The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-01-27
ORGANIZATION
IS COMPLETED
Eighteen Counties Represented b
Thirty Eight Delegates at Big
Fargo Meeting
oAkEs MAN IS ON COMMITTEE
Fruit Growers Attorney Tells How
They Market in California

Permanent organization Of the
North Dakota Farm Bureau, repre-
senting a total membership of 10000,
was perfected last Friday at Fargo.
Eighteen counties having farm bu-
reaus were represented by thirty-eight
delegates, one of whom was selected
at large from each county and one
additional being chosen for each 500
members or major fraction thereof.
Under this provision Dickey county
is entitled to two delegates, R. N.
'Youngquist of Fullerton and w. w.
Denning of Oakes having been elected.
The state constitution provides that
the business Of the Farm Bureau shall
be transacted by the executive COM
mittee, which must be chosen by the
directors in convention assembled and
shall consist of the president, vice.
president and treasurer, together with
two committeeman chosen from each
congressional district in the state.
The executive committee will thus
be composed Of nine members. All
officers and executive committeeman
were chosen by informal ballot from
the floor.
U. L. Burdick, Williston, president;
Hans Georgeson, Niagara, vice presi-
dent; Louis Noltemeier, Valley City,
treasurer; Franklin Page, Hamilton,
and H. r. Hartman, Page, committee
men from first district; A. G. Nelson,
Fingal, and w. w. Denning, Oakes,
committeeman from second district;
0. M. Hector, Crosby, and Mrs. M. G.
Cassidy, Dickinson, committeeman 3rd
district.
This committee was in session Fri
day night and chose H. B. Fuller of
the Agricultural college as permanent
secretary for the state federation. Mr..
Fuller will begin his work at once.
Resolutions were drawn up memorial
izing the state and national legislat-
ures to enact certain necessary meas
ures. No doubt the committee will
meet again soon and submit state
program of work in the near future.
Aaron Sapiro, attorney for twenty
cooperative fruit growers associa-
tions Of California which have been
the means, through successful opera
tion for the last ten years, Of stabil-
izing the fruit industry Of the west
and the incomes of the producers,
made talk to more than $500 people
at the Tri-State Grain Growers con-
vention. Mr. Sapiro held the audience
spell-bound for two and one-half
hours. His talk was analogous to
that Of carpenter driving and clinch-
ing nails. His statements were short
and to the point. The main burden of
the. lecture was about as follows:
Agriculture is the only industry
that produces Individually and mar
kets Individually. All other indus
tries produce and, market collectively,
Outside of agriculture, group produc-
tion and group marketing is done by
separate bodies which are known as
corporations. Those corporations have
all and more of the privileges and re-
sponsibilities Of individuals. They
can act as individuals. They can sue
and be sued. They have undertaken
enterprises and secured results that
individuals could never even hope to
attempt. All large industries, includ
ing cities of all classes, are incorpor-
ated SO they may do collectively what
they cannot do individually. While
agriculture at the present time does
not pretend to produce collectively,
the time is at hand for it to market
collectively.
The midwest system of collective
marketing as now carried on here is
wrong. In marketing grain our local
elevators are buying agencies where
they should be selling agencies. This
means cooperation for the consumer
and not for the producer. All they
can ever hope to do is to buy in COM
petition with each other and prac-
tically sell as individuals through the
established grain exchanges Of the
country. They have nothing to say
about the ultimate sale of the grain.
By paying less to themselves they as
sumo they are earning larger "pro-
fits" They should not buy at all;
they should sell, and in state pools,
through one central agency.
Mr.. Sapiro advocates dual system
for marketing grain. He advocates
that local elevators, terminal ware
houses lease the use Of their plants
SO that grain might be handled, stored
and graded in them. They are, how
ever, not to buy or sell any wheat