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Show EOUALIZATIDII OF TAXES TO HE EFFORT OF UTAH FARMERS 11 1021 Big Meeting at Provo Saturday. December 4, to Precede Membership Drive In Utah County "Every farmer of Utah county a member of the farm bureau federation !" This will be the slogan of the annual membership campaign cam-paign of the Utah County Farm Bureau federation to begin December 18. Preceding the campaign a huge county social will be held at the Young university, Saturday, December 4. Socials will be held later in all of the farm bureau locals in connection with the drive. All of this was decided at a largely attended meeting of the county farm bureau federation Saturday at the office of the county agricultural agent in the new city and county building. Dr. Robert J. Evans of Lehi, president of the federation, feder-ation, presided. quate membership fee when they can see what the organization is trying to accomplish. However, members want specific objectives, lnth ultimate and immediate, said Mi's. Gore. They (also desire to participate in the activities of the organization. They want a definite defin-ite part in the execution of its pro-Sfam pro-Sfam and look upon the organization organiza-tion as a place where they may develop leadership which will later be recognized by the organization. It was decided that the county executive council appoint the best man available in the connty to direct di-rect the membership campaign. An assistant will also be named. The county will be divided into two sections for campaign purposes, to be presided over by the membership director and the assistant. "Workers "Work-ers will he selected 1n each local who will be thoroughly trained by the director prior to the campaign. This was decided in order to give the workers information for prospective pros-pective members. At the big social and pre-cam-paign meeting to be held at the Young university Saturday, December Decem-ber 4, some of the best speakers in the state will be present to address the farmers and their wives from every section of the county, as to (he value of a membership in the farm, bureau. The first meeting tvil be held in the forenoon, with a second meeting and a real old-time dance to be staged in the afternoon. after-noon. The membership fee in the Utah County Farm Bureau federation was set at $5, which would give both the farmer and his wife the privilege of voting on all questions arising, in the bureau. Half of the fee will go to the national and the state federations, while of the rest $1.50 will go to the county organization organ-ization and .$1 to the local. The campaign workers will fineet Saturday in the new city and county coun-ty building with the executive committee com-mittee of the county organization. Mutters of interest to the campaign will be discussed. Eli J. Ctiayson of American Fork was named a member of the executive execu-tive committee to take the plaoa of "William Hill of Springville, resigned. resign-ed. M. S. Winder, secretary "of the State Farm Bureau federation, explained ex-plained that an effort will be made by the farm bureau to secure a better bet-ter distribution of the tax burden by the next legislature. Petitions, will be circulated around every farming community, he said, asking the coming state legislature to pass a tax amendment which will equalize equal-ize the taxes more evenly than at present. He urged every man and woman to sign the petition. Mrs. Ivan D. Gore of Genola, secretary sec-retary of the nationnl home section of the National Farm Bureau .Cod-' eration, and president of the home section of the Utah organization, gfive many interesting incidents in connection with membership campaigns cam-paigns in other states. Mrs. Gore, who is recognized throughout the nation as the foremost Utah woman wo-man connected with the farm bureau movement, has assisted in campaigns conducted in more than fifteen different states. She said that considerable prestige accompanies accompan-ies a membership in the farm bureau, which is the largest organization organ-ization of farmers and having the broadest purpose. More than a million farm families are connected with the or; jtnization, said Mrs. Gore. There are 4f state organizations. organiza-tions. 1.S00 county federations, and 12.000 community locals. The fact that the national organization is vow clear of debt and is laying aside a reserve fund, Mrs. Gore said, denotes stability and dependability. As a general rule members are more than willing to pay an ado- One of the fallacies of many members, mem-bers, said Mrs. Gore, is the thought " that they can get something out of the organization merely by paying their membership fee. She declared declar-ed that nothing more could be obtained ob-tained from the organization than the individual member put into it. Frank Atwood of Pleasant Grove warned the executive committee uot to allow any of the campaign workers to go out and make promises prom-ises to the farmers which could not lie kept. He declared that in the past many things had been promised promis-ed if the farmers would affiliate themselves with the organization, nnd that most of the promises were yet unfulfilled' He explained that the remarks were not given in a spirit of fault-finding, hut merely as a suggestion to be remembered when instructions are given nut to the campaign workers. 'Xever was there a time when we needed an active farm bureau than today," said James "W. Gill-man Gill-man of Orem. ''Never was there a time when we needed to watch our step and our doings at as present. Never was there a time when we needed public officials who know the needs of the people as we do today. "The farm bureau should keep its arms closely around the various cooperative organizations formed under its direction. Then there would be a real organization. ''It is highly omportant that we i get the right kind of men to handle i the coming membership campaign. We must do our best to get all of the farmers of the county interested." interest-ed." Cooperation is the order of the day, declared William H. Nielsen of Palmyra. He insisted that the cooperation should be extended to other groups besides the farmers, and that a closer acquaintanceship with the problems confronting the -various business interests should be studied by the farmer. "If we are i trying to build towns and communi- j ties we must patronize the local 5 merchants," said Mr. Nielsen. "They j deserve our business. We need them j and they need us. If we are an- j tagonistic there will be a fight, and j where there is a fight someone gen- j orally gets hurt." j He maintained that cooperative buying could he accomplished by the farmers through the local mcr- chant just as easily as through ! other agencies. Instead of creating J enmity and hatred towards the J farm bureau such cooperation would make the merchants the warmest ; friends of the organization. ; Others who participated in the ; ictivities of the meeting were Eli J J. Clayson and Wayne C. Booth of j American Fork, L. L. Bunnell of Lake View, Boyer of Springville, -W. II. Gore of Genola and many ! others. |