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of the Grain Growers' Association had to say about the chances of suc- 

 cess for the reorganized company. 



The financial affairs of that organization were found in very bad shape, 

 he explained, and time and patience on the part of both creditors and 

 members of the organization will have to be exercised in order that it 

 may win through in its reorganized form. He expressed the belief that 

 it would win out, eventually, and hoped that marketing of grain might be 

 undertaken at no very distant date. 



WOMEN'S PART OF FARM BUREAU DAY 



The women had a big share in putting over Farm Bureau Day this year. 



When the Page County Farmers' Band opened the program there were 

 more women than men in tne tent. When the women left in the after- 

 noon following their part on the program in the big tent, the men were 

 heard to remark that they would just as soon have had the women go on. 



Mrs. Richardson opened the program by recounting how a committee 

 of five women were appointed last year to help solve National Farm 

 Bureau problems, and she had pleasure in introducing the chairman of 

 this committee, Mrs. Charles Schuttler, of Farmington, Mo. 



Mrs. Schuttler built her talk around a quotation of Sir Horace Plunkett 

 that "Agriculture is an industry, a business and a life." She stated that 

 before farmers can have the place belonging to them they must recog- 

 nize agriculture as interesting and as the most dignified work in which 

 man can engage. She bewailed the too long working day, stating that 

 no nation can exist long as a republic which has to labor too long hours 

 at such hard labor that they are too tired with making a living to make 

 a life. 



Her remedy in part was organization. 



Mrs. Schuttler reminded her audience that if it had not been for the 

 rise in land values, and the unpaid labor of women and children the 

 American farmer would have found out long ago that he is dead. She 

 compared the work of farming to a foundation and asked: "Of what good 

 is the foundation though it be true and strong unless you rear on it a 

 beautiful structure?" 



She stated: The Farm Bureau has untapped reservoirs of power and 

 strength which should be used — the woman power; that there are places 

 where there are few, if any, women attending the meetings. "Every 

 farm woman counts for one vote and one bit of influence; if the Farm 

 Bureau is wise it will use this power to the utmost. Use them not only 

 to make better bread and finer cake, and to uplift the school and church, 

 but use them as a mightly lever behind every sphere of business. As 

 goes the rural home of the United States, so goes the nation. Farm 

 Bureau work is not a job for a lot of women; not a job for a lot of men, 

 it is a job for both working together. We can't draw a line between 

 men's work and women 's work." 



Following Mrs. Schuttler's talk, Mrs. Richardson introduced different 

 members of the committee for Iowa appointed last January — one for 

 each congressional district, "to help get the Farm Bureau out of a tight 

 place." 



