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The lUinoM Agricultural A»tociation Record 



May 9, 192S 



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Pnbllshad everr other Saturday b7 the Illinois Acrlenltoral 

 Asaoclatlon. SOS South Dearborn Street, Chicago. Illfnola. Ed- 

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



Botered a* aeeond class matter Oct. 10, 1921, at the post olBee 

 at ChleaKO, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1S79. Aoceptmnoe 

 for mallfngr at special rates of postage provided for la Seotloa 

 not. Act of October 3, 1»17, authorlied Oct. 11. Hit. 



The IndlTldual membership fee of the Illinois Arrlcaltnral As- 

 sociation Is flTS dollars a year. The fee Includes payment of 

 fifty cents for sapsorlptlon to the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 olatlon PT"*f*. 



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



OFFICERS 

 Presideiit, S. H. Thompson, Qulnoy. 

 Vice-President, H. E. Ooembel, Hooppole. 

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles, Bloomlngton. 

 Secretary, Geow A. Fox, Sycamore. 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE i 



By Congressional Districts I 



.William Webb, Route One, Jollet 



fl. F. Tuilocl<, Rocl<ford 



C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



W.jH. Moody, Port Byron 



Lb. H. Taylor, Rapatee 



..A. R. Wright, Varna 



, . F. D. Barton, Cornell 



R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



.1 J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



.[._. Earl C. Smith, Detroit 



^i.. Samuel Sorreiit, Raymond 



Stanly Castle, Alton 



W. L. Cope, Saiem 



Curt Anderson, Xenia 



R. K. Loomis, Makanda 



Directors of Departments 

 I. A. A. Office 



General O^ce and Assistant to Secretary, J. H. Keliter; Or- 

 ganizatioiv G. E. Metzger; Informationi H. C. Butcher; Trans- 

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

 Finance, R. A. Cowles; Fruit and Vegetable Marl<eting, A. B- 

 Leeper; Live Stocic Marlteting, Wm. E. Hedgcocl<; Dairy 

 Marketing, A. D. Lynch; Phosphate-Limestone, J. R. Bent; 

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

 representative 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 UMu organized, 

 nanteiy, to promote^ protect and represent the businest, economic, 

 todol md educational interests of the farmers of lUinois and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Trying To Ducrmdit U* 



An effort to discredit the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation because of its stand against the $26,000,000 

 grain merger is shown in the stock selling promoters' 

 public accusation that a legal report on the company 

 has been suppressed bji the I. A. A. 



This le^l opinion is known as tlte Starr report. It is 

 a lawyer "fe opinion on the legal phase of the grain mer- 

 ger, only one of several phases studied by the Illinois 

 Agricultural As-sociatioil before the association's execu- 

 tive committee decided 1)0 warn the members not to buy 

 stock. ' 



It is tiue that the S|tarr report was never released 

 for publication by this association or Mr. Starr. It was 

 never thought to be of enough importance- to single it 

 out of several reports ajid print it in full. The weight 

 of it was balanced with -the weight of other reports and 

 the result was a iiegativie decision. However, the Starr 

 report has been open ^or persualjby members of the 

 associatioB and has been seen bjf all who desire to 

 see it. I i 



Demanq for its releas|e has come only from the stock 

 selling promoters of the grain merger, who, it was feared 

 by the association, would extract only such sections as 

 would heljp sell stock in the merger. The use now be- 

 ing made of the Starr report illustrates perfectlj- why 

 the I. A. A. ofBcials and executive committee did not 

 release it to the promoters of tl^e Grain Marketing 

 Company jfor publicatiofi. 



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o Ruth and Red Croaa 



The title of this poem is rather misleading unless one 

 knows who "Riuth" and "Red Cross" are in this case. 



Ruth is a y(j>ung lady of four years who got blown 

 about a bit ini the recent cyclone in Southern Illinois 

 and, in order (jo cheer her up. Miss Ruth's 15-year-old 

 sister, Bethyl 3. Allardin, wrote this little poem to her. 

