The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-10
COUNTY ORGANIZES
Unit Directors Met at Milaca Satur-
day and Organized County
Farm Bureau Association.
Articles of Incorporation Approved,
Officers Chosen, Normandin
Elected President.

SATURDAY d4IcIAOOu W AS"A 6oAAA~ oAA~
county association. s. B. Cleland,
assistant county agent leader, repre-.
scented the state agricultural depart
ment and assisted il. the work of re-
organization. Besides the Is direc-
tors there wer, % other members Of
the farm bureau present. Leroy Up
tagrafft presided and ed. Doughty
acted as secretary.
Mr.. Cleland read the articles of in
corporation of the county association,
and when discussion arose in regard
to the wording of any article the ques-
ton was submitted to the vote of the
directors present. The articles Of il
corporation approved at the meeting
Saturday will be printed in next weeks
issue.
The first discussion arose in regard
to article w concerning those persons
eligible to membership in the Farm
Bureau association. This article in the
former organization read: "Any
farmer or property owner in Mile
Laos county, Minnesota, or in adj
jacent territory in the neighboring
counties in Minnesota, interested in
the work of this organization and in
sympathy with it's purposes may be-
come a member upon payment of an
nual dues :" J. w. Reising was
the first member to object to the arti-
Gle in this form. His objections were
sustained by C. L. Freer of South
Haroor and Louis Normandin of
Greenbush. All the members present
seemed to be- of the opinion that only
real dirt farmers should be eligible
for membership in the association.
The point was taken that this farm
bureau is a farmers organization and
as such should be composed Of real
farmers only. By unanimous vote
this article was changed to read:
"Any bona fide farmer in Mile Laos
county. :" This action of the dele
gates cannot in any way be inter-
pretcd as an expression of unfriendly
feeling towards any business or pro-
fessional men. The delegates, in limit
ing their membership to actual farm
ers, were only following the practice
of other similar professional or bust
ness organizations. The men of GER
tain occupation have interests in COM
mon and in recognition of this fact
we have scores of associations in this
state, each one of which is composed
only of the members of certain occu-
patton or profession, such as the vari-
Gus associations Of bankers, lawyers,
doctors, editors, dealers in hardware,
ct cetera. The farmers are perfectly
capable of managing their own asso-
citation and in limiting the member
ship only to men engaged in that occu-
patton they took long step in pro-
noting harmony in their organization.
Article V states that no township or
community unit with less than ten
members shall be entitled to direc-
tor. Borgholm had only seven men,
bers, but j. H. Nelson, the representa-
tive from that township, was granted
the privileges of director in the meet
ing, it being understood that more
members would be secured in Borg
holm.
The three bodies that will transact
the business of the county associa-
ton are the board OF directors, execu-
tive committee and auditing commit
tee. There are now thirteen members
on the board of directors, each Of
whom is township or community d.
rector. The board of directors is to
act on all the most important business
of the association, each director being
entitled to one vote except in de-
cision upon some important question,
when each director may vote in terms
of the exact number of farm bureau
directors must meet at least once a
year and as many other times as shall
be necessary to act on the important
business of the association.
The executive committee is small
er body of seven members-president,
vice president, secretary-treasurer,
county director to state federation and
three other directors. This committee
will transact the business of the asso-
citation, of course always keeping in
close touch with the directors of the
thirteen units so that the action of
the committee may be an expression
of the will Of the majority of the men,
bers of the county association. The
duties Of the executive committee will
involve the raising Of funds for the