| Show CAUTION URGED IN LEGISLATION ON MARKETING Farmers Hear Talk on Operation Co-Operation by Secy eoy Frank Evans Evan PHILADELPHIA July 25 AP American farmers should caution their congressmen to go slow on in n the he matter of enacting additional legIslation affecting the status statu of operative co-operative Frank Evans secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary and general generl managing counsel for the American farm bureau to today today today to- to day advised members of the of-the the Amer Anici r rican lean ican Institute of Co operation in session here We have much favorable tion by states Evans saU and we have haye a national law authorizing authorising t farmers farmers' operative co associations lons to do dp bus business s in Inter Interstate tat and und foreign commerce There are art many favorable judicial decisions In re respecting rh- rh the state laws These de decisions decisions decisions de- de are growing in number and from them a concert of public policy is being worked oU out t. t As yet the th the the-fea- feti t c era eral 1 act Capper act Capper act act has act ha not been subjected to any court te test tet t. t but operative co-operative lawyers have e exchanged views and they are re coinIng coin coin- Ing to a g general opinion as to tu ae tP- tP extent to which operative co-operative associations associations associations asso asso- may receive immunity from the various federal trust anti-trust acts I WARNED ON COMBINE Grain farmers of the United States must be prepared to take another step in n their control of the thema ma marketing of ot grain rain if they are to 0 preserve the services already obtained ob rib- tamed by their ownership of operative co-operative elevators J J. W W. Short- Short hill hili of ot Omaha secretary of the Farmers' Farmers National Grain Grain Dealers Dealers' said In an address at the the- morning session This step must be betaken betaken betaken taken he declared to prevent the terminal grain merchants from combining eon com bining and throttling competition Ii In Inthe Inthe the markets urged the farmers to enter the markets In person through their country elevators to prevent this friction from coming i into to the markets The farmers farmers' elEvators ele elevators elevators elE- elE he lie said must form a strong corporation in which they will wl holt hold the capital capIt l stock and which t tey t ey will control PLAN SUGGESTED He suggested a pl plan n whereby th thIs corporation would enter the terminal nal markets and render all an the seli ice ices now no rendered by b private b tsi ness merchandising the grain a awell as V well eli as as s 's s selling it f for fora r ra a a aco co commission charge It is not and never will be ws wIse for the farmers to enter the terminal nal marl markets as a it monopoly h he said but It is wise now for th them m n tb to enter as an Influence Their on on ony purpose in entering the tho terminal markets ets should be to keep those thos markets open so that prices will b be determined by real competition Frank Evans was as until last year when he lie was appointed secretary and general managing counsel ot of th the American farm bureau counsel fo for forthe forthe the Utah state farm bure bureau u with headquarters at Salt Lake Mr Evans who Is Js a native of Utah waa wa was wasa walla a former member of the board o of regents of the University of Utah and t a member of the Salt Lake Exchange Exchange Ex Ex- Ex- Ex change hange club lub He is r In ti Chicago |
