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The Illinoii Agricultural A«»ociation Rtcoti 



April 11. 192S 



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I IjLiINOIS 



rCCXTVBAL ASSOCIA 



-RECORD 



Published every other Saturday by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Aasoclation. 60S South Dearborn Street. Chicaco, Illinois. Ed- 

 ited by Department of Information, H. C. Butcher, Dlrqctor. 



Entered as second class matter Oct. 10. 1921. at the post office 

 at Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1S7». Acceptance 

 for mailing at special rates of postage provided for In Section 

 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. authorize d Oct. 31. IHI. 



The Individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of 

 fifty cents for aupscrlption to the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation Recokd. 



Postmaster: In returning an uncalled-for or missent copy, 

 please indicate key number on address as is required by law. 



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OFFICERS 



President, S. H. Thompson, Qnlncy. 



Vice-President, H. E. (ioeinbel, Hooppole. 



Treasurer, K. .\. Cowles, Bloontington. 



Secretary, Gee. A. Fox, Sycamore. 



Mor€ on the Caa Tax 



^Remember the map we printed last timet 

 For fear you have forgotten some of its important 

 details, we are printing it again even if by so doing we 

 run contrary to journalistic etiquette. 



The reason is that some very important changes have 

 taken place even since the last map was run. The gas 

 tax is sweeping the country even faster than the Child 

 I^abor amendment was defeated, and that 's saying a lot. 



KXECCrnE CO.MJUTTEE 



By ConKressional Districts 



11th [ William Webb, Route One, Jotlet 



12th ^ G. F. Tullocl<, Rockford 



13th r C. . E. Bamborouoh.Polo 



14th. 

 ISth. 

 leth. 

 17th. 

 18th. 

 1»th. 



W. H. Moody, Port Byron 



B. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



A. R. Wright, Varna 



F. D. Barton, Cornell 



R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



J. L. Whisnand, CharlSston 



20th. V . . . . L Earl C. Smith, Datroit 



21«t [ Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd SUnly Castle, Alton 



23rd L W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th '. Curt Anderson, Xenia 



25th ► .R. K. Loomis, Mal«anda 



Directors of Departments , 



I. A. A. Office I 



General Office and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Kellcer^ Or- 

 ganization, G. 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. O. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone. J. R. Bent; 

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

 rcpreaentative on Tuberculosis Eradication, M. H. Petersen; 

 Legal Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick; Co-operative Accounting, 

 Geo. R. Wicker. 



THE RECORD'S PLATFORM 

 Advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau teas orgaMixed, 

 naniely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, 

 social and educational interests of the farmers of iUinois and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



I 



A Good Pi€e« of Work 



One of the most significant pieces of work done for 

 the White and Jackson county farmers who were caught 

 in the tornado's fury was the neighborly pilgrimage of 

 farmers from Edwards, Wabash, St. Clair and Randolph 

 counties to clean up debris from the land homesites. 



In White county, a strip nearly seven miles long of 

 the tornado's mile- wide path was covered by 1,400 good 

 farmers from Edwards and Wabash counties. These 

 men furnished their own cars and with their lunches 

 reported for work at the line of duty. 



Boards, limbs, posts, barbed wire fence and the great 

 mass of scattered debris were picked up and hauled oflf. 



After the fields were cleaned off, the visitors cleaned 

 up the building sites, tore apart what remained of barns 

 and homes, and piled the lumber so part of it could be 

 used again. Shade trees and orchards that werei de- 

 stroyed were sawed up and on many farms small build- 

 ings, such as sheds and bams, were put up. Some fence 

 was stretched to keep what live stoek was left from jrun- 

 ning on the crops. [ 



A report from F. A. Fisher and H. C. Gilkerson, farm 

 advisers in Wabash and Edwards counties, states that 

 at least 11,000 hours of work were put in which would 

 have cost at least $5,000. i 



In Jackson county, men from St. Clair and Randolph 

 counties have been pulling a similar stunt with good 

 results. 



The generalship of the pilgrimages came through the 

 Farm Bureaus. It is a fine illustration of the advan- 

 tages of farm orv^^nization. 



Nmu* That h Good NewM 



The news that Iroquois county has increased its mem- 

 bership 15 per cent in a renewal campaign that ia not 

 yet ended is certainly good news, although it wak ex- 

 pectad. This county now has 1,500 members. ! 



