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The labor world., 1922-03-18
SUGAR MONOPOLY ABOLISHED

The monopoly on the Importation
and distribution of sugar, esta-
blished by Norway as a war policy,
will be abolished. effective April Is,
1922. Until that date, imports of
sugar by private individuals will be
possible only ON licenses to be OBJ
tanned from the State Provisionary
Department..
The labor world., 1922-03-18
WANT sHoDDY ADVERTISED,

Senator White, has introduced a
bill in the New Jersey state legisla-
ture which would. require the per-
centage of wool to be labeled in
every piece of CLOTH,
Advocates Of this legislation have
urged congress to enact this plan
into q federal law. They show that
much so-called pure wool cloth
consists Of shoddy. worked over five
and six times. with just enough vir-
gin wool to hold it together.
The labor world., 1922-03-18
UNEMPLOYMENT in sW1TzER-

The number, of totally and par
TALLY unemployed worknen of Swift
zerland had reached grand total of
1s7,561 in December 1921, an in
crease of more than 800 per cent
for the year. The machine and elec-
tro technical industries lead in the
number Of unemployed. .'.
The labor world., 1922-03-18
RENT GOUGERs PAY LESS.

Rent gougers in Charleston, w.
Va, have joined with contractors in
an effort to cut wages of building
craftsmen 25 per cent, The rent
gougers do not realize that their
position will make it impossible for
workers to meet present rent rates.
The labor world., 1922-03-18
PRODUCERS IN CITY A|aDFARM 5
READY YFoRPOlITICAL revolt
Sins Of Times Point TO Great Liberal Movement Workers In
Several Rock Ribbed Machine States Ripe For Action;
Plan Great War on Privilege; Forces Gathering.
By CHARLES M. KELLEY.

Wahingqn. May 10 Special Correspondence The La
or World There abundant evidence that the producers Of
for political revolt The average city and farm
worker impatient the delay that before they
worker impatient the delay that before they
.a chance strike down their political Prosecutors
The labor world., 1922-03-18
WOMEN's SUFFRAGE UPHELD.

In two decisions, based mainly on
technicalities, the United States su-
preme court has upheld the equal
suffrage amendment to the federal.
constitution. One of the suffrage aps
pellants was Charles S. Fairchild of
New York. former secretary Of the
treasury and president 6f the asso-
citation opposed to woman, suffrage.
The labor world., 1922-03-18
HARDING SUBSIDY Plan 1obE
- -, 4. 81 - - " '''.*-'''-s
G0LDM|NE FOR ship OWNERS
Will Open FlmdGaes For Favored Magnahs;; But win XII
Freedom Sections Of seamens' Act; Shipping Board 10
Have Great Powers; Naval Reserve IS Joke. !.
international Labor News Service.

Washington, D. G., March 6-Floods Of flowing gold will
poured the heads Of favored shipping labor will
be shackled bondage and the United shipping board
become the most powerful branch of the the
ship subsidy bill, administration measure becomes law
The labor world., 1922-03-18
EIGHT .Ho, DM IS best FOR d
WAGE Farmers and EMPLOYERS
Engineers Report Condemns Long Shift; Steel Industry Was
Not Studied, But ContInuous Operation Is Given Rebuke,
Forecasthg 12-HouT Work Day WIN Be Investigated.
(By the international / labor New

(By the international Labor News Service) =:
Washington March l6-Addional powerful support for
abors economic platform has from nonabor
special investigation by of America leading
gineers has sustained the eght-hour day in industry
The labor world., 1922-03-18

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St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

