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LOWDEN SPEAKS ON COMMUNITY CLUB PROGRAM APRIL 24 OVER WLS 



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(Continued from page 1.) 

 dorsement given the legislative pro- 

 gram at the last annual meeting, it 

 came at' an opportune time. For 

 at 3 o'clock the hearing on the Tice 

 bill, which embodies the I. A. A. 

 requirements, was called In the 

 House with the committee on agri- 

 culture in charge. 



Never since the days of the Lantz 

 bill, restraining the board of trade, 

 has there been such an assemblage 

 of farmers in the state house, rep- 

 resentatives remarked. In the 

 galleries were packed opposing 

 dairymen from the Chicago milk 

 territory, largely from McHenry 

 county. In the seats of the repre- 

 sentatives who are not on the agri- 

 cultural committee, sat proponents 

 of the bin, mostly farm bureau 

 folks. However, the I. A. A.'s po- 

 sition being held well In hand by 

 appointed representatives, the farm 

 bureau presidents remained in ses- 

 sion for a time across the grounds 

 at the Centennial building. . 



Several conferences had been 

 held during the previous week In 

 efforts to compromise with the Mc- 

 Henry county dairymen, who, led 

 by cattle traders and banking In- 

 terests holding chattel mortgages 

 on a large percentage of the stock 

 owned by' the opposing dairymen, 

 claimed they would be bankrupt if 

 the Tlce bill were enacted. They 

 were also confronted with the 

 Reeves bill, which was considerably 

 more stringent than the one spon- 

 sored by the I. A. A. 



Vast Majority Want Tlce Bill 

 There being such an unmistak- 

 able demand from the S7 farm bu- 

 reaus as well as by the farm bu- 

 reaus In the Chicago milk district, 

 including McHenry county, the I. A. 

 A. was reluctant to concede all the 

 demands of such a minority even 

 though It was insistent. However, 

 certain concessions were offered but 

 each time they were received with 

 a request for more until Unally 

 after a conference which lasted un- 

 til 2:30 in the morning on the day 

 of the hearing, no unified agree- 

 ment had been reached and the bill 

 was kept practically in its original 

 form. 



It was in this situation which 

 Chairman Turner of Livingston 

 county called the meeting to order 

 and quieted the 

 galleries. The 

 pro and con was 

 to be discussed 

 with the pros 

 leading. Repre- 

 sentative Tice of 

 Menard county 

 presented the 

 opening a r g u- 

 ment for his bill. 

 "This is a health bill for the cit- 

 izens of Illinois," he said. "It will 

 further protect human lives from 

 tuberculosis. It is a humanitarian 

 measure. It will place Illinois in 

 advance of other states in testing. 

 We have a cesspool of infection in 

 our great milk district. 



"It g|ves full return to the tax- 

 payer for the money he pays in ap- 

 propriattons for indemnities. For 

 every four dollars expended by th( 

 state In paying indemnities we 

 should have four dollars worth of 

 progress. Instead we are finding 

 ourselves slipping back three dol- 

 lars out of every four. Our duty 

 to the tax-payers Is to go ahead 

 with full force on this work so that 

 which has been gaiaed will not be 

 lost because of re-infection. 



"The bill may work a temporary 

 hardship on some few, but we have 

 tried vainly to lessen any hardship 

 on any locality. Our purpose is to 

 advance every locality in such a 

 manner that the whole state will 

 be clean In as short a time as pos- 

 sible. That is the only economical 

 and business-like way to cafry on 

 this great campaign." 



Bert L. Thomas, president of the 

 McHenry County Farm Bureau and 

 an ardent leader of the farmers who 

 favor testing in his county, spoke 

 next. He prefaced his appeal with 

 a statement that "here I am, a 

 farmer, addressing a group of leg- 

 islators in the House of Representa- 

 tives. Certainly that is a change 

 from olden times. I am talking 

 also to my neighbors in McHenry 

 county who are here opposing the 

 thing for which I stand and I ex- 

 pect I will lose a good many friends 

 by it, but the right will eventually 

 prevail." 



