Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-01-05

Address ................ Hon. T. j. WaIsn
Senator from Montana.
TUESDAY, JANUARY q.
Presiding ....... W. NJ. Burlingame
President, Montana Union A. S. of E.
State Leader Of Marketing SPECIALISTS
weakness of the Present State Hail
Insurance Law" "........ e. K. Bowman
Member State Board Hail Insurance
Commissioners.
"Montana's Greatest Asset" ..........
State Leader Bows apd pl0f Girls, III Z ciabs Mbeey
Address .....-........... DR.. E. F. Ladd
President Agricultural College Of North
Dakota.
Address Observation-Disclosures. J. N. Tittemore
National President-elect, American
Society of Equity.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. JANUARY %
Presiding ................ M. L. Thurman
President, Montana Farmers Union. !.
Address ................. John Hammond
Livestock Department, Equity Co-opera-
tive Exchange, st. Paul.
"Crayon Talks With Pep ...........
Hon. j. NJ. baeT
Congressman from North Dakota
President Of the Equity cooperative Ex-
change, st. Paul.
"A House Divided and Some Of the Con-
sequences" ................ J. T. Carroll
Clerk, Supreme Court of Montana
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2s.
Morning.
'"The Farmer and Reconstruction -.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. e. A. Tyler
Manager, Equity Mutual Insurance Co.
Round Table Discussion.
Afternoon.
Presiding ................ Chas. a. Tucker
State Secretary, Montana Union,
A. S. of Z.
Adarens Rnpresentatiye r. s DEPARTMENT Of
Agriculture.
Address ......... Mrs. C. C. Van Orsdall
Editress of Pacific Echo, Portland, Ore.
(Mrs Orsdall is an expert on mutual,
cooperative and fraternal insurance. Her
talk will pertain to the activities of the
Insurance Federation in nine Western
States1.
Reconstruction and the Farmer -.
............-........ Clifford Pinchot
Representing the National Board of Farm
Organizations.
Report of the Committee on the Anal
gamation of Farm Organizations.
). L. tarroH
Clerk, Supreme Court Of Montana
Evening.
Presiding Observation-Disclosures. James Gr1f1ln
President State Grange.
Secretary, National Board Of Farm Or
ganizations, Washington, D. G.
Railroad and Public Utility Rates in
Their Relation as a Tax on the Pro-
ducer and Consumer" ....... ]. II. Hall
State Railroad Commissioner of Montana
Address ............... Prof. c. Z. Elliott
Chancellor, Universities of Montana.
Address ........... Prof. Alfred Atkinson
Federal Food Administrator for Montana
Taxation and It's Relation to the
Farmer; Some Things the Farmer
Must Do During the Period Of Re-
Senator-elect from Fergus County.
FRIDAY. JANUARY "a.
Morning.
PreSlding ..........-..... IhdS. A. Tucker
State Secretary. Montana Union A. S.
of E.
Round Table Discussion.
Legislation and the Farmer" ........
Afternoon.
Proportions" ...,.... Prof. f. s. Cooley
Director COOPERATIVE Extension Work
Agricultural College.
Special Program.
To be presented by Extension Workers
from the Montana Agricultural College
Evening.
Presiding .-..........,,.. J.. 3. Critics
Representative-elect Silver Bow County
Editor, Butte Daily Bulletin.
Address ..-.-...... Walter Thomas Mills
Non-partisan League Lecturer OF Note
Friday evening will be known as Non
partisan League and Organized Labor
evening.
There will be other speakers Of promin-
ence on the program.
Read the program again. Impress the
dates firmly in your mind. Begin to plan
now to come. Help us make this the
biggest and best ever held.
Taxation Debate
One of the numbers the committee is
cndeavoring to bring about is debate
on taxation between members of the
state tax commission and representatives
Of the agricultural interests. Montana
farmers believe they are being unfairly
assessed~and will present suggestion
to the legislature at Helena this coming
session to have the legislative bodies
grant them some relief. Many of the
farmers do not understand methods of
taxation and for this reason and largely
to seek an answer to their query, why |
is the farmer taxed so heavily COM
cared to other interests: r. those in |