Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-03-10


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.nlIATE STEDERAr1oN INVITES CO.
OPERATIVES 10 oolJfERHNOE
ON PRoBIiE1Is
st. Paul, March 8 81 Full use Of the
whole farm bureau Organization as 81
clearing house for all farmers common
Rzohlems, will be offered to the prin &c i.
I'll statewide cooperative organalzs ia 4
tiions Of Minnesota. 5s# n
The Minnesota Farm Bureau fedora
tion is inviting officers and directors,
Of nine agricultural organizations to Q J
statewide conference to work out IN
detail q plan by which all these bodies
may act promptly and with 9 united I'M
front on all matters affecting the
whole farming population Of the state.
\. The farm bureau will offer the use of
!. sits state headquarters, its Office force,
and the facilities Of the national Of
fices of the federation in Chicago and
Washington, to consolidate the power
Of the cooperative marketing agencies
/ Of the state for united action.
The executive board Of the state
federation, in session LAST week, voted
to ask nine farm organizations to send
representatives to conference to dis
/ .1uss common problems and the func-
tons of a joint clearinghouse. In
formal invitations are being sent to
I HE Central Cooperative Commission
! association, the Minnesota Co-opera-
tive Creameries association, Inc, the
u. S. Grain Growers, Inc, the Mime
sofa Potato Exchange, the Twin City
MIX Producers, the Farmers Terminal
Packing Plant, the wool growers, the
farmers mutual hail insurance organi-
ntions, and the Minnesota Co-opera-
tive Shipping Association. ~
New York farmers already have
created such clearing house, accord.
ing to bulletin of the American Farm
Bureau federation. It is known as the
Conference Board of Farm Organiza
tions. Several times a year, the Off
GERS and directors of the State Farm
Bureau, the Dairymen 3 League, the
Grange and the Fruit Growers, meet to
take united action on problems affect
ing all farmers of the state. The last
meeting discussed control of tubercu'
losis in dairy cattle and legislation to
improve state drainage laws.
1.-THE result of the work of this con.
ference board,' the farm bureau bulle
tin says, sis to unity the agricultural
thinking of New York and enable all
the farm organizations to present
solid 'front.'
The Minnesota Farm Bureau fedora
ton executive board, at its Marcel
meeting, passed a resolution urging
Minnesota s delegation in congress t<
:, support an amendment to the income
tax law, giving all cooperative organl
cations specific exemption from pay
: nent Of income taxes. At present
the federal commissioner Of interna
revenue has ruled that surplus or re
:. serve, funds set aside by cooperative
are taxable as profits. The cooperative
organizations stand is that such fund
are not profits, but money belonging t.
members, and invested in the business
The farm bureau also appealed to tn
internal revenue department to Prepar
q special, simple income tax report TO
. cooperative organizations, so that
would be easier to make reports re
: 4uired, either in paying taxes, or to Oh
tain exemption. Il.
Farm. Bureau Keeps Hands OF Polite
Officers and directors of county far1
Bureaus: and township farm burea
units all over Minnesota are receivin
a resolution adopted unanimously a
the last meeting Of the executive boar
of their state federation. The resolr
!: ton follows: r-..-.
81 <@Whereas-The Minnesota Far
Bureau federation has been organize
!; and maintained as non-poitical O.
!; ganization,
t'Resolved-That the executive con
/, .mittee Of the Minnesota Farm Burea
federation recommends to all TOWNSHIP
8 unit, directors and other farm burea
- officers that they do not allow an
candidate for political Office, or an
political speaker to make any politics
=. address at any duly called Farm burea
meeting, and .@-...
-<GResolyed-That the committee r
commends that no County Farm 81
reau association or township unit 60 o
record as endorsing any candidate II
political office" --~ 49,, r.
GERTRUDE LYON: SAVES DRoW1
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