St. Tammany farmer., 1922-06-10
WILL VISIT EVERY
FARMER in COUNTY
Farm Bureau Conducting Pub
icity Campaign Preliminary
to Membership Drive.


the Farm Bureau.
Large posters pieturing farmer backed
by composite membership and bearing
the caption Forward! Farm Bureau
have been decorating the countryside
and town for two weeks.
Every farmer has been prepared for the
invitation Of the Farm Bureau solicitors
by information sent out from headquar-
ters. A booklet, telling the story Of how
a farm family came into the Farm Bureau,
was mailed soon after the posters appeared
on the fences and telephone poles. A
folder advertisement followed this, and
the County Farm Bureau has written a
letter to each farmer urging him to ioin
Sixteen Meetings Scheduled.
Sixteen different meetings will be held
in this county under the supervision of the
county, the State Farm Bureau Fedora
ton and the American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON, where the work and p>fcies of
the Farm Bureau, county, state and ma
tional, will be explained at each of these
meetings. Six solicitors and six farmers
to drive them about the country will be
asked to volunteer. These farmers are
then assigned sections to canvass and at
the end Of the campaign every farmer
outside the Farm Bureau will have been
visited personally. The solicitors re-
ceive two-day schooling on facts con-
corning the Farm Bureau before they
start out to visit other farmers. On the
night before the campaign there will be
big banquet and pep meeting attended
by those who expect to put across the
membership drive. 1t is expected that
nearly 200 farmers will attend this BAN
Quet.
The Farm Bureau Office will be busy
place the next few weeks, as lists are COM
piled here of the farmers who have not
joined yet, assignments are given out
daily to the solicitors and drivers, and
reports are received and compiled every
night
A Nationwide Drive.
These campaigns are going on all of
the time all over the United States.
The American Farm Bureau Federation
has men out In the field working with the
local people to organize Farm Bureaus
Farmers seem to be quite eager to join.
A million more members by 1923 is the
goal which Farm Bureau workers have
SET
Town and country people alike are TAX
ing keen interest in the Farm Bureau
movies, "The Homestead" and 'Spring
Valley" which are being shown In connec-
ton with the educational campaign that
is part Of the membership drive. While
their primary mission Is to tell the story
OF the Farm Bureau. they are also inter-
esting pictures. depicting romance and
humor In farm life.
School Children Interested.
The boys and girls of the county are
greatly excited over the Essay Contest
announced In the schools this week. A
big list Of prizes Is offered to the boys and
girls writing the best essays on why Dad
Joined the Farm Bureau" The contest
is limited to boys and girls under Is. The
youngsters are studying the booklets and
other literature very carefully before
their essays. The prize-win-
ners will be published In this paper.
Watch for them.
In two weeks we will have surprise
for you ourselves. Watch for it. 1t will
mark big step in the history of journalism
in this county and make you proud you
live here.
Campaign is Nation Wide.
What Is happening here is scheduled to
happen in every other county in the
United States within the next year. 1t is
part of the Farm Bureaus drive for mil
lion new members. The Farm Bureau
is already the biggest organization Of
farmers in the world, but needs hundred
per cent increase in membership in order
to do its most effective work. 'We shall
never be satisfied until every farmer in
America is given an opportunity to join
This movement" said ]. R. Howard, the
Iowa farmer who is president Of the
American Farm Bureau, when he launched
the nationwide drive.
zone farm family out Of six wearing the
Farm Bureau emblem is not enough
declared Secretary John w. Coverdale.
mo less than half of all the farm people
,f America will join the Farm Bureau
when they understand what it will do for
hem."
"And we expect to give every one OF
hem personal invitation to come in
eplied Charles F.. Gunnels, who is the
Director of Organization for national head
quarters. Farmers who understand this
,reat movement will be organized to call
N their neighbors and explain every phase
# Farm Bureau work. Then they will
invite him to sign up and bring with him
he whole family mother and the chill
ren--into the County Farm Bureau, the
tate Farm Bureau, and the American
arm Bureau-three In one.
Out for a Record.
It has been suggested that we make
ecord for the state while we are at It.
he suggestion has met with the hearty (
pproval Of the farmers who have talked
over, the county officials, the town busl-
ess men who are interested in seeing the
armers organized and prosperous. and all
rho have a pride in seeing this county
:ad in everything it undertakes. Inc