 According to Mrs. James L. Mitchell, the Red Cross 

 case worker foe Hamilton county and who sent this and 

 the other poem on page 4, to R. A. Cowles, chairman 

 of the Illinois i Farm Relief Committee, both girls are 

 convalescing in a hospital. The poems give a sidelight 

 on the tornado tragedy reflecting the good spirit being 

 si|iown in the stricken communities. 



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I^m just -a littlje girl; I'm only four years old. 

 My name is Ri^th Allardin, if you haven't already been 

 told. 



' I live at McLeajnsboro. It 's a long, long way from here. 

 I wish I was bick home with all my friends so dear. 



My leg got hurt badly. I 'm here to get well you see. 

 I 'm at the Red.1 Cross Hospital, they '11 take good care of 

 me. 



I took Red Cross with me, when I was ready to go. 

 I have to take good care of her, 'cause she's my dolly, 

 ■ you know. • 



A man came td see me this morning. I like him a lot, 



you bet. 

 He brought me some candy and a rabbit, and the rabbit 



is a pet. 



I play with him and he doesn't try to run away. 

 He's a great big rabbit, Red Cross rode on his back one 

 day. j 



I play on my little piano, a lady showed me how, 

 R«d Cross soon! can play, 'cause I'm giving her lessons 

 now. 



We are very happy here, Little Red Cross and I. 

 We are always laughing, and never have time to cry. 



We are going home some day, we '11 surely be glad to go, 

 TJio we're loat)i to leave our new friends, we miss our 

 old ones so.' 



— Betl|yl S. Allardin, McLeansboro, Illinois. 



Want a Good Laagh ? Read This .' 



(Reprinted from the Evening Bulletin of 

 New York City.) 



Four states, each in the Ea.st, may be the only sur- 

 vivors in the battle the farmers have waged against the 

 iCity automobilists. Today every state in the Union but 

 Ohio and Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island and New Jersey have adopted the gasoline tax, 

 and it appears as if Ohio and Illinois would approve 

 the plan before their Legislatures adjourn. 



The gasoline tax is nothing but a new blow aimed by 

 the farmers against the city dwellers. It is a scheme 

 by which the cost of building roads is taken from the 

 general tax and placed exclusively upon the shoulders 

 of city automobilists. 



The unfairness of the proposition may be judged by 

 two specific facts: 



1 — That ;the automobile already is the highest 

 tax article of personal property. It is taxed by the 

 Federal government through a war assessment on 

 purchase of plarts ; it is taxed by the state by a reg- 

 istration fee land driver's license; it is taxed by 

 municipal coinmunities by a property tax. 



2 — The farmer has profited more from the 

 automobile than any other individual. Before the 

 automobile c^e no state in the Union could boast 

 of good roadp. Farmers had to use many horses 

 and trucks tc get their produce to market. The 

 automobile came and registration fees, court fees, 



etc., provided 



sufficient mcjney to build good roads. 



Today the automobilist really needs no more roads. 



■" The farmer does. So the farmer intends to get the 



roads he needs by taxing the city automobilist. 



Only 4 per cent of all the pleasure cars in the United 

 States use country roads; yet 70 per cent of all the 

 taxes assessed against city owned automobiles has been 

 spent building country roads. 



The cost of getting farm produce to the market has 

 been reduced 11 per cent since the automobile tax built 

 good roads where there were bad ones. 



But the farmer is not satisfied. 



New York state doesn't need to be told of the greed 

 and cupidity of the farmer. Lowman's pals gave full 

 and bold proof of it during the past Legislative season. 

 But it is remarkable that the nation has been so com- 

 pletely deceived. 



To show how selfish and unfair the farm politician is 

 one need but know that in almost every state where 

 the gasoline tax has been enacted farm automobiles have 

 been made exempt from the tax. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association, a bunch of 

 farmers, arguing for the passage of the gasoline tax in 

 that state, states: 



The tax is about as equitable as it can be . . . 



The farmer who still drives a horse . . . saves the 



whole amount. 



The farmers have expended much eflfort and more 

 money in attempting to foist the gasoline tax upon the 

 people. Road building costs were a nightmare to them. 

