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Show SAME ORGANIZATION FOR MEN AND WOMEN Directors of Indiana Federation Believe Working Together Is Necessary. The directors of the Indiana Federation Fed-eration of Farmers' Associations realize real-ize that the organization can never fulfill the possibilities that lie before be-fore It without the support and cooperation co-operation of the farm women. The close partnership existing between the farm home and the farming business busi-ness makes a working together absolutely ab-solutely necessary If the full value of the organization is to be realized. A3 set forth in the constitution of the Indiana Federation of Farmers' associations, as-sociations, it is the purpose of Ihe association to protect the economic, business, sducational, legislative and social interests of the farmers of ttie state, and w'ien these phases of the. work are being considered, it necessarily neces-sarily involves ."he activities of the farm women. The Indiana directors believa that it Is .lot necessary to have a separate organization, duplication dupli-cation of officers, or anything of tliat kind, but merely the united effort o( farm men and women in the same or ganlzation. In Indiana it has been arranged so that a farmer's wife or daughter, where there is already one fully paid up member ln the family, may become be-come a member of the local township, county, state and national organization organiza-tion with the payment of $2.o0 annually. an-nually. This fee is divided up with $1 for the county or township. $1 for the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations and 50 cents for the American Farm bureau. This plan of organization was worked out at a state meeting of farm women held ln Indianapolis, with the recommendations recommend-ations lliat a committee of farm women, wom-en, one representing each of the ten federation districts, be selected to suggest such additions to the progress of work of the state organization as would lake In the interests of the farmer from all angles, as outlined above, in a way that would enlist the Interest and co-operation of the entire en-tire community. This committee of ten In their recommendations provided pro-vided for the increased interest In social so-cial activities of the community with a special educational and health program. pro-gram. Although the total enrollment of farm women members in the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations has not reached large numbers, as yet, still the interest is growing rapidly rapid-ly and where aroused to the needs and conditions, they are willing to give their time ad talents along with the men. lo establishing an organization organiza-tion whose object Is to insure a more permanent, stabilized and profitable agriculture for the generations to come, which means the essentials for the establishment of home and community com-munity life of the highest type. |