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The Illinoi* AgricnHnral AMocUtJon Record 



March 28, 192S 



I LiIjINOIS 



Ct'LTVBAL ASSOCIA 



RE CORP 



Pnbllshad ntrr other Smtnrdar t>7 th* Illlnoli A|rrlanltiirftl 

 AasoelaUOB, (Of South Dearborn Streat, Ctalcavo, UllnoU. Bo- 

 lted b7 Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Director. 



■ntered u eecond claie matter Oct. 10. 1921, at the poet effloe 

 at Chleaca Illlnola, under the act o( March 3, 1>7>. Acceptanoe 

 for matUnr at epeclal ratee of poetace provided for la Section 

 not. Act of October I. 1»17, authorlaed Oct. 81. 1»21. 



The IndlTldual memberehlp fee of the Illlnola Aarlcaltnral Aa- 

 aoelatlon la flre dollara a year. The fee Includea payment of 

 flfty centa for aubacrlptlon to the Illlnola Acrlcnllural Aaao- 

 clatlon Rxooia. 



Poatmaater: In returning an nncalled-for or mlaaent oopy, 

 pleaae Indicate key number on addreaa aa la required by law. 



j OFFICERS 



President, S. H. Thompson, Qolncy. 



I Vice-President, H. E. Goembel, Hooppole. 

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomington. 

 Secretarj, Geo. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



BXECpnVE CO-MMTTTEai 



By Congressional Districts 



William Webb, Route One, Joliet 



Q. F. Tullock, Rockford 



C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



.W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



11th..: 

 12th... 

 13th... 



14th ^. 



IBth j. B. H. Taylor, Rapatae 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th F. D. Barton, Cornell 



18th J « R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



1»th J J. L. Whianand, Charleston 



20th i Eart C. Smith, Detroit 



Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



Stanly Castle, Alton 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



Curt Anderson, Xenia 



21st..., 

 22nd... 

 23rd... 

 24th... 

 2&th R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



Directors of Departments 

 I. A. A. Office 

 General Offlce and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kelker; Or. 

 ganlzatlon, Q. E. Metzger; Information, H. C. Butcher; Trans- 

 portation, L. J. Quasey; Taxation and Statistics, J. C. Watson; 

 Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, A. B. 

 Leeper; Live Stock Marketing, Wm. E. Hedgcock; Dairy 

 Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phospliate-Llmestone, J. R. Bent; 

 In charge Poultry and Egg Marketing, F. A. Gougler; apeclal 

 representative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; 

 Legal Counsel, Donald KIrkpatrIck; Co-operative Accounting, 

 Geo. R. Wicker. 



THE RECORDS PLATFORM 

 Advance the purpose for tchich the Farm Bureau teas organixed, 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic^ 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



®ur Hf arts 90 WvA to (§m 



Unfortunate J^eigtjbnr | 



iFarmerfi in ti?p ulomabo Area 



The Tornado 



{"Time and tide wait for no man, and neither does the dead- 

 lime** it a saying in many newspaper offices. Jt certainly applies 

 in the office of the information department at this particular mo- 

 ment, irorfc on the farm relief fund has kept us jumping. The 

 printer's boy is Tefaiting for his last installment of news for this 

 ItECoao and we dare not overstep the deadline. 80 with apologies 

 to our readers we are printing a part of a radio talk given Sun- 

 day noon, Mareli 22, over WL8, by your editor, with the hopes 

 that it wMl in some small way help you to picture the^ need 

 for assisting our brother farmer-neighbors of Illinois. — fl. C. 

 Butrher.) 



This message is a messase to the farmers of IIIinolB. It 

 is a message to you farmers who are sitting contentedly In 

 your comfortable homes on this beautiful day of divine 

 worship — free from harm, secure in your happiness, con- 

 tent with your well being and happy In your fortitude. 



This message is to those good farHiers and their families 

 who can sit down to their country-famous Sunday dijiners 

 with a fueling of happiness, pleasure and comfort. All Is 

 well with you. Even the work horses are enjoying their 

 day of rest-— possibly this is their first day of green pasture 

 this spring. You farme^ are usually at peace when your 

 stock is all cared forr The little pigs are being farrowed 

 and you are looking forward to a good, profitable year as 

 a result of a favorable hog marlcet situation. ' 



You good farmers are perhaps soon to sit down, to your 

 Sunday dinners with naught but happiness in your hearts. 

 This is the second day of spring. The call of spring is great- 

 est in the farm home for it brings the beginning of another 



To the Gmbstake ('unimitt«e. 



Care of B. A. Cowles, I. .\. .\. Office. 



I aa contributini; herewith $ tor help4 



ing the Southern Illinois farmers who were left 

 destitnte by the tornado. This money will be 

 used for *'(;rubstaking"^-setting them up in 

 business again. 



