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The llKnoi» AgricoltunJ A»»oci«tion RacorJ 



Will Slum "Kiddies" Get 

 I 'Mother Invite to Country f 



carefully examined by a pliyal- 

 ciaD and generally made bright 

 and shining — and sanitary — for 

 their uuting. The railruads of 

 Illinois furnfsh free fare within 

 a radius of 200 miles of Chicago. 

 The members of the I. A. A. 

 are invited to take one or more 

 of these kiddies, who range in 

 af!e from 4 to 14, of both sexes, 

 into their homes for two weeks, 

 if they care to do so. The Unit- 

 ed Charities assumes the Habil- 

 it>' for injury and sickness and 



"D'ya ii'poae we'll git "nuther 

 invite to go out to the country 'n 

 ^It a lot of that fresh air like 

 last year, Jimmy?" is a question 

 luany sluni "kiddies" in Chicago 

 are asking each other these days 

 when spring is lightly turning 

 slum "kiddies' " minds to last 

 . season's summer vacations — 

 swlmmin' holes, horseback ridin', 

 puttin' up hay or chasin* the 

 cows UP from the far pasture. 



It's mighty hot down in those 

 sections of Chicago where the 

 slum "kiddies " call 

 "home." And when 

 summer comes they 

 will be crowded in 

 like wee chicks in a 

 hover with not a 

 chance to keep cool. 

 Last year farm bu- 

 reau members fur- 

 nished 473 slum 

 "kiddies" with out- 

 ings through the Il- 

 linois Agricultural 

 .Vasociation. This is 

 the fourth year the 

 I. A. A. has under- 



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taken to help the 

 I'nited Charities, a 

 non-sectarian organ- 

 ization, place needy 

 children In good 

 homes for a short ^ _. ^.„ ..... . ^ 



Trn thoaHand <>hlldrFn like lhe«if «vjinl and n 

 summer vacation, help them icii! *Phone your nelKhhorti mid arrn 

 The United Charities «•«""— "y 



t7, i«a4 



et^ to K» t«» lh«* country. Vou ciin. 

 ice to tnkr a dosen kiddle* In jonr 



selects the children and makes 

 sure they are worthy in every 

 way. They are given new clothes. 



conducts the children to the sta- 

 tion where they are met by the 

 farm folks. 



ASK I.A.A. TO FORM 

 MARKETING PLAN AT 

 13th DISTRICT MEET 



Dixon Conference Brings Out 



Discussion On Gasoline Tax, 



Co-op Marketing, Reports 



and I. A. A. Service 



The gasoline tax, cooperative 

 marketing, tuberculosis eradica- 

 tion, limestone possibilities, con- 

 atrtictlve criticism of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and a 

 general interchange of informa- 

 tion between county farm bureau 

 presidents and other representa- 

 tives featured the fir^t district 

 conference of the 13(h district 

 held at Dixon, May 29. Stephen- 

 son, Ogle, Whiteside, Carroll and 

 Lee counties were represented, Jo 

 Daviess being the only county not 

 represented. The meeting was 

 presided over by C. E. Bambor- 

 ough. Polo, executive committee- 

 man of the 13th district, who 

 called on each farm buerau pres- 

 ident in attendance to give an 

 account of the work in his county. 



Coonty Presidents Talk 



C, R. Morris, Lanark, president 

 of the Carroll County Farm Bu- 

 reau, told of the merchandising 

 adventures of his farm bureau 

 through Farm Adviser Bliss and of 

 the saving obtained, and said they 

 had decided to drop it several 

 times, but did not. S. L. Shaw, 

 Lee Center, president of the Lee 

 County Farm Bureau, said that 

 his county was iiiterested quite 

 largely in the vacciaation of hogs 

 for cholera and that immediate 

 returns to farm bureau members 

 were being obtained by buying 

 serum collectively through the 

 farm bureau. He stated that the 

 Lee County Farm Bureau had 

 saved its membership fSOO on 

 virus alone this year. 



L. M. Swanzey, Freeport, pres- 

 ident of the Stephenson County 

 Parnt Bureau, forecast a much 



rnt Bure 



larger field of service for the 

 farm bureau organizations of the 

 future. 



Considerable interest was shown 

 in cooperative marketing, a res- 

 olution being passed as follows: 



"Resolved by this meeting com- 

 posed of representatives of the 

 13th district, to urge the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to adopt 

 and put into effect some plan of 

 cooperative marketing and in that 

 way put the farmer's product 

 on an equal basis with other 

 commodities." 



