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BARTON URGES HGHT 

 START NOW FOR 1927 

 LEGISLATIVE BATTLE 



Bloomingtoa Gonference Hear* 

 Reports oa LeguUture, 

 Farm ReUaf, Taxes, Lime- 

 stone and Discusses Them 



The campalfn for the farmera' 

 legislative profrSm in 1927 should 

 begin at once, declared Frank D. 

 Barton, exeeutlt* committeeman 

 for the 17th d^rict. at that dis- 

 trlcfs meetlns ' at Bloomlngton, 

 June 26. He stated that one fea- 

 ture of the campaign will be a gaso- 

 line tax measura,deslgned as a lieu 

 tax, taking the plaee of the present 

 special tax ussfsments for main- 

 taining state aid roads. Most coun- 

 ties of the state have this special 

 assessment included with their reg- 

 ular property tax schedules, he said. 



Discussion brought out that it 

 would be adTlsable to carry on a 

 very thorough campaign on the gas 

 tax M the farmers themselves in 

 order that they may be solidly be- 

 hind It, and can talk It to their 

 neighbors. In the last session, the 

 opponenu spread propaganda to the 

 effect that the gas tax would be an 

 additional tax aad that It was det- 

 rimental to farmers, it was said. 

 Relief Fond Reaches Goal 



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

 reported that the farm relief fund 

 had reached approximately $180,- 

 000. the goal originally sought. 

 The fund is to be used to re-estab- 

 lish the farmers in the stricken 

 area, building homes and barns and 

 granaries where they are needed, 

 re-stocking the county with cattle, 

 hogs and chickens. This work is 

 being done, he said, only where it 

 is essential in order that a farm 

 family can continue living and 

 earning a living on the farm. It 

 is a slightly different class of work 

 than can -be done by the Red Cross, 

 which has raised over two million 

 dollars for the general storm relief 

 work, though the farm relief fund 

 is being administered by the Red 

 Cross after it Is received in mod- 

 erate amounts from the Illinois 

 Farm Relief Committee. 



One of the most effective pieces 

 of storm relief work was done by 

 the farmers living near the stricken 

 area in organising crews, going In- 

 to the storm-swept country and 

 picking up rubbish and wreckage 

 from the fields, building temporary 

 shelters and fences and in other 

 ways lending a helping hand to the 

 sufferers. This action proved to be 

 far more than a contribution of so 

 many hours of labor, Mr. Cowles 

 said, for this neighborly act re- 

 stored the morale of the storm vic- 

 tims, a priceless contribution. 

 Predicts Llmestane Price Increase 



John C. Wataon, director of taxa- 

 tion and statistics, reported that he 

 is doing work along equalization 

 lines in McLean county, but had not 

 progressed far enough to give any 

 light on the situation. J. R. Bent, 

 director of the phosphate-limestone 

 department, stated that because of 

 decreased activity in road building 

 in the state, which has reduced the 

 quarries' output of the screenings, 

 and, too, because of greater farm 

 demand, there will be an increase 



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Bcmenee and OMUt^ 



O'Brien, Lawrence C Chicago. Cook. 



O'Gradjr, Thomas J Chicago. Cook — 



O'Nell, Lottie Holman Downers Grove, D l Page. 



O'Toole, James J Chicago. Cook... 



Overland. Ed. M Chicago, Cook.. 



Pacelll. William V Chicago. Cook L _Real Estate 



Peflfera, John M Aurora, Kane „Attorney-at-Law 



Perina. Joseph Chicago, Cook Real Estate and Insurance.. 



Petri. Ed. P : Belleville, St. Clal 



Phillips, W. B _ Mt. Vernon, JeSer ion... 



Piacek, Joseph ) Chicago, Cook _ Restaurant Owner.- 



Powers, William W. .jL__ Chicago, Cook., 



Reeves, James A..„ '. Champaign. Chamfealgn Farmer... 



Rellly, Thomas F Chicago, Cook Lawyer., 



Rennick. Frederick W Buda. Bureau .„ Lawyer.. 



Rew, Claude L „Harrl8burg. Salln ( Insurance and Real Estate,.,. 



Rice. M. P Lewistown. Fulto t Lawyer... 



Robblns. Rollo R. - Augusta, Hancocl Publisher-. 