Signed ,. i 



Town County 



(Money sent direct will apply to yoor ct>iinty'8 qaot|k) 



season of chance. Never are farmers' hopes as blgh as 

 when spring planting time comes — and pow — this message 

 is to you farmers who kie in the midst of all this happiness, 

 this security, ttUs fortitude, this contentment on this day of 

 rest, and this time of the year when your hopes are high 

 and the prospects shine as brightly as the glorious sun. 



This message is to call you to the consideration of your 

 fellow neighbor. Is all well with him? Many have already 

 felt the call to aid but there is still much to do. Imagine, 

 it you can, your neighbor and brother farmer of the tor- 

 nado-stricken area in southern Illinois on this beautiful 

 Sunday. Imagine HIS Sunday dinner. Picture, it you can, 

 the things which he sees today as he stumbles with be- 

 wilderment in the ruins of his farm buildings. Picture his 

 house strewn by the elements across a 40-acre field and 

 torn into kindling wood. Picture his crumbled barn with 

 his work horses — his Nell and his Duke — pinioned to death 

 under the timbers of his once proudly owned barn. Picture 

 the corn crib — twisted, wrecked and torn. Corn scattered 

 over the muddy ground for rods and rods. Picture freshly 

 farrowed pigs squelched to pig heaven soon after they had 

 first seen the light of lite. Picture motherly sows farrow- 

 ing amongst the scattered debris with your farmer-neighbor 

 still too bewildered and stunned to take care of farrowing 

 problems. Perhaps this farmer has been burying his rel- 

 atives, his son, his daughter or i>erhap8 bis good wife. Per- 

 haps HIS Sunday is a burial day. It is not only material 

 loss that your neighbor farmers of Illinois are valiantly 

 suffering, Mr. Fortunate Farmer, but it is death and injury 

 of the dearly beloved ones of his own family. Perhaps 

 his Sunday is a funeral day instead of a happy day of rest 

 and wholesome Sunday dinner such as you are having to- 

 day. 



Multiply this picture by a minimum of 100 and you have 

 the condition in White county — Just one of the several 

 stricken Illinois counties. Ed Creighton, farm adviser for 

 the White County Farm Bureau, which is doing all it can 

 for the farmers in that county, reported to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association that at least 100 farms have been 

 completely or very nearly obliterated by the terrific tornado 

 which cut a mile swath across White county. Farms were 

 hit and the cities missed in White county. The damage 

 to farms alone in this county will amount to between three 

 quarters and a million dollars, Mr. Creighton reports. For- 

 ty-nine good farm folks, farmer-neighbors of yours too, 

 lost their lires in White county. At least one hundred 

 more are seriously injured. 



Now multiply the conditions in White county by the sev- 

 eral counties which suffered the wrath of the elements. 

 Then you realize what a gigantic chore there Is before the 

 farmers of Illinois to help adequately their neighbor and 

 brother farmers in this time of tragedy. 



Many of these farmers escaped with nothing but the very 

 clothes which clung to their backs. Their temporary needs 

 are being cared for by such noble agencies as the Red Cross 

 and local committees. This, however, is only temporary 

 relief. 



How are these destitute farmers to have the opportunity 

 of growing a crop this year? Their planting season Is al- 

 most upon them. Their season starts 30 days in advance 

 of that of Northern Illinois. With no horses with which 

 to seed their oats, no milk to provide milk and butter for 

 whatever number of the family remains, with tew or no 

 chickens, with farm machinery for the most part demol- 

 ished and broken, with seed for planting lying sprouting on 

 the moist ground — or with none at all — with all these ob- 

 stacles to overcome, in addition to the terrific shock of the 

 calamity, how can these farmers carry on without some as- 

 sistance from their neighbor-farmers of Illinois? 



If one of your immediate neighbors becomes sick and 

 cannot plant his corn, what do you do? You and the rest 

 of his neighbors combine your strength and plant it for 

 him so he'll have a crop. That is the call which the farm- 

 ers in every county of Illinois must heed if their unfortu- 

 nate neighbors in Little Egypt are to be grubstaked to 

 plant and harvest this year's crop. 



LET US GRUBSTAKE THEM TO ANOTHER GROWING 

 SEASON! 



A small contribution from each of us will do the Job. 

 Don't put it off, put it over! ! 



The Gaa Tax 



I\ny farmer who has followed the taxation program of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association knows our stand has 

 always been for lower taxes on real property and for a 

 more equitable distribution of the tax burden. 



Our desire tor a gas tax is in keeping with this stand. 

 Those people who are close to the gas tax situation admit 

 that such a tax is inevitable in Illinois. It it is inevitable, 

 which it is because it Is fair and Just, then the thing to do 

 is to see that the proceeds from it go in place of some pres- 

 ent tax and not in addition to the burden property is now 

 carrying. 



