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Volume 2 



May 20, 1924 



Number 10 



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EARLY RETURNS FROM 

 PETITIONS INDICATE 

 OVER 50,000 MARK 



Large Numberof Signersto McNary- 



Haugen Petition Suprising in 



View of Spring Rush 



Results of the state-wide peti- 

 tion-8i«n-up for the McNary-Hau- 

 gen bill had not been tabulated 

 completely when the RECORD 

 went to press, 

 but reports al- 

 ready in and 

 tabulated show 

 that 22,727 per- 

 sons signed the 

 petitions i n IS 

 counties. Many 

 of the reports 

 . indicate that 

 from 90 to 99.5 

 percent of the 

 people asked to 

 Frank D. Bwton sign actually 

 signed, indicating a strong desire 

 on the part of Illinois voters for 

 the McNary-Haugen bill and re- 

 futing the recent published state- 

 meuls iu Chicagu newspapers that 

 the bill Is a "dead issue" in Illi- 

 nois. 



Frank D. Barton, chairman of 

 the I. A. A. legislative committee, 

 spent considerable time and en- 

 ergy in directing and checking up 

 on the state-wide sign-up spending 

 one week of busy farm time in 

 the I. A. A. office at Chicago. Fol- 

 lowing is a list of the counties 

 tabulated to date: 



Woodford, 713; DeKalb, 2300; 

 Whiteside, 2051; Christian, 1568; 

 Kendall, 1901; Kankakee, 368; 

 Logan, 1348; ' Sangamon, 3260; 

 Macon, 598; Piatt, 837; Monroe, 

 725; DeWitt 359; Iroquois, 78^; 

 Menard, 564; Livingston, 355; 

 Ogle, 498; St. Clair, 513; McLean, 

 3988; Total 22,727. • 



Only One-fourth Tabulated 

 With over three-fourths of the 

 counties yet to report and over 

 22,000 signatures received a 1- 

 ready. It appears that the original 

 mark of 50,000 will be surpassed 

 easily. However, a great deal of 

 difficulty was experienced by those 

 who got the signatures in the 

 counties as it meant dropping ur- 

 gent farm work and driving about 

 the country interviewing farmers 

 busily at work seeding corn. 



It is. thought that Sam H. 

 Thompson, president of the I. A. 

 A., will take the petitions to 

 Washington and deliver them 

 personally to President Coolidge. 

 That the great number of names 

 will have an influence on Illinois 

 Congressmen in Washington is a 

 foregone conclusion. 



AU Classes 8i|ni 

 Examination of any bunch of 

 petitions from any county reveals 

 that all classes of people signed 

 for the McNary-Haugen bill. 

 Farmers were represented in the 

 greatest percentage, but doctors, 

 lawyers, assessors, ministers, 

 bankers, laborers, plumbers, hard- 

 ware dealers, garage men and 

 what-not ;'gned, thus expressing 

 their belief that the' McNary-Hau- 

 gen bill will do them some good as 

 well as for the farmer. 



COWLKS REPORTS 

 PROGRESS 

 Following In a tele^am 

 from R. K. Cnwles who U 

 representing the I. K. A. at 

 Washington, D. C, in be- 

 half of the McNary-Haugen 

 bill, which gives the prog- 

 ress of the bill up to the 

 time the RECORD went to 

 I»re8s: 



"Got rule today from 

 committee so that bill may 

 come before house for de- 

 bate Friday morning (May 

 16). Will be debated Fri- 

 day, Saturday and Tuesday 

 or may possibly not come 

 up before Tuesday (May 

 20 ) , beginning three-day 

 debate then. Bill gaining 

 supimrters and progress may 

 be re|)orted. 



R. \. Cowles. 



I. A. A. Acts Quick 

 To Stop Possible 

 T. B. Hindrance 



John W. Novak and l5r. Peter 

 P. Duket, co-partners in the Du- 

 ket-Novak Stock Farm of Lake 

 county, Illinois, have filed suit 

 against the Department of Agri- 

 culture of Illinois in the Sanga- 

 mon county circuit court at 

 Springfield for a writ of man- 

 damus claiming that the depart- 

 ment has not lawfully complied 

 with their request for a permit 

 to buy tuberculin re-acting cattle 

 and take them to their 250-acre 

 Lake county farm, there to be 

 treated with a newly formulated 

 tuberculin treatment, which. Dr. 

 Duket claims, makes a cow which 

 has previously reacted to the reg- 

 ulation tuberculin test so free 

 from the disease that she can 

 easily pass the government meat 

 requirements. 



The case came up May 12, and 

 was deferred until the week fol- 

 lowing, according to M. H. Peter- 

 sen, tuberculosis eradication ex- 

 pert for the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. Both Mr. Petersen 

 and Donald Kirkpatrick, law 

 counsel for the I. A. A., are at- 

 tending the hearings. 



In their petition, Dr. Duket 

 and Mr. Novak say that they are 

 desirous of carrying on upon their 

 farm and elsewhere as they may 

 choose the business 6t purchasing 

 and maintaining under legal quar- 

 antine reacting cattle and treat- 

 ing them for re-sale for their own 

 profit. 



Both the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and the Chicago Live 

 Stock Exchange are backing the 

 Illinois Department of Agricul- 

 ture in its stand. 





Shelby County Advertises 



The Shelby County Farm Bu- 

 reau is doing a little direct ad- 

 vertising. It has had blotters 

 printed wtih the names of the 

 county president and the execu- 

 tive committee. It also says: 

 "The only farmers' organization 

 trying to protect and advance the 

 interests of the farmer. Are you 

 a member?" The blotters have 

 been distributed freely over the 

 county. , . . . 



