Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-12
IMPORTANT CHANGE IN BYLAWS
ADOPTED ev CONVENTION At
WATERLOO.
SECRETARY TO BE CHOSEN
BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Board Increased to Eleven, Ono From
Each District, and Are to Be Chosen
by Distrets-ira q. Moviear, Of Ida
Grove, Probably Will Be Chosen
President-cosson Delivers Address.

Waterloo, Feb. 12.-By an over
whelming vote Of the delegates to the
tenth annual convention of the Far.
mers Grain Dealers Association of
Iowa, in session in the Armory, article
3 and section 12 Of the associations
constitution and bylaws were amend
ed, hereby making a radical change in
the manner of electing the president,
vice president, treasurer and secretary.
Heretofore these officers have been
elected by the delegates themselves,
after candidates had been placed in
nomination by the nominating COM
mittee. Hereafter, and that applies to
those to be chosen at the present con-
vention the voting delegates of the
convention have no power except that
those delegates from each district may
elect a member of the board of direc-
tors. This board is to elect from
Its own membership. a president vice
president and treasurer and select and
employ secretary.
Heretofore, also, the board of direc-
tors has consisted of only seven mem
bers, but by the adoption OF the amend
ment to the bylaws, this number is
increased to nine.
Debate Was Spirited.
The debate over the adoption of the
amendment MAS spirited. Another
amendment providing that the presi-
dent and seven directors should he
elected by the voting delegates and that
the board should appoint the secretary
and treasurer, was lost. a somewhat
similar amendment was also introduced
but withdrawn.
The change in the method OF choos-
ing secretary and treasurer has been
under consideration for some time and
was enacted for the evident purpose of
eliminating too much politics from the
annual event AS one delegate put it,
when the office of secretary paid little
Or no compensation ii was necessary
to hunt man to fill the office but
when the position carried with it
good salary there was a great scramble.
1t was thought best to conduct busi-
ness on business principles and elect
the secretary in the manner that cor
porations elect theirs, giving that
power to the board of directors alone.
There was some opposition to the plan
or including the election of the preSi-
dent in the same manner but this OPP
position was voted down.
McVicar May be President.
Ira D. McVicar Of Ida Grove, may be
the new president of the Farmers
Grain Dealers Association of Iowa
This, at least, was the way things
looked this afternoon. at the moment
when the various district delegates
We're choosing their members of the
board will elect the other officers.
Mr.. McVicar has been a member of
the board of directors during the past
year and has proven himself one of the
most brainy men in the association.
He is very popular and there are hun
dreds who predict his election TO the
head Of the association.
In speaking of the present conven-
ton Mr.. McTicar declared it is the
most fruitful and beneficial one ever
held by the association. Il ;s said by
another official that there are fifty
more voting delegates at this conven-
ton than at any previous one.
Attorney General Cosson arrived
from Des Moines and addressed the
convention. He spoke along the line
that the age Of individualism has de-
parted and the age of cooperation
and organization has arrived.