The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-03-28
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS TO
MEET AT CULBERTSON

Culbertson Searchlight: Primarily
the object OF this banquet is TO unite
the town and adjacent country INTO
one strong community force, Tor IL
is a fact that the farmers VINO traoe
in Culbertson are in many ways AS
much a part of our town as the peo-
pie who live within it's corporation
limits.
There has been in the past too
much of the feeling by both farmers
and townspeople that there is dlf-
ference in their interests. There is
difference in their occupations, out
there ought to be none IN their IN
terests. Both ought to be working
for the good of that community
which is the central port OF supply
for them. Both should look upon
the town as "our" town. The farm
ers need Culbertson and Culbertson
needs the farmers. Our town, per-
haps, could not exist without the
farmers, and the farmers would ind
existence more expensive and mucn
more unsatisfactory without oui
town giving them as it does nearby
headquarters for buying, for ship
ments, for banking, for church and
for higher and better schools than
the small country districts afford
Since the interests of the farmers
and the townspeople are mutual
there should be a closer merging OF
the two and more Of the "we" IN re-
lating to local affairs and less Of the
"you" or "they" by both elements.
| There can be no more profitable
work done by the local mercantile
interests than that which has for Its
object the increasing of the farmers
incomes and as this town depends
upon it's agricultural surroundings II
is high time that the farmers ant
merchants organize into mutua
working organization for the com
mon good and welfare. -
With this object in view the Com
lnercial Club is giving banquet ex
tending invitations to all the farm
ers in the adjacent country and out
lying districts, with the hope thai
the next annual banquet to be givey
will be a mutual affair, not an affair
only of the merchants Commercial
Club.
One great fault with all communi
tics like our own is that the bust
ness men have failed to recognize
that the farmers are part OF the
recognize the town as "his" own
You seldom find good business mer
who fail to recognize their own pro
perty but this is one colossal excep
ton.
There are many factors that shoult
tend to unity the two elements il
our population. We are all inter
ested in good roads, crops, stores
i markets, telephone service and mai
service, in fact our interests do no
diverge in regard to any OF thes
things and it is difficult to conceiv
of divergency.
| It has not been the fault of eth
er the merchant or farmer that the.
have not worked together along thes
lines, but custom" and precedent
have been stumbling blocks for man,
forward step.
| At the coming banquet custom
and precedent" will be laid in it
final resting place. No sad requiem
will be sung over the corpse but
firm and lasting friendship will b
cemented between the two element
of our population which in fey
short years will reap lasting an
beneficial results. Every farmer, ey
I cry merchant, every man making nj
home in this community should fee
that his presence is needed and at
i tend.
/ J. E. JAMES,
/ III. E. WILCOX,