Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-02-11
FARM BUREAU TO
LAUNCH CAMP Align
Speaking Campaign to Start
On Wednesday, February
18th at Seattle

A campaign Of education pre-,
urinary to Il drive for members
in the King County Farm Bureau
will open Wednesday, February
10Th at a II o'clock luncheon at
Blan's Cafe. AT that time Mr.
Il. G. Pollock, representative from
the American Farm Bureau Fed
ration will speak to the members
# the executive committee and
III community leaders and project
Committeeman who are leaders in
This organization in King county.
That same evening at Z 30, a gen
eral meeting open to the public
will be held at Kirkland in the
Commercial Hall. Similar meet
ngs will be held at Kent on Thurs.
day, February 18th at 1:30 and
at Enumclaw at 1870. At all Of
these, meetings, Mr.. Pollock will
give full information concerning
the National Farm Bureau move.
ment.
Meetings will be held at Vashon.
Sunnydale, Kemydale, Duvall,
Falls City, Redmond, and other
places, the exact schedule to be
announced later. The announce
ment follows conference of the
members Of the County Executive
Committee held in Seattle on Sat
urday, February 9TH. At that time
y letter was read from the State
Farm Bureau Secretary, stating
that Mr.. Pollock would be avail
able for King county on these
dates.
In discussing the purpose Of ara
the reason for tie nationwide
movement that has drawn more
than 100000 farmers and their
families into the American Farm
Bureau Federation, Mr.. Holt,
president of the King county Farm
Bureau, said:
'"The American farmer, millions
Of him, worked last year as never
before to produce food for human
ity. The world was crying for
food and he produced it at a very
high cost. Now he comes to mar
ket with plenty for all, only to
find that his markets have been
ruined by the laundering, the
waste and dishonesty Of the whole
system of transfer and distribu-
ton. The consumer must pay
more for food than it is worth,
yet the farmer cannot get near
what its production actually costs
him. AS a class he is broke.
AT first he was angry and
thought of quitting business, but
he realized that such a course
would be a death blow to human
lily, as everything really depends
on agriculture for its meal ticket,
so he set his teath and determin-
ed to go ahead. But he is going
to see that American agriculture
never faces another season like
1920 and 1921.
"Not only for himself, but for
his neighbor in town is the farmer
busy to-day finding ways and
means of stabilizing American ag-
riculture. | use farmer'in the
sense Of common gender. The
women and men are working to-
gether and the farm bureau means
all of them. They have big
task ahead of them and they know
it, but they are determined to do
it thoroughly. They are carefully
considering every step. They arc
resolved to see that no injustice
is brought upon anyone. Their
moves are all in the open, their
cards lay face up. As changes
are made the world is invited to
look on and pass judgment, They
have no fear of losing the support
of American public opinion be
cause they are considering the
best interests Of the whole Ameri-
can people in every move.
"This is the meaning of the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. 1t has already spread over
every state in our union except
two. To date there are something
more than 100000 families or
about 100000 people in it, but
they expect to include some 20