The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-01
Farm Bureau Notes.

Since the recent reorganization OF
the farm bureau over the state and
nation and the increased member
ship in the same, there has come a
cry from many farmers for a lesser
production and a consequently in
dutiOn.
This is the kind of radicalism
that has put a brand of disloyalty,
dishonesty and anarchy into many
an organization that might have
filled long felt want and an honor
able mission. What we want now is
along the line to get that produced
to the consumer without hitch.
Tons upon tons of the farmers pro:
ducts have decayed and deteriOrated ,
upon the farms for the lack of trans
portation. They remained there just
because. there was a lack of cars
lack of transportation that railroad
shipping that longshoremen won't i
handle; for lack of coal miners !
won't dig. So all the way along
from the American farm that has
the stuff, to consumer in foreign |
lands there is stagRation and death, I!
farmer; indeed it does. Pork has .
fallen, beef has fallen, and other !,
farm products also, cutting off the
farmers profit, not because retail .
prices are down, not because of
or too great sup
ply, but because industrial business
Non-production then along the line
anywhere sends the message right .
back to the farm where prices fell
first of all and rise last. OF all. :
Then the thing we wish to fight
hardest of all is non-production, for
has lain in the fact that they We're
producers and that the greater the
production of the people. of coun-
try the greater the civilization. The
key then that will unlock the whole
situation is labor employed along
the whole line.
The great cry while the recent
and it is a notable fact, that while
the war was actually being fought,
and our man power at its lowest, !
there was greater production than
at present with all reserves released.
Why? Just simply then men did
not cry for shorter hours and more
pay but all were employed There
quickly overcome radicalism and
anarchy as for all labor to be en-
)loyed.
Let us enforce the age old doc
.rine of who does not work shall
1ot eat, and we will have the ques-
ion answered.
steel In men ~ 60 per cent of them
gnorant aliens, who are proposing
Q form new political party. These
nen are proposing to take over all
Industries and all profits without
any of the responsibility
md are now asking farmers to join
lands with them to, get control Of!
he government to get control of the
Industries. Will the farmer listen
o such a plan? The Lord forbid;
IRE we who work from twelve to
Eighteen hours a day willing to
brow ourselves and our farms into
he hands Of these foreigners born q
lot citizens; Nearly all of them 4
nxious to get money without work. :
scarcely any of them own taxable '
certainly no farms. =
say no, these are not of our I
'arty. Farmers are responsible
they own far farms s,a and ,,i invest
redit, and a respectable standing 9
n society to maintain. We cannot 3
ford to fritter away these Amer !
can securities for all the principles g
4 bolshevik leaders. I
But men there is one thing we
an learn from these deluded aliens, '
he power Of organization. 1000 O0 t
rganized aliens can make more
rouble in the United States than i
II our millions. of farmers. Think 6
{ over and they are imperiling t
ur markets and our incomes this g
cry hour. That too is something to b
hink about. n
American farmers; Shall we or a
anize to protect our farming inter-
SITS and American institutions? v
Join the farm bureau the greatest Fl
nd strongest farmers organization tt
hat ever was made available to you n
efore. Ask the county agent or II
ONE in the county agents office d
nd fill out the membership card. N
Walter Osborn, "
County Agent. n
bases Wild Geese With Ailplane. Il
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