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TALKS, DISCUSSIONS, 

 MUSIC AND DINNER 

 FEATURE MEETING 



Sixty-five Fanners And Bum- 



net* Men Attend Champaign 



Conference To Connder 



Problem*. 



The nKaoh Aciicohwal AModation Record 



Sixty-five farm bureau repre- 

 sentatives and business men from 

 the counties of Champaign, Macon, 

 D« Witt, Piatt, Moultrie, Douglas, 

 Coles and Shelby, constituting the 

 19 th Congressional District of 

 which J. L. Whisnand, Charles- 

 ton, is executive committeeman, 

 met at the Inman hotel in Cham- 

 paign, June 14, for a regularly 

 scheduled meeting. Short talks 

 were made in the morning ses- 

 sion by V. Vaniman, of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and 

 John C. Watson, taxation spe- 

 cialist of the I. A. A. 



Give. Business Advice 



Mr. Vaniman explained the 

 auditing, accounting and busi- 

 ness advisory service of the newly 

 incorporated Illinois Agricultural 

 Cooperatives Association, showing 

 that the purpose of this new as- 

 sociation is not to spy and check 

 up on the managers of coopera- 

 tive concerns but la rather to 

 give sound business advice, pro- 

 vide against mistakes and mis- 

 management and furnish infor- 

 mation on a cooperative basis. 

 He outlined the development of 

 all business dividing its growth 

 into the three stages of promo- 

 tion or organization, the stage 

 of efficiency or improvement of 

 bniiness and the final stage in 

 which business firms unite to 

 solve their problems cooperative- 

 ly. Mr. Vaniman reminded the 

 farm bureau members that big 

 business firms have long ago 

 reached the third stage in this 

 business development while farm 

 ers' cooperatives have been con- 

 tent to stand by and look upon 

 cooperative auditing and account- 

 ing with aloofness. 



The Illinois Agricultural Co- 

 operatives Association iff de- 

 signed to prevent bsinkruptcy of 

 cooperatives in this state and al- 

 though it was instituted chiefly 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, it is now incorporated 

 under the laws of the state and 

 is independent of the I. A. A. 

 Mr. Vaniman expressed the opin- 

 ion that the auditing service will 

 put farmer-owned cooperatives 

 fire to ten years ahead of what 

 they would otherwise have been. 

 Watson Explains Taxes 



J. C. Watson made a short talk 

 on the tax situation in Illinois 

 both at present and in the future. 

 Be offered the income tax as the 

 solution to the problem of tax- 

 ing Intangible property. "The 

 first thing that should be done 

 is to secure an e<iuallzation of 

 the tax burden," said Mr. Wat- 

 son, "giving the farmer, the la- 

 boring class and the home own- 

 ers, both in the city and in the vil- 

 lage, a fairer tax law." He showed 

 how an unjust tax situation has 

 existed and does now exist be- 

 cause a large amount of personal 

 property is not at present taxed 

 due to the fact that it is intang- 

 ible. "Diamonds and musical in- 

 struments are good examples of 

 intangible property," said Mr. 

 Watson. He answered questions 

 put to him by the farmers pres- 

 ent and predicted that Illlnoia 

 tax-payers would pay higher taxes 

 before they ultimately become 

 lower. 



Talks Farm Itegislatlon 



D. J. Holterman, of the 19th 

 district, made a short comment 

 upon matters of farmer legisla- 

 tion taking issue with the state- 

 ment that agricultural interests 

 cannot be helped by legislation 

 and the establishment of an ag- 

 ricultural policy. "The big 

 trouble with us farmers is that 

 we haven't gone after legislation 

 which ,we wanted." stated Mr. 

 Holterman. "It is not our idea 

 to promote unfair legislation but 

 simply to get a square deal in 

 legislative matters." 



A farm bureau dinner at the 

 hotel followed the morning meet- 

 ing. Group singing, led by Lloyd 

 Lamkins of Champaign, was a 

 prominent feature of the dinner 

 boor. 



At the afternoon meeting Mr. 

