The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
The
of the F. JUG. T. A.
When the Wind Blows
Preparations Made
There Is No Charge
Your Paying Agency
Begins To Take Over

Your Paying Agency
Begins To Take Over
A chain is no stronger than It's
weakest link. A union is no stronger
| than its weakest member. The UNI
ion of farmers, known as the Farmers
Union Grain Terminal Association
depends for endurance upon the weak
est members In its cooperating fam
lily, in the marketing of their grain.
In his letter to the church at Ephesus,
Paul make reference to the same kind
of weak members, when he wrote:
"That we may be no longer children,
tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the
sleight of men, in craftiness, after the
wiles of error" That, which applied
to religion, applies with as full force
to economic faith. There are those
who, having accepted the idea that the
farmer can improve his condition by
marketing his grain through his own
marketing agency, allow themselves,
when the time comes to market the
grain, to be carried about by every
wind of doctorine" A show of good
fellowship is often enough to become
one of the "wiles" that get the grain
away from the farmers own market
ing agency, to which the farmer had
long before pledged himself.
There is less of that than there was
in years gone by The farmer is be-
ing educated and is no longer easily
duped. In fact such is the expect
ancy that the farmer will stick to his
own marketing agencies, that unus-
ually careful preparation has been
made to handle a greatly increased
volume of grain this fall. Last year
the Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association handled better than rs
million bushels of grain. Today 1t is
ready to handle that and more, for
The crop promises to be larger and
more bushels will be produced 1t is
ready to take care of every sale and
every government loan that comes
rom the four great wheat states
North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota
md Minnesota. The new terminal
space it is building at Superior, Wis.
md in Montana will help to take care
If its patrons storage needs.
The task of marketing this year is |
by the extra work en-
allied by the government loan pro-
ram. The red tape takes time and
money to unwind. But-and this is
worth noting the Farmers Union
Train Terminal Association makes no
ervice charge for this extra work,
Tor does it make any service charge |
or winding up the loan, by paying
t back to the government for the |
and getting the wheat back
nto his possession. Naturally, on all
rain that moves to the terminal mar
et, the regular rates of commission
re charged the same as do all
Tiers. These rates are subject to
he rules of the Minneapolis Chamber
{ Commerce and the Duluth Board Of
'rade. But there is no rule that
orces us to charge for helping to
lake the loan.
If the loan value is above the cash
larket value, a farmer will naturally
amt the better price. II can get it,
u on grain stored on the farm; (2)
n country elevator storage tickets;
b on terminal elevator warehouse
sceipts; (4) on grain turned over to
farmer as payment for crop loss,
ut the farmer who want to get the
est service and prompt help in get
ng his loan and the money, will be
Use to tell his County Committee l
lat he wants the Farmers Union I
rain Terminal Association named in
lie papers as the paying agency"
hat goes, too, for grain turned In to a
local elevator that is not shipping s
ain to the F. U. G. T. A., which Y
ust be shipped to terminal, be- ,
luse of lack of space in the ele- /
ltor.
Farmers who know the benefits that
I've come to them in the marketing
grain through the farmer
system, will be anxious to
lid up and strengthen that system.
hey will go out of their way to
We 1t the volume of grain and the
Isiness that will increase its useful
ss to them and its power as a rep
sentative of the actual dirt farm
:" Indeed, through it, he finds the
ly way by which he can make him
IL felt and his wishes considered
the legislative and economic
heres of his country and his gov
nment. To get anywhere, farmers
Ist know what they want and then
ok together, regardless of tempta-
N or "sleight of men" until they
g masters of their own business.
hat storekeeper puts in stock of
DDS and then invites his competitor
come in and do the selling for him?
III smile at the thought? Well
ats about what the farmer has been
ing for nigh onto 10 years. Now
has begun to take over and sell
own merchandise.