The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23

the other the inquiry into the activi
ties of the Mnsfield $250,000 slusl
fund committee.
The grain price investigation hal
been proceeding for some time
Farmers representatives have
pointed out that "No popular de
mand'' had been the excuse give1
to farmers for dollar" wheat, while
ninety million more bushels were
exported during the first ten months
Of 1921 than ever before.
/; Ooyerdale Addresses Colorado
Stockmen
Secretary J. w. Coverdale ad
dressed the western slope farmer!
and stockmen's conference at Mont
rose, Colo, on February 3, explain
ing the services of the farm bureau
and stressing the importance of the
local program of work. Montrost
IS a small town in the rural section
but in the evening more than 1000
,lates were provided at the banquet
Which was followed by discussion
of community problems. On Feb
nary Mr.. Coverdale addressed the
Mesa County Farm bureau at Crane
junction. He reports strong in
western slope. Active membership
campaigns are now under way. The
chief problems are marketing, trans
portation and finance. In his Mot
rose address, by way OF introducing
the accomplishments of the farm
bureau Mr.. 1Goverdale said:
Three years ago we were stand
ing at the Threshold of what many
considered the dawn Of a glorious
peace following the darkness of de-
vastation of a world war. Into that
struggle we had thrown lives and
fortunes that the rights Of individual
citizenship and world democracy
might be saved. We had instituted
the selective draft and built can
tonments and munition plants and
ships with wreckless abandonment
of expenditure or thought Of day
of reckoning. Cost plus and extra
vagance were the cost prices of
speed. Profit was too much the
price of patriotism. Sufficient unto
the day were the prices thereof with
out a thought of the morning after,
other than that of the hope and ex-
pectation of glorious peace and q
new world condition. AS a people
we lost sight of very fundamental
law of nature and of life, namely,
that reaction must follow equally
every action, but in the contrary di-
rection.
Together We VIM
Together we win! That is the
slogan of the farmer today. Service
is our motto. By that l mean that
the farm bureau must be so organ
lied that it can render service not
only to its membership, but to the
county, state and nation as a whole.
'The farm bureau movement,
while still young, has grown very
fast, and in it's rapid growth some
neglect no dubt is apparent in many
of the states, due to inefficient or
ganization and lack of proper CO.
ordination of the programs of work
that will render service
not only to the farmer member, but
to the entire neighborhood.
Sometimes from the viewpoint of
the American Farm Bureau fedora
ton it becomes apparent to us that
too many members join, pay their
dues and then sit down to wonder
what the national organization is
doing for them. The farm bureau
is an organization to help us help
ourselves in an organized way, and
the individual member must feel that
he has duty to perform in helping
pull himself out of this terrible con-.
dition in which agriculture now finds
itself. It is hard to tell just when
this condition is going to get better.
OFT times 1t is darkest just before
The dawn.
Gains Public Favor
1--WE have seen the farm bureau
movement make its rapid growth
and gain marked influence with the
public. That influence has has be-
come strong enough to draw the fire
II the jealous and the small minded.
Many radical leaders who have
wanted to get hold of the farm bu-
reau movement have failed and in
heir failure they have set about to |
ear down the great movement. Or
sanized industry in some cases is
loing it's best to defeat the organized
'armer. There never was time
when there was greater need for the
arm bureau people to stand shoulder
o shoulder than there is today.
"The responsibility is upon us. |
During the next year we must So
idify the farm bureau organization |
Ind present solid body of loyal
members ready to move forward |
wherever the banner OF justice leads |
hem. Every member of the farm
'ureau must find his own particular |
york to do and do it. That is the
hfef responsibility of more than a
million farmers In this nation who
make up the American Farm Bureau
ederation.
Toward Urges Reduction of Retail
ers' Margin -
A farmer, in the person of J. R.
Toward, president of the American
arm Bureau federation, was called
pom to address the National Retail
Try Goods association in New York
lily on February 5. President How
I'd smoke STRAIGHT from the sh0u1dor |