The Facte 



McHenry Slow In Testing 

 He stated that only 190 herds 

 have been tested In McHenry coun- 

 ty, that opposition to the test was 

 the reason for their delinquency 

 and that it is the unthinking farm- 

 ers who will not come to the test 

 and clean up their herds. The City 

 of Chicago Is gradually tending to 

 draw its milk from tested cattle 

 and farmers who look to the future 

 will see the handwriting on the 

 wall, he said. Representative Mc- 

 Carthy, who led the fight for the 

 McHenry county opponents, at- 

 tempted to heckle all speakers fa- 

 voring the bill. 



Thomas' remarks concerning the 

 Chicago situation dovetailed with 

 those of Herman N. Bundesen, 

 health commissioner of Chicago, 

 who followed in a fiery speech. 



"The eradication of bovine tuber- 

 culosis is of vital importance to us 

 as health officers," opened Dr. Bun- 

 desen. "Ten per cent of all milk 

 that comes to Chicago has tuber- 

 cular g<erms in It. Pasteurization, 

 which is required by city ordinance, 

 kills most of them, but pasteuriza- 

 tion is not 100 per cent deadly be- 

 cause the human equation enters 

 into the operation of the machinery. 

 Says 8 Ont of 10 Infected 

 "We also know that 82 per cent 

 of all the cattle In McHenry county 

 are positive reactors to the tuber- 

 culin test. This is a lamentable 

 condition. 



"In Chicago we are encouraging 

 the drinking of milk. We urge 

 every person to drink a quart a day. 

 If we— (and here 

 Dr. Bundesen 

 turned to the 

 press box and 

 asked that these 

 alarming facts be 

 temporized o r 

 suppressed so as 

 not to excite the 

 people o f Chi- 

 cago) — if we tell 

 these facts broadcast to Chicago 

 people they would soon cut down 

 the consumption of milk. That, 

 too, would be disastrous because 

 the increased use of milk through 

 our encouragement has decreased 

 the death rate in children more 

 than any other single factor. We 

 have increased Chicago's daily milk 

 consumption from 1,100,000 to 

 1,250,000 quarts since a year ago. 



11.8 Per Cent Deaths by T. B. 



"Out of every 10,000 deaths in 

 Chicago, 11.8 per cent die because 

 of bovine tuberculosis which ap- 

 pears in humans in the form of 

 bone tuberculosis. 



"We also know that 37 cities 

 and towns have ordinances which 

 prohibit the sale of milk from cat- 

 tle not under state and federal su- 

 pervision. This has caused the 

 dairymen who cannot sell in those 

 towns to divert contaminated milk 

 to Chicago. We will not stand for 

 it forever. 



"Chicago has been patient," he 

 said, "and still intends to be patient 

 in giving dairymen reasonable time 

 in which to eradicate tuberculosis 

 in a hurry. But we are not going 

 to be patient forever when the dai- 

 rymen stand idly by and do nothing 

 to improve their condition, espe- 

 cially when they have had ample 

 opportunity to do so." 



T. B.-Free Milk Only 



Dr. Bundesen also discussed the 

 advent of the railway glass-lin^d 

 milk car which enables dealers to 

 bring milk in from considerable 

 distances. His efforts to confine the 

 milk selection from the legitimate 

 territory around Chicago has kept 

 these people in a market, and now 

 they had all better get busy and 

 clean up or else, he intimated, Chi- 

 cago will heed a recent request 

 from 190 representative dairymen 

 (farm bureau members) from Wis- 

 consin, Illinois, Indiana and Michi- 

 gan who asked that after Jan. 1, 

 1926, all milk sold In Chicago come 

 from tested cows. 



H. R. Smith of the National Live 

 Stock Exchange, Chicago, was next 

 on the stand. He -told of the tre- 

 mendous losses caused by bovine tu- 

 berculosis. 



