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The nlinoU Agricultural AMooation Record 



I. A. A. EXECUTIVES 

 GIVE THEIR VIEWS 

 TO KYW RADIO FANS 



WaUon Sayt "Put Business 



Int« Farming"; Barton Tells 



of Rural Community 



Building 



Many Farm Bureau members 

 in flllnois and surrounding states 

 who tuned in on tlie I. A. A. 

 farm program over station KYW, 

 Chicago. Friday night, Oct. 3, 

 heard C. B. Watson, vice-presi- 

 dent Jof the I. A. A. and Frank 

 • D. Bftrton, executive committee- 

 maa from the 17th district, ex- 

 press; their views on modern ru- 

 ral conditions. 



Mri Barton put forth bis views 

 of i'Rural Community Building." 



"I believe that the day is past 

 when agriculture can hope to 

 succeed with each one interested 

 in prioduction of foods working 

 individually, and that we must 

 work together in organizations," 

 he s^id. "I believe that in our 

 greatj state the Farm Bureau is 

 the n|ost important factor in farm 

 6rgaaization." 

 Need Commiinity Organization 



He! described the form of rural 

 organization in earlier days, re- 

 lating how the community cen- 

 tered] around the school and the 

 community church. He remind- 

 ed his scattered audience that the 

 automobile iias revolutionized our 

 rurall communities and pointed to 

 the f^ct that many leaders in ru- 

 ral dommunity work now recog- 

 nize the need of rebuilding our 

 rural community life. 



"OUr Farm Bureau leaders 

 have begun to realize as never 

 before the importance of building 

 and maintaining our rural com- 

 munities as a dominant factor in 

 our reorganization work and in 

 putting over -the Farm Bureau 

 program," he continued. "The 

 county Farm Bureau has in a 

 goodly number of cases builded 

 commnnity organizations and in 

 many instances has helped to 

 maintain the old community or- 

 ganisations that have been kept 

 alive through the efforts of the 

 ruralj church and leadership form- 

 erly lleveloped." 



Traill Future Leaders 



In closing Mr. Barton ex- 

 pressed the need of rural com- 

 munljty building in the present 

 day, i first, "to give our young 

 people a cleaner and more whole- 

 some entertainment and recrea- 

 tion'j and thus "keep them on 

 our {(arms;" second, to maintain 

 our community churches and 

 thirdi, to develop future leader- 

 ship for our nation as we have 

 in tQe past. 



"Tlhe only hope that I have that 

 this may be accomplished is 

 through farm organizations," Mr. 

 Barton concluded, "aided by and 

 working with the building of 

 stronger rural community organ- 

 izations." 



Mt. Watson jumped into the 

 middle of his subject "Putting 

 Business Into Farming," landing 

 with no little pressure on those 

 forces which have protected or- 

 ganited labor and industry to the 

 detriment of agriculture. 



The basic weakness in the busi- 

 ness, of farming, he said, is that 

 the farmer does not have the ma- 

 chiniry provided by legislation to 



put his industry on an equality 

 with business and labor, 



MuAt Overhaul System 



"Putting business into farming 

 requires a complete overhauling 

 of our merchandising system," 

 Mr. Watson told his audience. 

 "The farmer must so organize his 

 business that his products will 

 meet consumptive demand with 

 an available supply. The dump- 

 ing of live stock, grain and other 

 products on the markets must 

 cease. We have not yet mastered 

 the ABC's of co-operative mar- 

 keting. 



"The millions of dollars of 

 those forces who would keep agri- 

 culture helpless have made the 

 farmers' task exceedingly difflcult. 

 Not only in putting business into 

 farming must the farmer mer- 

 chandise live stock, grain and 

 other products, but he must study 

 future requirements and world- 

 wide conditions and so adapt his 

 business to intelligent production. 



"To adjust these conditions we 

 need business in farming in order 

 that farming may be put on an 

 equality with industry and labor." 



October 11. 1924 



REPORT IS AGAINST 

 BIG GRAIN MERGER 



Listen In! 



F.VRM R.\DIO PROGR.\M 



Over KYW — Wave Length 536 

 •Central Standard Time 7:20 



Get in tune with these stations 

 on Tuesday and Friday evenings. 

