| Show FREIn Farm Bureau Head I Presents Program I Provo Utah Jan 24 4 Special Special Special- Special t Responsibility Responsibility for much of the in- in inequality inequality in equality that now burdens the agri agri- agricultural agricultural agricultural cultural industry is due to the lack of oC organization on the part of fat farm farmers ers Sam Sant II H Thompson president ent of the American Farm Bureau Fed Fedra tion ra- ra ration tion and the most prominent contemporary contemporary i n national figure in agriculture I declared speaking at the annual meeting of the Utah Farm Bureau I Federation here today j Through organization Mr 11 Thomp Thomp- Thompson Thompson son pointed out farmers arc are enabled to overcome many of the obstacles to progress which the individual farm farmer farmer farmer er is helpless to combat alone Grad Grad- Gradually Gradually he said an understanding of this fact is dawning on the industry and he presented statistics showing the remarkable growth of various out outstanding outstanding outstanding standing state Farm Bureaus and the national organization during luring 1028 1928 as indicative of this decided trend in rural life More More and more he said the farmers of the future will recognize the increasing importance of organ organ- organization in nil all their operations Mr Sir Thompson outlined the Farm I Bureaus Bureau's prospective program of ser ser- service service ser service vice for advancing the welfare of the agricultural industry in this I state and in the nation durin during 1929 i Prominent in this program he placed placed lac- lac laced ed efforts to lighten the unjust bur bur- burdens burden dens den of taxes which the agricultural industry everywhere is bearing I Ho lie told also of the newly created a agricultural operative co service de- de deI de department I 1 recently established at na- na national na national Farm Bureau headquarters in inI Chicago which by supplying certain I services is intended to extend and augment the influences and benefits of the co operation co-operation m method thod of market marketing marketing marketing I ing farm products I f Another project on the Farm Bur Bur- Bureau Bur Bur- Bureau Bureau eau program he touched upon was the proposal to push t the drawn thelong-drawn long drawn out ll healings for fur fhe th al- al a- a ad adjustment of freight rates on agri agri- agricultural agri- agri agricultural agricultural cultural commodities under the Hoch resol and in which western cat cat- cattlemen cat cattlemen are vitall vitally interested I In taxation said Mr 1 Thomp Thomp- Thompson Thompson Thompson son the work already initiated by many of our states will be encouraged encouraged encouraged aged and wherever possible made more effective At our national con- con verLon i T- T Ch C 1 l 1 I ia D Dec c 1 r r rd by the the d leg tes t fi tl ing in ms 1 J 0 care of l i i state state stare r u III 1 U lax tax programs fir r slate and l a and by ng T hc ti t i for formulate n a unified Farr arni J f ll i project t in these t lse matters m In this t to toe the way national federation see e inaugurated in in every sta stac e c h farm en is unduly bird b an 1 L nn an effective campaign campain for the l qa of taxes The The basis of that pr gra 1 will bs the Farm Bureau au that taxes should bs bg b borne ne neby by all in to their ability s I to 10 pay The American Farm Bureau Fed Fell Federation Federation has long lone recognized d that lack of f organization affording producer control of the sale and distribution of the c commodities produced ed on the farm farm IS is responsible for foT much of 01 the in turc inequality that now exists ture Tile Tia most difficult problems nw n vr con front i the American farm farm- farmer farmer farmer er center around the marketing andI and distribution cf the tha products of his I labor la or Further development of opera co cooperative cooperative tive marketing is necessary We have always advocated this system of oft of t marketing We arc are now prepared to join join wi with wih h operative co associations in providing economic econom economic c legal transportation transportation tion and o other hsi- hsi services which will wU be beof beof or of substantial value to them and will I provide a unified service that these o organizations act ng in try try- ty trying would be at a disadvantage mg ing to provide for themselves Full sup support pert of efforts to devise through scientific i c research new and lc mic u uses C for fcc agricultural pro pro- products products pro ducts ducts will be supported by us It may be he that we farmers must g go another st stop step p in our co operative co e c Fort ort and find introduce operative co-operative pro pro- production pro production During the year a n study of the possibilities of operative co pro pro- pro production is to be made nude by a committee whose appointment was authorized at atour atour our annual national meeting Sound production and marketing will b ba be the basis basis of our Farm Bureau program These can be obtained through group action adion based on research re- re re research search h and the wide distribution of information Like an any other industry faced with problems of surplus pro pro- production production pro production wasteful practices faulty distribution systems too high trans trans- transportation transportation costs too great a tax bur bur- bur bur- burden den we den we must provide research facil- facil I I n I- I of a 1 11 o v r rv y o OL l O gan te led un nt j tOY 1 I n fi tt i d lr t S 25 hOW huv tit titi T il 1 I JV av b by th the Fat m m Bu flu can au au gIve give dive ihs th th f r Ky i control control of 3 s r rang c ing prod pradd pr d i 1 an m n anti and 87 der rier n nl l cent c nt o the factor ar ai air ct- ct n ng n F of t fh Vh t j of the Farm Bureau will wl mean that th eighty y per cent nt or four and a half J i in Ln 1 American farms wall wll be op- op op cratin o at a profit Four million farm today enjoying an ade- ade adequate adequate ade adequate quate standard of living as compared with th two twenty million who willen will en- en enjay enjoy en enjoy joy jay that standard as a result of the successful development of the Farm program |
