The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-26
lC'o.'ptigg'a's:
E.U.C.T.A..
Stockholders Meet.
1t Means Business.
Let's Get Together.
T. H. Arnold Speaks.
Welcome All Farmers.

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Welcome All Farmers.
This is addressed to the stockhold
ers of the Farmers Union Grain Term
inal Association, but all farmers
whether stockholders or not, are in
vited to listen in. Every farmer will
want to know about the doings of tn,
largest cooperative grain termina
marketing agency in the Unitet
States. Particularly so about the an
nual stockholders meeting of thi!
great cooperative marketing organi
cation and what's on the agenda fol-
| the two days. December 9 and 10, al
st. Paul, MINI. The proverb: Moth
ing succeeds like success" is borne out
in this gathering. Having been sue
GTA is in the national eye to a great
er extent than any other cooperative
Congress watches its every move;
government officials keep an eye on
| it's acts to catch the trend of farm
thought; and farmers everywhere and
the Main Street that depends ON those
same farmers, are more than ever
alert to its reactions, now that agri-
cultures interests are more definitely
threatened than ever before.
1t is an axiom that if a man does
not take care of his own business, his
business will cease to take care of
him. The stockholders of the GTA
are expected to be at st. Paul to take
care of their own business-the mar
keting of their products. More than
that, they are expected to be in St.
Paul to give voice and expression to
the demands and wishes they have
as to the legislated economy under
which all agriculture labors. st. Paul
can welcome $4,000 to football game,
to winter carnival or to some sport
or festive event. That's fun. But
this stockholders meeting means more
to the country and to the farmers
themselves than any game or a sport.
1t means business-the nations bust
ness, the perpetuation of the farm
family, if it is not to be replaced by
chain farming. In that rests the ur-
gency of this call to this assembly of
northwest farmers.
Well, you'll want to know what is
on the program. The meeting starts
the forenoon of December g. That
evening there will be get-together
dinner of the local elevator managers
and the employees of the GTA, for
technical discussions of grain mar
keting. Arrangements are being
made for an entertainment for the
wives of the elevator managers that
same evening. On Wednesday, the
10th, come reports, discussions, adj
dresses and election of directors. That
evening is the banquet for stockhold-
ers, managers of cooperative or af-
filiate elevators, officers and employees
of the GTA, winding up with two
short addresses. The idea is to get
everybody to rub elbows" eat to-
gether and get acquainted. 1t often
happens that the chap at your elbow
knows the answer to the very thing
you want to know
But who will be the big speaker
from outside? He is none other
than Thurman w. Arnold, assistant
attorney general of the United States.
What has the U. S. department of
Justice to do with us farmers? How
can Mr.. Arnold tell us anything about |
agriculture? You know, of course, |
Sherman Antitrust law and you've |
heard how he pinned the tobacco |
rust But that's not all. He is in
charge of enforcement of the Capper-
volstead law which recognizes and |
protects co-operatives; the Packers &c
law-and you know what
hat is about; the AAA law of 1898; |
he Commodity Exchange law-which |
trimmed the claws of the private
,rain trade. He has a man-sized job |
md he is in position, by experience,
o tell the farmer what these laws
mean to the farmer and what the
J. S. department of justice is doing
0 make them function. This will be
new experience for the northwest
oops and the stockholders and a
Mighty enlightening one. 1t is just as
1r. Thatcher insists and re-iterates:
)ur economy is made by laws Now,
7t us hear how these laws are en-
breed and what their limitations are
D protect the farmer
The invitation is addressed to share
olders of the GTA, but it is not ex-
lusive. Any dirt" farmer who is in
crested even remotely in what the
armers of this country are trying .
} do for themselves in cooperation
ill be welcome. They may come to
,arn and be instructed and of their
wn free will. But for Stockholders
is their duty to attend. Else how
lay they expect their marketing bust I.
ess to go forward if they pay no
ttention to its most important meet
lg?
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