The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-11-07
SUCCESSOR FAILURE
OF farm bOARDLAW
DEPENDS ON FARMER
Kicker Says 'Oumb.Bell Tillei
Must Be Educated to Co. I
operate With Plan
CANDIDATES ARE NOMINATED
Livestock Commission Usec
$4,000 Profit in organix-
ing. EgIey Relates

toward economic salvation
A. w. Kicker. editor of the Farmer:
Union Herald. told the state Unior
convention, this morning. that thu
success or failure of the new Farm
board law depends largely on the av.
eragc farmer.
He said the average farmer. with
all his prejudiccs and perhaps dumb.
bell qualities. has to be accepted III
the act Is going to succeed III stabiliz-
ing the agricultural situation, especial
ly the marketing of wheat. The will
and the character of the administra-i /
tion by the board are two factors to|
success; incompetence or dishonesty byi
the board could make the farm relief
law fail. But. after all these factors
are adjusted. there still remains the
average farmer outside Of the organ.
ization as factor essential to max
ing the law succeed in stabilizati0n.
The average farmer often may III
the answer Vice President Curtis gavd
an Iowa heckler in the presidential
campaign. he said. Curtis refused I'd
answer question asked him. "You're|
WV AeSAAlAA NuuiU w u1lOCA CCQIkU 0I1y n
how he quoted the Kansas states
man. And the next day anothel|
farmer drove down the street With
his car placarded: Curtis wad
fright"
Urged to Go Out and Canvass
So this average farmer must I'D
educated. he must be brought in sd
that agriculture can organize to tlld
point where there is no more hagglina
over prices adjusted to costs Of pro-
duction than there is when pair 0i
shoes is bought to relieve coid feet
There is no argument in that case.
| With the functioning of the Farm
board. it has been decided to create
no new organizations, but to utili7d
those existing, said Editor Kicker,
Into these must be brought the aver
age farmers outside.
/ Here We have gathered the cream,
Of North Dakota's farmers" he said
There would be no difficulty in sow
ing the problems II it all depended or
lyou. But when the farm act goes oul
to function, 1t at once runs uY
against the average unorganizee
farmer. You'll have to 60 out and
get him and make cream Of him too.
Must Educate Them In
Some of the creams turned sour.
suggested delegate.
But 1t will make butter all tn,
same" shouted back another delegate
What are you going to do II the!
set the bulldog on you?" asked m
other unionite.
Educate the dog was the reioine
Of Editor Kicker. Somebody In
said that the more he saw Of humane
the more respect he acquired "a
dogs
Remember continued the speak
er. with all this farm act and prop
aganda and noise, you get nowher
than to the average farmer. and ther
begins your task Of education"
Biggest Farmer Forced In
Even the worlds largest whea
grower, Tom Campbell, had to com
into the organization to get the benc
fit of the farm relief act. said tn
speaker. He tried to get q loa,
through the board and was told b
] had to be 9 member Of some organ
ization. SO he joined the Farmer
Union at Harden, Montana. the onl
organization in Big Horn county.
Campbell was situated no NOR
I favorably than the small farmer whc
1t came to marketing his whea
7 Hadn't even . match box to stor
, his crop In. That is why Ill 1armes
must come In: 1t Is the only WY {
; get the benefit Of elevators and ottl
; storage and marketing facilltil
+ under the new system" Mr.. Rtckf
!, reminded the audience.
At present the Farm board ts u
: the equipment Of big power hou0
It can produce current, but until tn
current Is hitched TO machinery, th
power will not produce results. Th
farm organisations are the mlactlnes
In this instance.
Faith n Legge
rl Mr.. Kicker spoke Of the farm boar
act and the grilling Of the H0ovl
appointees by the senate hearing peil
to ratifying their nominations. &
8 described the raw treatment accorci(
z the board BY the radical members ,
: the senate committee e-worse thu
= that accorded schoolboy by teeca
. Or he said. He paid . tribute
(conttnued on paSo ntne)