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ROUND THE TOWN(By THE MAN ON THE STREET)There Ip—at least, there should be—a certain satisfaction in noting the rise and accomplishments of a home man or woman. There is a pardonable pride in pointing out anybody who has become a national figure and saying, “He is from my home town,'’ or He is from Quincy.Quincy in the past has furnished several men and women who by their ability have attracted national attention as authors, statesmen and in other pursuits. In the early days Stephen A. Douglas went to congress and then the Senate from Quincy. O. H. Browning was a member of the cabinet and for a brief period in the Senate. William A. Richardson was also in the Senate. James W. Singleton was a member of the Peace Com-miss'on which attempted to settle the Civil war. Charles T. Dazey wrote plays that broke records for popularity and long runs. Katherine Holland Brown and George Klbbe Turner are fiction writers whose contributions appear in the choicest periodicals. Xeysa McMein is an artist of international reputation. Tom Baldwin startled1 the world by dropping from a balloon with a perachute and was made a member of the Royal Society of British Aeronautical Engineers. Thus the list might be continued at some length.The latest Qulncyan to make, the nation sit up and take notice is Sam H. Thompson, whose rise to fame and power has come through another and entirely different channel and at a tlmo when a leader was sorely needed. JIc is a practical farmer and stock raiser and has demonstrated hJs right to leadership by making a success of his own efforts. He was first elected president of the Adams County Farm Bureau, then head of the State Agricultural association, and now he is the president of tho American Farm Bureau Federation, the organization which takes in ah the state associations.■ Farming Is the baric industry of the world .and has been so recognized from time immemorial, but. Instead of lending all other industries it has, through a chain of circumstances, been relegated to a position of helplessness which threaiens the prosperity of the nation. The farmer has suddenly found himself in tho rather unusual role of being a producer, the price of whose product is being fixed by tbe consumer, a paradoxical condition that cannot long endure. In nil other lines of industry the producer figures his cost, adds a profit, and then fixes the cost to the consumer. The farmer raises his crops and takes what, the consumer offers.Many plans have been proposed to remedy this eon.lit Ion. T'reejd-tit Coolidge in his Chi .ago sp*e.-h. said the farmer was in need of !;**!, and believed cooperative marketing vottjd produce the tjeressary result. AYhen he Pr:esi4*lit a 1 • • * said the farmer was prosperous he roused the ire of Bant Thompson, whose position an head ,,f the Illinois Agricultural association, and whose persona! farm ex perience, told him otherwise. He dared todiffer with the President, and proposed a ' niedy tiiat was mueh more rnn.prehensl ve than that offered by the chief executive. That there is merit in his plan Is generally accepted. His utterances Tin the subject attracted more attention than the platitudes of the President. Tho stand he took marked‘him at once as a leader who had advancedtheories that appeared to have a. practicalbasis.The result of it all was that he was swept into the presidency of the groat organization which represents the agricultural interests of tho entire country. IBs plan for the relief of the farmer has been ’ho subject of numerous tills in congress, and Ii.'ih created perhaps a wider discussion than any subject which has come b fore the American people In several decade.-;. Naturally, a matter of such vital importance to the nation has its opponents, but what it is attempted to show here is that another Quincyan has come to the front and has l-ech recognized as one of the nation's leading figuresAnd once more the old axiom. A prophet Is not without honor save in his own country. is set aside. That does not fit. at least to the ca.se of Sam H. Thompson.
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Quincy Morning Whig Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 09, 1926
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