"Each year in the U. S., 4,300 

 cars of cattle and hogs are con- 

 signed to the tanks because of t. 

 b.," he said. "Six million dollars 

 is lost each year because of it. In 

 1908, one per cent of all slaugh- 

 tered hogs showed evidences of t. 

 b. It climbed steadily and in 1916 

 as many as 10 per cent showed It. 

 In recent years it has been 15 per 

 cent and today 20 per cent — 20 

 hogs out of every 100 — of all hogs 



BANKERS' 7REXY 



Wayne Hummer, La Salle bank- 

 er. Is president of the Illinois Bank- 

 ers' Association. March 31 at 7:30 

 he speaks on the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation's farm program 

 over KYW upon invitation of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 

 The title is: "When Farmers and 

 Bankers Get Together." He believes 

 they should pull together and is 

 telling why. Tune in. 



slaughtered at Chicago show t. b. 

 Tlce Bill 'So Exiiertment 



"Approximately one per cent of 

 all hogs shipped to Chicago are con- 

 demned for food purposes. 



"The Tlce bill is no experiment. 

 It embodies the good point', of sim- 

 ilar legislation in other Ftates. One 

 of the great troubles in Illinois is 

 that 20 or 30 herd owners hold up 

 a whole county from getting ac- 

 credited. Since the packers pay a 

 10 cent per hundred premium on 

 hogs from accredited counties, these 

 20 or 30 objectors are keeping the 

 whole county from considerable 

 money which they could easily get 

 if all would test." 



R. N. Scott, of the Mercer Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, also spoke in fa- 

 vor. He reflected the great need 

 for the Tice bill as viewed by 87 

 bureaus which were represented in 

 the resolution. A. Thompson of 

 Ford county ipoke in the same 

 vein. 



Farm Bnrean Men Confer 



The meeting was adjourned until 

 8 o'clock in the evening. The farm 

 bureau presidents and representa- 

 tives and some legislators again 

 met at a dinner at the Elks' Club. 

 Here the plan of renewing member- 

 ship now being used by the organ- 

 ization department was explained 

 by G. E. Metzger. The legislative 

 program was also discussed until 

 the hearing was again in order at 

 the state house. 



Opponents to the Tice bill were 

 taking their inning. Representa- 

 tive McCarthy opened by saying 

 that he favored compulsory test- 

 ing. Secretary E. C. Rockwell of 

 the Chicago Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation, in a long speech, assailed 

 the Tice bill as un-American be- 

 cause it requires compulsory testing 

 when 75 per cent of herds have 

 voluntarily come in. He stated that 

 the bill would bankrupt the tenant 

 dairymen in the Chicago area and 

 that steers were exempt from brand- 

 ing. 



And so the fight went far into the 

 night. Circuit Judge Edward N. 

 Shurtleff, formerly leader of the 

 Republicans in the House, talked 

 against repealing the Shurtleff act 

 which was enacted in 1911. This 

 act makes it impossible for any 

 town or city in Illinois to pass an 

 ordinance prohibiting milk from 

 cows which have not been t. b.- 

 tested. 



Jndge Shurtleir For It 



The 37 towns and cities to which 

 Dr. Bundesen referred are getting 

 around this act by stipulating that 

 no milk shall be sold in those towns 

 or cities unless the cattle are under 

 state or federal supervision. 



"I am for the Tlce bill," the 

 Judge said. "And, further, you 

 dairymen would be breaking faith 

 with the people of Illinois unless 

 you ask for a five-milUon-doUar ap- 

 propriation for the next two years 

 to fight bovine tuberculosis." 



After his speech, the hearing ad- 

 journed until 3 o'clock the next 

 day. The next morning the I. A. A. 



legislative committee recommended 

 rewriting certain sections of the 

 bill, even though Representative 

 Tice assured them that he bad plen- 

 ty votes to pass the bill in its orig- 

 inal form. The changes were made 

 in accordance with an agreement i 

 by Representative McCarthy that he 

 would line up for anything H. R. 