not long, however, after this work Started,
until the more progressive farmers saw
In the Farm Bureau movement a working
foundation for better type OF farm organ
ization than we have had heretofore
, There is no doubt but that the Farm Bu-
reau as an extension medium for the purt
pose of bringing the knowledge as devet-
eped by our experiment stations into
actual practice by the American farmer,
has been Of inestimable value. The more
progressive farmers have appreciated this.
Needs to Study.
although this is a service that is wort~
while, the farmer needs to study more
about his marketing problems, and the
Farm Bureau has been built along these
two lines-hrst1y, to work for more eco
nomical production, or, in other words,
to try to stop some of the leaks in agricul-
ture; and secondly, to develop that other
side of the problem, that Of better mar
kets, which involves a good many differ
ent lines of work No other farm organ
,ization has had these two functions, and
for this reason see a better future and
!: better working organization in the Farm
Bureau than in any other that we have
had. =
AS farmers we must not lose Slgnt Oh
the fact that the biggest JOB. the farmer
has is the one back home on the farm, 1t
is very easy to forget that the matter OF
production is the first absolute essential
and that the farmers big job is to produce
more economically. The American farmer
has to compete with all the world and un-
less he produces as cheaply as possible,
he cannot compete and still maintain his
standard OF living as he has in the past
It isimpossible build i wall of protection
around American agriculture, and the
soonar the farmer realizes this the better
we are going to be, The consumer is not
ooine to pay for ineflciency in production.
an handling this phase of the problem,
no better organization has ever been de-
yeloped than the Farm Bureau, with men
employed by the Farm Bureau, working
in the counties to spread broadcast those
! IDEAS which will Lad toward more eco
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
This advertisement contributed by
SLIDELL BANK

Many new ideas and practices have
been advocated and worked out in Amer
ica, yet, it has been left to- those Of other
nations to develop these to their greatest
efficiency. OIt is true the growing pros
perity incidental to the building of great
nation like ours had had its effect in
smotheriSg many of these movements
such as that OF cooperation. We have
just begun to settle down to a realization
that we are no more new nation with its
problems covered up by expansion. To-
day our problems are real There is no
cheap unclaimed land to be had. Land
values have approached a stability. Our
soils have rapidly depleted. Other inter
ests have speculatively developed our
markets. The farmer has been too inde-
pendent. All has been like dream. The
awakening is too great shock to bear
alone. He grasps It operation.
o Not the First.
There have been many types OF farm
organizations started at various times in
this country. These organizations have
had various ideas in view; some OF them
have been too narrow in their conception
of solutions for the farm problems and
have been built up largely for selfish pur-
poses; some of them have had the idea in
view Of building up cooperative buying
organizations and have given. but little
attention to the matter Of marketing;
others have been built up for the develop
ment OF the social and educational side q
the farmers problems; still others have
had the idea that the only way to relieve
the situation is by securing legislation
favorable to the farmer.
There is no doubt but that these or
ganizations have done some good, but
they have not grasped the situation as
thoroughly as our newest of farm organ
izations Farm Bureau and the Farm
Bureau Federation. :,
"The Farm Bureau idea WAS developed
and brought about through the need for
more widespread knowledge concerning
the work Of our agricultural colleges and
experiment stations. 1t has been devei-
oped by federal and state SUPPORT. II MAS
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

nomical production. For this reason we
must continue to develop the work Of the
County Farm Bureau. We must not
always look towards our state organiza-
tions and the national organization to
solve all of our difficulties. 1t is true they
have service to give which goes hand-in-
hand with the other, but what | want to
emphasize is the fact that we, as farmers,
are too prone to forget that we also have
job at home:
"And it is just as important also that
we keep the cooperative organization
truly representative. In this matter
! many cooperative associations have failed
to do their best work because clique
gained control of the organization.
Cooperation is here to stay. The man
on the farm is looking forward to it helping
solve his problems. If he will but learn
chat to cooperate he must learn to work
with his neig ghbors, it will do all that he
expects of it.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
How Our City
Cousins View Us

How does the Farm Bureau movement
appear to city people? No other orean-
zatton except perhaps the american Fed
Grafton OF Labor, ever received so much
publicity in the metropolitan press. One
OF the great city papers which has kecnlv
observed the Farm Bureaus progress and
development is the New York World,
Here is an editorial from the "World' for
January 80, 1922:
THE POWER BEHIND THE BLOC"
IAN observer looking about for the
most powerful political figure In the United
States at present would have to pass over
the President, who has been dehcd by
Congress, and also the old-line party
leaders within Congress who have been de
he'd by the agricultural bloc He would
have to pass over the bloc itself, for it
has been doing number of things it
didn't want tc do, and search for the or
ganization or the man who has been dc
tating to these Middle Western Repre-
sentatives and Senators who hold the
balance Of legislative power The oreani-
zation is not hard to find 1t is tie ,n,eri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, and lanes
R. Howard is Its President.
Two years ago Mr. Howard was a farm
er In Iowa-a dirt farmer, though he
has college degree. Now he sits in
Washington and tells the Administration
where It gets off. Behind his words is
the grim conviction OF several millions of
men who have had an unusual run Of hard
luck lately that the Government has ne. er
paid enough attention to agriculture and
that when favors are being distributed in
the future the farmer will realize on few
campaign promises or know the reason
why. The diseoncertins phase of TIE
matter ie the absolute sincerity of Mr..
Howard and his followers and the alb
sence Of radicalism in their platform.
They are content with the economic
system as 1t stands, but they want the
business overhead reduced and voice
in decisions as well as larger STARE in
returns.
Seemingly they do not realize how rev.
olutionary all this must appear to tie
Old Guard. Wall Street has always had
the dominant bloc at Washington. Can
the tradition be shaken2 There are no
institutions tottering to a fall but there
are changes impending.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
RESHAPING AGRICULTURAL
MARKETING

