Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-03-21 | Page 13 | Aaa Official Urges Farm Unity in West

A A A Official Urges Farm Unity in Wen : sPEr.:r, e:.us fghctt: '.j Eastern Industry Reaps Major ' Benefits, Dodd Says If western farmara, who for years have been "robbed to build ap east--era Industry," are ta establish them-eerrea them-eerrea on an equal eoonomio basis, they should unite under tha agricultural agri-cultural adjustment program, N. HL Dodd of Washington, D. C associate asso-ciate director of tha westers division divi-sion of the A A A declared la Salt Lake City Tueaday. Mr. Dodd waa one of tha prlnd-pal prlnd-pal apeakera at aa all-day meeting of A A A committeemen from Utah's 2t counties held In the New. house hotel to consider the 10.19 AAA program. More than 128 agricultural ag-ricultural leadera attended. Including Includ-ing agricultural agents from moat of the oountiea and aeveral Washington Wash-ington official Fregraa Need Seea "Western farmer for years have been robbed to build up altera industry because they had no defl. .... nita, organised program," Mr. Dodd eald. "Industry has been protected . while agriculture, in the main, has been allowed ta go to pot and shift for itself." Ha arged that the farmers ba encouraged to aign up with the A A A la greater numbers than for . tha KM program. A. O. KU bourne, AAA executive officer la Utah, reported that in dicationa were that mora than tha M per cent of Utah farmara enrolled en-rolled laat year would, aign ap for the ltst program. . Speakers Named Afternoon apeakera Included W, E. Byrd it. of Washington, executive execu-tive assistant to tha A A A administrator, admin-istrator, who diacssaed county budgeta and financial problems: E. B. Bell of Washington, chief economist for the western AAA division, discussing county allot mentai yields and atatistical data; John Dexter of Boaemaa, Mont, divisional publicity head, and E. R. Alexander of Washington, head of vocational education in the A A As , The afternoon meeting was devoted de-voted largely to questions and answers an-swers concerning changea In tha 1S3 program, the chief one being payment af tl instead of 11.60 aa acre for growing alfalfa. In charge of the meeting waa Sidney J. Nebeker af Laketown, chairman af tha state committee. Other atata committee members ' ataeadsetg-. weea Maiviu frntca ol-Scipio, ol-Scipio, Orvllle L. Lee of Paradise and Joseph Skeea of Ogdea.