Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-09
GRAIN GROWERS
Will Object To
EMBARGO IDEAS
Wheat RaiSers Would Let Mat
tiers of Exports Rest on Sup
ply and Demand Basis

BY Associated PresSl
CHICAGO. H., Nov. 22-With
seyen-cent bread predicted and the
world 4 billion bushels short in il.
wheat crap, grain farmers of the Unit
ed States took a big step here today
TO relieve the situation when a cal
was issued to organized growers tC
meet in Chicago for a special cost
finding conference to be Held Decem
Der SO. The meeting is called by
the National Council of Farmers Co
operative Associations representing
coo, 900 organized grain farmers in nine
leading grain states whose business
this year, according TO department Of
agriculture estimates, will total one
and half billion dollars. The grain
farmers will come together under the
auspices of the National Conference
On Marketing and Farm Credits in the
fourth annual session at the Hotel
Sherman December 4-9.
Embargo Net Favored
-The organized grain growers are
not in favor of an embargo on grain
exports" according to Herman w.
Danforth of Washington, ILL.,, presi'
dent OF the National Council. They
contend that tie law OF supply and
demand should be allowed to work
unhampered. They maintain that an
embargo on one product would be
class legislation Our farmers pre-
fer to overhaul present marketing
methods from country elevator to ex
port markets"
The Equity Cooperative Exchange
representing 10000 organized farm
ers Of the Northwest, will participate
in the conference. The Canadian
grain growers will send a delegation
and a speaker. The Farmers Grain
Dealers Associations of Illinois, Kan.
sas. Indiana, Minnesota, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Ohio, Nebraska
and Iowa are arranging to send dele,
gates. Two train leads of North.
western grain farmers will be headed
by Governor Lynn ]. Frazier.
Enter Into Politics
1T was the grain marketing prob
lens Of the North Dakota farmers that
finally brought about the revolt OF
the farmers, the formation of the
Citizens. Non-P Partisan League that in
dorsed farmer candidates for political
offices from top to bottom and split
old political alignments up in the
election just held" said Secretary
Charles w. Holman Of the National
Conference on Marketing and Farm
Credits. The farmers now are ready
to takeshold and run their state with
men VINO will see that laws will be
written on the statutes of the state
10 solve grain marketing problems,
and supreme judges wheewill see that
those laws are constitutional when
they are passed.
"The North Kakota fight is typical
of the fights that have been waged
by grain farmers In all sections the
mast 20 years or since the cooperative
elevator movement started. Experts
at the North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege estimate that the fans helped the
old line grain elevator companies to
steal $59.000.000 year from the grow
ers in that state alone. The fans
were supposed to blow the dirt out OF
the grain when the farmers brought
IL 10 the local elevators. But the fact
that many elevators shipped thous
ands of bushels more grain than they
raid the farmers for shows that the
fans did their work and then little
extra.
Must Make Own Grain
The call issued by the National
Council OF Farmers Cooperative Com
NAMES states that conditions among
the farmers of America have reached
a state of development where all grain
growers should become actively inter.
ested in marketing their own grain
cooperatively. The advantages which
have come to the farmers of the Mid
die West through cooperative grain
marketing should be shared by all
grain growers"
over 100000 American farmers
will be represented by delegations al
the coming conference. according to
renorts received by the officers. Live
stock producers and feeders will at
tenot to get the moral support of the
conference in their fight TO get Fed,
eral Trade Commission probe of the
livestock situation from start to. fin
ish while milk producers viii have
q national gathering to discuss reor
ganizing their methocs of marketing.