Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-08

-pecial 10 Times Republican.
Dcs Mones, Jan 81 Hundreds OF
DELEGATES to the Iowa Farm. Bureau
Federation are attendns the meeting
OF tile fedora tpn which opened today
in the auditorium and VIII continue
until Friday evening. The stale Or
ganization now has over 100000 mem.
oSrs. Every county in the state is rep
resented at the annual meeting.
The big drive for members put on
'thruout the stat9in the late fall Is
reing followed up now by township
where the purposes of the
bureau ore being explained ana mem
hcrs are being told how they can them
vantage.
1t is explained that four distinct
lines of endelyor now make up the
program of the state tederation:
q. Organization.
.. Marketing and transportation.
3. Education.
/. Legislation.
2 With the work of organization now
Welt perfected the marketing OF crops
and live stock will receive the atten-
ton of the farm bureau managers dur.
ing the coming weeks. Just now ii is
"a difficult matter to secure cars for
the shipment OF grain and live stock
TO market.
The Iowa orga nization of farm bu-
rcaus II sticking close 10 the principles
adopted 10y the American Farm l5u
reau Federation at their meeting in
rchicago last November.~r This outlined
pretty largely the, platform on which
the bureau workers Stand. j. sR.
Howard president OF the Iowa fedora
ton. is also president of the American
federation.
Broad Platform.
In its platform the American fed
GRAFTON emphasized economic pGin-
ciples as follows:
with few exceptions in the past
forty years the farmers sole profit
has come from unr.stor@d fertility
taken from the soil and from long
hours Of work and unpaid labor Of
women and children. We insist that
these are legitimate factors in the cost
of food production and must be 50
recognized Ay, commercial interests
and by the general public
I'VE assert that the farmer is en-
titled to a just profit ON the cost of
production on all products with these
items properly accounted for. with due
consideration of the hazardous risks
he encounters and with a wage al
lowancs for his own labor and ability
commensurate to that received in
other occupations.
I'VE recognize that land ownership
is stewardship: that ownership does
not give the right OF soil depletion and
we deplore the sysem of tenantry that
encourages rapid reduction Of soil fer
tility.
we unquslfiedly assert our loyalty
to the principles Of the freedom OF the
people under our American inStitu-
tons. And while recognizing the
right Of any and every class Of our
people to associate themselves for ma
terial benefit, we just as strongly as
sert the right Of every American clti-
zen to the~free and unhampered priv
ilege OF disposing of his labor or pro-
ducts thereof as he may Individually
desire.
We desire to point out that large
factor in the high cost of living is the
curta illnent thru shorter, hours. lessen
ed efficiency Of labor and strikes.
Recognizing the economic law that
fmpels the consolidation of business
we proclaim that relief from the ex-
tortion of monopoly of manufacture
and commerce is 10 he found in CO.
operation. in enforced publicity of bus
mess records and II just gra duated In
come tax rather than thru the inter-
ference with the economic law upon
which great industries are founded"
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