White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-05-11
BUREAU SPEAKERS
MAKE CONVINCING TALKS

All DuC IOur Oh the crowd out
at the Farm Bureau meeting at
Liberty hall Monday night were
members of the organization and
when the meeting was over
these four made it unanimous
by signing up, while practically
all the old members had their
membership set ahead for three
years.
w. H. Tally, secretary of the
state organization of the Farm
Bureau, was the first speaker
and his talk was largely what
he said it was--a sort of a
Mother Hubbard" covering all
phases of Farm Bureau activi-
ties without stressing anything
in particular, altho he did bring
out many telling points. Mr..
Tally said he resigned as coun.
ty agent Of Walla Walla county
when he was the highest paid
county agent i'm the state, in
order to take the secretaryship
of the state Farm Bureau where
the compensation was more or
less uncertain, because he thor
oughly believed in the Farm Blu.
reau principles. He told how
the so-called Farm Bloc in Con
gress and also in the last legis.
lature had been able not only
to get through beneficial legis-
lation for the farmers, but also
to prevent the passage of many
bills that would have affected
adversely the farming industry.
He also called attention to the
fact that the Farm Bureau is
this year for the first time
launching a cooperative fruit
marketing plan and urged all
growers to give this plan ear
nest consideration and careful
study.
Mr.. Tally was followed by
Joseph MacEachran, wheat
grower from the Palouse coun-
try and q member of the state
advisory committee of the Farm
Bureau. Mr.. MacEachran's
talk was not nearly so versatile
as that of Mr.. Tally's but with
characteristic Scotch thorough
ness he clung to facts and fig
ures, citing one concrete exam
pie after another, to show how
the farmer has been discrimin-
ated against in both an econom
ical and a legislative way, sim.
ply because he was not organized
like other industries and labor
and therefore unable to present
a united front. He concluded
by saying that he was thor
oughly convinced that unless the
farmers organized as all other
industries have, their condition
will be reduced in q few years
to that of the peasants Of
Europe.
Captain A. L. Brockway, of
Hanford chairman of the Ben
ton County Farm Bureau, made
a short address at the conclu-
sion Of the meeting, in which he
said among other things that
the county organization was
now considering the proposition
of confning the reduction in
price of farm supplies that they
had been able to secure through
organization, to Farm Bureau
members only instead of allow
ing the non-members to enjoy
this privilege as has been the
practise up to this time.
Before adjournment it was
decided to organize the wives Of
the Farm Bureau members into
an auxiliary, everybody conced-
ing that their help was neces-
sary to the success Of any under
taking. Mrs. d. J. Burch was
elected correspondent at White
Bluffs to supply the local news.
paper with all Farm Bureau
news and Mrs. FL. V. Martin was
chosen to have charge Of the
arrangements for, q school for
the women jim the making OF
millinery and dress forms that
is to be established here some
timo this summer or fall.