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Seek a 'voice'... I'ne u. b. s youngest and pos sibly most outspoken farm group is the National Farmers Organi zation with headquarters in Corning, Iowa. In a current article, Farm Quarterly magazine says the NFO holds to the idea that the basic farm problem is that the farmer has no voice m pricing his own products. This can be remedied either by legislation or by action of organized fanners. In the words of NFO president LITERATURE DEPARTMENT PLANS Miss Lucile Elliott, assisted by Mrs. L. E. Taff, will review Ed gar Allen Poe: The Inner Pat tern, by David M. Rein, for the Literature Department of the Community Club at its' meeting next Thursday at 3 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Alfred Linde. •CLASS, PENNY IN SCHOOL Chapel Hill Police Patrolmen George Penny and Jessie Klass, and Carrboro Patrolman Claudie Williams, all of whom joined the forces in the last six months, are attending a one-month school for police recruits being held during.. January under auspices of the Durham Police Depart ment. WMU TO HEAR DR. ELLIS .The general meeting of the University Baptist Church be held Monday at 8 p.m. The Fannie Heck Circle, Mrs. Harold Harville, chairman, will be in charge. Dr. Fred Ellis of the tTNC.pharmacology faculty wiil speak and show sfides on his recent trip to Russia. t Oren Lee Staley, “American agri culture is production crazy.” He says, “We can grow anything but we still don’t know how to sell. We take our stuff, dump it on the market and ask ‘What’ll you give me?”— As arforganized group, the NFO hopes to make agreements with processors under which member farmers will deliver stated num ber of livestock at definite times and at stipulated prices. Eventu ally, they hope to expand to con tracts with processors of other farm products. To pressure the processor in to signing up the NFO has adopted a technique called the “holding action.” This is a kind of strike in which NFO, through its county bargain ing’* committees, sets target prices for farm products and asks its members and all other producers to refuse to market the stipulated products except at these prices. Authority to organize the NFO comes by way of the Capper Volstead Act, passed in 1922, giving agricultural cooperatives the right to act collectively in marketing their agricultural pro ducts without violating the anti trust laws. Each NFO member is required to sign a three-year membership agreement: a lengthy document designed not to be broken except under penalty of assessment. There is nothing in it per se that would be damaging to a signer but it is a legal document and eontains clauses that do affect his future rights and income. In order < to strengthen its position and prove it commands the allegiance of enough farm ers to make it worthwhile for a processor to negotiate a con tract, the NFO has been holding organizational drives' through out the* Corn Belt and dairy regions. .'.-. The states with sizeable num bers of NFO members are Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wis consin, Mnnesota, Ohio, Kentucky, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas arid Idaho. Farmers are showing they arcTin a mood to protest current .marketing arrangements. There will be further holding actions involving more territory, more producers and more live stock and commodities. Nothing in the NFO agreement, inidental ly, compels a member to partici pate in a holding action. Interracial Fellowship V will have discussion on its future course Some past and present officers of the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration will serve as discussion leaders for an open meeting of the group to air opinions of the membership con cerning its future course. Among those who will speak at 8 o’clock next Jan 18, at St. Paul’s A.M.E. Church will be Walter Spearman and Daniel Okun, both past presidents; the Rev. W. R. Foushee, a past mem ber of the Steering Committee; and Mrs. Vivian Foushee, a cur rent member of this committee. A brief questionnaire has been sent to the mailing list of the organization’s bulletin asking members to evaluate past activi ties and to indicate possible fu ture areas of concern. Included in the questions' is one askins* whether the Fellowship should be disbanded, now that the Chapel Hill School Board has begun assignment of first grade pupils on a geographical basis without regard to race. 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