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• Ie Vol. 39, No.1 0 39th Year OCTOBER 1, 1961 Publi h d n hI • Attend Your County A......- ual Mee I ---------------------~--~----------------~--------------------t:l A Challenge in Citizenship What Will be Determined 96 In Con-Con is Next Round on This i cities, whereas the Detroit metro- J. DELBERT WELLS politan area turned out a fairly Say Family Program Division light vote. Memb r 'While at Washington a few As a result "outstate" Michi- Bure u ro r years back, I learned two politi- gan may pretty well dictate what cal lessons. type of a state constitution will CLARENCE E. PRENTICE be submitted to the voters next Secretary-Manager of Michigan Farm Bur u The first lesson is that "you year. never know the results until the As a member of Michigan Farm Bur u ur t- votes are cast." The second lesson that I learned This axiom can certainly be while on the Washington scene tendance at your County Farm Bur u annu t- called to our attention as it re- was that "one round doesn't win a fight" and whether you win or ing in October is most important to F rm u lates to the September 12th Con Con election. Many Farm Bureau lose on one vote there is gener- and to you. ally a follow up. Hence you don't people won seats and many other people who support Farm Bureau stop, you start preparing for the It is your opportunity to h lp build th progr m next bout. ideals also won. of your organization and to el t w 11qu lifi d d I - It seems to me that now since In spite of all the newspaper we know who will write the next gates to the Michigan Farm Bur u annual m tin talk and commentators' analyses state constitution, we as citizens Governor Swainson October as Co-op Mon h of what happened, both pro and November 8-9-10. had better start studying hard on con, the fact boils down to the FARMERS COOPERATIVES the principles involved in the statement that some people didn't in Michigan are observing October I -ill make his annual report at is the Farm Bureau Trade Resolutions to shape the Farm Bur u progr issues at stake and be prepared quit in the "10th hour." They as Cooperative Month, as pro- the noon luncheon. Development Corporation with to work with those whom you will be adop ed or rejected at the County F rm Bu- worked right down to the wire 23 MFB Peo U.S. offices in Chicago and an have elected. claimed by Governor Swainson. Ken Naden, secretary of the getting people out to vote and 1 ational Council of' Farm Co- European office at Rotterdam. reau annual meeting. They will b s nt to th t t This will be the next round of L A Cheney, secretary of the the votes determined the winners. operatives at Washington, D.C .. The Nether lands. the battle. Be sure that the new Michigan Ass'n of Farmer Co- Resolutions Committee for its work in building th From the reports I am getting, Are Con Con will speak at noon. His topic is constitution embodies the prin- operatives, said some 325 farmer The Michigan Agricultural Co- many Farm Bureau people learn- "Strength Unknown." Michigan Farm Bureau plan of action for 1962. ciples that you think it should. cooperatives will have open house operative Marketing Association ed for the first time how to work Special features of the meet- We had better be active now in .or other programs to acquaint the is a farmer-controlled coopera- in and through their political ing are a luncheon for the ladies Some of the resolutions will d al with issu s b - determining what is developed. public with the services they offer Delegates tive through which producers of parties to select candidates and and sectional meetings for man- their members and communities. Michigan farm commodities fore the Constitutional Convention. You will w nt help get them elected. The third and possibly final agers and directors. "Through the cooperative sys- Twenty - three members of voluntarily organize to market Also, many Farm Bureau peo- round of this battle will be the to have a part in this. tem," said Governor Swainson in Michigan Farm Bureau were The report of the St. Paul and negotiate for terms of trade, ple now know the political po- adoption or rejection of the pro- his proclamation, "the farmer elected Delegates to the Consti- Bank for Cooperatives will be including price. It is an affiliate tential that lies in a well organiz- posed Constitution. You are a vital part in the F arm Bur u keeps pace with the rapid tutional Convention at the special given in the afternoon. of the Michigan Farm Bureau. ed campaign to have watchers at The time is set when rounds changes in agricultural methods election September 12. Other