The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-11-17
SOUTHERN STATES ASSISTS In
FOOD PRODUCTION

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FOOD PRODUCTION
Southern States has assisted its
members in achieving a perfectly
marvellous record of food production
without which the war could not be
won," w. G. Wysor, Richmond, Va,
general manager of the cooperative,
declared in his annual report to the
more than 700 delegates from Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware and Kentucky in session at the
cooperative's twenty first annual
meeting at the John Marshall hotel
in Richmond, Va, November 1.
! In comparing the 21-year-old Or
ganization to young man just COM
ing of age, Mr.. Wysor told his audi
ence that "tke parents of this coop
erative, more than 10000 strong,
have reared it wisely and carefully"
There are dozens of urgently
needed services, particularly in the
field of cooperative marketing of
farm products" the speaker said,
(which are yet untouched and which
this cooperative can and must per-
form to better the economic position
of it's members and, through it's
pace-setting functions, all farm peo-
ple"
A review of the Emergency Hay
Purchasing Service which the cooper
alive conducted last winter for the
Commodity Credit Corporation show
ed that 1,595 cars of hay were skip
ped to farmers suffering from the
severe drought in Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland and Delaware. This
hay saved many dairy herds from
liquidation and also saved approx
mately 100000 for the farmers
who were forced to purchase hay be-
cause their crops were eitker dam
aged or destroyed by the drought.
In outlining the activities of the
National Tax Equality Association,
Mr.. Wysor declared that the objec-
tive of the NTEA is "the destruction
by legalistic means of farm coopera-
tives and of the fundamental right
of the farmer to perform services for
himself through the mechanism of
the cooperative association. Actually
their attack is not against farm CO.
operatives as such. They are attack
ing the American farmer.
Farming is small business" Mr..
Wysor said. "Most of our agricultural
production in this country is on fam
ily-sized farms. Farming is not only
small business, it is highly COMPETE
tive business. Even with the progress
farmers have made in organization
during the recent years, the farmer
is far less effectively organized than
is either labor or industry. Every
fair minded person, on or off the
farm, recognizes the need for farmers
to organize. The farmer in his indi-
vidual capacity is perfectly helpless
to protect his economic interests in
his relations with highly organized
and powerful business and industry"
Mr.. Wysor continued by explain
ing that the NTEA charges that CO.
operatives pay no taxes.
| Generally speaking, they pay tax
es the same as other business. A true
cooperative, however, pays no in
come tax for the very simple and
very good reason tkat there is no in
come to tax
The delegate body confirmed the
directors chosen by Districts 8, 5, 6,
and as follows: District 3, G. Clyde
Nicholas, of Northwest, Va, for the
remaining two years of the 3-year
term of A. G. HARDWOOD, Jr., of Will
liamsburg, Va, resigned; District 5,
D. G. Harry of Pylesville, Md, sue
ceeding P. c. Turner of Partition,
Md; District 6, Harry H. Nuttle of
Denton, Md, reelected, and District
Z, ]. E. Mcdonald of Martinsburg, w.
Va, reelected.
| At meeting of the board of direc-
tors, Vice-President Nuttle was ele-
waited to the presidency of the coop
erative. Charles S. GRAPHICAL of Chris
tiansburg, Va, was CHOSEN vice-presi-
dent, while Mr.. Mcdonald was named
to succeed Mr.. Locher on the execu-
tive committee. Reelected were Gem
eral Manager Wysor, Secretary Geo.
A. Jackson, and Treasurer Zacharias,
all of Richmond.
| The board also declared semi-an-
nual dividens of IN and per cent,
respectively, on the and per cent
preferred stock, these payable De-.
cember 81.
Among those who attended the CO.
operatives annual meeting were Mr..
and Mrs. H. B. Crowgy, Jr., L.
Wickes Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Feucht, Allen D. Richards, Arthur
Johnston, C. Albert George, and John
w. Schlinkman, Elkton; R. N. An
drews, G. G. Thorne, and Wade H.
Cameron, Rising Sun,