The Farm Bureau performed one of its
greatest services for American agriculture
when it originated the commodity con-
ference idea Out of the national con-
4erences of growers have come commodity
committees. These committees have been
'ppointed by the President of the Ameri-
IN Farm Bureau Federation to study all
systems Of marketing and to recon-
end to tie producers better methods OF
::,tribution, whereby the grower will get
more for his product and the consumer
will get better service or cheaper cost 1t
$ significant tkat no one of the Farm
Bureaus commodity committees has not
enc far with its studies efore tie anwer
appeared in co operative marketing
The Farm Bureaus Commodity Con-
ierenccs iave utilized co operative mar
keting in America. The result is that a
change is being made in the entire market
ing system of the country
Now Congress, largely through the
efforts of tie Farm Bureau, has placed the
Governments seal Of approval on the
farmers cooperative marketing program.
This has Lecn done though the Capper-
Volstead Cooperative Marketing Law,
the Packer Control Law, the Capper-
1incher Grain Exchange Regulation Law,
and others Both President Harding and
Secretary of agriculture Wallace have
approved the Farm Bureaus Cooperative
Marketing Program, and it is going for
ward accordingly.
The Farm Bureau has held national
commodity conferences on grain, live stock,
dairy products, fruit and vegetables, cot
ton, tobacco, wool. and sugar beets. These
conferences and theco operative marketing
organizations which follow in their train
are the Farm Bureau answer to the plea
of its membership to solve tie farmers
marketing problem to the everlasting be-,
eft Of both producer and consumer
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
THE COMMUNITY, HOUSE
How 1t Came to Park Road.

J When the get-together spirit Of war day.
reached the little community Of Pari
Road. it was discovered that women who
had lived next door to each other 70,
years had to be introduced. There was
no church, no school, no common meet.
ing place of any kind and the next town
was four miles away. A visitor to Park
Road today would find the community
grounds an interesting sight. Trees and
snruDbery are neatly trimmed and large
rock pile and mass of timber await the
beginning Of operatins.
The Farm Bureau Home Demonstra-
ton Club, meeting at the homes of the
Farm Bureau members, had taken the
trst step In arousing community interest,
and It had started building fund with
fifty dollars earned at county fair.
When the club went q step farther and
asked, How can we secure a house large
enough for the whole community" The
donation of lot by generous citizen
OF neighboring town and a financial
campaign resulting in 81 900 in cash gave
the necessary start.
The new community house Is frame
structure sixty-six by thirty feet, with a
porch II feet wide extending the width Of
the front. The foundation is Of old field
stone. The main floor has an assembly,
room with large fireplace and a good
sized stage. There is also the necessary
kitchen and two large sized committee
rooms. An athletic field is to be laid out
at the rear Of the building. Not dollar
Is being expended for labor, for there is an
expert for every detail Of the project Of
the community. There is also commu-
nifty spirit.
Through this group, rural district nurs-
Ing has been established, hot school
lunches started and classes in basketry,
community canning and sewing organized.
The Farm Bureau members come to the
library to hear talks on such subjects as
home mixing Of fertilizers, cooperative
marketing, rural legislation, and other
farm problems. It 10 headquarters for
the county agent when he is In the locality.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

