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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1921)
* s 3* r 4P - :.V. i • >. ...... . V/il JL JLJL^AV* VOLUME XU. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921. . *--— ■'——— ■—— -— ■ 1 1 .—— I When A Million And A Half Farmers UNITE FOR PROGRESS I You can bet your bottom $ there’ll be SOMETHING DOING j A Million and a Half farmers have banded together for the sake of our American farm industry. Clear purposed, keen minded and alert, they are fully aware of the magnitude of the many problems they have undertaken to solve and they are imbued with determination to “stick” to the finish. These farmers are made up of the farmers of Nebraska and of Holt county and they propose to carry out their plans through the organizations of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Farming has gained recognition as the great Wealth producing industry of the country; farmers of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation can demand and expect the co-opera tion of all related industries in the solution of the problems which, while peculiarly the farmers’, are essentially the nation’s. With every farmer in Holt county, in Nebraska and the United States they cart be solved. TRANSPORTATION The farmer is one of the chief users of the railroads—both as a producer and as a consumer. He has a right to a voice in their administration. The freight service must be handled that cars are available to market his crops. Water transportation is cheaper than rail and should be a materially helpful complement to the railroad systems. The farmer wants an ocean port facing both the Atlantic and the Gulf. He wants good roads for local transportation. His business needs them—it is to the country’s good to see that he gets them. WHY THE TARIFF LEGISLATION? The debased money of foreign nations reduces their production cost in comparison with ours, The farmers of the United States are faced with the likelihood of a dumping of cheap foreign farm produce on our markets to compete with the native crops. Some method must be devised tp prevent such a disaster and yet give foreign nations every Chance to |jutld up credit by creating an export trade. CREDITS FOR MARKETING Adequate transportation will help to solve the problem of distributive marketing, but it won’t prevent dumping immediately on harvest, with the resultant shattered market ; and crushing losses to the farm industry like those of 1920. The farmer needs credit to market his crops gradually to meet the actual consumer demand and he needs credit to pay transportation to markets where his produce is needed. Our present credit system, based on a 60-day paper, will not provide it. Some method must be devised to enable the farmer to borrow money on paper maturing at distributed intervals during the fall, winter and spring. His business needs such credit—it is to the nation’s interest to see < that he gets it. ■ | A CREDIT FOR WORLD MARKETING j Many of our crops are raised partly for foreign consumption. On these crops is largely | based our foreign trade. Because the world owes the United States immense sums, the money of many European countries is almost worthless for purchasing in this country.- S 3 They have not, as yet, got sufficiently readjusted to have goods to trade. Something must , J J be done to enable them to buy. The American Federation Trade Finance Commission, Pi recently formed, will help but its capitalization is only a hundred million dollars. A PROTECTION AGAINST INDIVIDUAL BANKRUPTCY The market break of 1920 cost the American farmer from five to seven billion of (loi ters. No other industry.could have absorbed such a loss; the farming industry can’t do it year after year. In many cases it has swept away the patient work of a decade, has r 5 robbed the farmer not only of every cent of his year’s profit but has eaten far into his g | principal and nullified the lobar of years. It must not happen again. * j -.. im.ii. m —■—■—■■ linn i What the American Farm Bureau Federation Can Do BETTER PRICES FOR YOUR PRODUCTS Do you want a fair price for your wheat and livestock ? The American Farm Bureau Federation is at Work developing a plan of marketing grain to eliminate speculation, stabilize markets and insure a reasonable return to farmers. The Committee of Seven teen is made up of experts in grain marketing, representing all farmers' organizations. A similar committee has been appointed to take up livestock marketing. £N UNFAIR LAND TAX Would ypu carp tP have the Nolan Bill become a law? The Nolan Bill provides a 1 per cent tax on all land values above $10,000 but exempts improvements; attempts to shift more of the taxes on to farm land off all other property. It aims to force down the price of land and farm products, while holding up wage scales. The American Farm Bureau Federation is fighting this proposal. It has over 300,000 organized farmers on record against it. Congress will go slow in passing the Nolan Bill at the behest of organized labor and manufacturing interests-—with the farmers solid against it and organized in the American Farm Bureau Federation. DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW REPEALED * Do you appreciate the repeal of the Daylight Saving Law? The American Farm Bureau Federation is directly responsible for the repeal of this law over the president’s veto. The Federation, through its officers, made Congress understand that the law was working a hardship to farmers, and that the farmers were organized in opposition to it. Congress repealed the law. These are only a few of the important measures the American Farm Bureau Federation is at work on. THE HOLT COUNTY FARM BUREAU The Holt County Farm Bureau is working with and through the State Farm Bureau Federation to support the big and constructive program of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Every farm bureau member has a direct part in the County, State and American Farm Bureau work. The farmer who joins his county farm bureau automatically becomes a member of the Nebraska State Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation. You will be asked to join the Holt county Farm Bureau II THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 7 .The "Kickoff” meeting of the Membership Campaign will be held at the K, C. Hall in O’Neill next Monday afternoon starting at 1:30 o’clock One At Chambers Opera House At Same Time. * ' / • # | ' Prominent Farm Bureau men from tht State Federation will tell of what the Farm Bureau Federation is doing and what it will do for the farmers of Holt county We are expecting ev^ry farmer in Holt county to attend these meetings. We are expecting you to do your share and get the benefits of this great farmers’ organiza tion. N. W. Gaines of the Extension service, will talk on Farm Bureau work at the following places this week: Come and hear him: Inman opera house, Thursday evening, Feb. ^yd| Ewing opera house, Friday afternoon, Feb. 4th; Page Methodist church, Friday evening, Feb. 4th;%Stuart auditorium, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 5th; Emmet hall, Saturday evening, Feb.5th. OLT COUNTY Farm Bureau - • t Member of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation and American Farm Bureau Federation. S. A. Hickman, Captain, County Membership Committee.