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AMERICAN FAkM BUNEA,j
HAS QUARTERLY MEETII,S
Secretary of Maryland Agriculture
Society Gets Report OF The Quar-
terly Meeting or Farm Bureau
Federation Held Ina Denver.

DR.. T. B. Symons, Secretary Of the
Maryland Agriculture Society which
is affiliated with the American Farm
Bureau Federation has received he
following account Of the quarterly
meeting of the executive committee
Of the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton held in Denver, August 18th
and 18th.
Two outstanding developments OF
the quarterly executive committee
meeting of the American Farm
Bureau were decisions to attempt TO
make sure that any revision of ma
tional taxation laws as is contem-
plated, does not shift a greater bur-
den from industrial interests to the
poor dear public" and the creation
of a traffic department. Both are
subject of vital interests to the thou
sands of farm bureau members of
the various States.
The decision of taxation followed
review of agitation, which has
been inspired by. some Industrial in
terests, for repeal of the present ex-
cess profits tax, which takes from
net earnings of corporations and
other businesses 40 per cent. of all
profits in excess of 20 per cent. net
profit upon investment. This tax
last year raised for the government
almost two billion dollars. Several
substitutes have been suggested but
all would, operate to shift this tax
burden in a more or less degree to
the individual consumers.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
;1 Or r.
den of the country should be borne
largely by the interests most able to
pay and should not be paid out OF
the living wage which is all that the
individual consumer has. 1t is al
so contended that the excess profits
tax has not Crippled" business to
any discernible extent and hat 1t
seems a conservative tax, when it is
considered that Great Britain levies
similar tax of 60 per cent. instead
of 40. Prof. T. S. Adams of Yale
University, and chairman OF the U.
Is. Treasury Department advisory
board of taxation during the war, out
lined the present problems of ad-
ministration of national taxes.
The decision to organize traffic
department Immediately was intiu-
enced largely by comprehensive re-
port on difficulties in the movement
of farm products to market by Gilt
ford Thorne, of Chicago, national
authority on transportation matters.
It is intended that this department
keep closely informed as to. car re
4ouirements of various agricultural
regions, Fate situat lions and kindred
matters andswork with the different
State farm SSureaus in Improvement
of transportation conditions that the
last few years have cost the farms OF
the country millions of dollars.
It was decided to hold the next
meeting of the organization in In
dianapolis, December 9Th, 7th and
Sth and that in conjunction with it
there be a national farm women's
meeting to consider home economic
and kindred problems.
1t was announced that Prof. G. F.
Warren of Cornell University, N. Y;
H. A. Wallce Of Iowa, and Senator
Capper of Kansas have accepted
places on the economics committee OF
the American Farm Bureau. There
will be three more members named.
From Denver the committee NOV
ed to Salt Lake City to consider wes-
tern wool pooling, sugar beet rails
ing and organization problems. From
there a group of middle western
States representatives went to Cali
fornia to study marketing methods
of the Pacific Coast fruit growers
with the view to possibly applying
some OF the principles to middle wes-
tern. cooperative marketing Of farm
products.