Therefore, we are 100 per cent behind the Cuthbertson 

 bill, which provides for a two-cent tax per gallon on gaso- 

 line used on the public highways, the proceeds from which 

 shail go in place of the present 25 cent levy for county 

 highway taxes. 



The main points in this bill, which have been set forth 

 in a 22-page booklet recently prepared by the department 

 of taxation and statistics and issued by this association, are 

 as follows: 



1. A tax of two cents per gallon on all gasoline 

 sold within the state. 



2. Provision tor refunding the tax, under proper 

 safe-guards, to purchasers of gasoline tor agricultural, 

 industrial, or domestic uses. 



3. Substitution of the gasoline tax for the present 

 County Highway tax on property for the State Aid 

 roads, subject to the second provision under four (4). 



4. Quarterly apportionment to each county of the 

 gasoline tax in the proportion which its total permis- 

 sible State Aid road mileage bears to the total permis- 

 sible State Aid road mileage in the state, provided 

 that no county can be apportioned a larger amount in 

 any quarter than it could raise by one-fourth of a 35 

 cent tax rate applied to the latest assessed valuations 

 of all property assessed in the county; and provided 

 that the county board in any county which in the pre- 

 vious fiscal year shall not have received the equivalent 



of the amount which could be raised by a 25 cent prop- 

 erty tax, shall have the power to levy a sufBcient tax 

 to make the total amount arallable tor th* State Aid 

 roads the equivalent ot the amotiat a 2S cent tax rate 

 would produce. 



5. Transfer to the State Highway Fund ot any bal- 

 ance ot the gaaoUne tax remaining after the quarterly 

 distribution. 



6. Limitation ot the use ot the proceeds of the gas- 

 oline tax to the State Aid roads not included in the 

 State Bond Issue System ot hard paved roads. 



7. Proper administrative provisions tor carrying 

 the act into effect. 



During 1924, 36 of the 48 states and the District ot Co- 

 lumbia imposed a gas tax, the rate ranging from 1 to 3 

 cents per gallon In all states excepting Arkansas, which 

 levied 4 cents. Nearly $80,000,000 was collected from the 

 gas tax In these states in 1924. It was used or was avail- 

 able very largely for road maintenance and construction, 

 according to the bureau ot public roads of the department 

 of agriculture. However, since the first ot the year, other 



states have adopted the gas tax. The accompanying map 

 was prepared about two weeks ago tor the booklet, and.it 

 Is already out <)t date. The states in white have a gas tax, 

 the figures Indicating the rate ot tax in cents per gallon. 

 States in black have not approved a gas tax. The shaded 

 states are favorably inclined. A gas tax was enacted in 

 Iowa and Wisconsin in 1923, but was vetoed by the gover- 

 nors. Bills are now pending in these states with support 

 ot the governors. Minnesota, by popular vote in November, 

 1924, amended its constitution to permit a gas tax. Mis- 

 souri approved it. 



Since the map was made, Ohio has practically got a gas 

 tax. There is favorable agitation in Nebraska. The tax is 

 fair. It is sweeping the country. Illinois will soon become 

 an island in a whole sea of gas-taxing states. When Illinois 

 motorists go out of the state, they will help pay for our 

 neighbor's roads, but when tourists come to Illinois— (and 

 Illinois catches the great bulk ot East and West an^ North 

 and South traffic because of our excellent main roads), 

 the tourists will wear and destroy our roads without bear- 

 ing their share. 



The amount paid by the average motorist where the tax 

 is collected, including all makes of cars, large and small, is 

 $10.30 per vehicle, according to the bureau of public roads. 



By displacing the county highway tax ot 25 cents per 

 $100 valuation, the tax saving to all property owners, both 

 farm and city, amounts to $10 i^ year for each $4,000 valua- 

 tion. 



Mr. Watson, our director ot taxation and statistics, the 

 authority for the booklet that the I. A. A. has issued, esti- 

 mates that from $15 to $20 a year could be saved on the 

 average 160-acre farm in the northern two-thirds ot Illi- 

 nois. Therefore it can easily be seen that a gas tax in place 

 ot the county highway tax would be ot financial advan- 

 tage to the taxpayers as well aa to the adTantoge ot the 

 motorist who wants good roads. 



9^0 ■ 



ifT ToomsTs m wi 



imi WITH A GAS TAX 



This is a reproduction of windshield sticker you can obtain at 

 your farm bureau office or by writing direct to the I. A. A. office. 

 Put one on your carl 



These windshield stickers are red with regular postagt stamp 

 glue on the front of them. They slick! Get one for your carl 



Likee Oar Slogan 



In its executive committee meeting for March, the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association officially adopted as its slo- 

 gan the phrase: '63,000 Thinking Farmers." It's a slogan 

 that has the right ring.— Rockford (111.) Gazette. 



