Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-05-31
FARMERS WIN
RES { POST
Farm Bloc's Plans Told by Leader AS
Congress Grants Place On
Banking Board

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Ognize agriculture In appoin tments, to
the board, has been passed by both
houses of congress. s55l
The Minnesota Farm Bureau eder-
atoms agricultural program for 1922,
draWn UP land adopted in the third
annual convention of the organization
this year by elected delegates from all
most every county in the state, says:
1--WE further demand that the con-
troll of the Federal Reserve System be
no longer vested in board made up
solely of bankers, lawyers, and profess
sors, but that basic productive indus
try, Including agriculture be accorded
direct representation on the board or
boards governing the Reserve System
and any other governmental agency In
yolvipg credit distribution .ss
Congress also has specifically recog-
nized the farmers right to collective
bargaining, which the Farm Bureau
had asked in its Legislative program
for 1922. The federal cooperative
marketing bid was passed early this
year. 4. s
County Farm Bureau offices are re-
ceiying from the Washington office Of
I. the American Farm Bureau Federation
an outline Of what the Farm Bloch
tends to dO during the rest of the
present session of Congress. The plans
of the bloc We're outlined by Senator
Cappers of Kansas, who has succeeded
Senator Kenyon of Iowa as leader of
the agricultural group.
First in it's program the Farm Bloc
4 places credit reform" Z Senator Capper1
said 1t realizes that agriculture is
at the mercy Of those who control
credit and that many who exert that
control are not in sympat Thy with agri-|
culture. The Farm Bloc knows that
farmers have suffered and many have
been ruined financially by lack Of
credit & 5#
'sThe Farm Bloc is seeking to evolve
a credit plan which will give relief to
agriculture which will make more
money for financing the slow turnover
of the farms, whichsSWil give the far
mer another opportunity to- go aheaaa
with a decent chance to make good.
If that is accomplished it will mean:
cheaper food, more work, reopened
factories and mills. and a return Of
good times. u.
a THE McNary bill extending the OPP
Grafton of the War Finance Corpora
tion until 3 uly 1923, should be
promptly passed
THE Farm Bloc believes railway
freight rates are too high .and must
come down. The bloc would restore.
to State railway commissions much Of
the power taken away from them by
an unWarranted Interpretation Of the.
transportation act of the Interstate.
Commerce commissions 81 s5
'Srhe bloc is supporting the truth
.in-fabric bill to- compel makers Of
clothing to brand their goods 50 that
the buyer will know the allo unit of
pure wool and the amount of shoaly:
in it, !. a5ss
The American Farm Bureau fedora
tion fathered the organization of the
agricultural bloc and the first meet ting
of the senate bloc. took place in the
Farm Bureau's "a s.shington Office
NEW FARM HAZARDS:
Case aTsyE CHIEF MENACE.
There is no denying the fact that
the various devices using gasoline for
fuel, such as automobiles, tractors and
stationary OF portable power nig;ines,5
all have served to increase fire llaz-,
ards on the farm. T0da 81 most arm
5ers have an automobile, gasoline en-
CINE for running pumps or other ma
chinerE about the farm and no al few
have tractors. Often the motor ca s.
is kept in the barn, usually for the
want of a better place 3tp keep iii. sE his
is not a desirable location for an a ~
fomobile and d dds an unnecessary fire
hazard to a risk that usually houses
big values. 4 he motor car ought to-
be stored in q Sc arate garage build
ing, constructed pref rably of skele tom
steelsor brick with d cement floor and
located at least sixty feet from all
other risks of a scoase quence.
same precautions are to be taken if,s
two; cars as id the a ii % repaiir ISL oI,s or
public garage. pen heating Or
lighting devices 8 are TO be per-
81nitted Such opera ions as leaning
with gasoline or char ing the car or
olsiing ii the buil ling are TO be
avoided just as carefully as ilE the
larger garage It yyoul d Seem that
III the ease arlner, Who has.
an automob nc, ira ctor and power en-
$gines which Would consume al rather
large amour IL Of fuel J, it would he we'll
to have an approved pump located
side with IN underg round sttaIlk to Ike
care of all gasoline certainly ill the
course Of time oulldi be an econ
::ical plan as we'll Isl a much ,sa Fer d5ne.
In any event the gasoline pump Should
be located in a small bull ling loca ted
!at least fifty feet distant Where tracs
tors are used Sit would be on con
ssistent to- have garag large
:senoqgh to house all such vehicles. Gen
erall speak King, oline IS power en-
gilles are defectiy installe oneal
or mere way rs Esx hatlstss pipes aretI
taken ava ON poorl
being in contac yYi fh I'D wa lis and
tend even out de- the risk which ISL
still worse. hen the wires from||
the bat teries are strung around III
I1anner Such defects arei
common and the result hey Pre-