 Smith of the NatUpnal '■■ Live Stock 

 Exchange would recommend. Bow- 

 ever, when the chuges were made. 

 Representative McCarthy failed to 

 accept them. Consequently the bill 

 went to committee on agriculture, 

 where it quite likely will have been 

 voted out favorably and without 

 material changes by the time the 

 reader receives this Recobo. 



Who Was There 



Following are the names of those 

 who registered at the morning ses- 

 sion. Others came later whose 

 names were not obtained. 



Adama — John A. Connery. Lewis U 

 Boyer; Bond — W. F. Foard, Frank 

 Potthast; Boone — Elmer Hyde. Rob- 

 ert Cumminss, G. H. Brown, Harold 

 Lampert. Phil H. Sanford; Brown— 

 W. P. Miller, Chas. H. Snyder. W. P. 

 Mobley. R. A. llcCaalclIl: Bureau — W. 

 R. Soverhill. Geo. Stamberger. Jr.. D. 

 G. Rader J. B. Habertoon. 



Carroll — G. R. Bliss: Casa — Guy H. 

 Husted, George R. Cline. Harry Crum- 

 vlne. A. E. Crum: Champafffn — C. S. 

 Rhode; Christian — C. E. Hay; Cook^ 

 Herman Schwake; Coles — Harvey N. 

 Ames; Clark — Temple R. Lovett; J.''T. 

 Snedeker: Clay^-Curt Anderson. Geo. 

 W. McElyea; Christian— W. N. Grimes. 



Clinton — C. C. Hofsommer; Coles — 

 J. L. Whisnand; Crawford — N. J. 

 Goodwin; Cumberland— Frank Hack- 

 ley; DeKalb — John Nelaon. F. C. Love; 

 DeWItt — Claude W. Thorp. O. U. Al- 

 lyn. M. E. Turner; Douglas — Chan. 

 McDonald. J. E. Grant; DuPage — E. 

 L Gate. Harold G. Vial. 



VMgar — Enos Watera. Dr. B. I.. 

 Strohl. .Tohn O. Honnold; Effingham — 

 H. O. Henry, P. W. Wascher; Pord— 

 O. G. Anderson. J. A. Barton. Georpe 

 T. Swaim. M. Malone. A. C. Thompson : 

 Franklin — Glenn L. Hamilton; Galla- 

 tin — L. L. PInWell; Greene — L H. 

 Rafferty; Grundy — B. A. Barker. 



Hancock — M. G. Lambert; Henry — 

 J. W. Whlsenand, W. E. Cardiff. Sen- 

 ator Boyd Galva, H. K Goembel. L. 

 C. Warner; Jackson — W. A. Parrieh. 

 Harry L. Gilbert. Fred DIetl. C. J. 

 Thomas; Jefferson — Jno. A. Gage: 

 Jersey — Thomas Cummins; Kendall — 

 R. J. Churchill. E. U Matlock. I. V. 

 Cryder. 



Knox — H. R- Hornbaker; B. L. 

 Balrd; Lake — Wra. C. Dillon; J. J. 

 Doerschuk: Wlllard Rarvell: L. C. 

 Benwell. John B. Barrett, LIndon R. 

 Burns. Bob R. Rouse. E. Harris; La- 

 Salle — E. E. Stevenson. Fred Peck. 

 Henry W. Watts. H. T. Marshall. 



Lawrence — David McClary: Lee — 

 J. W. Larabee. Chas. E. Tale. F. L. 

 Riegle; Livingston — F. D. Barton; 

 Logan — J. H. Clwckley. Thomas Leon- 

 ard. . D. C. Shepler. Oscar Mountjoy; 

 McDonough — M. L. Hunt. Ray C. Don- 

 gehue; McHenry^ — B. L. Thomas, Geo. 

 A. Hunt. Fred H. Busse. 



McLean- — D. H. Stitzman; Macon — 

 Brlce Martin. E. P. Imboden. Hugh S. 

 Baker, Frank O. Gullck. Harvey Phil- 

 lips. Chas. E. Vulgaraott. Jesse I.. 

