OCR Text |
Show STATE FARM BUREAU NAMES ITS OFFICERS ORGANIZATION WILL WORK FOR ALL FARMERS OF STATE One of the most important gatherings gather-ings in. the history of the state convened con-vened in the Utah hotel in Salt Lake City last week and, though comparatively com-paratively little attention was paid the affair at the time, a move was there started that will be of never-ending benefit to the farming interests of the state, and in fact, to the whole people of the state If the plans are carried out intelligently. Organization has long been the point on which the Utah man has been deficient and he has paid dearly for his lack of interest in the subject, but that is about to become a thing of the past now. The farmers of the different dif-ferent sections of the state have been busy organizing, for several months and have been going at It with a heartiness that serves to make up partially for the long period of Inactivity. In-activity. Enough organizations have been formed, in fact, to justify the thoughts of a state organization, with the Salt Lake gathering as a result There are some big problems looming up on the horizon of the farming interests in-terests but, with a good organization intelligently on the job, there seems to be a bright future ahead for the tillers of the soil and, through them, for the people of the whole state. Officers Elected. D. D. McKay of Wfeber county, prime mover for such an organization, was elected president; R. W. Creer of Utah county, vice president; Howard V. Alston, Salt Lake county, secretary and treasurer. It was decided that there shall be one director from each county and that the organization of the directorate be left to the. members of the board A meeting will be held in January at Ogden, at which permanent organization organiza-tion of the board of directors will be effected. "The object of this organization is not principally to have taxes lowred or to get more equitable rates for beets though these things are objects. ob-jects. It is something bigger than any one thing. Ours is a co-operative institution in-stitution in- the highest sense. We are going after all things of benefit to the farmer and we are going -t become be-come so strong that we get them. Though now there are but twelve counties represented as members, the association really represents the interests in-terests of all the 30,000 farmers in the state. Urge Tax Reduction. Strong recommendations for the reduction re-duction of taxes by legislative enactment enact-ment or by constitutional amendment were submitted by a legislative committee com-mittee headed by R. T. Rhees of Weber We-ber county. This was unanimously adopted. The gist of this Was about as follows: fol-lows: That the farmer, under the full valuation plan, is paying taxes on full valuation and the mining companies com-panies are not; that holders of bonds and other money escape taxation almost al-most entirely. - "Only, one man in Utah county had any money last year and he only had $400," was the humorous remark of a Utah county representative. Mr. Alston, the newly elected secretary, secre-tary, asserted that the mining companies compa-nies used to pay but one-seventh of what the farmers do; that now they pay but one-twentieth. |