Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-03-20
STATE MEETINGS.
Ohio Does Not Favor the Corn
Boys Junkets.

Delaware Will Entertain the National
Grange Next Year - New Jersey
Wants a Change In Educational Meth
DDS and Would Increase the License
Fees of Automobilists.
Several of the smaller state oranges
held their annual sessions in Decem-
Der, and the chief facts of interest to
the public have been condensed in the
following paragraphs
In Ohio one might have thought that
an adjourned session Of the national
grange was on so strenuous seemed it.
National Secretary Freeman started
the ball rolling with some very plain
language in his public speech about
Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
What the national grange special COM
mittee said about the secretary wasn't
sin it. with what Mr.. Freeman had to
say. And he likewise paid his respects
to Governor Cox in plain terms. The
Ohio grange threw cold water, real ice
water on Secretary Sandles' pet corn
/ boys junket to Washington and pro-
posed that the money thus used might
better be expended in sending the farm
boys and girls to the state university
for course in manual training and
domestic science. The grange also op-
posed the minimum wage law and any
limitation of working hours for men
and women as tending to the increase
of the cost of living. 1t was thought
that these matters should be left to
private arrangement. The Warnes
law, which seeks to reform certain
methods in taxation and make assess
ors appointive instead Of elective, was
opposed. The grange also wanted the
restrictions upon the initiative and ref
erendum removed to the end that vot-
ers may use 1t when desired. Central
lied schools were indorsed for such
townships as can adopt the plan to ad-
vantage. The no free pass rule in rela-
tion to admission to the state fair the
grange desired to have enforced with,
out favor. Relative to farm credits, it
was the sense of the grange that any
legislation for such credits should be
Of n national character, with the state
as a unit and with government control.
George e. Scott of Jefferson county
was elected to the executive commit
tee, and this was the only election this
year. Two hundred candidates took
the sixth degree.
Delaware State Grange.
Delaware will be the host of the
national grange next year, and 1t is
announced that Wilmington will be
the place of meeting. Governor Miller
addressed the state grange and ex-
pressed Il willingness to aid the work
of the grange as best he could. The
opening Of cooperative stores in each
county was recommended, members
of the grange to get a discount on
goods purchased The grange has been
back Of several important state meas
ures the past year in favoring the
erection of an affiliated college for
women to be built at Newark, has
urged appropriations for Delaware col
lege and has favored the bills for aid
to the state board of education. The
grange insurance company carries $3,-
100000 in insurance on grangers' prop
erty at cost to the insured of about
$3.50 on the $1,000. There are only
forty-one oranges in Delaware, with
about 2,400 members.
New Jersey Grange.
New Jersey has POI subordinate 4
oranges, in which there are 10000
The annual meeting was
held at Atlantic City. State Master
Gaunt said there We're two or three
things Of particular Importance to the |
grange just now, and among these
were the exemption of motor vehicles =
from taxation, but materially increas- .
Ing the license fees. A change in the {
school laws was needed he thought, {
because they gave the state board Of 7
too much power and the dis I
trict boards too little. The elimination !
Of grade crossings was advocated. The e
of demonstration farms [
was recommended These several rec @
of the state master (
were approved by the grange and also
The extension of special courses in :
agriculture in rural schools. The only I
lflicers chosen were two members OF n
he executive committee, and H NJ +
.oveland of COhansey and Albert Her. G.
tage Of Mlcketown were reelected /,