The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
BIG RALLY PLANNED.
Campaign for Rural Progress to be
Launched at State Fair.

Biz KALLR F14ANN ED.
Campaign for Rural Progress to be
Launched at State Fair.
A great rally of the executive and
parish committee members of the Ru.
raj Progress Conference of Louisiana
is planned to be held during the state
fair in Shreveport next fall to initiate
the campaign for rural progress ir
Louisiana.
The first conference held in Baton
Rouge May 26-27, attended by 125
delegates from all parts of the state
ordered meeting of an executive
committee in New Orleans on July
IA. This committee worked on de
tails for the parish rural progress
committees. These will number be.
tween z to 81 members according to
the population of the parish, making 9
total fighting force for rural progress
of 1900 or more selected and enthu-
siastic workers throughout the state
The method of organization brings
together and seeks to coordinate the
machinery of all the commercial or
CARNATIONS in Louisiana, that of all
the parish fairs, the agricultural and
domestic science schools, the federal
farm demonstration service, the bank
ers who are interested in agricultural
development. and all the agricultural
organizations of the state.
s"This movement has the emphatic
endorsement of my department" said
Mason Snowden, state agent of the
Farmers Cooperative Demonstration
Work. The Department of Agricul-
ture has authorized me to help IN
every possible way
Each parish committee will be COM
posed of the following members: Ex-
officio nembers-The president of the
police jury, president of the school
board, superintendent of education,
secretary Of the parish fair associa-
ton, president and secretary of the
local commercial organization, presi-
dent and secretary of the Farmers
Union local in parishes where there
are such locals, parish farm demon
stration agents IN parishes where
there are such agents. Selected mem
bers-Presidents or cashiers of par
ish banks, not to exceed three in num-
Der, to be appointed on the recon-
mendation of the agricultural commit
tee of the State Bankers Association
in parishes where there are no DEM
onstration agents, one man to be
named by the state agent of the
Farmers Cooperative Demonstration
Work; in parishes where there are
no Farmers Union local, one man to
be named by the executive committee
of the State Farmers Union; three to
five business men from the country to
be selected by a subcommittee of the
executive committee; three to five
business men from the town to be
selected by a subcommittee of the
state executive committee; one Wo-
man in each parish to be named by
the executive committee of the State
Federation Of Woman's Clubs, ard
one woman in the country to be Sc
1ected by the secretary Of the State
Farmers Union.
The work of these committees as
outlined in the conference in Baton
Rouge will be as follows: (a) To
make business study of the needs of
the rural schools, the agricultural fa-
cilities and courses at the institutions
of higher learning, the state exper-
iment stations, and the other agen-
cies of the state and the nation work
ing for rural progress; to organize 10
cal sentiment for completely adequate
support of all these agencies and
for more general utilization of their
facilities by the farming elements !;
(b) to make determined effort to
have the police juries of the parishes
about each market-toWn adopt pro-
gram Of better road building and
drainage, looking to the completion
within a given term of years of the
road system and drainage in each CIV
en- district; (c) to study the needs OF
each district for financing, harvest
ing and marketing the products OF
that district; and then work to have
these needs met by the proper ele-
ments in each instance.
Tt is expected that the membership
Of the parish organizations will be
ready for announcement not later
than Aug. is and that the organiza-
ton meetings will be early in Septem-
Der.
G. A. Waterman, secretary OF the
Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce,
was chosen chairman of the executive
committee at the New Orleans meet
ing, and J. E. Edmonds, manager OF
the land and immigration department
of the New Orleans Association OF
Commerce, was shosen secretary. The
clerical force and resources of these
associations of commerce were
pledged to defray all expense of or
ganization in the way of correspond
ence and clerical work.