The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-05-09
County Wheat
Meetings Are
Being Held
Situation Will Be Explained
and Vote Will Probably
Be Taken
IS COUNTY SESSIONS
Failure To Vote Same AS
Unfavorable, Says M.
L. Wilson

Several meetings are being held
in Stearns County this month in
connection with the referendum on
the wheat adjustment program. At
each Of these meetings the wheat
situation will be explained and pro-
badly farmers will be asked to vote
as to whether or not they wish to
continue the program after 1885
crop year. The Ashley-Raymond-
Northfork township meeting was
held Wednesday at the Raymond
Town Hall in Padua. The other
meetings will be held as follows:
Thursday, May 9-Sauk Centre,
Getty-Progressive Farmers Club
Hall, T. II. 81.
Friday, May 1o-Melrose, Grove
City Hall, Melrose.
Monday, May 13-Crow Lake,
Crow River-Opera House, Bel
grade.
Tuesday, May 14-Lake Henry,
Spring Hill, Lake George-Village
Hall, Spring Hill.
Wednesday, May 15-Paynesville,
Zion-Village. Hall, Paynesville.
Thursday, May 16-Millwood,
Oak, st. Martin-Village Hall,
Freeport.
Friday, May 17-Albany, Krain,
Farming Theatre, Albany.
Saturday, May 18-lMunson, Eden
Lake-Council Room, Richmond.
Monday, May N-Rockville,
Wakefield, Luxembourg Council
room, Cold Spring.
Tuesday, May 21-Avon, Col
legeville-Village Hall, Avon.
Wednesday May 22-Holding-
ford, Observation-Disclosures.
Thursday, May 23-St. Joseph,
st. Wendel-St. Joseph Village
Hall. .....saz,,.
Friday, May 24-Maine Prairie
Fair Haven, Lynden-Town Hall,
Fair Haven.
Saturday, May 25-St. Cloud, st.
Augusta, LeSauk-County Agents
office, st. Cloud.
County Agent e. c. Lenzmeier
and Edwin MANI, j. M. Miller and
G. A. Smoley, all members of the
Stearns County wheat allotment
committee, attended a meeting of
committees and county agents at
University Farm, st. Paul, last
week. At this time M. L. Wilson,
assistant secretary of Agriculture,
told them that the referendum viii
serve as a demonstration to the ma
ton at large as to whether farm
ers want the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act.
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
minstration, MIR. Wilson asserted,
is very much interested In the far
mers' reaction to this question, be-
cause it,gealizes that the success Of
any future adjustment program
will depend on the whole-hearted
support given 1t by the majority OF
wheat growers.
The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration was set up by a
democratic process" he continued.
1T owes the success which 1t has
so far attained to the operation Of
a democratic process, to the work
of the county committeeman and
the community committees through
whom the provisions Of its con-
tracts have been carried out. It will
stay in operation just as long as
it is supported by that democratic
process and no longer.
"You know, as well as I, the
forces that are mastering an attack
on the amendments to the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act which were
proposed with q view to making
the Act a more effective means of
securing the farm welfare. won
der IL you know as well as do,
the encouragement that they would
draw from an inconclusive vote at
the wheat referendum, vote,
which, even If it were favorable,
were cast by only a few of the elig-
ible voters? Do you know how
such vote would initiate not only
against the passage of the amend
ments, but against the mainten-
ance OF the Agricultural Act itself.
IF Congressman and Senators
get the impression that the man
date given to them so strongly In
1882 has been withdrawn by a
growing apathy among their con-
stituents, can they be blamed II
they accept a new mandate framed
by those who have other interests
at hearth"