They must be truly cooperative, stoc
ownership must be limited to actual graf
growers, and stock must be available at
reasonable price, to every grain grower il
the natural territory, tributary to tn
elevator.
They must also pay dividends on
patronage dividend basis. The loca
elevator company or local grain growers
association then contracts with TIL
national association to handle its members
grain under each of the plans which ma,
be elected by the individual growers.
The plan provides for the management
of the national association by board Q
II Directors elected by delegates to th}'
annual convention OF the association
The directors in turn elect the officers d
the national association among their owr
number, excepting the Secretary anc
Treasurer.
The Board OF Directors Of the Nationa
Association is authorized to establish such
departments as Sales, Transportation
Organization, Legal, Finance. Statistical
Publicity and Pooling.
After the adoption Of the plan the Com
mittee of Seventeen divided the United
States into twelve grain growing districts,
allowing to each, one man on the tempo
rary Board of II Directors for each 90, ,000,-
600 bushels of grain sold Each state
delegation elected the directors allotted
to their district These Directors served
until the first annual convention of growers,
which was held on March 81, 1922, at
their General Offices, Chicago. Seven
members of the Committee Of Seventeen
we're represented on the first Board Of
Directors.
The U. S. Grain Growers, Incorporated,
came into being as an authorized institu-
ton on April Is, when it secured its char
ter as national, non-stock, non-profit
grain marketing corporation, for farmer
members. They established general Offices
at 50 East Madison street, Chicago,
Illinois, and any requests for information
about the movement should be addressed
to them there
Scarcely had tie farmers grain market
ing plan been ratihesl when the organized
grain trade-the spectators in grain, the
old-line grain dealers and allied interests,
pledged itself to raise $250,000 to be de-
voted to fighting the activities Of the U.
S. Grain Growers. Farmers and elevators
throughout the land have been deluged
with posters, placards, circulars and propa
gan,a OF various sorts to discourage the
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

serve at this election: Emile Single
tary, Randolph Parker and Charlie
Kennedy, commissioners, and Alonzo
Crawford, clerk.
At said special election the polls
will open at seven o'clock a. M, and
close at six o'clock p. M, and the
election will be conducted in accord
ance with the laws OF Louisiana ap-
plicable thereto.
Notice is also given that at II
O'Clock a. m. of the 7th day OF July,
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

| movement. Although several months have
elapsed, and large part of this $3.50, ,O00
has been expended, yet the movement
has withstood their attacks and the organ
lied grain trade has been unable to pick
any serious flaws in the fundamental
features of the Committees plan One
farm paper editor has raised the interesting
question that If it is worth s2s0,OoO to
the organized grain trade to kill the U. S.
Grain Growers, how much is that institu-
tion worth to the farmcrs2
But the u S. Grain Growers .Associa-
tion is here to stay. President G. H..
Gustafson advises that there are now more
than $4,000 farmer members, and over
1000 cooperative elevators belonging
and 800 new members joining daily
This means that more than U,O00,COO
bushels OF marketable grain are already
under contract, and that at t present
rate OF progress the U. S. Grain Growers
| would have 10000 met1,lcrs hy January
!, 1922, representing at least 500 .nNn,O 600
bushels Of grain. Wien we stop TO con-
slider that in tie neightorhood OF t,ut
5000, 900 bus els Of grain is all that IS
handled in one year on tic Chicago mar
ket, one can understand tEsat the u. S.
Grain Growers is soon to tccome real
factor in tie grain markets OF the world.
The organization has had THE backing
and paternal guidance Of the great Ameri-
can Farm Buzz eau Federation with paid
up membership OF more t''an million
farmers President Howard is on record
as declaring that the American Farm
Bureau Federation stands pledged to the
farmers Of America to effectualize CO.
operative marketing, and that the organi-
zation intends to see the u. S. Grain
Growers Inc, through to complete sue
cess. .
Farmers everywhere are backing the
plan. All the farmer asks, and he is justi-
fed in his attitude, is privilege Of taking
his products to the ultimate buyer, and
let the normal law OF supply and demand
govern the purchase price. He is willing
to let consumption demands set the price
his products should bring, and share the
profits accruing from economical and
efficient buying with the ultimate con-
sumer.
ut is, declares w. G. Eckiardt, treas
uler of the organization, the first oppc:
tunity for gain farmers e, ,cryWl'ete to
Join forces under one amer to ,nerchan-
disc their grain at the full price that the
markets Of the world will pay instead Of
making it the football Of a gang OF gam
blers, and taking what they are willing to
pay The plan is big Undertaking. but
the need is great and with tie confined
resources, abilities and support OF the
farmers of the grain belt themselves, it is
bound to succeed.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

