The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-27
GATHERING OF STOCKHOLD-
ERS DETERMINE TO FIGHT
PROPOSED CHANGE
Another Meeting Held
Tomorrow Night
People of Different Parts of Dis
trict Expected-Farm Bureau
Members Lead the Campaign
Against Increased Expense.

The campaign against the fixing of
the salaries of three directors for the
canal company at $4,000 a year each,
as proposed by some, and against the
holding of the board in continuous
session is now taking shape, as a re-
suit of two meetings held Saturday
and Monday nights, respectively, by
the Efficiency Party, among the
stockholders, which elected J. A
Crom as chairman last week.
Another meeting will be held to-
morrow night at which it is hoped to
have a large representation from all
parts of the county Of those who be-
lieve that it is inexpedient to pay so
much money out for directors. At
that time, too it is hoped by the mem
bers to have the men who meet agree
among themselves on representative
men from their respective districts
for the dictatorship. Delegations
from Kimberly and Bull were at the
meetings, but nobody has yet at
tended from the west end
The Efficiency Men" urge stock
holders to vote their own stock and
} to come to the meeting with open
minds to do their own thinking and
voting.
The line of argument pursued by
the opponents of the high salaried di-
; rectors is that it is a waste of money.
2 They say that if the city manager
plan is to be copied, and they declare
that they favor something of the kind,
the idea would be to have the board
meet when necessary, as at present,
u and place the management in the
y hands of the expert hired for the pur-
/ So. l. ,.fl -.
concerned, it is argued that if the
expert is worth his salary, he will
:, know what to do without high sal
q aried board of nOn-experts in session
- all the time to interfere with his
work or to be useless appendages. On
~ the other hand they say if the three
: directors are worth $4,000 year each,
TO- the idea of hiring a high priced man
az ager in addition is a waste of money,
y, for they will know how to direct the
~ activities of the subordinates, who
~ are supposed to have the technical
- skill though not the managerial abil-
no ity, to do what they are told. In
other words, the great complaint as
,o voiced at the meetings is that the
farm bureau plan is a case of TOO
h., Much Manager" which they claim
will make for inefficiency and for di-
vided council, instead of the reverse.
20 They also dispute the assertion that
the other plan is really a farm bur
,st eau proposition but say that it is the
as result of sHllful manipulation on the
~ part of the farm bureau president, DR..
- John f. White. They say that the
,te majority in their meetings are bureau
- members. Chairman Crom says that
10 he was with DR.. White while the lat
ter was organizing the farmers and
100 that he thought that the plan was tc
- get them together and let the repre-
iiri sentatives of the different local bur
- eaus and the members discuss things
H. pro and con, and do what they wish
ed. He says that he found when h,
=. ventured to suggest that some of th'
80 things advocated by DIR. White were
=, not feasible, he found that he wa.
II virtually accused of LES Majestic,
a. and was speedily eliminated. He say,
ex that frequently on the statement o
"a, the bureau president, only a few wer
~ ~ at the meetings at which organiza
Ia tions were effected. Those friendl.
az to the president were put in, it i
a. alleged, and then the statement wa
-. -. given out that this or that neighbor
- hood was in favor of certain things
-, In other words, he charges in sub
,;r,i stance that so far from voicing tn
~ sentiments of the people, the meetin
voiced only that of the county presi
.or dent. Frank McClain questione
~ whether all those now nominally elect
- ed district chairmen were actual
- elected. Il was made chairman b
"a appointment and ousted by disaI
pointment," he said. He says that h
o. was appointed by the county chail
=. man and when he ventured to sue
~ gest that the plans of the latter weI
20 not in all cases feasible. the count
president said in apparent astonisf
ment: "Why l thought you would
with U.s." the "US" meaning tn
80. president He says he never did lear
,,.o how he came to lose his Chairman
- ship, but he was simply dropped.
5 The committeeman who are cal
@ vassing are asking that all come
o,, the meeting in person and cast the
own votes. They say that the crusat
was started here by the farm bures
~ to wipe out the holding of larl
a number of proxies by any single pc
-. son, but that since "the shoe is
eS the other foot" this feature of Z
campaign has been lost sight of. Tn
declare that they want people to cor
- | to the canal meeting with open min
- and cancel proxies where given a
then vote as their convictions T.
them to. after full discussion.