 George W. Willett. principal of 

 the Lyons township high school 

 at La Grange and who Is dlrect- 

 lax the I. A. A. school survey. 



spoke on, "The Farmers' Side 

 of the Rural School Question 

 He pointed out that rural schools 

 have been too much adapted to 

 city conditions instead of rural 

 life. "The biggest mistake In 

 our rural school system," said 

 Mr. Willett. "is that we have 

 tried to put too many new- 

 fangled ideas into our rural 

 schools instead of developing the 

 natural advantages that already 

 exist there." 



Make School Snrvej 



Under Mr. Willett's direction a 

 rural school survey, which was 

 sponsored by the educational 

 committee of the I. A. A., is 

 being made with the idea of 

 getting definite information which 

 will be helpful in enacting school 

 laws at the coming legislature 

 that will be more beneficial to 

 farmers and their children. 



Following Mr. Willett's talk, 

 Fred Jorgenso^, manager of the 

 Pioneer Creamery Company at 

 Champaign, reviewed the egg- 

 marketing situation during the 

 last decade, presenting the prob- 

 lems of buying and handling 

 eggs. He expressed the opinion 

 that consumers are now getting 

 far better eggs than they did 

 several years ago, due chiefly to 

 egg-candling laws and cold stor- 

 age facilities. 



Several five minute reports 

 were made by representatives 

 from the various counties outlin- 

 ing the activities of the local 

 farm bureaus. The next confer- 

 ence of the 19th district will be 

 held at Decatur some time in 

 September. 



Pass Resolutions 



The fallowing resolutions de- 

 signed to help solve serious mar- 

 keting problems were presented 

 by D. J. Holterman of Sadorus 

 and passed on by the meeting: 

 To the Nineteenth Congressional 

 District of Illinois. Farm Bureau 

 Conference. 



Gentlemen:- Whereas. The farmers 

 of this country as time goes on and 

 their financial condition ^rowa 

 steadily worse, are recognizing the 

 value of business cooperation and 

 the necessity of owning and control- 

 ing their own marketingr systems, 

 and 



Whereas, the attempts to estab- 

 lish a national farmer-owned grain 

 marketing system In the past, have 

 not been successful, more for lack 

 of cooperation of our different farm- 

 ers' organizations, than to either 

 plan or principal. Therefore be it 



Resolved: That this meeting re- 

 quest the Illinois agricultural As- 

 sociation to use its best efforts and 

 influence to cause the asaembllnK 

 of a national conference of repre- 

 sentatives of all of our farmers' or- 

 eranlzatlons whose membership Is in- 

 terested in the production of small 

 grain such as wheat, rye. oats, bar- 

 ley, flax, and soy beans, for market, 

 for the purpose of bringing out and 

 establishing a farmer-owned and 

 controled marketing system for 

 small grain, and further be It 



Resolved: That this meeting re- 

 quest the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation to use its efforts and In- 

 fluence to secure the assembling of 

 a national conference of representa- 

 tives of all farmers' organizations 

 whose membership is engaged with 

 the production of corn for market, 

 for the purpose of creating a farm- 

 er-owned and controled marketing 

 system for corn, and further be it 



Resolved: That a copy of these 

 resolutions be sent to the Illinois 

 Agrfcultural Association requesting 

 action at the earliest possible date. 



Following is a list of those 

 who attended the meeting: 



Chas. MIttendorf. LAwrence Mc- 

 Connell. A. R. Grimdley. J. A. Hos- 

 sack, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lamkins. 

 J. E. Johnson. P. A. JorK«nson. all 

 of Champaign: F. A. Oouerler. I. A. 

 A.. J. T. Smith. P. W. Jordan, tJr- 

 bana; J. C. Watson, I. A. A., Chi- 

 cago; F. E. Charles, I. A. A.. Chi- 

 cago; C. C. Burns, farm adviser, 

 Champaifrn county; Wm. Blue. Ma- 

 homet: Wm. Odell. D. J. Holterman, 

 Sadorus; J. N. Caslet. L. K. Irwin. 

 F. W. Garrett. Tuscola; L. 'W. Bra- 

 ham. Hlndslraro; Chas. L. Meharry. 