 Beery; Macoupin — M. E. Rusk. J. P 

 Denby. H. J. Schults; Madison — Henry 

 Heepke: Marlon — Fred J. Blackburn. 

 W. L Cope. 



Marshall-Putnam — L. F. Boyle. A. 

 R. Wright. Harry Blackburn; Menard 

 — W. B. Sturgls, Herman KoBter. H. 



A. Bolls. O. C. Haggard. Chas D. 

 Becker. C. AT Hughes; Mercer — Sco- 

 vine Lee. P. B. Scott. C. H. Beltine; 

 Montgomery — AMen Snyder. A. K. 

 Satterlee. ^^alter E. Satterlee. H. A. 

 Cress. W. C. Rebhan. John P. Poster, 

 Sam Sorrells. Lewis Lessman. 



Morgan — C, S, Black: Moultrie— T 

 P. Ellis, J, H. Sharp. O, E. Lowe. C c 

 Turner; Ogle — C. E. Bamborough; 

 Peoria— Wilfred Shaw, W. B. Van 

 Cleave. Charles R, Pord; Piatt— 

 Wayne Wlsegarver. S. S. Davis. C, J. 

 Gross; Pike — J. A. Miller. E. C. Smith: 

 Pop^ir— James M. Rlger. 



Pulaski — E. A. Bierbaum; Randolph 

 — Logis Gielow. John Uffelmann; 

 Richland — D. H. King, president; 

 Rock Island — W. H. Moody. Port 

 Byron. C. J. Golden; St. Clalr — H. H. 

 Hartman. David O. Thomas;" Saline — 

 H, N, Fowler; Sangamon — J. P, Stout; 

 Schuyler— L. R McKinlle. C. J. 

 Thompson. Chas. L. Bates; Scott — M. 



B. Murray; Shelby — Theodore Roes- 

 sler. Chas. J. Robinson; Stark — E. K. 

 WIIIcox; O. L Hatch: Stephenson — I. 

 M. Swanzey. 



Tazewell — Edward T. Conaghan, 

 Ralph E. Arnett. Joseph Morris; Un- 

 ion — R. K. Loomls; Vermilion — J. S. 

 Crobher. Otis Kercher. G. W. Lenhart ; 

 Wabash — John Deputy; Warren — W. 

 D Rodgers. F. W. Ferris; White — 

 Otto Casebler; Whiteside — John Mc- 

 Neil: Will— J. Franklin Hedgcock, C. 

 J, Luther, Wm. Webb. 'W, H. Cryder; 

 Williamson — Jacob Krumrey, W. T 

 Haescker. W. K. Galeener; A. M, 

 Spltznass; Woodford — Major Darst. 

 IIIseell»e«iu 



Herman K- Bundesen. Chicago 

 health department. Chicago; H, C- 

 Becker. Chicago health department. 

 Chicago: John H. Hugh, supervisor of 

 milk surveys, department of public 

 health, Springfield ; Geo. W. Hess. 

 Hilsboro: Floyd Keepers. Prairie 

 Farmer; Dr. J, J. LIntner. In charg*' 

 federal teating. Union Stock Yards, 

 Chicago: Wallace P. McKee. commis- 

 sioner of llv« stock. Union Stock 

 Tarda, Chicago: F, A. Laird. Spring- 

 Held; Thomas Parran, M. D., state de- 

 partment of public health, Springfield; 

 H, P. Smith, commlsaioner. National 

 Live Stock Exchange. Chicago; O. U. 

 Seugo. Sprlngfleld: Earl Swtngly. 

 Hillsboro, 111.; Albert C. Wilson, chief 

 seed analyst, Springfield. 



I. A. A. officers and directors con- 

 cerned in -the legislation were also 

 present. 