 Farm Bureau, folks, and hear 

 their farm talks. You'll be par- 

 ticularly interested in hearing 

 R. A. Cowles, I. A. A. treasurer, 

 next Tuesday night on "The 

 Farmer and Legislation," and 

 Geo. R. Wicker when he talks on 

 "Plugging Leaks in Co-ops." 



Oct 14 — "The Farmer and Legis- 

 lation." R. A. Cowles. treasurer of 

 the Illinois AKrlcultural Associa- 

 tion, from Statlos WI/S. ketwMB 

 8i00 mad »iOO o'clock. 



Oct. 14 — "Painting and Housing 

 of Farm Machinery, ' by F. A. Wirt. 

 Editor, Case Eagle. Racine, ^ is. 



American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion feature. „, , , „, v 



Oct. 17 — Boys' and Girls' Club 

 Feature, by A. D. Folker, Mont- 

 gomery Ward & Co. . _ ,, 



"What Cattle Feeders Are Talk- 

 ing About." by D. C. Waterman. 

 Editorial Staff of the Orange Judd 

 Illinois Farmer. 



Oct. 21 — American Farm Bureau 

 feature. 



"Plugging Leaks in Co-ops by 

 George R. Wicker. Mgr., Illinois 

 Agricultural Co-operatives Associa- 

 tion and Director of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association Dept. of 

 Co-operative Accounting. 



Oct. 24 — "What the National Boys' 

 and Girls' Club Congress Means to 

 America." by G. L. Noble, Secretary. 

 National Committee on Boys' and 

 Girls' Club Work. 



"Farmers' Produce Markets." by 

 Arthur C. Page. Editor, Orange Judd 

 Illinois Farmer. 



Oct. 28 — "Monthly Analysis of 

 Farm Markets," by H. W. Moor- 

 house, Howard-Moorhouse Agricul- 

 tural Business Service. 



American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion feature. 



Oct. 31 — "Farm Juniors at the In- 

 ternational Live Stock Exposition." 

 by B. H. Helde, Gen. Mgr., Inter- 

 national Live Stock Exposition. 



"What the Illinois Farm Bureaus 

 Are Doing." by H. C. Butcher, Di- 

 rector of Information, I. A. A. 



More than 370.00O radio sets 

 are in use on farms in the Unit- 

 ed States today. 



Here's another sample of transi>ortation de|>artnient work: 



.Vr. L. E. .McKlKXie. Adviser, > < 



.tckiirlcr County Farm Burcao, 1 



KaskvlllF, Illlaola. ' 



Dear Sin 



\Vc have 7onr letter of AnK. 21 la which 70n racloacd frelakt 

 bill oB a carload of liaieatoae troaa Coasamcra Contpaay to Mr. C 

 V. Bader. 



We liave checked tkia over and Had that Mr. Bader kaa bcea 

 avcrcharacd. We will gladly take tkIa up witk tke railroad for 

 ■■UaataieBt. 



Very traly yonrs. 



Traaaportatioa Departaient. 

 tSlgacd) Lu J. Qoaaey. Director. 

 And one of more recent date: 

 Mr. V. E. McKiaalc. Adviaer, 1 ' 



Nckaylcr Conaty Farai Bnrcaa* I ; 



Raahvllle. Illlaoia. 

 Dear HlTl 



We arc plcaaed to attack draft from the C. B. « 4. Railroad 

 Compaay for S9.31 la fall acttlcaicat of Mr. C. V, Bader'a claim 

 flor overcharge oa a aklpaicat of agrlcaltnral llmcateae, Aair. 10, 

 C. >'. J. ear 8417S. 



If we caa he af fartkcr aervlcc to yoa, kiadly adviac 

 Very traly yoara. 

 [ ' I . Traaaportatioa Departaseat, 



1 (Slgacd) L,. J. dummtj. Director. 



And an extract from another: 

 Mr. E. M. KIrkpatrick, 

 Raacvlllc. III. 

