The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-06-23
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Editor Constitution: read with /
great deal of interest your editoria
in The Constitution Of une undel
the caption of "a Disgraceful Row,
and while in the main l agree witt
you thoroughly that it is disgracefu
row. i beg to call your attention to a
few simDle facts in the matter.
The Georgia Farm Bureau Fedora
tion's advisory board, at meeting
in Atlanta held May 16, adopted three
resolutions. They were:
Adjustment of State Bureau OF
Markets; adjustment of oil inspectors
in every county in the state, and in
their stead the appointment of six or
eight centralized terminal oil inspec-
tors, and change in the inspecting
system of fertilizer.
These three resolutions were made
purely as economic moves. The adj
visory board went on record as favor
ing the department of agriculture
that it believed it was vital and
most essential department in the adj
ninistration Of the states affairs.
That the Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton wishes to dismember the de-
partment of agriculture is purely a
myth, a creation of enemies of the
farm bureau designed to becloud its
real purpose.
! wish to state that the State Coll
eye Of Agriculture has nothing what
ever to do with the Georgia Farm Blu
reau Federation in shaping its poll
cles, or infixing its program Of work.
The farm bureau federation does,
however, cooperate with the State
College of Agriculture whenever it
can help the farmers of Georgia. It
co-operates and will cooperate with
any farmers organization in Georgia
to that end.
DR.. Andrew M. Soule has no con-
nection with this bureau and did not
instigate the resolutions adopted at
the advisory board meeting, nor did
he have any knowledge whatever that
they were to be passed.
Farm Bureaus Position.
Concerning the three resolutions
adopted, I wish to tell you briefly
why the farm bureau favors them:
The State Bureau of Markets costs
the taxpayers of Georgia $3S, 479.O8
in 1920. In return, all-the good the
average farmer got from this depart
ment, so far as we have been able
to find out, and we have searched dill
igently, was the issuance Of weekly
market bulletin.
This market bulletin was designed
to tell the farmers of the state the
weekly market prices on various farm
products. At one time. during the
year the bulletin was suspended, an
being made that there
were not sufficient funds to operate
it. A subscription list was passed
around the state, asking every farm
err to contribute rs cents to help pay
the cost of this bulletin. A goodly
sum was realized in this way. But it
seems that still tha- fnnde- aaS 7..s.si-ii~l
Ware not sufficient for the bureau to
continue the publication of the bull
letin, and to make up the deficit ad-
vertising space was sold to anybody
who had the money to buy it. Then
news matter began to creep in and
also political propaganda and in short
the market feature was almost oblit-
Grated under the mass other matter.
The Georgia Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton, after a careful investigation,
believes that the State Bureau of
Markets has never warranted its own
existence and has been purely and
simply a political Office, costing the
state over $4,000 annually, and pro-
vided practically nothing in return.
Regarding the reduction in the mum
Der of oil inspectors, beg to call
your attention to these simple facts
There are at present in Georgia
1913 oil inspectors, receiving an av-
erage salary Of 500 monthly. Their
duties are to inspect oil shipped into
their respective counties, for which
the oil company pays a fee of SC
much per car, which you will realize
is added on to the cost of the oil to
the ultimate consumer. The farm
bureau has devises a plan whereby
six or eight terminally located oil in