 Because of the chronic ignorance which characterizes 

 so many of the farmers' campaigns the agriculturists 

 wasted both time and money. To solve the road build- 

 ing problem one does not need a gasoline tax ; one does 

 need to remove politics from road building. 



Go into any small city or country town and investi- 

 gate road building costs! Then go to any competent 

 engineer and get the facts. You wiU find that, allowing 

 a fair profit to the contractor and paying a fair price 

 for labor and materials, every community pays about 

 30 per cent more for its road work than it should. 



Where does this money go? 



Politics profits more out of road building than in any 

 municipal activity except the purchase of fire apparatus 

 — so observers claim who should know what they are 

 talking about. 



Every small town politician welcomes the proposal 

 that a road be built. Every contractor welcomes it. 

 And then when the contract is awarded it is bloated 

 30 per cent to pay the political fare. The result is that 

 roads which shoidd contain half cement and half sand 

 really contain one-fifth cement and four-fifths sand. In 

 a year the road is a wreck ; it cannot withstand a single 

 winter's storm. Then repairs must come. 



It is amusing to note the complaint of the Illinois 

 farmers that the gasoline tax of two cents a gallon 

 barely covers the cost of repairs and does not provide 

 any money for new construction. That is fairly good 

 proof that all the tax does is pay the high price demand- 

 ed by practical politics. 



It would be interesting and illuminating if one could 

 ascertain how many selectmen's gartiges, mayor's sum- 

 mer camps, aldermen's automobiles and councilmen's 

 shoes have been bought in the cities and towns of the 

 nation by the contributions of road builders. 



The gasoline tax is a political tax. But the farmer is 

 too thick to realize it, just as he is thick enough to pay 

 the $10 to the klan and subscribe to the courses which 

 teach dupes how to become hypocrites. — The Evening 

 Bulletin, New York City. 



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 I county 



The I. A. A. is quite a "bunch" of farmers to be 

 causing so much editorial comment in the world's larg- 

 est city a thousand miles away, don't you think t 



Our guess is that the gentleman who wrote this edi- 

 torial knows about as much about farmers as the fellow 

 who pumped the cow's tail to get milk — and about the 

 same proportion about the gas tax. Rhode Island has 

 adopted the tax, as has Ohio. 



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INTRODUCING TWO NEIGHBORS— John Thinker and Epidermis Flint. (John's a Loyal Farm Bureau Member. Epidermis Is Agin Itt) 



I40WDY • FARM BUREAU FOLKS! MY NAME'S 

 JOHN THINKER AN" I'M PCOUD TO BE , 

 ONe cy THIS OCffANIZATION 0" Tt4INKIN 

 , FACMEQS ' 



AN'TWie IS MY NEAREST NE l&UBOB,, MB. 

 EPIDCBMIS FlINT. HE ISN'T EXACUV 

 SOLD ON THH FARM BUeEAU BUT HE 

 MAKES ME eOOD COMRANY^^>£. 

 WUCN r WANTA BE S: 4^ 



ENTERTAINED, j (^^M 



ENTERTAINED HOTWIN' J 1 M THE SUY THAT 

 SITS ENTERTAINED BY HE/:«aiN' AU.THIS 

 FARM SURER DRIVEL naOM YOU! ALL . 

 ABOUT LIMIN' SOILS AN'TESTlN'CATaE-ITS 

 BUNK ! MY DADDY A M' ©RAN'DAODY SOT 

 ALONS WITHOUT LIMES ANTESTS AN' 

 FARM BUEERS AN' SO 

 KIN I *, 



TALKlN LIKE" TUAT,EPIDERMIS,ALMOST FORCES 

 ME TO DRAW ATTENTION OF OUR RECORD^ 

 EEADERS THAT YOue FLOSSY FIRST 

 NAME IS A MISH-HAT VJORDroR"SKI> 

 UENCE-SKIN FLINT-WUICW FITS *^iT , 

 CLOSER TI4AM "lOUR CMIN \AWI9KEGS.'' 



