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Show Arthur Gaeth Is Speaker At Farmers' Union Athur Gaeth, world famous news correspondent, was the speaker at the Farmers Union meeting, held Monday night at the Hinckley Seminary. Mr. Gaeth is now connected con-nected with the Farmers Union, assigned as-signed to the task of organizing and strengthening the locals in Utah and Idaho. Mr. Geath discussed the declining declin-ing farm prices and what farmers can do about it. He stressed the importance of keeping the fmaily type of farm in operation, stating that although only 18 of the population of the United States are living on farms, when this group feels a lowering of prices, then the entire nation suffers and one million people are unemployed, causing a -nation wide depression. Therefore, to a-vert a-vert depressions, one of the main things to be done is to keep the farm prices for the farm family up so that he can buy and sell with no loss and with an income sufficient to keep his family fairly comfortable. Mr. Gaeth told how many of the smaller farmers have lost their (Continued on back page) Gaeth Speaks (Continued from front page) farms in the last while, with 700, 000 of these farms under 250 a-cres a-cres being swallowed up by the large-scale operators. When a country lets its major agricultural and industrial development be to the advantage of a few, and only a few hold the wealth, the majority major-ity of the people in the country become dissatisfied and the communists com-munists can move in and pick up members among the unhappy majority. ma-jority. We must avoid this in A-merica, A-merica, he said, for this is what has happened in France and Italy. "Communism," said Mr. Gaeth, does not strengthen the family ties or family unity, but destroys the very things for which we work and strive." Mr. Gaeth talked of the importance import-ance of making an improved distribution dis-tribution system so that a cooperative cooper-ative buying and selling of farm products can be effected between the producer and consumer. He next discussed the Brannan plan, explaining the contents of the plan and the advantages of this to the family-type farmer; showing that it would create a stability of price and offer a minimum min-imum of protection to the farmer. Mr. Gaeth discussed the triangular trian-gular program of the Farmers U-nion, U-nion, which consists of education, cooperation and legislation in order or-der to benefit the farmers. |