The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-01-07
THE NATIONAL
FARM BUREAU
Montana Man Reports His Find.
ings While Attending the Big
indianapolis Session.
OPTIMISM PREVAILS EAST
/. ID. O'DOnnel of Billings States that
Conditions in Eastern States APP
pear at their Worst Ebb. Fin
anciers Deem that Time of
REIMBURSEMENT Will Last
Only Till Spring.

Billings, Jan. Al. D. O'Donnel re.
turned from a tour of the east a few
days ago. Mr.. O'Donnell left here
nearly a month ago to attend the con-
vention of the National Federation Of
Farm bureaus at Indianapolis.
That assembly, he said, showed the
farmers of As states acting %cohesively
on big national questions in a big ma
tional way. At. its close he conferred
with s%tockmen, bankers, cattle and
horse breeders and brokers at Chicago
and other cities. From there he went
to New York and inspected the incom.
ing tide Of immigration to ascertain
whether turning part of it this way
would do Montana any good.
In New York, Mr.. O'Donnell said he
remained a week, where he found
many men of affairs, particularly those
with interests in railroads and the in
dustrial institutions whose stocks
have been considerably hampered
viewing the world through smoked
glasses. At Detroit he said the Com
mercial clubs statistics showed the de-
parture of 1880 workingmen and
their families during the previous
week. But everywhere, he declared,
he encountered a spirit of optimism,
a conviction that the stress of result
ing from the current period of read
justment would barely outlast the
winter.
"Rents as well as food and other
nrn11,ofc bavn lrnnnn1 low ~ r,,,o -
said Mr.. O'Donnell. "Sixteen dollar
new York at eight dollars.
While at the stock show in Chicago,
Mr.. O'Donnel conferred with commits
sion men and others relative to a plan
he has for stimulating the stock breed
ing industry of Montana and North
west. This is regarded as one of
the most important things accomplish
ed during his trip, but he said
he was not prepared to divulge
any of the details of the plan through
which he admitted it was hoped to
re-establish livestock upon its former
plane of Importance.
"The convention of the National
Federation of Farm bureaus was the
biggest and most important meeting
ever put on by the farmers of this
country" said Mr.. O'Donnell, in the
cours of a brief outline of his trip.
The delegates at Indianapolis repre-
scented 1,O40, 900 farmers in as states.
"This meeting showed the farmers
of the country for the first time reach
ing out and handling great national
problems in a great big way. For the
first time the farmer showed that he
had abandoned the old attitude that
nobody but a dirt farmer could ham
die the problems of the farm in an
acceptable manner The national feder-
alton is nov on the verge of a move
ment to increase it's membership to
5000, 000. When that is accomplished,
it will have plenty of funds, and at
the Indianapolis assembly it was de-
cided that the greatest industry of the
country should be represented at
Washington by the best talent that
could be procured regardless of cost.
Former President Taft, Franklin
X. Lane, former secretary Of the in
terror, and other outstanding figures
were discussed as among the POSSIBLE
tiles for appointment as farm repre-
sentatives at the national capital dur
ing the current and succeeding session
of congress before which legislation of
vital interest and import to the agri-
cultural interests of the country un-
%doubtedly will come"
In addition to the permanent repre-
sentation at Washington. Mr.. O'Don-
nell said the farmers shortly would
have a bureau in New York to keep
watch on the markets of the world,
for the express purpose of disposing
to the best advantage Americas sur
plus of wheat, cotton and other staples.
In this connection the delegates at In
dianapolis took keen interest in the
plants for the organization, just an
nounced, of the Foreign Exchange
bank, with capitalization of 500, OOO,-
900 and a revolving fund of at least
ten times that sum to foster foreign
trade, and finance the sales of Ameri-
can products to European countries
against which the existing rates of
exchange have raised almost insuper-
able bars.
Financiers interested in the livestock
industry are organizing the Livestock
Financing corporation, with a capital
of 500, 000, 900 to reinance notes and
mortgages against the property of