so-called "Farmer- Re lief BUI."' providing that the war finance corporation be empowered to make advances to foreign purchasers of our surplus agricultural products, no money so advanced to be expended outside of the United states ana every such advance to be secured by adeauate security. CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS We invite all other farm organlza tions to co-operate with us to the fullest extent in our efforts to safe guard farm interests. ARMS LIMITATION Offering a heartfelt prayer that the peoples of the earth may never again emsage In wars or experience tne nor rors attendant thereto, we pledge to our government and its representa tives at the arms limitation corner ence our utmost support, to the end that armed conflict between nations may te forever abolished from the face of the earth. BABE RUTH BASEBALL , IDOL OF iSJT m STRAnlD THURSDAY 3-Piece Suits and Pressed Cleaned A Three Week Special on Ladies' Suits and Dresses to Dec. 31, 1921. Ladies' Plain Dark Suits and Dresses Cleaned and Pressed for 5 00 These prices are good where the work is brought to us and called for in our office at 121 West Monroe street and 25c extra if we deliver -Why not save by doing your own delivering. Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the University of Tennessee, makes this statement: "Unless the agricultural Interests of this country learn the lesson and eet the vision of co-operation, the tiller of the soil will be reduced to a state of peasantry like that which has characterized Russia for hundreds of years." A Thing to Consider There seems to be two luxuries that cannot be encaged at the same time, One Is, consume the farmers' prod ucts at less than cost to him, and the other is to have good business while consuming it. A few things seem im possible. We seem slow to learn. Don't seem to profit much by experience. We may find out some day that It is more Important to sell ourselves at a profit than to export at a loss. We dare venture the suggestion that some day we wiU understand that if we could have sold in 1320-21 all Babe" Ruth, "colossus of the swat," the most popular man in the athletic world today Is coming to Phoenix, starring in a great six part photoplay which was pronounced re- 1 cently during Us tremendous recep tion at Madison Square Garden In New York, as the most unusual com binations of sports, humor, pathos, happiness, humanness and thrilling excitement that had ever come to the attention of the metropolitan critics. It will play the Strand three days starting Thursday. Babe Ruth is the hero of millions of fans throughout America, his baseball record is the wonder of the age. his supremacy in his diamond work stamps him as the greatest Roman of them ail. and yet his popularity is not by any means con fined to the followers of the nation al pastime. He is cited continually as the result of clean living, of high ideals, and of real character so that in Babe America has a favorite son a lad worthy of the title a lad whose living exemplified the confi dence and regard placed la him by everyone. And Babe has not confined his ef forts to baseball alone. He is an actor. Few people know that he was president of the dramatic society of St, George's college in Baltimore. He has likewise had considerable ex Derience in stage work gained through his tours over the Orpheum and Keith circuits of vaudeville houses. So that he comes to the screen, not as the result of a great scheme to foist upon the public a famous athlete, but as an accom plished performer, featured In a drama which is calculated, as one critic aptly put lt "to please every boy and girl between six and 60." No picture or play would be com plete for Ruth if it did not devote considerable footage or time to base ball, and "Headin' Home," the title of his initial screen appearance, does Just that. And yet- it is not a base ball story In the strict sense or tne word. The story is deeply appealing, a drama of youth and happiness a day that will please everyone wheth er or not he enjoys a tilt on the dia mond. It is a story with an appeal ing background of rural atmosphere, just the sort of yarn that one would expect to find Charles Kay doing, it has its thrills. It has its Daseoaii ex citement, it has great "shots of -Babe" In action as the heaviest hit ting home run king who ever swung bat. it has the wonderful charm of mother devotion, it is a typical American story, featuring an Amer ican, the idol of millions of Ameri cans, and there you nave weaairr Home" in which "Babe- nutn win make his bow to Phoenicians at the Strand for three days starting next Thursday. ' The feature will be augmented oy a special line oi added attractions. and every indication points to this engagement being one of the most auspicious of the attraction offered during the week. Baylor University Professor Resigns On Account Of Book Republican A. P. Leased Wire WACO. Tex.. Dec 10. Because of charges that certain parts of a book of which he Is author are not in line with teachings of the Bible, Prof. Grove Samuel Dow, head of the de partment of