PROGRAM WILL BE 

 GIVEN FROM WLS; 

 I.AJL SPONSORS IT 



Ex-Gov. Lowden HeacUiner on 

 "Co-operative Marketing;" 

 Midwest Farm Borean Pr^- 

 dents to Speak 



If ail the barns In the larglBst 

 county in Illinois were put togetfcer 

 to make one gigantic auditoritim, 

 quite likely it would not be lafge 

 enough to house all the people Who 

 will be listening in the Midwest Ka- 

 dio Community Meeting, the pt«- 

 gram of which will be given oier 

 WLS at Chicago. Friday evenlhg, 

 April 24, 7*: 30 to 9:30. This meet- 

 ing is being called the "worl4'6 

 largest community gathering." 



Realizing that farmers of the 

 middle west have very few oppbr- 

 tunities of hearing the really pig 

 men in farm leadership, the IllinDis 

 Agricultural Association has made 

 arrangements to bring the foremia*t 

 leaders in agricultural thought to 

 the very firesides and platforms of 

 farm homes and community dabs 

 in the middle west by. means of the 

 great informer — radio. 



The first of the Midwest Radio 

 Community Club meetings, which 

 will be held at various times in the • 

 future, has Ex-Goverrior Frank O. 

 Lowden as the headline speaker. 

 He win talk on "Co-operative Mar- 

 keting" in a 30 to 4 minute ad- 

 dress. President Thompson will 

 preside. The editors of the Orange 

 Judd Illinois Farmer and Prairie 

 Farmer will also speak. 



Community Chibe Urged to Meet 



Community clubs are urged to 

 meet on this night with a high-pow- 

 ered radio and loudspeaker con- 

 nected for the occasion. If none of 

 the community club members have 

 a radio that can be obtained, it is 

 suggested that local radio stores be 

 solicited to furnish and operate *ne 

 of their sales models. In many 

 counties, the county Farm Bureaus 

 have radio equipment for commu- 

 nity use. Community singing will 

 be tried out ovemhe radio. 



In addition to the community 

 club gatherings which are urged to 

 be in session, farmers who have ra- 

 dios are solicited to invite their 

 neighbors over for the evening's en- 

 tertainment. Farmers who do not 

 have radios are urged to "get in- 

 vited" over to their radio-owning 

 neighbors. 



Other States Participating 



WLS is announcing this program 

 two or three times a week. The 

 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, the 

 Indiana Farm Bureau Federation 

 and the Michigan Farm Bureau 

 Federation will be represented by 

 their presidenu. Full publicity is 

 being given the Midwest Radio 

 Community Meeting in these other 

 states. 



The programs for the Midwest 

 Radio Community Meetings are be- 

 ing arranged by the Illinois^ Agri- 

 cultural Association through the in- 

 formation d^-partment- The com- 

 plete program for April 24 is as 

 follows: 



The Two-Hoar ProKnun 



Singing of -America." Community 

 Singing lead by X H. Checkley. Logan 

 county farm adviser. 



Opening of meeting by Sam H. 

 Thompson, president of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. Greeting to 

 Illinois and midwest farmers. 



Treasurer's report on standing of 

 I A A by R. A. Cowlea. treasurer of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Secretary's report on progress of 

 I. A. A. work for farmers of Illinois. 

 — By Geo. A. Fox. 



Kane County Farm Bureau Quartet. 



Greeting to farmers of Michigan 

 by 11. L. Noon, president of Michigan 

 Farm Bureati Federation. 



Greeting to farmers of Indiana by 

 President Wm. H. Settle. 



Greeting to farmers of Iowa by 

 Charles E. Hearst, prssident. Iowa 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Message from Arthur C. Page, edi- 

 tor of Orange Judd ILLINOIS PARM- 

 ER. \ 



Message from C, V, Gregory, editor' 

 of PRAIRIE PARMER. 



How-Do-You-Do song on speakers 

 by Ford and Glen. 



Introduction of Kx-Governor Low- 

 den by President Thompson, 



Song by Kane County Quartet, 



Address by Ex-Governor Lowden on 

 "Co-operative Marketing." Talk to 

 last SO-40 minutes. 

 Community Singing — "Star Spangled 



Banner." 



