The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-03
THEY JOIN HANDS
Farmers Meet and Organize a
Shippers Association
OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN
Sixty Five TilIerS of the Soil Sion
the By Laws and the Organlza-
ton Starts

In the neighborhood of one hun
dred farmers living in the vicinity of
Sank Centre met at the Commercial
Club rooms Tuesday afternoon and
formed Shippers Association with
a membership of 50. and elected a
president and board of five direc-
tors.
ThOs. J. Flahaven was chosen presi-
dent. The directors elected are r.
Gamradt. Albert J. Molitor. B. Bon
ner, Fred Lathrop and Henry Botz.
The object of the association is to
join the forces of the farmers to ship
their stock to market and possibly
later to ship their produce. The in
tention is to hold a meeting of the
directors at an early date and lay
plans for the proper conduct of af-
fairs of the association.
The meeting was called to order at
2:3O by T. J. Flahaven, who was
elected chairman by a unanimous
vote. A. J. Molitor was chosen secre-
tary. Chairman Flahaven made few
brief remarks in which he stated
that if an organization was to be
formed it was to be for the farmers,
that they were going to manage it's
affairs themselves from the ground
up"
Chairman Flahaven then introduced
Frank T. Wilson of Saltwater, who
is secretary of the Booster Club of
that city, an organization formed to
advance the legitimate interests of
the the town. He is also president of
farmers club and has been secretary
of market association. Mr.. Wilson
emphasized the idea that an organiza-
tion such as the farmers propose to
form will do much to bring them and
the business men together. That, he
said, had been the experience of Still
water people.
The great problem, he insisted, for
the people to solve is how to get from
the farm to the home the produce the
farmer raises. The time is coming,
he said, when things will go direct
from producer to consumer. Mr..
Wilson even looked into the future
sufficiently far to see time when, in
his judgement, there will be no pri-
vate medical practitioner, but when
such matters will be under the con-
troll of boards of health who send
doctors where they are needed.
In time, Mr.. Wilson said, the fac
tory will transfer its product direct
to the home, thus eliminating the
middleman and reducing the high
cost of living. The middleman. said
the speaker is no philanthropist he's
in business to make money and he
has the consumer under his control.
These, he asserted, are the days
when a great moral movement is
sweeping over the land and all should
join in it. He insisted that in the re-
adjustment of condition somebody's
corns would be stepped on, but if that
individual cannot get in line with
this movement he'd better get out of
the way.
Mr.. Wilson said that the great OBJ
stacle in the way of this movement is
ignorance both on the part of the far
mer and on the part of the business
man. He told his hearers not to be
discouraged if the other. fellow does
business: the remedy for the farmer
if he goes into business, is to keep the
price up and the other fellow will
come to time. To make a shippers
association success the first thing is
to secure good manager, man who
understands the business, who knows
the, game and how to play it, Mr..
Wilson said. Such an organization