The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-29
Wind up TODAY
Grain Men Complete Their Pro-
gram This Afternoon.
D. f. Piazzek Speaker at the
Morning Session.
THIS MORNINGS PROGRAM.


THIS MORNINGS PROGRAM.
Address-Hon. ID. r. Piaxzek. vice presi-
dent U. S. Grain Corporation. Kansas City.
Mo.
Address-"Now and Later in the Grain
Trade" Hon. e. C. Eikenberry. president
Grain Dealers National association. Cam
Address-.Marketing Grain in the North
west" A. e. Anderson. president Tri-State
Country Grain shipping association Cot
tonwood Falls, Mimi.
General discussion.
Adjournment.
THIS AFTERNOONS PROGRAM.
The following questions will be dis
cussed:
1. Limitation of Storage Period.
2. Present Grain Corporation Contracts.
3. Country Buying Margin.
q Should 1t be fixede
Suggest basis.
4. Direction of Shipments.
5. Local Mill Buying Competition.
Over pricing.
Over grading.
8. Present Food Administration Reports
Required.
Secretary's financial report.
Report of auditing committee.
Report of arbitration committee.
Report of resolutions committee.
New business.
Election of officers.
Adjournment.
An enthusiastic audience of more
than 400 Kansas grain dealers greeted
the speakers at the closing sessions of
the twenty first annual convention of
the Kansas States Grain Dealers as
sociation at Memorial hall
President Mcclure said this morn
ing that the convention just closing
has been one of the best which he
has ever attended. He says that the
grain men have taken an unusual in
terest in the speeches on the program
and have sifted every statement made
by the speakers in their conferences.
Mcclure said that it was expected that
the result of the convention would di-
rectly benefit the dealers and the peo-
pie with whom they come in contact.
Piazzek Spoke Today.
D. F. Piazzek, vice-president of the
United States Grain corporation and
zone manager for the food administra-
ton in Kansas City. was the principal
speaker at the meeting this morning.
as the pivotal and crucial states in
the nations wheat supply"
PiaZzek told low the food admins
tration had been enabled to carry out
the plans of Herbert Hoover in spite
of lack of proper power by congress
sional action.
I'VE organized the United States
Grain corporation" explained Plazzek
land thru a series Of agreements with
the mills prevented the throat-cuttine
tactics that would have wiped OUT
numberless small mills in all parts OF
the country, -. ----ss T.
Piazzek said hat the plan for han
ding the 1918 wheat crop thru the
grain corporation would be formulated
and announced within the next twenty
days.
Other speakers on the program this
morning were E. c. Eikenberry, OF
Camden, Ohio, president of the Grain
Dealers National association; A. E
Anderson, of Cottonwood Falls, MINI.
and c. c. Isely. of Cimarron. Kan.
Civic Duties Of Grain Men.
Isely was to have been on the pro-
gram at the meeting Tuesday morning
but was unable to reach the city ir
time. He spoke Of the civic duties
of the grain men and told the mem
bers of the various ways in which they
are responsible to their communities
for beneficial influence in the matter
of pure food, food preparation, and
especially at this time food conserya.
ton.
Eikenberry was on the program
with relati>n of the present statu.
of the wheat and general grain in
dustry. and a tentative outline of fu-
ture plans to be followed in tie trade
Anderson spoke of the marketing OF
wheat in the Northwest, explaining
the transportation difficulties and the
IdCluueS employed IN putting the
, wheat of the northwest on the marke
in spite of the short seasons and the
long winters.
The visiting ladies were given ar
automobile ride over the city thi.
morning at 10 O'Clock. This afternoon
a special section at the Orpheum wa.
reserved for the ladies.
Wild Times in 1914
E. Bossmeyer, jr., of Superior, Neb.
was the principal speaker at the Tues
day afternoon session of the Kansa.
Grain Dealers association. Bossmeyel
related the history of the wild ant
! stirring times in the wheat pits wheI
| the news came that the war was on il
Europe in 1914. Bossmeyer said tha
the foundation for the price fixing act
(, dated back to this time of soarin,
prices, tho the act itself was neithe
passed nor put in force until 1917
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