The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-30
LOCAL ASSOCIATION
OF COMMERCE Will
give COOPERATION
Plan Is to Circulate Blanks to
Farmers in This Area;
Willis Talks Here
SHAFER ENDORSES MOVE
Governor Says Concerted Ac-
ton Necessary; Discuss
Debt-Adjustment Plan

Announcement that the Chambers
Of Commerce in the major cities he
has visited have agreed to cooperate
in the dollar-wheat movement, origi-
mated in the Tolna vicinity. was made
here Saturday by Dell Willis, origina-
tor of the movement.
The Fargo Association of Com
merce, he said has agreed to solicit
the support of commercial organiza-
tons in other cities, asking them tc
aid in sending out the hold your
wheat" blanks In neighboring coun-
ties.
H. P. Goddard. secretary Of the Bis.
marcS Association of Commerce, said
the prospect is that four or five coun-
ties will be assigned to the Bismarck
area and that the work of organiza-
ton would be supervised from here.
Neither Willis nor anyone a6soci-
ated with the movement Is making
any profit from the movement and
the idea is to spread the gospel Of
hold your wheat" as rapidly and
widely as possible.
In statement given to Willis Sat-
urday. Governor George F. Shafer in
dorsed the plan. Willis discussed with
the governor the possibility Of set
ting up some sort of system whereby
the farmers of the state can hold
their wheat for better prices without
being forced off their land. His idea
was the declaration by the executive
of a moratorium on debts until wheat
prices rise to AZ cents above the price
at Winnipeg. He said the governor
had the idea under consideration.
Talks Here Friday
Willis addressed q crowd Of about
so persons Friday night at the World
War Memorial building, some farm
ers coming from as far away - Par
shall. Local business peopla - well
as farmers were represented.
He also talked to the crowd at the
Missouri Slope fair at Mandan Sat-
urday afternoon and planned to con-
tinue westward to Dickinson from
there. without funds when he left
home, he Is taking up collections to
pay for gas and oil on the trip.
Willis, who farms 1000 acres near
Tolna, makes simple presentation OF
his program. It Is based on the fact
that the world must eat and that, II
the farmers hold their wheat off the
market the price will 60 up. His aim
is to take advantage of the tariff, lift
ing wheat to AZ cents above the VIM
nipeg price at Minneapolis.
Farmers are asked for voluntary
cooperation to that end by holding
their grain until the price rises and
then to sell not more than 10 per
cent of the crop in any one month.
This, he believes. will hold up the
price once it is lifted. There are no
penalties if farmers who sign the
agreement fail to abide by its terms.
There is no compulsion to join.
Willis, however. feels that the
plan is worth trying and may lead
the way out of the present difficult
ties which face every farmer.
All Face Difficulty
He said he has not yet been forced
off his farm but that he will be un-
able to put in his crop next year If
grain prices do not improve. He owes
bills for oil and gasoline, he said, and
these must be paid or the oil conf
pany will not carry him another year.
Many farmers are In similar position,
he said, and with some conditions are
worse.
He believes, also, that the 10-per-
cent marketing plan will aid business
in that it will put the farmer on a
monthly rather than an annual basis
and will encourage him to pay as he
goes.
Some adjustments so that farmers
may try the plan is necessary IN the
debt situation. he said.
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