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Roe. Arthur -.. ^ Vandal ia, Fayettel Lawyer „ „. Tes 



Rogers. Euclid B Springfield. Sangamon Clergyman _ „ Tea 



Rostenkowski, Albert Chicago. Cook Real Estate Tea 



Rush, W. V Metropolis. Massa c Farmer and Merchant Tes 



Rutshaw. Arthur J Chicago, Cook _ „Real Estate Tea 



Ryan. Ed __LawrenceviIle, La wrence Farmer Tea 



Ryan. Frank Chicago, Cook -Grain Merchant Tea 



Saum, Claude N .^Watseka, Iroquol i Lawyer Tes 



Sawyer, C. B Kankakee. Kanki kee Attorney-at-tAW « Tea 



Schnackenberg. Elmer J ..Chicago. Cook Lawyer Tea 



Scholes. Robert Peoria Hts., Peorl i „,..Lawyer Tea 



Shanahan. David E -Chicago, Cook Real Estate. Loana ft Ins « 



Slnnett, Thomas P .j.MolIne. Rock lalai id Attorney-at-Law Tes 



Smith, Tlieo. D Chicago, Cook Insurance Tes 



Snell, Truman A Carlinville, Macoi pin Attorney Tes 



Doalap 

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 Tie* Police Bill 

 Bill NetoKo.e 



Then. William G _,.Chieago. Cook.. 



Rushville. Schuyl sr Lawyer.. 



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Tourtillott, Albert T...i «. 



Trotter, John 



Turner, Chas. M 



Turner.- Ernest WT. 

 Turner. Shreadrick B. 



Dixon, Lee 



Coal City. Grundj 



.^Wenona. Marshal^... 

 i-Chicago, Cook.. 

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Van Norman. Harry C -Chicago. Cook. 



Walker. John L. _Joliet. Will 



Waller, Elbert , „Tamaroa, Perry..!.. 



Weber. Chas. H. -• Chicago, Cook 



Welsbrod. Harry 1 1 Chicago. Cook , . 



Weiss. William P L .^..Waukegan. Lake , 



West. Owen B :,..J Yates City, Knox 



...Deputy Coroner- 



WiUlaton. Geo. A Chicago. ( ^ 



Wilson. Emmet P Rockford. Winne mgo Real Estate and Insurance. 



Woodruff. Marion U Ppringfleld. Sangr imon Lawyer.. 



Wylie, John _: Ottawa. La Salle. 



in the price of agricultural lime- 

 stone of from 10 to 15 per cent 

 about August. This applies partic- 

 ularly in southern Illinois, but some 

 of the companies in northern Illi- 

 nois have announced that they will 

 not increase the price, he said. 



George R. Wicker, director of 

 co-operative accounting, told how 

 his department has proceeded along 

 almost the Identical lines in analyz- 

 ing farmers' elevators' books as 

 have the farmers in Woodford and 

 adjoining counties in their co-op- 

 erative farm accounting. As a 

 whole, the study shows where farm- 

 ers' elevators are falling down in 

 good business practice or where 

 they are above the average. 



It was decided to hold the next 

 conference at Bloomlngton Nov. 27 



AwllcatlOB of Grain M^rketlnir 

 Compaay for permit to sell its stock 

 In Ohio, which was filed pursuant to 

 a ruling of the attorney general hold- 

 ing the corporation subject to the 

 Ohio Securities law, was withdrawn 

 by officers of the company not long 

 after It had been filed, according to 

 the Ohio department of commerce. 

 N'o action on the application had been 

 taken, at the request of attorneys 

 for th'e stain merger, who expressed 

 a desire to hold the matter in abey- 

 ance until' the departments of Indiana 

 and Illinois had disposed of it. The 

 withdrawal from Ohio took place the 

 day before the Indiana Securities 

 Commission rejected the application 

 to sell stock in Indiana. 



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Reinsurance Body Needs $500,000 in 

 Individual Policies ; Will You Help? 



The only law under which a mu- 

 tual fire and lightning company can 

 operate over the entire state also 

 requires that $900,000 In Indirldual 

 policies must be held by the com- 

 pany before It can receive Its char- 

 ter. 



This is the situation of the newly 

 organized reinsurance company 

 sponsored by the Illinois Associa- 

 tion of Mutual Insurance Associa- 

 tions and the I. A. A. It becomes 

 highly important and absolutely 

 necessary that individual fire and 

 lightning insurance to the extent of 

 1500,000 t>e subscribed or else the 

 new company cannot get Its charter. 

 Indiana has had a farmers' reinsur- 

 ance company for eight years, and 

 Iowa IS. 



"With all friends of Farmers Mu- 

 tual Fire and Lightning Insurance 

 companies co-operating, each coun- 

 ty in Illinois should raise at least 

 20 psiicles of 11,000 each," Vernon 

 Vanifaan, field representative, says. 

 "After the charter is received, the 

 company will be ready to operate. 