It is especially good news in view of the fact that 

 about 40 counties fall due for membership renewals this 

 year. It bears out the prediction that there will be a 

 general increase in membership when the 40 counties 

 have finished their renewal campaigns. The bettS- we 

 are organized, the better work we can do. 1 



In Which We Tost a Bouquet to Ourtelvet 



Here's a headline we picked up in the Wall Street 

 Journal of New York City: 

 Illinois Agricultural Association opens drive for ga« tax. 



Not a bad kind of an organization when its activities 

 make news in New York City, is itf | 



The four shade states in the map, Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa and Missouri, were favorably inclined 

 toward a gas tax when this map was made a month ago. 

 (The states in white have a gas tax, the figures indicat- 

 ing the rate of tax in cents per gallon.) Great changes 

 have come about recently in these four states. 



In Minnesota, the House of Representatives has passed 

 a two-cent gas tax bill by a vote of 105 to 6. In Wis- 

 consin, the two-cent gas tax bill has been enacted into 

 law. Iowa has passed a two-cent gas tax bill in both 

 houses and it will become effective as soon as minor dif- 

 ferences are ironed out in regard to distribution of the 

 funds. Missouri also enacted a two-cent gas tax. 



Nebraska, a deathly black in this map, should now 

 be pure white for the state that William Jennings Brj-an 

 and his brother made famous now has a two-cent gas tax. 

 With Minnesota's House of Representatives feeling 

 over 17 to 1 in favor and Iowa as good as white, the 

 whole area west of the Mississippi will be white as a 

 fresh snowdrift before the next Record reaches yon. 



There is favorable gas tax action east of the Missis- 

 sippi, too. Ohio, another black spot on our map, has 

 passed a gas tax bill in both its Senate and House, but 

 the Governor is against it and is expected to use his veto 

 power. However, best advices indicate that the Gov- 

 ernor's veto will be overridden. 



Our own case here in Illinois is regarded with con- 

 siderable favor, regardless of the frantic shouts of the 

 motor clubs. Several gas tax bills had been introduced 

 at Springfield but all of them were added taxes and not 

 replacement taxes such as the I. A. A. stands for. 



This first group of gas tax bills was knocked cold as 

 a door knob when the Governor's administration de- 

 clared that no more money was needed for the hard 

 road program at the present time. Reduction of taxes 

 is one of the big chores of the legislators and conse- 

 quently our bill is enjoying a favorable reception. 



The Cuthbertson bill is the one covering the I. A. A. 's 

 stand. In it the proceeds are to be used in place of the 

 county highway taxes. 



How much do you pay each year in county highway 

 taxes t The average quarter-section farm in the northern 

 two-thirds of Illinois must stand from $15 to $20 in 

 county taxes each year. City property is hit likewise. 

 The gas tax itself, when levied at the rate of two cents 

 a gallon, costs the average motorist $10.30 a year. This 

 figure was determined by the Bureau of Public Roads, 

 which is a part of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 It includes Fords, Packards and all makes in all of the 

 35 states which used the gas tax system in 1924. 



If you drive a car (your tractor, gas engine and such 

 are exempt under the Cuthbertson bill), subtract the 

 $10.30 average gas tax cost from your county highway 

 taxes. The difference is your saving. If you do not 

 drive a car, your saving is more. There is the big reason 

 why the I. A. A. is for the gas tax; it is because the 

 funds can be used to displace some of the present burden. 



Heaviest Tax Falh on Farm» 



Taxation based on property values tends to press more 

 heavily on farm owners than on any other taxpayers 

 because farm land yields a lower income in proportion to 

 its value than other land, the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture has found. 



This is brought out in a study of taxation in three 

 counties in Indiana, in which the net earnings of differ- 

 ent classes of property are compared. 



From a fanning: standpoint, Indiana and Illinois are 

 about as much alike as any two states in the Union. 

 Therefore the results of the Indiana survey apply very 

 weU. As a matter of fact, the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation has known this to be true in Illinois for some 

 time and ha^HSeen vigorously fighting to lower that 

 burden. / ) 



to the farmers of Illinois, members and non-members, of 

 some two million dollars. To re-state that saving in an- 

 other way would be: a tax saving averaging $8.04 per 

 farm per year. In some counties it is a great deal more ; 

 others less. 