 Dear .^iri 



We arc acadlaa yoa herewltk tke railroad compaay** ckeck 

 (or SSS ia fall aettlcmeat for Holalela kcifcr killed oa C B. A ft. 

 track* oa acconat of defective rigkt of way fcace*. 

 I <Bla*ed) Traaaportatioa Departateat. 



I 



(Contiiuu'<l from |»HKe 1) 

 .set n|> by the (>rain Msrketinf; 

 Company is in |>art illegal and 

 ifiipracticabie. These defects can 

 imssibly be corrected by amend- 

 ment to the by-laws but no steps 

 have yet been taken. 



"The Illinois .^Kricnltural As- 

 sociation officers have been hoi>e- 

 ful that the drain Marketing 

 Comiiany would provide a co-op- 

 erative selling agency for co- 

 operative grain associations and 

 grain producers who are not In 

 other associations. We do not 

 believe the Grain >Iarketing Com- 

 pany as now set up will meet 

 these needs.** 



Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- 

 day, October 1, 2 and 3, were 

 busy days for the I. A. A. execu- 

 tives and officers. Several were 

 in Chicago on Wednesday for spe- 

 cial committee meetings and 

 many could not get home until 

 Saturday because of the night 

 session Friday. 



.Meet (irain Dealers* 



Thursday a joint meeting of 

 the executive committees of the 

 I. A. A. and the Farmers Grain 

 Dealers' Associatiqn of Illinois, 

 representing over 500 farmers' 

 co-operative elevators, was held 

 in the I. A. A. office. This meet- 

 ing resulted in a much better un- 

 derstanding between the heads of 

 the two organizations. Good will 

 and a desire to co-operate by both 

 bodies was expressed. It was de- 

 cided that a committee on mutual 

 relations should be appointed to 

 better co-ordinate the work of the 

 two organizations. Sam H. 

 Thompson and Fred A. Mudge, 

 presidents of the two organiza- 

 tions, were each empowered to 

 select two men from his respec- 

 tive organization with the presi- 

 dents acting ex-offlcio on the mu- 

 tual relations committee. Presi- 

 dent Thompson has not made his 

 selection as the Record goes to 

 press. 



The regular monthly treasurer's 

 report by R. A. Cowles was pre- 

 sented by him and received by 

 the executives. 



Educational Committee Rei>ort 



The educational committee, 

 consisting of J. L. Whisnand, 

 Charleston, chairman, A. C. Ever- 

 ingham, Hutsonville and B. W. 

 Rusk, Carllnville, received more 

 information from Dr. G. W. Wil- 

 lett and C. B. Althaus concerning 

 the school survey conducted dur- 

 ing the summer. The report of 

 this committee to the executive 

 committee states that Dr. Wil- 

 lett's final report on the 10,000 

 questionnaires sent out to farm- 

 ers seeking facts on many perti- 

 nent school questions will be in 

 full form within the next few 

 weeks. 



"It will contain some rather 

 interesting facts and will show 

 that our reports are based upon 

 Information gathered from a very 

 representative group of farmers 

 from all parts of the stat? and 

 representing about all possible 

 contingencies which may arise," 

 reads a part of the educational 

 committee report. 



Dr. Willett's survey of the 

 questionnaires will supplement 

 the work of C. B. Althaus who 

 traveled about Illinois from Pu- 

 laski county in the south to the 

 Wisconsin line In the north, gath- 

 ering data from county clerks on 

 school taxes. Mr. Althaus re- 

 ported that he has compiled his 

 findings on 190 township and 

 community high schools with 35 

 more yet to complete. This will 

 give complete information on 225 

 schools. 



Findings Vary Little 



The findings on the 190 town- 

 ship and community high schools 

 remain practically the same as 

 the first report which summarized 

 his work in 100 such schools. 

 In that report it was disclosed 

 that an average of 70 per cent of 

 township and community high 

 school taxes is paid by farmers 

 and that the farmers furnish but 

 40 per cent of the pupils in the 

 township and community high 

 schools. The added finding with 

 the 90 additional schools to the 

 original 100 shows a variation of 

 less than 1 per cent from the 

 original findings which substan- 

 tiates the accuracy of the survey. 