 To enable the local companies to 

 render greater service and to serve 

 you better is the real purpose of 

 the reinsurance company. Which 

 county will have the honor of send- 

 ing In 20 policies first? 



"Are you interested in Illinois 

 having a farmers' reinsurance com- 

 pany? If so, sign your name to 

 the attached coupon and complete 

 information will be sent you." 



I am Isterested in the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com- 

 pany of Illinois and in order to help it get its charter, I. could 



use about t of fire and lightning instirance 



on my property. Send complete information. 



Name 1 , _ „ 



.\ddress [ _ County 



..Linotype Operator — 



Soderstrom. R. G Streator, La Salle 



Sonnemann, Otto C. Carlinville, Macoi pin Retired. 



Sparks. H. D «ShelbyvlIle. Shelby _ .Business Education. 



Springer. Lewis B _.Wllmette, Cook.. " 



Stanfleld. Abraham L _Paria, Ed^ar 



Steinert, Theodore R Chicago. Cook.... 



Swanson. David I -.Chicago. Cook 



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Chief Clk., Rec. Off., Cook Co.. 

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NOTICE 



IT should be borne in mind that the simple record of a 

 m in's vote on any given measure does not give the com- 

 pleti inf onnation with regard to the actual attitude of the 

 member on the measure being voted on. More complete 

 and specific information relative to the actual position of 

 each member on farm measures is being compiled by the 

 legislative committee of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion and will be furnished each member through the Rec- 

 ord It such time as that information will be of most value 

 in d stermining your attitude toward candidates for public 

 offici \. This information will be made up of a study of all 

 the activities of the members relative to all agricultural 

 measures. Be sure and keep this issue in your home for 

 future reference. 



Fox ant Whisnand Tell 

 Confirring Ag. Teachers 

 Whtt I. A. A. Stands For 



"It Is I . fine thing to teach boys 

 and girls of Illinois about the In- 

 tricacies of growing crops on our 

 farms, bi t it would be a still finer 

 thing to idd to that kind of teach- 

 ing couries dealing in marketing 

 these crops after they are grown, 

 and to tei ,ch more on business prob- 

 lems," said George A. Fox, execu- 

 tive 8ecr( tary of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Vssoclatlon in an address 

 before tie teachers of vocational 

 agrlcultu e when they met in their 

 annual c< nference at the University 

 of 'Illinoi I recently. 



J. L. Whisnand, of Charleston 

 (Coles), executive committeeman 

 for the 19th district and chairman 

 of the standing committee on taxa- 

 tion and education, also spoke, tell- 

 ing of the need for an amendment 

 to the r< venue section of the Illi- 

 nois coi Btitutlon and about the 

 school survey made by the I. A. A. 

 last year. The biggest thing shown 

 by the s irvey was the need for a 

 revenue amendment, he said. 



Farmer i Around Peoria 



May 



Dairy 

 planned 



mittee. 



Have Own Milk Body; 

 Visit Detroit For Ideas 



Membdrs of the organization 

 committt e of the proposed Peoria 

 Association which is being 

 for Peoria, Tazewell and 

 Woodforb counties visited the De- 

 troit Mil c Producers' plant, ofSclals 

 and dealers at Detroit, Mich, June 

 Fa m Advisers Shaw, Arnett 

 and De A ^erff accompanied the com- 



A. D. Lynch, director of 



dairy nfarketing, conducted the 

 party. 



Since Ithe farmers In the vicinity 

 of Detr( it have put across a suc- 



cessful 

 tlon. It 



milk marketing organiza- 

 was felt that a trip there 



would t ring out Important points. 



COMMITTEE REVIEWS 

 LEGISLATURE'S WORK 



(Continued from page 1. col. 1.) 

 the amount asked for and that 

 would have furnished sufficient 

 funds to have done this work ef- 

 fectively. There was much evidence 

 that the administration was active 

 In reducing the appropriation to the 

 above amount. In fact, men in the 

 confidence of the administration 

 predicted freely that the bill would 

 receive the executive veto if |3,- 

 000,000 were allowed by the Gen- 

 eral Assembly. The Governor's po- 

 sition seemed to be that the federal 

 government should share fifty-fifty 

 In the expense of paying for con- 

 demned cattle. If increased ap- 

 propriation cannot be secured from 

 Congress the money will doubtless 

 be exhausted long before additional 

 funds can be made available. If 

 that should happen, then the only 

 way that the work can be carried 

 on without interruption will be to 

 secure an emergency appropriation 

 immediately upon the convening of 

 the General Assembly. Although 

 the 12,000,000 received will in all 

 probability not carry the work 

 through until additional funds can 

 be made available. It should be 

 borne in mind that the amount ap- 

 propriated was just twice the 

 amount appropriated two years ago. 