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EYES THAT SEE NOT-EARS THAT HEAR NOT 



CHICAGO COMMERCE MEN ASK 



I. A. A. FOR McNARY DETAILS; 



MURPHY DEBATES DR. BOYLE 



Frank W. Murphy, farmer and 

 lawyer of Wheaton, Minn., who 

 addressed the farmer-banker-busi- 

 ness man meetings at Rock Island. 

 Springfield, Danville and Bloom- 

 1 n g t o n, was 

 called upon to 

 explain the Mc- 

 Nary - Haugen 

 bill to the 

 Chamber of 

 Commerce a t 

 Chicago at that 

 org anization's 

 5th district con- 

 ference. M r. 

 Murphy defend- 

 ed the bill in Dr. j>mM E. ik>)l« 

 behalf of the 



I. A. A. against Dr. J. E. Boyle, 

 professor of rural economy of Cor- 

 nell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; who 

 took the negative orthodox pro- 

 fessorial viewpoint. No action 

 was taken by the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, this being an "Informative 

 Conference," as they term it. 



Mr. Murphy gives this late in- 

 formation on the McNary-Haugen 

 bill: 



"It was decided that the bill 

 should come up for consideration 

 in the House either Thursday, 

 May 15, or on Tuesday, May 20," 

 said Mr. Murphy. "In all proba- 

 bility the McNary-Haugen bill will 

 be brought up on the fifteenth. 

 It is especially significant that this 

 action should have been taken in 

 view of the misinformation that 

 has gone out through newspaper 

 dispatches to the effect that the 

 members of the House were un- 

 willing to bring the bill up for 



consideration until the President 

 hasj definitely stated his :>osition 

 in respect to it. 



No' Expression from Coolidge 

 "It improbably true that a num- 

 ber of the republican House mem- 

 bers have expressed a wish that 

 they might have information from 

 the White House as to the view of 

 the President respecting the bill, 

 but there has been no dtand taken 

 to the effect that the bill would not 

 be brought up until th« President 

 definitely stated his position. Many 

 members of the House and Senate 

 are in^ daily communioation with 

 the President concernUg agricul- 

 tural relief and we are convinced 

 that the President is seriously con- 

 cerned about the situation of agri- 

 culture and is determined that 

 suitable relief shall bf provided 

 by this session of Congress. 



Julius Barnes Leads Opposition 



"The opposition to the bill is 

 traceable to Julius Barnes and his 

 friends and the Boards- of Trade. 

 The opposition is entirely obstruc- 

 tive, without merit, and immoral. 

 It lacks conscience; it offers no 

 remedy for farm relief. This op- 

 position is very prominent here 

 in Washington, and we have no 

 hesitancy in attributing to the op- 

 position much of the misinforma- 

 tion that has l)een given out con- 

 cerning the status of the bill and 

 the prospects of its enactment. No 

 one has suggested any other plan 

 for agricultural relief. It is true 

 that some cooperative marketing 

 bills have come forward, but they 

 are not intended to provide eqUal- 

 (Cbntinued on paae 4) 



U\Y DEFINITE PU\NS 

 FOR SCHOOL SURVEY; 

 WILLETT EMPLOYED 



I, A. A. to Cooperate with State Ed- 

 U(ational Committee in Inter- 

 change of School Facts 



Platas for the investigation of 

 school problems are now quite 

 definitely laid. Georg^ W. Wil- 

 lett, who is principal df the Ly- 

 o n 8 Township 

 High School at 

 La Grange, as 

 previously a n - 

 nounced, has 

 been secured to 

 head up the 

 work. It is 

 planned by the 

 Education Com- 

 mittee of the 

 I. A. A. that 

 there shall be 

 full cooperation r.tj» ni w. wuhjH 

 between the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association survey and the State 

 Educational Cownittee in the 

 exchange of facts obtained. A 

 surrey of the state is to t>e aiadv 

 to. determine,, as fully as' possible, 

 the attitude of the farmers with 

 reference ^to important educa- 

 tional problems, such as consol- 

 idation, revenue relationship, en- 

 largement and unification of ad- 

 ministration. 



Cooperate with State Educational 

 I Committee 



It is planned to work In close 

 cooperation with the I. A. A. 

 taxation department in so far as 

 the school problems are connect- 

 ed with tax matters. 



"It is apparent," points out 

 J. L. Whisnand, of Charleston, 

 iChairman of the educational com- 

 mittee in outlining the survey, 

 "that the closest relationship and 

 cooperation should here exist be- 

 cause the solution of some of the 

 most important school problems 

 is dependent upon revenue mea- 

 sures. In addition, information 

 is to be obtained from other 

 states regarding school laws, 

 school government and the best 

 systems used there to thus de- 

 termine the relative efficiency o( 

 our school systems. A survey ef 

 rural school problems is to be 

 made from the standpoint of the 

 rural school teachers and county 

 superintendents. In addition, full 

 publicity will be given to the 

 facts obtained." A. C. Evering- 

 ham. of Hutsonville and E. W. 

 Rusk of Carlinville are the other 

 members of the committee. 



WiUett to Have Charge 



George W. WiUett will have 

 charge of the investigations dur- 

 ing the summer vacation and will 

 be assisted by a field man who 

 has not yet^ been appointed. It 

 is expected that a large propor- 

 tion of the survey will have been 

 completed and summarised by 

 late fall. 



J. L. Whisnand, Charleston, ex- 

 ecutive committeman from the 

 1 9th district, announces that the 

 next district meeting will be at 

 Champaign, Jtine 14. 



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