American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-31
DRASTIC CHANGES
/. IN MANAGEMENT
WHEATGROWERS
E. C. GLEASON OF JEROME NEW
GENERAL MANAGER-PROaIISES
$4,000 REDUCTION IN OFFICE EX-
PENSE.
.INEFFICIENCy is CHARGED
Says Many Men In Charge of Station
Are Incompetent and will Be RemOV-
ed-WiIl Place Office on Business
Basis at Once.

e. c. Gleason yesterday announced
his acceptance of the office OF gener-
al manager of the Idaho Wheatgrcwers
Association to succeed ]. T. Fisher OF
Rockland, resigned On top of This an-
nouncement came Mr.. Gleason's pledge
that the office expense of the assoc1a'
ton would be reduced $4,000 for the
coming fiscal year, $4,000 of which is
to be a reduction in salaries. He es-
imates also that the overhead Of the
association will be cut in half as COM
pared with the fiscal year just clOsec-
Mr.. Gleason is recently from Jernme,
Idaho, where he has purchased gram
for several years for himself and for
the Farmers Elevator COmpa ny. He
has been in the grain business Tor
fifteen years and has varied eXper-
ience that covers every phase Il the
business from personal contact. Prior
to his entry in the grain busin SIS he
was an auditor for large corporations
rand public utilities in the east. he
claims to know the attitude of the
farmer. the broker, the speculatoF
and the ultimate buyer and his ex7
perienee bears out the claim,
Association Criticised.
The new manager has made study
of his job for the last two weeks and
with held his answer to the Board Of
Directors until yesterday. He finds
the Association severely criticised and
believes there has been ample room for
criticism. In a statement for the
Press yesterday he said:
"The members of the Association
have a legitimate "kick" concerning
the results that have been obtained
during the last year. My hope is that
they will not hold me personally re.
sponsible for these results, but that
they will join earnestly with me in re-
medying conditions that have been al
lowed to exist. You cannot emphasize
too strongly the fact that office ex-
penses are going to be cut $4,000 dur
ing the coming fiscal year and that this
office is going to be placed on an ef,
ficient basis. 1t is evident to me that
the Association has been trying to move
too fast in acquiring warehousing fac
ilities and that the proper check has
not been kept on expenditures.
Incompetent Agents.
Il find many of our receiving sta
tions in the hands of unframed and in
competent men and changes shall be
made where ever this condition exists.
Every man in the employ of the Asso-
citation will be carefully selected and
his work will be carefully scrutinized
by an auditor to prevent leaks and
mismanagement.
1T is very evident that this asso-
citation cannot control or be a real i'm
portant factor in the world market
controlling the small amount of wheat
that it does at the present time. For
that reason it is a severe handicap
for the association to undertake order
| ly marketing over a period of 12
months. This plan will not give the
farmer member the best price for his
wheat because any grain dealer knows
that there are cetain months when the
price of wheat is high simply because
there is little wheat to be had Our
Association sold nearly 200 900 bushels
of wheat during May and June last. at
a time when practically every mill in
the country was shut down for repairs
cleaning and renovating. This is a
rule that applies in the business ev-
cry year. Naturally the market was
ont in condition to absorb any uuen-
! tity Of wheat at that time and the mem
bers lost thousands of dollars on their
price.
Must Protect Organization.
The next season will find the
| Wheatgrowers Association with expert
market men in ST. Louis, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Kansas City and Port
land. We will at all times have the
best markets available to us.
'The Association expects to add one
and a half million bushels to its mar
keting tonnage this season from the
upper Snake River Valley. We are
strong in the lower country about
G0oding, Richfield and Shoshone and
are holding our own elsewhere. Our
membership have liabilitis that must
be protected and the problems that
we face are their problems Working
together we will soon have the Idaho
Wheatgrowers Association in the fore
front among Cooperative Mark ,ting
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