 Attica. Ind.; G. A. Smith. Seymour; 

 J. 1,. Whisnand. Charleston; C. B. 

 Althaus. a. W. Willett. La Grange; 



E. G. Thelra, Prairie Farmer. Chi- 

 cago; Vr. B, Rlegel. Tolono; G. E. 

 Ewlng. Areola; Chas. McDonald. 

 Hlndsboro: S. S. Davis, farm adviser, 

 Monticello; O. • M. Allyn. Edwin 

 Blue. C. W. Thorpe, Clinton; Chas. J. 

 Robinson. Shelbyvllle; Henry M. 

 Dunlap, Savoy: M. E. Wise. Cerro 

 Gordo; T. W. Lamb. Bement; M. I. 

 Goken. Lane; D. M. Black. Kenney; 

 C. D. Raves. Webona; W. Z. Black. 

 St. Joseph: E. F. ^Tebster. Rantoul; 



F. E. Jackson. Fisher; E. P. Imbo- 

 den. Decatur; Henry Shafer. lUlop- 

 oli». 



Hundreds of little ulani kiddles 

 Uke this one ar« hoplni: that some 

 rood hearted farm bare«il mem- 

 ber wlU take them into the countrv 

 for a two weeks ontlnff. Hot 

 weather. wUl soon he upon us; 

 Sive tJiese poor children mi op- 

 portunity to see irhat (>«d mode 

 for His peopl».~the rreat ont-of. 

 doors. Manj of them don't know 

 a cow from a horse; they're lots 

 of fiui, too. The children are be- 

 Inir sent oat in rroaps of one 

 dozen or more to distances wttliln 

 a 200-mlle radios of Chlcaco. 

 Write todar — do a good torn. 

 Yonll enjoy their outing, tool 



REPUBUCANS CUT 

 AND POUSH PLANK 

 AT G.O.P. MEETING 



Ground hogs have become such 

 a menace in Stephenson county 

 that the farm bureau Is conduct- 

 ing a county-wide ground hog 

 extermination campaign. J. Fred 

 Smith, a Stephenson county far- 

 mer who has waged an Incessant 

 war against the pests, has offered 

 a prize of (25.00 to the boy who 

 makes the most catches by Sep- 

 tember 1. 



(Continued from p&se 1> 



"We favor adequate tariff pro- 

 tection to such of our agricultural 

 products as are threatened by for- 

 eign competition. 



"We favot, without putting the 

 government into business, the 

 establishment of a federal system 

 of organization for cooperative 

 marketing of farm products." 



The latter goes somewhat fur- 

 ther in the matter of federal as- 

 sistance In cooperative marketing 

 than the farmers requested, since 

 they confined their request to 

 "the active aid of all of the gov- 

 ernment departments having to 

 do with agricultural production, 

 particularly the Department of 

 Agriculture which should include 

 a branch devoted to cooperative 

 marketing that is in keeping with 

 the needs and importance of this 

 work." 



Federal Aid For Roads 



The farmers were assured of 

 the continuance of federal aid in 

 the building of farm-to-market 

 highways as provided in the "sev- 

 en per cent system" enacted in 

 1921. Likewise the party pledged 

 itself on the railroad problem in 

 conformance with the Federa- 

 tion's tentative plank. "We fa- 

 vor a careful and scientific read- 

 justment of railroad rate sched- 

 ules," says the platform, "with 

 a view to the encouragement of 

 agriculture and basic Industries, 

 without impairment of railroad 

 service." The request for a plank 

 asking for a speedy completion 

 of the valuation of the railroads 

 so the Interstate! Commerce Com- 

 mission may have a more Intelli- 

 gent basis for determining rates 

 was Ignored. However, the plat 

 form, if weak in that particular, 

 can be tread upon safely by the 

 agriculturists when it comes to 

 merchant marine and the devel 

 opment of waterways. After en 

 dorslng the merchant marine and 

 the sale of government-owned 

 ships when propitious, it neglect- 

 ed to advocate a method of mak- 

 ing the merchant marine profit- 

 able. The farmers told the plat- 

 form carpenters that we need 

 more freight and passengers on 

 our incoming ships and that an 

 inducement to our business men 

 to designate our fiag ships should 

 be held out in the form of a 

 treasury certificate, based on the 

 freight charge on Incoming com- 

 modities. They also advocated 

 reduction through rail and water 

 rates. 

