Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 2

FARM BUREAU MEN HERE (Continued from page 1) farmer's themselves. ‘8. Appointed the Farmers’ Grain Marketing Committee of 17, and fostered the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., to put into effect the adopted plan; retained the President of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., as director of the grain division of the Depart- ment of Co-operative Marketing. 4. Appointed the Farmers’ Live Stock Marketing Commit- tee of 15; appointed the first board of directors of the Nation- al Live Stock Producers’ Associ- ation and appropriated $10,000 to begin the work of the co-oper- ative live stock selling plan. 5. Appointed the Farmers’ Dairy Marketing Committee of 11 to work out a national plan for the co-operative marketing of milk and milk products, and employed the Secretary-Treas- urer of the Committee of 11 as salaried director of the dairy division of the Department of | Co-operative Marketing. 6. Appointed the Fruit Grow- ers’ Marketing Committee of 21 to investigate plans for the co- operative marketing of fruit. 7. Appointed the Farmer: Wool Marketing Committee of ich has developed co-oper- n ates empleo salaried director of wool divi of Department of Co-operative Marketing. 8. Endorsed the co-operative cotton marketing plan of the American Cotton Growers’ Ex- change, and pledged every assist ance in organizing the cotton pool. 9. Participated in a tobacco- tons affecting farm products. 16. Provided for agriculture an authoritative voice Capital and throughout the na- tion. 17. Fostered the agricuitural “bloc” in Congress. 18. Secured passage of the Packer Control Law, stopping indirect drain on pro- ducers of amounts totalling 80 times annually the entire opera- ting expense of the American Farm Bureau Federation. 19. Secured extension of War Finance Corporation’s pow- er to lend $1,000,000,000 to farmers. 20. fluence of largest farmers’ o1 ganization in the world to pas of acts regulating exchanges, increasing on Farm Loan Bonds from 5 to 54% per cent, sage lof foreign horn residents, and providing Federal appropriation for farm-to-market roads rather a total of more agricultural leg- islation by one session of Con-| gress than was ever before pas-| | sed in the history of the nation. 21. Advocated Great Lakes- St Lawrence Deep Waterway, | barge navigation on inland riv- ers, and ment of waterway tion as means of bringing the farmer nearer to his markets. 22. Appointed a salaried tax- ation director, worked out a tax policy—retain excess profits tax, kill the sales tax, and prevent issue of all tax-free securities— and secured its adoption in prin- ciple. 23. Gathered and shipped to Europe 700,000 bushels of farm- marketing conference and en- dorsed the co-operative selling of tobacco. 10, Called a sugar-beet mar- keting conference and recom- mended a nationally uniform contract. 11. Provided a Co-operative Coal-Buying Service in co-opera- tion with five state farm bureau federations. " 12. Worked out a transporta- tion policy—immediate reduc- tion in railroad rates on basic commodities and subsequent re- ductions as rapidly as savings in operating expenses could be ef- fected—and advocated it to the end that rate savings totaling $55,000,000 have heen authoriz- ed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. 18. Participated in Grain and Live Stock Rate Cases, with re- sultant ordered savings to ship- pers-of $45,000,000~ in freight bills on grain, hay and live stock, _ 14. Reduced railway valua- tion for purposes of computing guaranteed earnings $1,700,000,- 000, making an average saving og $30 each for every farmer in the United States. ers’ gift corn, thereby saving from starvation thousands of children and incidentally creat- ing an extended market for American corn products abroad. 24, Issued questionnaires and referenda involving definite pro- blems of national policy and pre- sented “yes” and “no” vote of, entire Farm Bureau membership to Congress. | 25. Conducted county farm bureau hearings all over Ameri- ca and presented the farmer's | own case to Congress and the public. 26. Established contracts with agricultural colleges, the extension service, the United) States Department of Agricul-| ture, the Government, organiza- tions of business men and work- ers, other farm organizations, | and the public at large which | have gained a profound respect for the Farm Bureau because of the service which the organiza- | tion renders to agriculture and to the nation. 27. Conducted unbiased re- search on the problems of agri-| culture and submitted facts and figures to prove the true mind! 15. Co-operated with state farm bureau federations in im- proving nsportation condi- tions locally aided ingthe revi- sion of railroad rules and regula- aera Farm ~ Loans We have plenty of money to loan on improved lands, lowest rate, prompt service. We also write a general line of insurance, your business solicited. | JAS. G. WRIGHT & SON $| : PooOHd | Nezperce, Idaho | aspirations ‘We Still can do - your cleaning - and pressing and purpose of the American farmer. 