Gas Tax To Be An Issue 



The Cutbbertson gasoline tax bill 

 did not come to the roll call in the 

 Senate, although it was passed out 

 of committee with favorable recom- 

 mendation. Here again, as in the 

 case of the appropriation Just re- 

 ferred to, there was much evidence 

 of administration interference In 

 the passage of that measure. It is 

 the belief of the legislative commit- 

 tee that the administration desires 

 the gasoline tax in the near future, 

 probably at the next General As- 

 sembly and desires to use all the 

 tnnd aecrulnc from such tax for 



Jrfy 4, 1926 



14TH DISTRICT MEN 

 MEET AT ALEDO FOR 

 FRANK DISCUSSIONS 



"Equafity For Agriculture" b 

 Given Boost; Next Meeting 

 at Rock bland in October 



W. H. Moody 



Farm Bureau representatives of 

 counties of the 14th Congressional 

 district, compris- 

 ing Rock Island, 

 Mercer, Hender- 

 son, McDonough, 

 Warren and 

 Hancock, c o n - 

 vened in their 

 second confer- 

 ence of this year 

 at Aledo, Mercer 

 county, June 25, 

 upon call by W. 

 H. Moody, execu- 

 1 1 ve committee- 

 man. 



R e s o 1 utions 

 were passed fa- 

 voring the export 

 corporation idea, the state police 

 bill as supported by the I. A. A., 

 the gas tax as a lieu tax, the forma- 

 tion of detective associations for 

 (arm protection, and the amend- 

 ment to revenue section of the state 

 constitution. 



The I. A. A. was represented by 

 A. D. Lynch, director of dairy mar- 

 keting, and Harry C. Butcher, di- 

 rector of information. Round table 

 discussion featured the session and 

 considerable Interest was shown in 

 projects under way by the I. A. A., 

 particularly as regards reinsurance 

 for farm mutuals, which brought 

 forth commendatory remarks. 



The next conference Is to be held 

 at Rock Island during the early 

 part of October. 



Following are the names of those 

 present at the dinner: 



Henileraon county — C. W. Cooper. 

 Little York. 



Mercer county — B. J. Longley, Ale- 

 do; Scovllle Lee, Aledo; C. H. Belting 

 Aledo; H. L. Thornton, Aledo; F. B. 

 Wicket. Kelthaburg; Guy Mardock. 

 Joy; L L. Park. Viola. 



Rock Island county — W. H. Moody 

 Port Byron ; S. S. Carney. Rock Island 



^\arren county — W. D. Rodgers, 

 Monmouth. 



the completion of the system of 

 highways already voted, which 

 would ignore entirely the secondary 

 roads of the state. 



This bill is not dead, but only 

 sleeping and will be a live, active 

 Issue during the next two years. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion has insisted and will continue 

 to insist that the gasoline tax is a 

 fair tax for road purposes and that 

 when such tax is imposed It shall 

 contain the two fundamental princi- 

 ples embodied In the Cutbbertson 

 bill, namely: that it shall provide a 

 fund for the maintenance of the 

 secondary roads, the roads which 

 really tie the farmers and the rural 

 community to the state road sys- 

 tem and that such tax shall be in 

 lieu of an existing tax against the 

 property and not an addition t 

 the already heavy burden of taxp 

 tlon against such property. Fan 

 bureau members should make . 

 their business during the next tw 

 years to find out where the candi- 

 dates for the General Assembly 

 who ask for their support, stani 

 on the gasoline tax proposition am 

 on all other propositions In which 

 farmers are vitally interested. They 

 should also find out whether or not 

 their activities are to be controlled 

 by the interests of their oosatlti 

 ency, or are to be dominated by tbt 

 suggestions of a powerful Individ- 

 ual or a political machine. 



The Adcock resolution, whlc" 

 memorialized Congress to make 

 scientific study of the dltCerenc 

 existing in the exchange value be- 

 tween agricultural products and tl e 

 products of industry, business and 

 labor and to find some means for 

 adjusting such differences, was 

 passed without record note and 

 without any opposition. This reso- 

 lution recommends an export boun- 

 ty to be provided by some equitable 

 excise tax spread over the total 

 production of the commodity in 

 question. This backs up the 

 "Equality for Agriculture" program 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. 



The Bill prohibiting the use of 

 narrow-tired wagons on improved 

 roads was killed in the road and 

 bridge committee of the House. 

 The association stood for the elim'- 

 nation of the closed season on ra 

 bits. Several bills to accompli 

 that failed to pass but a bill w 

 passed lengthening the open season 



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