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Show NATIONAL FARM BUREAU HEAD TO BE JNPROVO CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 16 (Special) Utah farmers have a rare privilege privil-ege in store for them in the visit of Sam H. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation Fed-eration to Provo, Utah, on January 24, when he speaks at the annual meeting of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. In his address before the convention he is expected to deal with the tariff, co-operative marketing, co-operative production, taxation, and other issues affecting the well-being of agriculture in : Utah and the nation. Mr. Thompson is the most out- I standing national figure in agriculture agricul-ture today. As the leader of organized organ-ized farmers in the fight for farm relief at Washington, he attracted nation-wide attention because of his strenuous efforts to present the true situation of the farmers to the lawmakers, unbiased by partisan partis-an prejudice. Out of that struggle has been born a new national attitude atti-tude towards the farmer, an attitude atti-tude of understanding and of sympathy sym-pathy which eventually it is foreseen, fore-seen, will lead to definite benefits for America's basic industry. MJr. Thompson is a firm believer in organization as a means for solving the difficulties of the farm- : er. |