Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-06-16
Will. }TIssEET EVERY
FARMER I'M COUNTY
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Farm Bureau Conducting Pub
hcity Campaign Preliminary
to Membership Drive.

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by a 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
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
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
ton and the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton. where the work and p/icies 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 a busy
place the next few weeks, as Lists are CON-
| 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
/ 4 million more members by 1928 is the
|! coal which Farm Bureau workers have
! set.
( Town and country people alike are tax
ing keen interest in the Farm Bureau
4 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
1 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 10. The
Youngsters are studying the booklets and
other literature very carefully before
beginning their essays. The prize-win-
ners will be published il this paper.
Watch for them.
In two weeks we will have a surprise
for YOU ourselves. Watch for it. It will
mark big step in the history of journalism
in this county and make you proud you
live here.
Campaign is Nationwide.
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 Bureau 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
20 do its most effective work eve 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 ali the farm people
of America will join the Farm Bureau
l when they understand what it will do for
them"
"And we expect to give every one of
them a personal invitation to come in"
replied Charles E. Gunnels, who is the
Director of Organization for national head
quarters. Farmers who understand this
great movement will be organized to call
on their neighbors and explain every phase
of Farm Bureau work. Then they will
invite him to sign up and bring with him
the whole family-mother and the chill
dren--into the County Farm Bureau, the
State Farm Bureau, and the American
Farm Bureau-three in one"
Out for a Record.
it has been suggested that we make a
record for the state while we are at it.
The suggestion has met with the hearty
approval of the farmers who have talked
it over, the county officials, the town bust
ness men who are interested in seeing the
farmers organized and prosperous, and all
who have a pride in seeing this county
lead in everything it undertakes. The
scate record will not be made on total
membership, but on the percentage of our
farmers who sign-up in the Farm Bureau