 Approve Reclamation Projects 



The convention approved the 

 study of the reclamation proj- 

 ects made by the committee ap- 

 pointed by the Interior Depart- 

 ment for the purpose of relieving 

 the distress among the farmers 

 on these projects and putting the 

 whole reclamation work on a 

 business basis. 



An effort was made on the part 

 of the farmers to get the party 

 to recognize the need for a gen- 

 eral plan of comprehensive wa- 

 terpower development, based up- 

 on the conservation of our water 

 resources by storage develop- 

 ments where feasible, thus in- 

 creasing the country's waterpow- 

 er from 66,000,000 to 200,000,- 

 000 horsepower or more. Such a 

 plan, they maintained, should 

 take Into consideration the need 

 for the development of air ni- 

 trates for war and for fertilizer, 

 and power should be reserved for 

 the purpose. Muscle Shoals was 

 suggested as an outstanding op- 

 portunity to inaugurate such a 

 policy, and the plank makers 

 were told that this plan should 

 be followed in the disposition of 

 the property. The platform, 

 however, merely lauds the water 

 power. 



Start Baseball In 



Galesburg District 



Another farm bureau baseball 

 league has been organized in the 

 Galesburg district with six mem- 

 ber teams from Bureau, Warren 

 Knox, Stark, Whiteside and Mar- 

 shall-Putnam county farm bu- 

 reaus. Representatives from the 

 farm bureaus in this district met 

 at Princeton recently and made 

 arrangements for farm bureau 

 baseball games this summer. G. 

 K. Metzger, organization director 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, outlined the plan by 

 which all farm bureau district 

 leagues in the state are governed. 



According to the schedule of 

 games drafted at the meeting 

 every team in the district plays 

 one game with each of the other 

 teams. The champions of the 

 district will be eligible for the 

 state farm bureau baseball tour- 

 nament to be played at the an- 

 nual I. A. A. picnic at Lincoln, 

 August 26. 



T,he Springfield district league 

 with teams from Cass, Macoupin 

 Sangamon, Logan, Menard, Mor- 

 gan, Mason and Tazewell coun- 

 ties, was the first to organize 

 with a definite playing schedule 

 Local farm bureau teams In Ken- 

 dall county are also playing on a 

 fixed schedule with the intention 

 of developing a county team to 

 enter the final tournament at the 

 Lincoln picnic. 



Jane 21. 19Z4 



WILLETT TO MAKE 

 EXTENSIVE SURVEY 

 OF SCHOOL PROBLEMS 



Will Conduct Investigation in 

 nUnois and Other State*. 

 Ahhaua Secured as Re- 

 search Assistant 



Farmers Will Get 

 Fair Shake, Says 

 Fox to Advisers 



"We are proud of Uie stand we 

 have taken on the McNary-Hangen 

 bill," said Geo. H. Fox, executive 

 secretary of the Illinois Agrlcul 

 tural Association, when' he spoke 

 to the farm advisers In their 

 annual conference at the Uni 

 versity of Illinois, June 10, 11 

 and 12. "Agriculture is not get- 

 ting a fair shake with other in- 

 dustries, and the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association Is here to see 

 that the farmer gets his due con- 

 sideration." 



Continuing, Mr. Fox told of the 

 fine fight made by organized farm- 

 ers, especially in Illinois, for the 

 McNary-Haugen bill and that even 

 though the bill lost, the efforts 

 put forth had not gone in vain. 

 Hel. said that no definite action 

 had been mapped out for the fu- 

 ture excepting that a general con- 

 ference of all farm organizations 

 has been called at St. Paul, and 

 that the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation would be represented. 

 Mr. Fox touched lightly upon the 

 numerous projects underway by 

 the various departments of the 

 I. A. A. 



The investigation of rural 

 school problems, instigated by 

 the Educational Committee of 

 the I. A. A. in cooperation with 

 the Illinois State Bducatlonal 

 Committee is progressing rapidly 

 under the direction of George W. 

