The Devils Lake world., 1922-11-08
Will VISIT EVERY
FARMER IN COUNTY
Farm Bureau Conducting Pub
licity Campaign Preliminary
to Membership Drive.

to Membership Drive.
Every farmer in the county will be
visited during the next few weeks by
solicitors sfi,3 sfia given an opportunity to join
the Farm Bureau.
. Large posters, picturing 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-
tiers. A booklet telling The story OF how
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 join.
Sixteen Meetings Scheduled.
Sixteen different meetings will be held
in this county under the supervision Of the
county, the State Farm Bureau Fedora
tion and the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, where the work and p<.cies 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-
cerning 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 a 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 "a 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
islimited to boys and girls under 16. The
youngsters are studying the booklets and
other literature very carefully before
beginning 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-W Wide.
What is happening here is scheduled tc
happen in every other county in tht
United States within the next year. 1t il
part Of the Farm Bureaus drive for mil
lion new members. The Farm Burea,
is already the biggest organization o
farmers in the world, but needs a hundred
per cent increase in membership in orde
to do its most effective work 1--WE shall
never be satisfied until every farmer i,
America is given an opportunity to joil
this movement" said ]. R. Howard, tn
Iowa farmer who is president Of tn
American Farm Bureau, when he launche
the nation-w drive
"Ope farm family out Of six wearing tn
Farm Bureau emblem is not enough,
declared Secretary John w. Coverdal'
No less than half of all the farm peopl
Of America will join the Farm Burea
when they understand what it will do fe
them"
And we expect to give every one {
them personal invitation to, come in,
replied Charles E. Gunnels, who is til
Director Of Organization for national heae
quarters. Farmers who understand tn
great movement will be organized to ca
on their neighbors and explain every pha:
of Farm. Bureau work. Then they wi
invite him to sign up and bring with hi
the whole family-mother and the chi
dren-into the County Farm Bureau, Il
State Farm Bureau, and the America