The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-25
INCREASE Of LIVE
STOCK DURING WAR
SUCH is PLAN OF sTocKmEN OF
NATION AS EXPRESSED At
CONVENTION.
Advocate Plan to Exterminate Prcda-
tory Wild Animals and Further In
vestiaation Into Value OF Graz
ing on Forest Lands.

Salt Lake City.-Increased produc-
ton of live stock in the United States,
suspension during the period of the
war of the 640-acre homestead act, CO.
operation of congress in regulating
railroad rates and terminal changes,
and the assumption of jurisdiction by
the secretary of agriculture Of the I'M
appropriated public domain, were
adopted as resolutions at the closing
session on January 10 of the twenty
| first annual convention of the Ameri-
can National Livestock association.
| Further investigation into the value
| of grazing on the forest lands, ap-
proval of the action of the federal
trade commission in holding public
hearings to extend facts connected
with the packing industry, appropria-
/ ton by congress of similar amounts
advanced by the state for the exter-
mination of predatory wild animals,
federal war tax on dogs and the urg-
ing of congress to provide the extern
sion of military instruction to high
schools of the country were other res
olutions passed by the convention.
Denver Next Meeting Place.
Denver was set as the meeting place
for the twenty-second annual conyen-
ton of the association in 1919, be-
cause of its central location with re-
gard to the cattle industry. Kansas
City ran a close second for the honor.
All of the officers holding positions
during the past year were reelected.
1t was universally conceded that it
would be very foolish and inadyisable
to ''swap horses in the middle of the
stream and the motion was carried
unanimously. The following are the
officers Of the convention, reelected
for 1918:
President, Isaac L. Pryor, San An
tonic, Tex. first vice-president, ]. B.
Kendrick, Sheridan, Wyo.; second
vice president, c. NJ O'Donel, Bell
Ranch, \. NJ. NJ K. Parsons, Salt
Lake City; Wallis Huidekoper, Wallis,
Mont Isaac Baer, Meeker, Colo; w.
J. Todd, Maple Hill, Kan, and E. L
Burke, Omaha, Neb.; treasurer, John
w. Springer, Denver, Colo; attorney
I Il
rotary, z. w. Tomlinson, Denver, Colo
Affirming its confidence in President
Woodrow Wilson as commander in
: chief of the armies and navy of the
United States, and maker of public
sentiment for the allied world. and
pledging the president the whole-heart.
ed support of the livestock men of the
-, hfl a Z
! deem necessary to win this war, the
! American National Livestock associa
a ton went on record as approving the
+ concentration of power by the govern
: ment in the hands Of efficient agencie;
for the purpose Of developing ant
: mobilizing the powers of the nation.
The convention unanimously adopted
e a resolution authorizing enlargement
5 of its market committee TO member
!" ship of seven and expanding its dutie!
:, to include that of maintaining this spe
e cial delegation at the national capita
u for the purposes set forth.
Patriotism was the predominant
d chord in the proceedings of the con
: vention and was the keynote of ever.
d" address delivered before the opening
It session. President L. 7. Pryor sound
e ed the tocsin of patriotic cooperation
# between the livestock men and tn
a government in his annual addres
d when he declared that the livestocl
4 men, as producers of that essentia
food product, meat, ask nothing of tn
9 government but fair profit upon thei
l product and that they be not expects
I. to produce it at a loss. The presiden
I, voiced the unanimous sentiment OF tn
h convention when he declared that tn
n livestock men are ready and willin
:, TO do all in their power to meet tn
L demand of the government for In
< creased production, and only ask tina
r the government in return give theT
q the consideration necessary to .encoul
u age them in accomplishing this impol
tant end.
\ In line with the attitude of the asst
n citation to employ every means possibl
" toward the conservation of meat SUI
1t ply, the executive committee of the Ms
t, tional organization, through PresideT
If Pryor, wired to Secretary David
d Houston of the department of agricu
ture, asking him TO prevent the r,
. opening of the Juarez packing plar
= at Juarez, Mexico.
One of the effects of the war on tn
3 livestock industry is the stimulation {
h knitting. For the first time in the hi;
l. tory of the conventions of the Amer
Dt can National Live Stock associatio
al women sat in the audience knittin
le sweaters and muffIers for soldiers a
1t their husbands debated momentum
ie matters pertaining to the present maj
ket conditions.