28. Organized nine service departments, each under the direction of a trained leader with | a budget at his disposal, and | placed them at the disposal of | American agriculture. 29. Established the truth} principle in publicity, maintain-| ed an open-door policy, retained documentary evidence for all} Farm Bureau news, and mar-| }Shalled an array of public opin-) at his home in Washington. ion behind the farmer such as no | organized effort has ever enjoy-| courts of Chicago, submitted by the ed. 30. Carried forward the} of the American; farmer to secure economic and} social justice for agriculture, and a square deal for all the people. i ll. RAT | LOST—Pair of glasses some- where in Cottonwood. W. E. Fuller. Finder please leave at the Chronicle office. 52-2 in the| thereby | Lent entire weight of in-| grain interest | J increasing the | | working capital of Federal Farm} | Loan system by $25,000,000, lim- | iting immigration to 2 per cent} ! {than boulevards—thus securing | nation-wide develop- | transporta- | a year ago, while the condition of the | wt UNIT cU TENURE WARRIS & EWING Sorel Rabbi Joseph Saul Kornfeld of Co- lumbus, O., who has been appointed American minister to Persia. ACREAGE OF WINTER WHEAT FIELDS LESS Washington. — Winter wheat was sown this fall on a smaller area by ; half a million acres than a year ago, | a reduction of 1.2 per cent, the depart ment of agriculture’s report showed | The condition of the crop on December 1 also was considerably below what it was a year ago and below the ten- | year average condition by 13 points. The area sown to rye is one-fifth larger this year than a year ago, and the condition of the crop better than on December 1 last year, and also bet- | ter than the ten-year average | Kansas, largest grower of winter wheat, with one-fourth the country’s | total area, has 100,000 acres less than | | crop in that state is only 60 per cent | of normal, compared with a condition of 88 per cent a year ago. The winter wheat area and condition on December 1, by important produc. ing states, follow: Pennsylvania, 1,405,000 acres; dition 95, con- Ohio, 2, ,000 and 93 Indiana, 2,053,000 and 92. Illinois, 00 and 9% Michigan 00 and 92 000 and 87. ,000 and 80. Kansas, 11,569,000 and 60 | Oklahoma, 3,550,000 and 54. Washington, 1,292,000 and 79. Oregon, 894,000 and 92, BRIEF GENERAL NEWS Moslems of India propose a republic | of India and plan guerilla warfare to carry out revolt from present British rule, The Oregon American Legion execu- tive committee is preparing to initiate a@ stringent law against land | ownership. Baron Rosen, former Russian ambas sador to the United States, who was recently knocked down by a taxicab in New York, is dead. Ex-President Wilson was deluged with telegrams from all over the world | on the celebration of his 65th birthday alien The annual report of the munictpal clerk of the court, showed drunken ness had increased during the last year, Business prospects for 1922 are, in general, hopeful, according to state ments by prominent bankers, made | public by the American Bankers asso | ciation. The first steamer to carry grain for famine relief in Russia purchased from the congressional appropriation of $20,000,000, sailed Sunday with 240,000 bushels. | The official result of the general census of 1921 gives the population of France, including Alsace-Lorraine, as 39,402,739, of which 1,550,449 are foreigners. The population in 1911 was 39,604,992, including 1,132,696 for elgners. Non-Stop Flight Record Broken. Mineola.—Fiying without a stop for 36 hours 19 minutes 35 seconds, part of the time in a snow storm, the re-* mainder through gales so cold that the oil pump on their Larsen monoplane quit working and finally forced them to descend, Edward Stinson of San “qe | ABBI KORNFELD Have Confidence in@ the year 1922 AFTER ALL PART OF THE PRESENT CONDI- TIONS ARE DUE TO LACK.OF CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR FELLOW MEN IN WHAT YOU UNDERTAKE. MAKE 1922 COUNT TO HELP REBUILD AND TO REGAIN. YOU MAY DEPEND ON THIS STORE HELPING IN EVERY WAY TO MEET THE PRESENT DEMANDS J. V. Baker & Son “Where Quality and Prices Meet” Me | Antonio, Tex., and Lloyd Bertaud of San Francisco, set a new world’s rec | ord for continuous flight in a heavier | than-air machine. The previous record of 24 hours 19 minutes 7 seconds was made by two Frenchmen at Etampes. Richards & Son THE COTTONWOOD TAILORS “The Line Is Busy” When the telephone operator tells you “the line is busy,” this fact has been made known to her by an electric signal. With the thousands of calls in daily telephone traffic, if the operator, to secure this in- formation, were compelled to listen on the line of the party called, prompt serv- ice would be out of the question. This delay is eliminated by an electric device which in the fraction of a second automatically indicates that the line called for is in use. repeated on mber, it Is When “busy” repor successive calls for called line. The length™ conversation is obviously beyond of the telephone operator. 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