Show OF LIE SUCH IS PLAN OF STOCKMEN OF NATION AS EXPRESSED AT convention advocate plan to exterminate prada tory wild animals and further in vesti gation into value of grazing on forest lands salt lake city increased production of live stock in the united states suspension during the period of the war of the acre homestead act cooperation of congress la regulating railroad rates and terminal changeat ch angea and the assumption of jurisdiction by the secretary of agriculture of the public domain were adopted as resolutions at the closing session on january 10 of the twenty first annual convention of the american rational livestock association further investigation into the value ot grazing on the forest lands approval of the action of the federal trade commission in holding public hearings to extend facts connected with the packing industry appropriation by congress of similar amounts advanced by the state for the extermination mi nation of predatory wild animals a federal war tax on dogs and the urging of congress to provide the extension of military instruction to high schools of the country were other resolutions passed by the convention denver next meeting place denver was set as the meeting place for the twenty second annual convention of the association in 1919 because of its central location with regard to the cattle industry kansas city ran a close second for the honor all of the officers holding positions during the past year were elected reelected re it was universally conceded that it would be very foolish and inadvisable to swap horses in the middle of the stream and the motion was carried unanimously the following are the officers of the convention elected reelected re for 1918 president isaac T pryor san antonio tex first vice president J B kendrick sheridan wyo second vice president 0 M odonel bel ranch N M M K parsons salt lake city walls huidekoper Hulde koper walls mont isaac baer meeker colo VV J todd maple hul kan and E L burke omaha neb treasurer john W springer denver colo attorney sam U cowan fort worth tex secretary T W denver colo affirming confidence in president woodrow allson as commander in chief of the armies and navy of the united states and maker of public sentiment for the allied world and pledging the president the whole heart ed support of the livestock men of the nation in any efforts or louies he may deem necessary to win this war the american rational livestock association went on record as approving the concentration of power by the govern ment in the hands of efficient agencies for the purpose of developing and the powers of the nation the convention unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing enlargement of its market committee to a membership of seven and expanding its duties to include that of maintaining this special delegation at the national capital for the purposes set forth patriotism was the predominant chord in the proceedings of the con and was the keynote of every address delivered before the opening session president L T pryor sound ed the tocsin of patriotic operation cooperation co between the livestock men and tha government in his annual address when he declared that the livestock men as producers of that essential food product meat ask nothing of the government but a fair profit upon their product and that they be not expected to produce it at a loss the president v alced the unanimous sentiment of the convention when lie declared that the lle tock men are ready and willing to do all in their power to meet the demand of alie government for increased production and only ask that the government in return give them the consideration necessary to age them in accomplishing this important end in line the attitude of the association to employ every means possible toward the conservation of meat supply alie executive committee of the na organization through president pryor wired to secretary david P houston of the department of agriculture asking him to prevent the re opening of the juarez packing plant at juarez mexico one of the effects of the war on tha livestock industry Is the stimulation of knitting for the first time in the bis tory of the conventions of he amerl can national live stock association women sat in the audience knitting sweaters and mufflers for soldiers na their husbands debated momentous matters pertaining to the present market conditions |