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The Farmers' Convention of Sandy Spring ..... 1933.

The 61st session of this annual gathering of the frayed remnants
of a once honored profession will certainly go down as one of the
liveliest, if not the most intellectual in the annals of this illustrious
body. A much larger assemblage than usual in the morning was considerably
augmented by noon, and thereafter the hall continued to fill, until a
crowd of actively partisan politicrats jammed it to capacity,
conservatively at least one-third of the reported 1000 in the newspaper reports.
I feel that some apologies should be made to the shades of past conventions
for an apprent desertion of past standards, by the metamorphess
of the current edition into a rampant and truly pre-election battle ground,
with the unusual feature, and one that certainly did nothing to diminish
the numbers of the onlookers, of having each side represented by its
most authoritative representative. But I must desist from too complete a
description of the atmospheric qualities of the occasion and get to
facts, else this paper, really closely related to guncotton, may , perchance,
take on its attributes and explode, as did imminently threaten
to do the last meeting in these classic halls.

The Convention was called to order at about the usual time
on the morning of Feb. 25, 1934 in the high school auditorium by Pres.
C.L.Gilpin. The secretary read the minutes of the preceding convention,
which were apporved. Several letters were read from our Congressmen, in
reply to the resolution opposing government reclamation of waste land,
as passed at that meeting. At this time the chairman appointed a committee,
composed of R.B. Farquhar, Jos. Milstead and Wm. Talbott, to handle
and reolutions introduced, and bring them up for action at the afternoon
session.. The following men were chosen to be placed in nomination at
the annual meeting of the Community Council, for three-year membership
in that body : O.W.Robey, W.J.Hinee and J.E.Janney. As Delegate and
Alternate, respectively, to that meeting Willard Marlow and C.E.Bond
were chosen. M.H. Bancroft then report on the major activities of the