A long discussion on the ad- 

 visability of a gasoline tax finally 

 led to a motion for a two cent 

 tax on all gasoline sold in the 

 state to be tabled until inore 

 complete data could be brought 

 before the meeting. 



G. E. Metzger, director of the 

 organization department of the 

 I. A. A., talked to the group 

 telling of the necessity for farm- 

 ers to organize and pointing to 

 many of the benefits Which have 

 already been derived from collec- 

 tive bargaining on the part of 

 farmers, 



L. O. Birdsall, Sterling, a for- 

 mer executive committeeman to 

 the 1. A. A., said that it was his 

 opinion that farmers should ig- 

 nore party lines in voting for rep- 

 resentatives in any branch of 

 government and that the men 

 who are for the farmer should 

 receive unified support from far- 

 mers, regardless' of his political 

 party. 



Following are the names of 

 those in attendance at the meet- 

 ing: 



li. U. Hliss. .Mt. Ciirroll; W. I.. 

 Riejfle. Franklin llrove; Johu Mi-- 

 Xell. Rock Falls; Klmer ('line. W'x- 

 chusa; Albert L. -iJetz. Mt. farroll; 

 H. A. Stevens. Slillni»ii Valley: Sid- 

 ney Bishop. Stlllmaii Valley; C E. 

 Baniboroue:h. I'olo; Herbert Conner, 

 Amboy; .1. W. Tliitr. West Brook- 

 lyn: S. Ij. Shaw. Lee t'enter; M. 

 Sullivan. Rochelle; L. S. Orlffltli. 

 Amboy: Peter Hoyle. Dixon; L. M. 

 Swanzey, Freeport; iJ. R. Morris. 

 Lanark; Vernon S. Todd. MilledRe- 

 ville: Thos. Cooney. Deer drove; 

 L E. Birdsall. Sterling: lieo. \V. 

 Beach. Ashton: Theo. F. Ellis. Lena: 

 W. H. Robinson. Bradford: Theo. 

 Frank. Rock Palls; ij. K. Metzger. 

 department of organization. Chi- 

 cago; W. Floyd Keepers. Prairie 

 Farmer. Chicago; H. C. Butcher, de- 

 partment of information. Chicago; 

 Philip a. Lyons. Harmon: D. E. 

 Warren. Oregon; H. C. Scott, Polo. 



I. A. A. Get^, Freight 

 Lowered Op Stacker 

 and Feeder Cattle 



Live stock feeders who buy 

 stockers and feeders on the Chi- 

 cago market and who live south 

 of Peoria at points on the Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern railroad 

 will benefit materially from the 

 decrease in tariffs on that rail- 

 road recently secured by the 

 transportation department of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 according to L. J. Quasey, direc- 

 tor of that department. 



Upon complaint of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, the Chi- 

 cago and Northwestern railroad 

 has amended its live stock tariff, 

 applying from the Union Stock 

 Yards, Chicago, to points on the 

 C. & N. W. south of Peoria to 

 include an application on stock- 

 ers and feeders cattle to read 

 75 per cent of fat cattle rates. 

 This tariff becomes effective June 

 18. 1924. According to Mr. Qua- 

 sey this rate has never been in 

 effect before on this division of 

 the Chicago and Northwestern 

 railroad. 



WILL YOU TAKE ONE? 



You can make the wish of 

 one or two slum "kiddles" 

 come true If you will take a 

 poor boy or girl into your 

 home for a two weeks' sum- 

 mer outing this summer. 

 Talk It over with your neigh- 

 bors and form a neighbor- 

 hood committee to arrange a 

 glorious two weeks' visit" 

 in your community for a 

 dozen or more of these needy 

 little "shut-ins". The Unit- 

 ed Charities finds it much 

 more convenient in sending 

 "kiddies" to the country to 

 have a dozen or so going to 

 each station, thus eliminat- 

 ing the necessity of sending 

 a caretaker out with every 

 one or two children. 



'Phone or see your neigh- 

 bors and arrange to take a 

 dozen or so in your commu- 

 nity. Fill out the blank on 

 this page and mail it to the 

 Outing Secretary, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, and 

 the United Charities will re- 

 ceive your request. Summer 

 will soon be herel No time 

 must be lost! You must be 

 within the 200-mile radius, 

 however. 



New Co-op Audit Service 

 Meets General Approval 



That there is a vital necessity 

 for an auditing and business ad- 

 vis'ory service such as is being 

 formulated by the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association is the gist 

 of thoughts e.Ypressed by many 

 farmer elevator directors aad co- 

 op managers over the state ac- 

 cording to Vernon Vaniman who 

 is presenting the I. A. A. plan to 

 interested groups over the state. 

