The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-01
GREAT FARMERS
FEDERATION PLAN
National Board of Farmers
Organizations Want Whole
Country Included
FARMERS TEMPLE
AT WASHINGTON
Started Fund of Northwestern
Women Bolt on Paris Fashions-Pro-
test Against Barnes's Control of
Wheat Sent to President.

test Against Barnes's Control of /
Wheat Sent to President.
SPOKANE, Wash, July Under
the auspices of the National Board of /
Farm Organizations, the first fedora |
ted farmers convention held in the i
northwest has just closed a three day |
session at Spokane. The principal top |
pies for discussion were the carly fed |
Grafton of al farmers organizations in
a temple of agriculture at Washington,
District of Columbia This federation
was unanimously approved, and ar
rangements for delegate convention
at Spokane late in October for effecting
and perfecting such an organization
were completed. Twenty thousand dol
lars was subscribed toward the temple
fund.
The convention went on record in ia
vor of the reduction of freight rates
and the adoption OF the long -and-short
haul system, also the discontinuance of
the notwithstanding plan, because of the
resultant disarrangemcnt Of the hours
of labor and the shortening Of the hours
of rest, .'proving in a practical way a
great disadvantage to man and beast.
An international bureau of agriculture
was favored as a part of the plan Of
the league of nations
Resolutions were adopted against dis
eliminating railroad rates against in
land points The farmers, of whom
upward Of 1000 were present, were adj
viscd bv all speakers that if the pros
posed federation were to be made cffec
/ tive, jealousy and selfskness must be
! eliminated.
Miss Mary Sutherland. in charge of
the domestic science department of
/ Washington state college, attended the
convention and conducted classes in dc
signing wearing apparel for women.
many Of whom were III regular attend
ance. 1t was voted that they would no
longer be governed i'll this important
matter by sensational dress artists Of
Paris, but would hereafter design their
own dresses, largely with a view to the
adoption Of sensible skirt patterns and
the consequent reduction cost of foot
wear.
. lN UNANIMOUS NpIt II was tttIttCtl
to cable President Wilson the following
protest:
4" Two thousand wheat farmers OF
Oregon, Washington. and Idaho. in mass
, convention, respectfully but earnestly
protest maladministrat.on of the wheat
control act by Wheat Administrator
Barnes. His agreement with millers
! grain buyers, and bakers to buy wheat
! only at government guaranteed mini
, mum throughout the country is not on
" in violation of your purpose in max
ing the guarantee but of the supple
mental act of the congress in relation
, thereto. We further respectfully repre-
! sent that the marketing Of the Ameri
! can wheat surplus for less than the full
est fair price that might be obtained
on an open American market free 10 the
. world S competitive bidding viii violate
: sound national economies and result IL
unfair losses to American wheat farm
ers in hundreds of millions of dollars
| 1t is therefore prayed that you instruc
+, the wheat administrator to at once de
! sist from any and all control Of TIL
. American wheat market that IN any
: wise tends to prevent free play Of tn
world 5 law of supply and deman,
: above the guaranteed minimums.