The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-11-08
Farmers Shown Way to Success

,, .ho form hoard law is to succeed naturally the
farmers all will have to be organized. 1t Is a cooperative
system Of marketing farm produce which the law pro-
poses. It presupposes that the farmers all Will get IN
under the law. How could it succeed If the farmers Will
not all cooperate? How could there be cooperation WITH
out all the farmers being banded together?
Editor Kicker. OF the Farmers Union Herald, put ih's
nhasc Of the situation before the Farmers Union state
meeting here Thursday He put it quite bluntly. lie
said there was no use in ignoring the nccu OF eel'ihs
Ill the farmers into the fold. No matter wha. thclf
degree OF intelligence, it was necessary to have them IN
the organization. Otherwise there could be no coopefa
ton. And the farm relief law depends on cooperation
for success. Without the farmers at present independent
Of organization neither the organizations nor the law
could succeed in attaining their goals.
The sooner. therefore, that the farmers get organized.
the sooner the new law will be able to function. THIS
is q small contribution by the farmers 10 their own
cause. Editor Kicker pictured the situation as analogous
to a power station. The farm board and the revolving
fund voted to finance the experiment arc the Dynamo
and the wires. Current can accomplish nothing. nc SAID
until it is linked up with machinery. The farmers organ
izations will be the machinery to which to wire up the
Hoover plan. As soon as this is accomplished. the farm
relief act may be expected to function.
Farmers acknowledge that among them are many dense
or prejudiccd minds. These dense minds, in some M
stances smarting under some experience OF betrayal
perhaps, are the ones outside the various farmer organ
izatiOnS, as a rule. To get tlcSc LIO tNt lou 70 uN
big problem Of the farmer organizations like the Farmers
Union. In the proportion as they arc persuaded 70
enter organization or remain outside. Will DC the GILL
cheney OF the new system the Hoover plan Is setting up
The farmers will have to function with a united front, as
a unit. For them it is United we stand, divided We
fall as the motto of Kentucky expresses 1t.
Editor Kicker made it plain that the need Of thorough
cooperation must be met by the farmers organizations
even if the canvasscrs for new members have to deal
with the bull dog at some farms in seeking to enlist the
farm owners. He cited Tom D. Campbell. the worlds
greatest wheat grower, as All example. Campbell founo
that to gain consideration for one of those loans a farmer
needs while waiting to market his crops. he must be 3
member Of a farm body. 50 he joined the Farmers Uniol
or Big Horn county, Montana. If a wheat grower on thu
basis Of 4 million dollar crop can afford to do that. thu
inference is that the little fellows can do it also.
Anybody can afford to try something once. Maybe TIT
North Dakota farmers can afford to do what Edito
Kicker recommended inasmuch as he based his advic
on the need Of the Farm board functioning through tn
machinery set up so far by the co-ops. It is the onl
way that the coop and the farmer-ownede elevators cal
be made to assist the Farm board relief plan in gettin
into operation.
incidentally. Bismarck is pleased to entertain tn
Union. One has only to attend the sessions to see tina
what animates these farmers is the prosperity OF Nort
Dakota as well as their own welfare. Anyhow. how
North Dakota ever to prosper completely If the majo
portion Of its people is engaged in unremunerative activ
ity? There can be only one attitude on that, and that
the promotion of the fortunes of the afflicted industr,
which happens to be the main activity of the state-it
agriculture. The Farmers Union Of the state fills a
important economic function in the attempts to lift u
and develop the agriculture Of North Dakota.