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Show IVlimbership Held Greatest Farm Bureau Problem National" Secretary Speaker at S.- L. Conference; I limitation on tax law passed, which will be ef grcst benefit to th farm- I ars of the atate" be declared. Reviewing th history ef th trm bureau In tils slat h said that the adjuetmen- of aaeeesmsnt on farm proper'y had saved the farm-are farm-are con.lder.ihle money and the Co-operating Co-operating lew pasaed by the last leglalature had beea a big benefit In helping the farmer. Moat of that waa the result ef the effort of the tat farm bureau. "The American farm bureau la (Continued en page I.) THS greatest problem faclna he American Farm Bureau federation la that of membership mem-bership -and relationship, J. W. Cover dale, secretary ef the American Farm Bureau federation, told official of th bureau from the eleven weetern etatee who met In the flrat session of th tlyee-dsy tlyee-dsy conference at the term bureau office In th Dooly building at lt:M o'clock today. "Unless the preniema of membership mem-bership -and relation ehtp I solved, our band are tied." Ceverdale continued, "for without memoer-ahlp memoer-ahlp nothing can be done. , Without With-out finances nothing can be done and without relationship with the interests of the state we can servs no purpose. The puree of thla conference la re disc uae th problem prob-lem of marketing, transportation, taxation nd leglelatloa that may directly help In the farmer relief that w are leaking." Ephralm Bergeson, prealdent of the Utah State Farm bureau, welcomed wel-comed the vlaltora ta the city and reiterated Ceverdale'a warning regarding re-garding membership. He aald: -The atate of Utah la atandlng be. hind the federation In the drive for membership. The people ahould not concur th farmer far being lex In Joining the organisation. Th trouble Ilea with the farm bureau, bu-reau, which la neglecting te put lb right kind of man In the field to puah the movement. The farm-era farm-era are toe buey at thla time of the year to read the newspapers and ta keep well informed about the. ptogreo mad by th national federation. fed-eration. I know farmers wh never read a paper for week at a time during th aunt mar month. Pr wtent Bergeson closed hi welcome with "Amen." , . COMMERCIAL AGENT REPORTS Th program opened with Fred Matthew, state commercial agent giving a detailed report of the, . . . . i - farm bureau conditions la I'tsh In which he said that only eighteen of the twenty-nine counties of the stat were organised under the federation. Two year age the drive w started for member In th farm bureau." Matthewa aald In reviewing review-ing th Mat situation. "Th member signed a contract for tit and net were enlisted hi the Initial Ini-tial drive, netting a total nf M1M-Mot M1M-Mot ef thl money wa epent In clearing' th Indebtedness to the American Farm Bureau federation and only In th laat lx month ha the total Indebted nee been paid off; During th past aix month there haa been no Increase In the etare memberahlp and only 174 farm era hare paid their annual an-nual memberahlp fee ef MM, te cents f which goes to the notional no-tional federation and the remainder remain-der to the atata farm bureau." Matthew attacked th county erganlxatlona for not submitting reports of th progress In their countlea "Out of the eighteen counties organised In the etete only flv have auhmitted report. In the last month.." he stated "Th counties appear to have, not Increased their memberahlp and th atate ha not had the finances at.lt command to begin a campaign cam-paign for memberahlp during th year." Summing np the situation. Matthewa Mat-thewa aald there were local fxrm bureau organise tlona In Grand and Juab counties, but they had not yet efftikxted with th (tat farm bureau and did not subscribe to the three-year contract. EVANS TALKS TAXES. Frank Evan, attorney for the form bureau, lauded the effort of the farm bureau movement In the relief It wim semiring for the farmer farm-er by adjustment ef aeseasments and Itmtiatt m en taxea. . "In the next legislature w hope ta have .f.'Ef.'clERSHiP HELD ' (Contlnutd from pt 1) pot radical oralmaUon," k tated. "It la bvlns daTlopl by men of conaerratlva tndncl ancl vry thought of tt belnf a radical and daaserou orjanlxatlon la kelnc pt aaray. It la tor eonatructlva meaaurM to kelp tho larmera, tha paopla that nd blip and tha or-canlaatlon or-canlaatlon la net dnorou. 'Tha Incorporation plan In Utah, wa think baa aoWad tha dltIeulty. In tha rtext few year wa bopa to hava I,00 larmera ot tba atats added to iv ortaniaation. Whoa that , time cornea our membership trou I blaa WIN bo aolred. our finance I will be tolved and wa can projreaa with our marvetina- and our relief." MANY IN ATTINOANCf. The followlnir membera attended the tint conference seeeion thla mornlne;. H. H. Wrlthtaon. vice prealdent of the atate federation of Callfomla: Harry W. Morrell. mem-berehlp mem-berehlp manager. California farm bureau federation; James M. Kirk-ham, Kirk-ham, editor of the Utah Farmer; E. T. Capener of Federal lxan bann, T. C. Winn. Nephl, Juab eonnty farm bureau: li. M. Atwood. atala orwanlsatlon ellreetorj . I Robin-aon. Robin-aon. prealdent Klllm.M-a county faj-nl bureau; A. E. le. prealaont sf Halt I4tka eounfy farm bureau: T. W. Fluharty, dlrerior -if w.enaloa In' Idaho: O. B. Cox, Mantl; L-nct-aajr Watera. of Fetleral Fruit Orow-erar Orow-erar aaaociatlon; A. R.'Slmpioii of the department of finance American Amer-ican farm bureau federation: Mr. von D. Gore, chairman of the home and community aectlon In Utah and tha following dalea-atlon from Ari-tone: Ari-tone: tX 8. Brown, prealdent of tha farm bureau snranlaatlnn: C W. Brown. L. U Batea, J. W. La-oner. La-oner. The othar membera from Montana. Nevada. Orea-oo, Wuh-Inglon Wuh-Inglon and Wyomlna; are expected in thla afternoon to attend the aec-I ond conference) at S o'clock. j Thla aftarnoon vailoua problem! m farm bureau were dlecueeed. Thla evening the vleitora will ba taken to galtalr for an outln. - |