Friday, October 3, was the reg- 

 ular monthly meeting of the ex- 



ecutive committee. The roll call 

 showed the following committee- 

 men present: G. F. TuUock, Rock- 

 ford; C. E. Bam borough. Polo; 

 W. H. Moody, Port Byron; H. E. 

 Goembel, Hooppole; A. R. 

 Wright; Varna; F. D. Barton, 

 Cornell; R. F. Karr, Iroquois; 

 J. L. Whisnand, Charleston; Barl 

 C. Smith, Detroit; Samuel Sor- 

 rells, Raymond; Stanley Castle, 

 Alton; J. E. Llngenfelter, Law- 

 renceville; Curt Anderson, Xenia; 

 Vernon Lessley, Sparta. 



Endorse .\. K. B. F. Action 



The report of the legislative 

 committee — Frank D. Barton, 

 Cornell, chairman, H. E. Goem- 

 bel, Hooppole and A. C. Evering- 

 hani, Hutsonville, — covered three 

 main subjects. Its recommenda- 

 tion that the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association endorse the action of 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration position on the child la- 

 bor amendment was received and 

 passed with full accord. The 

 text of this resolution is con- 

 tained elsewhere in this issue. 



The Adams County Farm Bu- 

 reau had brought to the atten- 

 tion of the legislative committee 

 the necessity of a change in the 

 Illinois game laws removing the 

 protection of rabbits and making 

 a closed season for a term of 

 years on quail. The executive 

 committee favored the action of 

 the legislative committee in its 

 report that it would give the game 

 laws due consideration in the 

 coming session of the legislature. 

 Rei>ort on Hard Roads 



The third subject reported on 

 by the legislative committee was 

 a summary of the findings on the 

 One Hundred Million Dollar Road 

 Bond Issue. The text of the reso- 

 lution adopted is as follows: 



"Accepting all estimates of 

 probable receipts and ex|>endi- 

 tures directly or indirectly nuule 

 for road construction, as out- 

 lined in the latest report of the 

 Division of Highways, Depart- 

 ment of Public Works and Build- 

 ings, of the State of Illinois, we 

 believe: 



"1. That probable motor fee 

 collections at the present license 

 fee rates will be sufficient to pay 

 the interest on the bonds and re- 

 tire the bonds of both the existing 

 Sixty Million Dollar Bond Issue 

 and the proposed One Hundred 

 Million Dollar Bond Issue. 



'•a. That the probable revenue 

 available from motor fee collec- 

 tions from the sale of bonds un- 

 der the proposed law and from 

 anticipated Federal Aid Appropri- 

 ations will not be sufficient, after 

 other expenses are met, to con- 

 struct the total mileage of roods 

 projected under the present Six- 

 ty Million Dollar Road Bond Is- 

 sue Law and the proposed One 

 Hundred Million Dollar Road 

 Bond Issue Law. 



"3. That probable motor fee 

 collections at present rates will 

 not be sufficient, after meeting 

 other necessary expenses, to main- 

 tain the total mileage of roads 

 which can be constructed with 

 present contemplated revenues, 

 especially after payments begin 

 on the principal of the proposed 

 One Hundred Million Dollar Bond 



"We believe that the type of 

 road construction now being used 

 in the Illinois system of high- 

 ways is the l)e8t and most perma- 

 nent in the United States. 



I. A. A. On Radio 



A report by the advisory com- 

 mittee of the department of in- 

 formation, — R. F. Karr, Iroquois, 

 chairman; L. O. Wise, Morrison 

 and J. M. Beckett, Blue Mound 

 — brought out that the I. A. A. 

 will be "on the air" from one of 

 the St. Louis radio stations begin- 

 ning in November. 



The live stock committee with 

 George F. Tullock, Rockford, 

 chairman, Samuel Sorrells, Ray- 

 mond, A. D. Llngenfelter. Law- 

 rencevllle, present, reported that 

 the 600 blankeU on hand the 

 middle of the summer had been 

 sold apd that several money or- 

 ders and checks for blankets have 

 had to be returned. 



ILUNOIS GROWERS 

 ORGANIZE COnON 

 MARKETING CO-OP 



Secretary Fox On The Air 



Geo. A. Fox, secretary of the I. 

