Arizona republican., 1922-05-28

, districts where work Is almost COM
piete, grand totals during the drive
will be increased fully 40 per cent,
campaign directors anticipated yes
terday
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Mayr OF Laveen,
| the only woman district director in
the drive, was the first to report her
territory complete. AS vice president
of the laveen district farm bureau,
it fell to her lot to assume direction
of the drive in that community be-
cause of the absence of the bureau
chairman. Every rancher in the dis
trict was visited during the four days
OF the campaign and the percentage
or slgnups has been unusually large.
One Woman's Work
In the meeting of farm bureau di-
rectors yesterday afternoon, Captain
Latimer invited the attention of the
members to the untiring efforts of
Mrs. Mayr, whose direction he
termed masterpiece of efficiency"
Her work has been something that
the bureau has reason to take ex-
treme pride in Captain Latimer de-
clared In closing his remarks, Mrs
Mayr was presented to the directors
and she was greeted with round
| after round of applause.
Il have often wondered why people
stand back and allow others to take
| the responsibility in a matter of such
Importance to the farmers Mrs.
Mayr remarked yesterday
Replying to a question of a farm
| bureau director she declared that
every farmer should be interested in
( the organization.
The rancher should get out and
attend these farm bureau meetings;
should take part in the discussions
| and derive the benefits that accrue
from organization, whether it be
farmers, business men or manufac-
turers. The meetings tend to i'm
prove conditions. All farmers should
attend, whether they are members of
the bureau of not"
How She Did 1t
Mrs. Mayr then detailed her plans
for conducting the drive in the Le-
veen district.
First of all. I appointed three
teams of two men each, men / knew
would work and work hard; men who
had the interest of the work at
heart" she declared.
when these crews had been or
ganized / divided my district into
sections, as nearly equal as possible
Each team was given section to
cover each day. Then ] got them
started bright and early Wednesday
morning. when the campaign opened
and | got them on the road early each
succeeding morning of the drive. As
result, one of the teams had com
pleted its work at noon Saturday:
the other two finished up late Satur-
day afternoon.
II also found II necessary to visit
a few of the farmers myself, but for
the greater part the canvassing work
was conducted by the men. They
Were instructed to do their work
thoroughly and to make their reports
regularly As a result ! had some
thing definite to report to the cam
paign director at Phoenix at noon on
each day.
"One man in our district got 80 new
farm bureau members alone, to say
nothing of the signatures he secured
to the commodity marketing con-
tracts. The signap men got nearly
every one they went after. Every
body seemed sympathetic to the
movement. Surprisingly few eX-
pressed any dissatisfaction with the
organization plans"
Mrs Mayr told the directors that
she has been resident of the La
veen district for six years. During
all of that period, she said. she has
taken an active interest in work that
pertains to the advancement of the
farmer.