sociology at Baylor uni versity, a Baptist institution nere. bas tendered his resignation and it has been accepted, it was announced today. Tttie book, "Introduction t tne Princlmes of Soelolocy. was pub lished by the Baylor Universal Press in September, 1320. Since that time it Is said to have been adopted as tne official text la 43 colleges over the United States. . o Mac-Tex Officials Released From Jail On Demurrer Action Republican A. P. L.ased Wlrel ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Dec. 10. A demur rer to indictments against Charles H. McDonald and his brother. Thomas B. McDonald, secretary and treasurer. respectively, of the Mac-Tex Pro ducing company, was sustained by Circuit JUft);s mju yesieruay. The McDonalds were indicted on charges of false pretenses in the sale of oil stocks in the Mac-Tex company. They were arrested in Tyler. Texas, last May. and later were extradited from Phoenix. Arizona. They had been in Jail here until yesterday, when they were released. Em The 7y o farm products to ourselves at a profit that the hundred and live million peo- Die could have consumed, and had burned or given to the starving, freezing people of Europe the sur plus, business in the United States would have been 85 per cent normal. Perhaps you dont agree. Well, for illustration, take a farmer that grew 100 hales of cotton. Suppose he could have sold two-thirds at a good price above cost of production. If the other 35 bales had been burned, he would still be in fair shape. But when none can he sold at a nrofit. he is hard hit. We mav find out later that if the American farmer must produce under his standard of living enough to sup ply a surplus to export to be sold to people whose standard of living and buying power Is so much lower, which surplus has to be sold at a price to fit the consuming power of the for eigner, thereby establishing the price at home. Reflecting the cheaper price against all sold :-t home, wreck ing all, so that the surplus created In order to have export business he- comes a millstone about one's neck. Better not have export business un less it is profitable. cur geographical location. The mer chants must depend largely on peo ple in the Immediate neighborhood for business, as there is no great out lying populated districts he can reach to sell his merchandise. The farmer, on the other hand, finds it too far to go to find a market for lots of the produce he raises. The long freight haul makes it practically prohibitive for many commodities. He must sell at home to home people if he sells. Yet what do we find? We find abso- the I lutely no understanding or co-opera 121 West Monroe Phone 1042 Co-oneration Necessary Between Between Town and Country It would possibly 'be hard to find a place where the necessity of thorough co-operation between town ana conn try, between business man and farm er, is a greater necessity than in Arizona and Salt River valley In par. ticular. It would be hard to rind a locality where one is more dependent upon the other than here. This is true largely on account of tion whatever usually. We feel that It might work out pretty well if a 60- :0 proposition could be agreed upon whereby both merchant and farmer agree to trade at home for the com mon good of themselves and the county. We must work together if we are to build. A merchant can hardly ejitieise a farmer for ordering a suit o.'. clothes, shoes, etc., from Califor nia or elsewhere if he is consuming or selling goods and produce that are imported, when he could Just as well have been selling or consuming home products. For illustration, take sweet potatoes, you cannot find a better Quality grown anywhere than those grown here. We find a surplus of f:ne potatoes on hand and, at the same time, some of our merchants shipping in potatoes from neighbor ing states, thereby adding to what is already said to be an over supply. The home producer, unable to sell, unable to buy or . ay taxes. The grower of produce in California, Idaho, Texas or Colorado doesnt spend much money with the people of Arizona and pays no taxes. It is time oil came tosether on a definite plan of constructive measures. The first thing necessary is for the farmers to go to work and systemati cally grow everything that can be grown here In season; put it up in a first-class merchantable condition, properly packed and graded in Just as good shape as can be had else where. Have a regular source of sup ply. When we do this we can expect to sell. Without co-operation, as in the past, little progress can be made I for the common good. I THE WISE MERCHANT will investigate and ORDER NOW V The McCaskey Register Co. BOOK 100 PER CENT PERFECT Prompt Deliveries . 14 North First Street ( BERRY HILL BLDG.) Telephone 5052 O. B. Marston, State Representative A McCaskey Credit Register will eliminate your Bookkeeping and give far better results. Will save you fifty per cent in your office expense. 0o HAKSTON Succeeding to the business of tF..WebarCa 1 SCHOOL, CHURCH, OFFICE AND LODGE FURNITURE OPERA CHAIRS P. O. 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