The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-24
LOWDEN WILL
COME TO n. D.
IN COOP WORK
Former Illinois Governor to
Visit Northwest to- En-
courage Wheat Pooling
PROSPECTS HELD GOOD
Herman Steen, Secretary of
LOwden Committee, Sees
Great Possibilities

Grand Forks, Dec. 24-Former Gov
!ernor Frank o. Lowden Of Illinois,
Uchairman of the National Wheat
Growers Organization committee, will
leone to North Dakota to give SER
les of addresses, probably in Febru-
'lary, according to arrangements made
4 recently in conference between
Herman Steen, secretary of the
Lowden committee, and the executive
committee Of the North Dakota
Wheat Growers association Mr..
Lowden's talks will be in connection
with campaign for members in
| North Dako which will be made in
|, the spring, it is announced.
Mr.. Steen came here from Indiana
!. polls where ~ membership drive
(among wheat men was inaugurated
TON December II, and left for Aber-
deen, S. d.. to confer with officers
of the South Dakota Wheat Grow
Lers association.
\ Met Business Men
At this time Mr.. Steen met with a
number of Grand Forks business
men at the Commercial club. He
| told of the work Of the Lowden com
/ mittee, saying that the personnel of
the committee consisted \of national
lily prominent men, who desired to
tplace wheat co-operatives on a basis
of efficiency. with sufficient strength
ito effectively market the 1924 crop
in an orderly manner.
L The aim of the committee, he de-
Cleared, is to obtain control of at least
( SO per cent of the wheat crop through
I Organization, before the 1924 crop is
( ready to market. Geo. +. Duis,
/ president of the North Dakota Wheat
I Growers Association. spoke briefly,
lreviewing the work of the organiza-
! ton
The Lowden committee is desir-
Gus of assisting the North Dakota
i Wheat Growers in the coming MEM
)bership campaign, Mr. Steen told
local officials of the Wheat Grow
ling during the conference held yes
terday morning at the association
ioffices, for the reason that North
E;Dakota is the key state in the hard
wheat section raising, as it does,
the bulk of this crop, of which there
is always an acute shortage.
Il Favorably Situated
Nowhere in the United States are
|iwheat growers situated more favor
kably for proving the merits of the
pooling plan Of commodity market
ing, and for this reason the Lowden
committee is very anxious to give
Whatever help it can to promote this
NJ movement in North Dakota am
convinced that the hard spring wheat
ygrowers OF the northwest can dupli-
cate the triumph Of the Burley To-
n bacco growers whose success is so
well recognized as to need no further
&emphasis Mr.. Steen declared.
81 am convinced that the majority
of the farmers and business men of
1.-THE northwest little realize what a
ugold mine they have in the hard
Dspring wheat, provided it was hand
led right" Mr.. Steen declared.
"A direct route to millers of a
esuperfine product that they must
have in order to. make bread flour,
and of which there is never enough
to go around, presents possibilities
THAT are far-reaching' in their scope.
II "The aid that the farmers are now
s1being offered by some of the big
&gest men of the country, including
Egovernment officials, to put this pro-
Meet across, should not be overlook
lied. President Coolidge has already
MgOne long way in officially endors-
Aing this movement, but I'll tell you
Ma secret-the best is yet to come
d from that source. l know" he de-
clared.