sections of the program resolutions process for drafting a progr m of the polls, and "callers" and two and three will occur. As In exchange for the Associa- and practices." The 144 Delegates to the Con- October 23 and 24 will discuss "transporters" working over the dedicated Americans and citizens tion membership, preliminary stitutional Convention will meet strengthening farm cooperatives, action. area to get people out to vote. of this great state of Michigan, Those in the picture, left to market investigation will be at Lansing to start work on a new new legislation and coopera- I'm sure that in some areas, we dare not default in the com- right: Jack McKendry, general conducted by the Farm Bureau State Constitution. Members of tives, and cooperation among Officers will be elected at your annu I meting the members found out that Farm ing months. manager of Farmers Petroleum Trade Development Corporation Farm Bureau who are Delegates: coopera ti ves. Bureau Community Groups can be Let me close by e-xpressing a Cooperative, Inc.; Milton 13urns, into sales opportunitie for ex- and other business important to your Farm ur u a good vehicle through which you heartfelt thanks to all of you who manager of Breckenridge- "hee]- SENATORIAL DISTRICTS porting processed blueberry pro- will be transacted. Every m mb r has n qu I get people engaged in effective voted and worked during the -er Cooperative, and a director of ducts. citizenship work. campaign. Michigan Elevator Exchange; Republicans The Corporation will also pro- voice and vote. Why not resolve now to tt nd ~ ACMA to mote sales through blueberry Regardless of whether you like Let me remind you also that Maynard D. Brownlee, general 9th-Blaque Knirk, Quincy. sample displays in the Rotterdam Further on in this article we have listed the d t , the outcome of the election or in much of the world today, the manager of Farm Bureau Ser- 10th-Berry N. Beaman, Parma. riot, I think the fact is inescapable secret ballot does not exist. It vices, Inc.; E. A. Wenner, man- office and elsewhere, and solicit 14th-John A. Hannah, Ea~t time, place, and other information for your county that rural Michigan got out to can be lost here if we don't work ager of Michigan Artificial Iuebe ry purcha er at home and abroad. Lansing. 1'1" 0 po vote, along with those in smaller I to preserve it. Breeders Cooperative; Governor Th ichi an Blueb annual meetin th t vo m y r you 1 n... Swainson; Nile Vermillion, ad- 17th-John B. Martin, Growers' A' ociation is compos- dar. May I sincerely urge you to ttend ~ ministrative vice-president of Rapids. ·owers ed of 600 grower - members 19th-Charles Figy, Morenci. located along the western coast Farm Bureau Insurance Com- An historic agreement has Among the matters likely to be discus d by 20th-Claude L. Wood, Brown at Michigan and in parts of Fleming Urges Courage panies; L A Cheney, secretary- been signed between the Mich- County Farm Bureau members in these import nt manager of Michigan Ass'n of City. northern Indiana \ here soil and igan Blueberry Growers' As- climatic effect of the Great Farmer Cooperatives; Paul 22nd-William J. Leppien, Sag- sociation and representatives of meetings are as listed by our Public Affairs Divi- Kaechele, manager of Caledonia inaw. Lakes makes ideal blueberry 10 Oppose Some Ideas the Michigan Agricultural Co- growing conditions. sion : Farmers Elevator Company. 25th-D. Hale Brake, Stanton. operative Marketing Association, when people do not know what 26th-Stephen S. Nisbet, ~"re- (MACMA). Savings Bonds Constitutional Convention. See article Farm Bu- mont. The blueberry growers became they are for. He added: President Charles B. Shuman reau Position on Some Con-Con Issues on pag 6 Farm Public REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS the first link in a chain of of the American Farm Bureau "If you are for the private market-development plans de- says that farmer' investment of of this edition. competitive enterprise system, it Republicans signed to carry Michigan farm $5.2 billion in U.S. Savings Bonds won't disturb you to be opposed products into the strengthening amount to 36% of all liquid farm Education. Should Con-Con make Superintend- to proposals that would wreck Relations Allegan county-James Farns- foreign markets overseas. asets. Farmers own 12% of all the market system. If you are worth, Allegan. Also involved in the contract outstanding U.S. Savings Bonds. ent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Edu- for the voluntary method of Berrien county, 2nd-J. Burton solving problems, you will not Tour Held Richards, Eau Claire.