The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-16
HEADS
MERCANTILE BODY
SUCCESSFUL FARMER TELLS
MERCHANTS HOW TO HELP
FARMER
Says Farmers Should BE Educated
Along Business Lines; Advises Co
Operative Marketing and Standard
ization of Products; Good of the
Farm Bureaus.

Suggestions of ways for placing
the farmers of Montana on a bust
ness basis, by business methods,
were advanced by S. M. Ward, of
Hamilton, when he spoe at a meet
ing of the directors of the Montana
Development association in Helena
recently. Ward is a successful farm
er, owner of 1000 acres of improved
land in the vicinity of Hamilton, and
knowing of the directors keen in
terest in cooperative marketing and
kindred subjects, he accepted an in
vitation to outline his plans.
Farmers Should Finance
All cooperative Marketing plans
should be financed by the farmers
themselves, Ward said, putting their
resources back of elevators to be
built or leased and the building of
potato or apple storage warehouses,
for cooperative marketing. Each
and every farmer in the several Co
operative districts should be inter-
ested in the propositions by some ex-
tent of the bonded indebtedness.
Farmers should be educated along
business methods, Ward declared.
Not all the farmers or people gener-
ally, of this state, would be benefited
by a state owned elevator, for in
stance; and the taxing of all the peo-
pie for the benefit of a single class is
wrong, ne said, economically and
from every other standpoint.
Cure for Radicalism
When the farmer is personally
interested in business ventures of a
cooperative kind, he viii not be will
ing to listen or be influenced by
radical, INSCRIPTIONS agitators for
the simple reason that the fact will
stand out to him, from his broadened
experience and point of view, that he
has an investment in a going concern
which would be menaced by any
power gained by radicals, said Ward.
If the farmers heretofore had
given the attention to the standard
of their products and to listen
to intelligent business methods in
to make a success out of small CO.
operative stores, Ward declared,
hey would be ''getting somewhere"
fTODltn1S solve themselves
He advised in favor of these
plans for advancement of the farm
ers being perfected and accomplish
I'd through the farm bureaus. Edu-
;ation along these lines is the only
for socialistic and other propa-
ganda as used by the professional
agitators. The farmers problems
will solve themselves when the farm
ers get to work in earnest ON a bust
basis, the speaker affirmed.
The association directors tentative
Y decided to attend in a body Mon
ana farm bureaus at Bozeman early
1921, and TO confer with the far
ners along the lines suggested by
dr. Ward.
Election of Officers
At the annual meeting of the
directors, W. A. Selvidge of Billings
vas reelected president of the asso-
and other officers as follows:
Vice presidents-W. G. LANCE of
Iavre; C. H. Mcleod. Missoula; w.
}. Symmes, Lewistown; Aubrey M.
Hotter, Helena, and e. H. Neal of
c. w. Fowler of Billings was re-
lected secretary, and l.. C. Babcock,
treasurer.
The new directors on the board are
r. Fuller, Anaconda, and w. D.
ymmes, Lewistown.
Directors-at-Large
Directors-at-large were elected as
ollows:,
w. D. Johnson, Lewistown; j. E.
Voodard, Butte and l.. C. Babcock,
Filings, representing the bankers;
!. G. Rubrecht, Roman, representing !
lmbermen Attorney G.. E. Hurd, of I
-reat Falls, representing the profess
men; w. w. Smith, Harlowton, {
Y. M. Twohy, Butt, and E. H. Neal, '
representing the millers. !
The farm interests, through their J
ureaus, and the travelling organiza- a
ons, have been invited to name their a
representatives. for places on the
oard. I