Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-25

Guarnny Section OF the Transporta
tion Act. amounting to about three
million dollars
This money will enable the rail-
roads@.J render more efficient service
by improving their road beds and
equipments, and ought to relieve al
burden which has heretofore been
shifted 10 the shipper in the form of
increased rates.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON took an active part In sup
port OF this bill through its attorney
Clifford Thorne.
Aid for Drouth- -Strickened Farmers:
| The Gronna Bill appropriating 2
million dollars for the purchase of
seed grain to be supplied to drouth
strickened farmers OF the United
States was signed by the President
on March 3rd.
The loans viii be made through
the Secretary OF Agriculture and
first lien on the crop viii be taken
as security.
Not over 100000 will be loaned to
any one farmer and strict provision
Is made against fraud and misrepre-
sentation.
Our New Secretary of Agriculture.
| That Henry G. Wallace, Secretary
of Agriculture, Is a firm believer In
the Farm Bureau movement is evei-
denced by his remarks at Farm
Bureau meeting in 1920.
Take the Affirmative, not the
negative The farmers of this
country have been on the mega
| tive side of this whole (mar-
keting) business for forty years
They did not know about the
affirmative side to help them
selves until this movement star
ted. The time has gone by for
i the negative fellow. III you
are not going to take the affirm
atiye and adopt the business
method OF looking after your own
business. such as all other busi-
nesses have adopted. you Will
get no more sympathy from any
class of people. The first thing
| to do is to go forward. to help
| help yourselves. to adopt the
| affirmative attitude. once you
adopt that view of looking al
| things. you are going to go for
ward-If we cannot do 1t. then
| let us quit kicking and sit down
| and become 'hewers of wood and
drawers OF water, and be con-
tent with our lot"
Colorado Takes Pert in Traffic Con-
ference:
The Colorado State Farm Bureau
has designated Fred S. Caldwell of
Monte Vista and James Kyle OF
Montrose to represent 1t at the Traf-
Inc Conference in Chicago on March
I14th. Both of these men are IA
miIiar with Colorado's traffic prob
lens and their report will be OF es-
! pecial interest from the fact that
our traffic situation at the present
time is serious handicap to our
I
marketing operations.
Gift Corn Moving Fast:
| The farmers Gift-Corn for the re-
lief of the starving is reaching the
mills in ever increasing volume
each day. Carl s. vrooman, Direc-
tor of the American Farm bureau
Federation Gift-Corn Relief says:
The Farmers Gift-Corn drive
! is at last we'll under way in all
\ the corn states. Nebraska has
! set March 10 as the day on
which farmers all over the state
|. will begin gathering their gift
corn. Ohio is planning big
| state corn day during which
! Buckeye farmers will shell and
| load their entire QUOTA half
| million bushels, requiring some
| $50 cars. This will make an
inspiring~ state wide spectacle.
Up to date, Illionis has loaded
more cars than any other two
states. South Dakota is get
ting under way with a splash,
Secretary p ]. Crandall of the
South Dakota Farm Bureau
Federation informing us that II