Arizona republican., 1921-02-28

other words, reworsted woolen rags. Under present conditions, a manufac turer can use as high a percentage of "shoddy" in fabrics as he may desire and still advertise his cloth as "all wool" while the public is unable to determine the percentage of virgin wool.
 Organization Grows Rapidly
 The American Farm Bureau Fedora tion has made an enormous growth in the short time of it's existence. Its first birthday anniversary will be celebrated by meeting at Chandler Thursday night. In the short. time of it's exist ence it has grown in membership until there are more than 100000 bona fide farmers holding voice in it's councils. Meanwhile, it has blocked the efforts of the railroads to secure interest pay ment at the rate of six per cent per an- mum on an investment of S20,000,000, 900 under the terms of the Esch Cummings jaw. Hon. Clifford Thorne, a leading attorney and statistician employed by the federation. made thorough in vestigation and by indisputable facts forced the valuation of the railroads to be placed at II billions rather than 20. He was able to establish the fact that the value of railroad property was not in excess of SIT, 100000, and by vir- tue of this fact has been able to save shippers 180,000,000 year in interest. The American Farm Bureau Fedora ton has also. for the first time in his tory, been able to name it's own secre- tary of agriculture, Henry c. Wallace having been appointed by President elect Harding after conference with farm bureau official representatives
 Urgent Local Need
 While the national and state leglsla- tive programs are of the utmost inn portance and are absolutely vital to American agriculture, yet the farm bureau must not be considered as en- tirely a national or state organization, The county farm bureaus have always been an important factor. since the origin of the movement some ten years ago, in matters affecting the commu mites where the bureaus have operated Maricopa county has special need for such an organization at present, due to the fact that her agriculture is in a stage of evolution. where conservative | thinking and close cooperation is es- sential The old extensive system oi
 forming in Maricopa county is getting
 seriously out of date and within 9 comparatively few years the type ol 1 agriculture of necessity will bt changed to one more intensive. ant
 supporting a materially larger popula
 ton. This will require the organization | ana DullulIS ol SCfCtdi iiS7N NA,hANh.iNSt raI industries and the material I'm provement of some present industries The farm bureau will be of special i'm portance in this regard.
 Following the meeting in the Madi- l son school house Monday night, the re mainder of the week will be devoted tt meetings on the south side in the fol
 lowing order: Mesa, Tuesday night 1 Gilbert. Wednesday night; Chandler Thursday night: Lehi, Friday night Tempe, Saturday night. All farmers are invited to come to these meetings l whether members of the farm bureal ] or not. An opportunity will be giver ! for questions concerning the work which will be answered by s. Fret Cummings. representing the nationa farm bureau federation, and c.
 Brown president of the Arizona State ] Farm Bureau Federation.