Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-16
GRANGE TO FIGHT
RURAL DELIVERY BY
CONTRACT SYSTEM
ton Unanimously
Votes to Garry Protest to
-Cady Goes
on Executive Committee.

WILMINGTON, Nov. 1s. - That the
erangers Of this country will fight to the
limit the proposal now being made TO taAe
the rural free delivery Of mail out oil tne
ctviI service list and give out the routes
NV contract was the decision of the Ma
tIonol Grange at its session today
This action was taken when A resolution
offered several days ago by c. P. kesley'
Of washington State, was reported laVoI-
obIv out OF the Committee on Postal he-
lotons by II. Harland, Of Idaho cheir-
man.
rho report was unanimous, as was the
a ,tion of the convention. IL was de-
clared that the contract system would put
tbe rural free delivery service back INTO
the condition OF the old star routes OIL
years ago. and such a plan Woulu De
hazardous. .,-,,,,
IL was directed that a copy OF the resolu-
zion be forwarded at once TO the PostHas-
Tor General; that the General Legislative
Committee be directed to fight the plan TO
the limit, and that every grange IN the
country be called upon to exert its lnhu-
ence for the defeat of the plan. rms iH
declared one of the most important SUD
jocts to come before the grange.
CADY DEFEATS RAINE
In the contest for member of the Ma
tionaI Executive Committee in which un-
usual interest was taken and which was
a spccial order for today. Willis N. Cady'
of MIddlebury, VT, master of tho Yer
mont state Grange, won over G. o. Raine'
master of the Missouri State Grange, who
has held the position for six years and
has been secrtary Of the body for three
years.
TIE election of Cady was declared to
he n victory for the progressives In the
Grange, but members of the body de'
clared that It Is not the policy OF the oody
to keep officers in positions for long
terms
California was chosen as the place Tor
the next meeting. The place in California
Is left TO the Executive Committee OF the
California State Grange and the E%-
ecutive Committee Of the National
Grange.
The hardest fight in opposition to Call
fornia was made by Missouri, which pre-
sented an invitation from the Grangers
and also the Federation of Commercial
Clubs, numbering 400 clubs in that state
The vote was 43 TO 10 in favor of Call
fornia The convention will go to Sacra>
mento or Oakland, with the chances In
favor of the latter.
Invitations by mail were received from
New York. Chattanooga, Toledo. Denver,
New Orleans and Springfield, Mass. Sew
eral places gave notice that they would
ask for the convention next year, and
New York will make fight on the ground
that the 5Oth anniversary should be OBJ
served in New York because the frst
Grange was formed in Fredonia in that
State.
T. c. Akeson, of West Virvinia, offered
a resolution to have the National Grange
ndorse the bill offered by Representative
Edward Heating, of Colorado, to remove
the limits on the amount which can be
invested in postal savings banks and have
the money turned over to the United
States Treasury to make a fund for farm
credits.
FAVORABLE REPORT LIKELY.
1t is generally expected that this reso-
luton will receive a favorable report and
will be adopted by the Grange
Tomorrow will be given over to dis
cusslon OF cooperative buying and SELL
ing. Professor j. W. Kerr, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, who is counted an
expert on this subject, will be one of the
speakers. w. T. Greasy, OF
Pennsylvania, one of a committee OF is
appointed to consider the subject, will
also tell the result of the Investigations
of the committee.
What is counted one of the important
subjects of the conventIon-farm credits
will come up for discussion some time
after the talk on cooperation T. c.
Atkeson, former dean of the University
of West Virginia, who has given years
OF study to this important topic. and has
the various systems tried by
foreign countries, will speak in support
of his resolution to have the grange de-
clare in favor of a system which shall
be under the direction of the Govern
ment, instead of in the hands of private
banking institutions.
Equal suffrage and irrigation will fol-
low these subjects. II is generally con-
sidered likely that the grange will declare
in favor of equal suffrage. since women
have always been the equal OF men in
Of