ish of St. Tamnany, Louisiana,
subject to state taxation, anrual-
ly, for a perio of ten years, fer
the purpose Of giving addition,
aid to the public schools.
For the purposes Of said special
election the polling place will be the
usual polling place Of he Sixth Ward
|ps the Parish of ST. Tammany, Lou
isiana, and the following commits
sioners and clerk of election of the
polling place have been appointed to
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

1922, the said Parish School Board
Of the Parish of Louisiana, will meet
at Coyington, La, and in open ses-
sion proceed to open the ballot box,
examine and count the ballots in
number and amount, examine aud
canvass the returns, and declare the
result of said special election.
This 23d day of May, 1922.
~ Fl. FITZSIMONS.
President of St. Tammany Parish
School Board.
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Paris: of st. Tammany. {


Pursuant to a resolution passes.
by the ST. Tamnany Parish Seto u
board of St. Tamn:any Parish, Lou
isiana, at a meeting held on the 18th
day Of May, 1922, I, N. H. FitzSim-
ons, President of said Parish Schcol
Eoard, % HEREBY give notice that,
III compliance with said resolution, a
special e.ection will be held in School
District No OF the Parish Of It
Tammany, Louisiana, on the 5t1 day
OF July, 1922, for the purpos5 ci
submitting to the property taxpsI ers
qualified under .hp constitutions ard
laws of the SITE of Louisiana lc
vote at said election, the fo,low.ne
proposition, to-Wit::
To levy special tax Of four
mills on the dollar on all the prop
erty in School District No. 6, Par
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10

s@sss inlc.. F1Fc.
the on;n;s I agriculture is to survive in
i S must p1 ~ u agricultural thinkers, farm
me hh,,nlraL h sLp.operate, During the past
afasnole. = !. ana hfty years we have had
ssratiion ris attempts at agricultural COOP
assofenent aaerS hara in this cooperative
The dair, 'tase been the dairy farmers.
sal!y lea,Ia.a.ar farmers of Switzerland were
writer ssls. raae As early as 1920 a Danish
operat;vn at;a'lneneed = the Swiss system of
\ y 4thhe l,.: carries and cheese factories
farmers s.,,sn vs. People. American dairy
.sgo.oIperat;ya M also early co operators. The
n !AA,ner;ca s eIean cry movement started
s1, M iadis;d.ann1,, s u 1851 Creasneries we're
sally y made d'aal'y "a owned and were grad
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
In oopeFation is the keynote in Amer
n" alu world agriculture TODAY. Whv

this thought is up
permost in the
minds of farmers
everywhere may be
largely due to the
fact that necessity
is the compelling
force that drives
people to cooper
ate in overcoming
a difficult problem.
In the days Of prim-
tive man and in
saVagery we hnd
cooperation in it's
true character.
Many difficulties
had tnhe oyercoue
II man was to sur
St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
Grain Growers
Come Into
Their Own

TINE local cooperative elevator which has done much
the marketing problem from local standpoint is retained
basic feature Of the These elevators required
certain conditions before they qualify however. ].
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-01

markable change of pace which quite deceived the Detroit tacklers, but the Californians probably will be wise to this young man and his methods. Nevertheless, they must remember that he is very clever. carries close to 200 pounds and does not always run in strai ght line.
 The Kickers
 As kickers, Neale will depend upon Brenkart and Erickson and they are fairly good at the bunting game. If Nisbet unloosens some 70-yard kicks he will outdo them, but in game of this kind as rule, none of the big hckers get their full distance as they do in some minor games. where they have nothing to fear in event ot slip-up. The remainder of the backfield is made up Of Mclaughlin. quarterback, and Basista. Crook plays at center and Vince is the other guard with Konvolinka at right end
 California will opose this outfit with Muller at one end and Stephens al the other. both stars Muller shining particulrly in both the throwing and receiving end of the forward pass. McMillan will be the other star in the California line at tackle, but Latham is strong center and should give Crook all he wants to handle Neale will make "a reputation if h,