This fight is being continued in our present state legis- 

 lative program. The two-cent gas tax, the proceeds • • 

 from which are to go in place of county highway taxes, 

 means a reduction of taxes on real property. If it did 

 not, the I. A. A. would not stand for it. This is another 

 means of reducing taxes on real property. 



Another plank in our legislative program calls for an 

 amendment to the revenue section of the State Consti- 

 tution to permit a more equitable distribution of the 

 tax burden. The form of this amendment must first be 

 approved by the General Assembly and then submitted 

 to the voters for approval. 



Bringing the Farmers' Side to Bear 



Another benefit of farmers being organized is shown 

 in the report of the Illinois Educational Commission re- 

 cently filed with the General Assembly at Springfield. 



It will be remembered that the I. A. A. went to con- 

 siderable trouble to find the truth about the farmers' 

 school problem in order that we might present a clear 

 picture to the Illinois Educational Commission which 

 was making a comprehensive study of the whole cata- 

 log of school problems. The Commission asked the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, as the representative of 

 63,000 thinking organized farmers, to give the farmers' 

 side of the story. This was done by means of the survey 

 conducted last summer. 



Now the Commission reports its findings to the Gen- 

 eral Assembly. Here is one of the significant para- 

 graphs in it : 



"Farmers pay more for the high school education of cation c 



their children and get less than any other class of citi- 

 zens in IUinois." 



Any action taken by the legislators will be influenced 

 by this report. 



If it had not been that organized agriculture was 

 on the job to bring the real facts before the right people, 

 few would have known anything of the farmers' school 

 problem — and it probably wouldn 't have done any good 



if they had. ■ 



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According to several resolutions that have come into 

 the I. A. A. office lately, it appears that many people 

 think the I. A. A. is quitting its activities in pushing 

 the campaign to eradicate bovine tuberculosis. 



Tuberculosis eradication promotion has been a special 

 project of the association for some time and it will con- 

 tinue to be given as much time and energy as is needed. 

 A great deal of good work has been done as is shown ' 

 by the fact that Illinois is leading in the nation-wide ] 

 clean-up campaign. I 



The executive committee, however, feels that under I 

 the present conditions this work can be carried on by ' 

 two regular departments. Consequently they have \ 

 turned over the ribbons to the dairy ^and live stock mar- i 

 keting departments. | 



If experience proves that the program cannot be | 

 handled in this manner and that it is necessary to have ; 

 a man especially assigned to this work, the executive t 

 committee will no doubt be disposed to change back to ' 

 the special project means of handling it. ' 



Midweat Radio Community Club Meet* April IS 



That the spacious and intangible galleries of the Mid- 

 west Radio Community Club will be packed for the 

 club's first big meeting is shown by the response to the 

 first announcement of the event made in the last Record. 



There is splendid reason for a packed house, if that 

 be possible to say about a radio event, for former Gov- 

 ernor Lowden will speak on "Co-operative Marketing" 

 and this is a subject of tremendous interest to farm folks, 

 especially when presented by this speaker. It is not 

 often that farmers get a chance to hear Mr. Lowden, 

 even over the radio. Presidents of the state farm bu- 

 reaus of Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa, as well as our 

 own, and other notables in the agricultural field, will 

 take part. 



The date was first set for April 24, Mr. Lowden hav- 

 ing agreed to it when written while on a vacation trip in 

 Arizona. During his vacation, however, fire destroyed 

 the building in which he kept his records. When he re- 

 turned to Oregon, 111., everything was in a muddle. In 

 the jam, he found himself scheduled for a meeting in 

 Washington, D. C. on April 23. Consequently he can- 

 not be in Chicago on the 24th, but he will on the 15th. 

 This is Wednesday evening and the date for which the 

 program is now set. 



Many local community clubs have made arrange- 

 ments to hold a meeting especially for the radio pro- 

 gram, but of course these will have to be changed to 



April 15. Local radio dealers are in most cases fovind „- 



willing to supply powerful radio receivers for this occa- ^'y* <« 



sion. Where community clubs are not meeting, farmers "*"" 



who have radios are urged to invite their neighbors over 

 for the evening. 



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