 The reaction in general is that 

 the plan is fundamentally sound 

 and that it is Just taking a step 

 to render a service on a cooper- 

 ative basis for organizations in- 

 stead of Individuals. 



Many directors of farmers' busi- 

 ness organizations state that they 

 should have an organization to 

 render such an auditing and busi- 

 ness advisory service to its mem- 

 bers on a cooperative basis just 

 the same as farmers' organiza- 

 tions have their respective combi- 

 nations with which their grain is 

 handled, their live stock is 

 shipped and their members mutu- 

 ally, insured against Are and 

 lightning. 



V\m\ BIk Xeed 



".\ director of a co-op ele- 

 vator in Champaign county," 

 says Mr. Vaniman, who ig pre- 

 senting the plan to various co- 

 operatives over the state, "stated 

 that If his elevator bad had this 

 service it would have been in a 

 much better - financial condition 

 today." Many other expressions 

 of similar character could be 

 quoted. We know that classified 

 accounts will indicate the general 

 trend of business and what steps 

 should be taken to regulate that 

 business. 



Following is a stktement pre- 

 pared by Mr. WJcker In which he 

 gives details of ' the proposed or- 

 ganization: 



Wicker Kxplalns Plan 



■■From time to time the Reiwrd 

 has presented information regard- 



ing the new cooperative auditing 

 and accounting »ervlce to be known 

 as the Illinois Agricultural Cooper- 

 alive Association, the incorporation 

 plans of which Is to be completed 

 when the directors meet at the I 

 A. .\. office, Chicago, June S. 



■•For years it has been apparent 

 that there is a definite need by Illi- 

 nois cooperative associations for an 

 authoritative auditing and account- 

 ing service which would be owned 

 and managed cooperatively. To 

 meet this demand the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association is accepting 

 the responsibility of promoting 

 such an organiiatlon In the interest 

 of its members since they consti- 

 tute a large percentage,of the mem- 

 bership of the farmer-owned asso- 

 ciations in Illinois. 



Not OTcaaiae< far Proat 



"The Illinois Agricultural cooper- 

 atives' Association is to be a cor- 

 poration not for pecuniary profit, 

 without capital stock, the member- 

 ship of which will be restricted to 

 cooperative associations, farm bu- 

 reaus and other agricultural organ- 

 izations. It will be operated as 

 a cooperative association and the 

 costs of the service will be assessed 

 upon a proportionate basis at a rate 

 to be determined by its own board 

 of directors. Its purpose will be to 

 furnish to its member associations 

 an official and reliable audit and 

 accounting service, income tax and 

 general business advisory service. 

 Reports anil comparative data wll^ 

 be complied <-overlng the opera- 

 tions of similar enterprises and 

 there will be provided an exchange 

 of experience and information. 

 MeBkem »lio> «or Three Vrani 



"Members will be based upon a 

 contract for a three year period, 

 during which the member associa- 

 tion will agree to accept the serv- 

 ice and to pay Its proportionate 

 cost of the same. During this period 

 each member will receive the bene- 

 fits of examination at such periods 

 as may be necessary, and it will be 

 furnished with suggestions and 

 recommendations for the Improve- 

 ment of the local's accounting and 

 l>usine8s methods, which will be di- 

 rected toward standardization. Dis- 

 tricts or groups of similar enter- 

 prises will be organized in which 

 the members will receive compara- 

 tive analyses of their operations 

 with particular reference to costs 

 and expenses. 



"This is not a new and untried 

 theory. Minnesota has provided 

 such a service, which has been con- 

 ducted by the State Department of 

 Agriculture on a basis of actual 

 cost. 



"Cooperatives should learn to co- 

 operate and establish between them- 

 selves that same community of in- 

 terest that exists among profes- 

 sional, financial. Industrial trade 

 and labor Interests." 



Outing Secretary, t I ** 



Illinois Agricultural Association. ' ! i^ • 



Chicago, Illinois. • 



192... 



We have organized a group of hosts in this 



neighborhood who will be glad to entertain — 



Chicago poor children for two weeks beginning 



Following are the names of hosts, num- 



Month and Date 

 ber and description of children wanted by each host; 



It is understood that United Charities of Chicago assumes the 

 liability in the case of accident or illness to any of the chil- 

 dren sent to us; however, we pledge to exercise proper pre- 

 cautions in the care and treatment of these children. 



We will meet the children at _ or 



Railway Station 



(Please name at least one optional Railway Station) 

 Remarks 



Name of Host Chairman 



Post OSace 



Rural Route No Telephone No.. 



