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Charles W. Holman has written in the current "World's Work" a short survey of proposed farm legislation, with the all-embracing title "What the Corn Belt Demands". It demands an end to the sale of government lands, a Federal organization for dumping on Europe surplus produce, a tariff on farm produce to put agriculture on a parity with manufacture, further extension of the Farm Loan system, and a Federal agency to store surplus and superintend cooperative marketing;--any or all of these restoratives American agriculture demands...
...clock Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor on the Science of Government, will discuss "American Diplomacy: Treaties and Foreign Policy," in the opening lecture of the last day. Immediately following, Professor Arthur H. Cole Hon. '13, Assistant Professor of Economics, will speak on "International Trade and Tariff Problems...
...Brown, Dean of Radcliffe College will extend greetings to the gathering; 10.20 o'clock, Royal Mecker, Organizer of Chinese Commission for Study of Social and Economic Questions, will speak on "China Today"; 11.30 o'clock, Raymond T. Rich, Field Secretary, Foreign Policy Association, will speak on "China's Special Tariff Conference"; 1 o'clock Round Table luncheon discussion; 2 o'clock, W. B. Thompson, of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, will speak on "Overpopulation in the Oriend"; 3 o'clock, E. F. Wise, economic advisor to Controscyus, Russian Producers' Cooperatives, will speak on "Russia's Place...
...reduce the tariff by bringing down the level of domestic prices until the farmer can buy at prices in proportion to what he sells. To this proposal the Administration and industry in general, object vigorously?they do not want the price level torn down...
...Future. Farm depression as an issue depends 1) on future U. S. crops and the world trend of prices; 2) on whether the Administration can find some proposal satisfactory to the farm bloc without agreeing to either or both of their demands? "price fixing" or tariff reduction...