 A. A., was scheduled to speak over 

 radio station KYW, Thursday 

 night, Oct. 9. This was too late 

 to get his talk In the Recobd. 

 The gist of his talk was to be "Illi- 

 nois, the Nation's Food Basket." 



Incon>orati<m b Final Step In 

 Forming Non-Stock, Non- 

 profit Concern at 

 Mound City 



An Illinois Cotton Growers' Co- 

 operative Association is now a 

 real going concern with headquar- 

 ters at Mound City, Pulaski coun- 

 ty. Articles of incorporation 

 were submitted to Louis T. Em- 

 erson, secretary of state, and the 

 legal set-up has been attended to, 

 creating the first co-operative cot- 

 ton marketing corporation in Il- 

 linois. 



From Mound City the new co- 

 op will conduct its cotton mar- 

 keting program handling only 

 cotton grown by members of the 

 association. The first bale of 

 cotton was ginned around Oct. 1. 

 Its purposes as outlined in the 

 articles of incorporation are: 

 Non-Proflt Co-op 



To be a non-profit co-operative 

 agricultural association without 

 capital stock, organized for the 

 mutual help and benefit of its 

 members; to promote the general 

 welfare of its members and to 

 provide better and more economi- 

 cal methods of marketing the cot- 

 ton and cotton products of its 

 members through co-operation; to 

 act as agent for its members In 

 handling and marketing their cot- 

 ton and cotton products and in 

 supplying to its members, ma- 

 chinery, equipment and supplies; 

 and to co-operate with other as- 

 sociations or individuals engaged 

 in similar purposes. 



The incorporation of the com- 

 pany is the final step in an or- 

 ganization program that has been 

 developing since early last spring 

 when an organization committee 

 was instructed to survey the sit- 

 uation with a view to determin- 

 ing whether a need for the mar- 

 keting pool really existed. 



The report of this committee 

 at a July meeting was favorable 

 to the organization of a market- 

 ing pool. Cotton growers decided 

 at that time to consider more 

 fully the formation of a pool and 

 after considerable study of Its 

 real need and possibility of suc- 

 cess met in Mound City, July 22, 

 to take definite action toward in- 

 corporation. 



1,500 Acres In Pool 



A minimum of 1,500 acres was 

 set as the necessary acreage 

 which should be signed Into the 

 pool before incorporation would 

 be advisable. Four hundred acres 

 were signed up at that meeting 

 and the balance contracted for 

 since then. 



The Illinois pool will probably 

 market its product through the 

 Cotton Growers Association of 

 Arkansas, which Is a member of 

 the National Cotton Growers' Ex- 

 change, according to G. B. Metz- 

 ger, organization director of the 

 I. A. A., who has been assisting 

 in organizing the association of 

 Illinois growers. 



I.A.A.Back»A.F.B.F. 

 In Child Labor Stand 



We. the legislative commit- 

 tee, recommend that the Illi- 

 nois Agrricultural AsBociation 

 endorse the action of the 

 American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration as expressed In the 

 following resolution: 



passed an amendment to the 

 Conatltntlon which would 

 Klve that body "power to pro- 

 hibit the labor of peraoma un- 

 der the ase of 18 year* and 

 to prescribe the conditions of 

 such labor." and the ratlflca- 

 tion of thla action la now be- 

 fore the state leslalatvrea, 

 and 



\%'HE:rEAS, the opportnmlty 

 to dUcoaraEe or prohibit this 

 sort of federal Interference 



maklnic ■ farm mother of 



Congress— has passed for the 

 moment beyond the activities 

 of the American Farm Bd- 

 rean Federation and has be- 

 come entirely a state ques- 

 tion, and 



^VHBRKAS, the proposed 

 amendment will fflve Con- 

 ■rress blanket authority to 

 pass stringent and far-flung 

 laws on this subject which Is 

 already covered adequately 

 and according to local condi- 

 tions In a majority of states. 



"We URGE THE STATE 

 FARM BIREAU FEDERA- 

 TIONS to Impress upon their 

 legislatures the dealrabnity 

 of deteatlng the ratlfleatlon 

 of the child labor ameadiBCBt. 



