The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-03-17

f with the local grain growers organ
t cations.
The national sales agency expect
: to provide in carrying out this plan
l. Branch sales offices at all i'm
: portant grain markets to handle tn
grain for each natural grain district
2. Terminal elevator service il
t connection with its branch sales of
fees, either by contracting arrange
ments for same, or through the or
g%anization of a company, or con1pan
les, which will lease, buy or builc
these elevators;
8. Facilities for financing the mar.
keting of grain by country elevator:
through the organization of a finance
corporation, the capital stock OF
which will be provided by the grain
growers themselves;
4. Facilities for marketing the ex-
portable surplus of grain through an
export corporation with the ultimate
hope that the price of our exportable
surplus will no longer determine the
price of our domestic supply;
5. Service departments which will
furnish information necessary to
keep grain growers informed of To-
cal and world conditions affecting the
grain trade, also information and ser
vice in connection with legal, trans
portation, statistical and other prob
lens.
Conduct of National Agency
First, let us see how the national
sales agency is to be conducted. 1t
will be governed by a board of Iii
r~ectors chosen by the members, The
number of directors has not been de-
cided but 81 has been suggested. 1t
has also been suggested that each Of
the 25 principal grain growing states
shall have at least M director each.
These directors will be the power be-
hind the national sales agency. They
will employ the necessary managers,
department heads, and other en-
ployees and will direct all the policies
of the agency. This board will rep
resent the growers in this agency just
like the board of any other corpora
ton represents the stockholders in
those corporations. These directors
will be chosen under the following
plan:
1. Each local organization will hold
an annual meeting and will elect its
delegates to attend the annual meet
ing of delegates in each ~Congression-
al district. Each local organization
will be entitled to one delegate to
the Congressional meeting for each
100 members or major portion there
of. For instance, if there are ISL
members in the local organization,
that organization will be entitled to
two delegates. If there are 251 mem
bers, three delegates will be allowed.
Every local organization, regardless
of the number of members, shall have
at least n delegate. After these
local delegates have been chosen the
Congressional meeting will be held.
2. The Congressional district meet
ing shall elect the delegates to the
national meeting. Each Congression-
al district will be entitled to one dele
gate, but this delegate may cast one
or more votes at the national meet
ing, depending either on the num-
Der of members in his Congressional
district that are represented or the
amount of surplus grain produced or
both. For instance, North Dakota,
with only three Congressional dis
tricts, would have only three dele
gates but they would have consider
ably more than three votes because
voting power will be based on total
membership of growers or grain pro-
duction or both membership and pro-
duction.
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meeting will elect the board of the
national sales agency and transact
any other business that will come. up
at the annual meeting of such agency
Handling Charge on Grain
Members of the Committee of Sew
are convinced that this meth
cd of selecting the governing body of
the national sales agency is ideally
democratic. Quite a few details re
main to be ironed out but these will
De embodied in the constitution and
bylaws which are now being drafted
FOR presentation at the final ratifica-
ion meeting in Chicago, April 6. The
rational sales agency will be sup
ported entirely by a handling charge
made against all grain handled. The
membership fund will provide !
he initial capital to put the plan in I
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