Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-27
FEDERAL BOARD
 WILL CONSERVE
 FARM INTERESTS
Formation National Board to Co., ordinate Work of
 Farmers and Nation.

WaSlllnRtOn, July Ao.--I oi iiio .ioii of the federal board of farm organiZa- tions makes the culmiqation of sev- eral days meetings here of agricll- tural leaders from twenty-four states
 In this board are represented assocl- ations having a total membership or
 more than million and half farm CTS. for whom for the first time comes true lOng-held dreams or a
 national federation of farm bodies. Active in organizing this board are the Farmer Education and Co-opera- tive Union Of America, Farmers Ma tional congress, Pennsylvania Rural Progress association, National Dairy union, National Agricultural Organ1- Zation society, National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits, and the l National Council of Farmers Co., operative associations. Representa- lives of several other large farm organizations were present at the
 meeting and will report to their re- spective bodies on the work of the | board
 Objects of the federal board, which | came into existence as result of the present national emergency, are to coordinate the work of the farmer 1 with that of the nation and to give the farmer greater influence and rec | ognition in national affairs.
 The board will keep constantly in touch with national legislative mat | ters, passing on to the farmers what they wish to know concerning con-
 gross and keeping the legislators in- | formed of the wishes of the people on
 the farms. Permanent headquarters will be maintained in Washington 1 with a general secretary in charge.
 Following the organization of the
 board the executive committee elect
 ed Charles w. Holman, of Madison,
 Wis, to this position. MT. Holman
 has already made arrangements for
 the immediate opening of national headquarters in Washington,
 Executive Committee. Members of the executive commit
 tee are Charles S. Barrett of Union
 City. Ga, president of the Farmers
 Educational and Cooperative Union
 of America; Clifford Pinchot, of Mil
 ford. Pa, president of the Pennsyl-
 vania Rural Progress association: w.
 T. Greasy of Catawissa. Pa ..secre-
 tary of the National Dairy union;
 Charles McCarthy of Madison. Wis,
 director of the National Agricultural | Organization society; and J. w. Short
 hill, of York, Neb., secretary of the
 National Council of Farmers Co.,
 operative association. Officers are to consist of general l board composed of one member from
 each of the uniting organizations
 and an executive committee of five members chosen by the general board, l no two of whom are chosen from the same organization. Both the general board. and the executive committee select their own chairmen. J. H.
 Kimball of Port Deposit, Maryland | was elected chairman of the general board and R. F. Bower, of Campbell 1 Virginia, secretary.
 l Upon three-fourths vote of the general board any organization of actual farmers may affiliate with the | federal board. Each of the separate organizations contributes to the sup
 port of the board.
 The first regular meeting of the organization will occur in Washing ton, in January, 1918. at which time permanent organization will take nlaro