 Willett, principal of the Lyons 

 township high school at La 

 Grange, who was secured to su- 

 perintend the ii)vestIgatIon. An- 

 ticipating the passage of school 

 laws at the coming legislature, it 

 is the aim of the Educational 

 committee of the I. A. A. to ob- 

 tain facts directly from educators 

 throughout the state and from 

 farmers so that any changes that 

 may be made In the management 

 of rural schools may be made 

 consistent with the wishes of the 

 farmers and their children, in so 

 far as they are affected. 



Send Oat 10,000 liCtten 



Responses exceeding all expec- 

 tations have been received from 

 400 letters sent out to school 

 principals and superintendents 

 asking questions which will give 

 Mr. Willett important facts and 

 information upon which to base 

 conclusions regarding the actual 

 conditions of rural schools over 

 the state. 



Ten thousand letters each em- 

 bodying some 40 definite ques- 

 tions have been sent out to far- 

 mer tax-payers of the state, the 

 results of which are expected to 

 furnish detailed information on 

 taxes and assessed valuation of 

 farm lands. The aim of the In- 

 vestigation Is to combine the best 

 judgment of farmers with that 

 of teachers in the state toward 

 securing legislation which will 

 improve existing school conditions 

 by giving the rural districts bet- 

 ter schools in return for the 

 taxes paid for their upkeep. 

 Get Farmers' Viewpoint 



During the summer Mr. Willett 

 will be In Michigan and other 

 jttates making a study of similar 

 - educational problems in those 

 states and gathering Information 

 which will aid in solving the 

 problems of Illinois. C. B. 

 Althaus, of La Grange has been 

 secured as field man to help In 

 the survey. He will go through 

 the school records in various 

 counties of the state classifying 

 the results both good and bad, 

 of school practices used in the 

 past. The questionery sent to 

 farmers calls for complete facts 

 regarding the tax situation as 

 well as for the farmer's personal 

 viewpoint upon pressing school 

 problems. 



That the survey being made 

 by the Educational Committees 

 is attracting widespread attention 

 is shown by the large number of 

 replies to letters sent out and by 

 the Interest taken in the subject 

 recently when Mr. Willett out- 

 lined his program of Investiga- 

 tion before the 19th congressional 

 district conference at Champaign. 



Mason County Beats 

 Cass In Baseball 



Baseball continues to occupy a 

 position of importance in the 

 Springfield district. The Mason 

 county team defeated Cass county 

 in a loosely played game last 

 Saturday. Both teams hit fre- 

 quently but Mason county batters 

 garnered their hits at opportune 

 times and scored a total of 12 

 runs on 14 hits. Cass batters were 

 able to hit consistently but their 

 safeties were scattered. Errors by 

 Cass county players were respons- 

 ible for several Mason county 

 scores. 



The contest with Cass county 

 is the first of the season for 

 Mason county. They have a 



bunch of hard hitters and reports 

 indicate that they frill develop 

 into strong contenders for the 

 state championship. Following is 

 a summary of the game: 



Masom Coeaty Faras Barcaa 



AB R H O B 



Thomas, c 6 2 2 10 



Krause, p 6 1 1 1 



C. Sarff. 3b 5 2 " 



Sears, rf S 



Huber. rf t 



E. Sarff. 2b S 



Lutes, ss S 



Lofton, cf 6 



■Winsdor, If 5 



Blakely, lb 6 



Niederer, p 



1 1« 

 



Totals 48 12 14 21 S 



Caaa Coamtr Fana Borean 



ABR H O B 



Wltte, cf 6 1 1 



Herzberger, 3b 6 12 11 



Hierman, c. lb S 113 



R. Hager, ss. c 8 1 1 3 



L. Burns, ss 3 10 2 



H. Hager. 2b 4 10 3 



Blohm, rf 4 1 



Lynn lb 4 1 18 t 



Keithley, If 4 1 X 



P. Burns, p 4 1 



Huston, p 



Totals 40 5 1122 i 



Struck out; Krause 6; Burns 5. 

 Score by Innings; Total 



Mason 01It0002 2 — 12 



Cass 000000320 — B 



