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Volume 4 



Issued Every Month for 63,000 thinking Farmers — August 1, 1926 



No. 8 



Southern Illinois To Be On Dress Parade 



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Protection For All 

 Or Protection For 

 None, Corn Belt Says 



Farm Leaders Unite To Con- 

 tinue Fight In Next Session 

 of Congress. Aid of West- 

 em and Southern States To 

 Be Solicited 



Protection for all or protection 

 for none. This is the slogan 

 adopted by the corn belt leaders at 

 Des Moines on July 19 and 20 

 where 20 farm organizations and 

 10 out of 11 Middle West states 

 were represented. 



The meeting of the corn belt com- 

 mittee of farm organizations on 

 Monday was an executive session 

 to determine the next move in the 

 fight for agricultural equality. The 

 committee of 22, led by George 

 Peek, which met the following day, 

 was called for the same purpose. 

 Never was there greater unanimity 

 of sentiment and determination to 

 continue the fight for protection to 

 agriculture equal to that accorded 

 other industries. 



The attitude of the corn belt com- 

 mittee toward the administration 

 was expressed in the following 

 resolution. 



Conilemn Industrial Policy. 



"We condemn the shortsighted 

 industrial policy expressed by 

 spokesmen for the national adminis- 

 tration, including Secretary Mellon, 

 Secretary Hoover, and Secretary 

 Jardine, which opposes any move 

 to make tariffs effective for agri- 

 culture on the ground that to do so 

 would place American industry at 

 a disadvantage in competition with 

 foreign competitors in the export 

 markets of the world. 



"Such a policy would lead to the 

 industrialization of the nation at 

 the expense of the farmers, sub- 

 ordinating our agriculture to our 

 industry in order that the latter 

 might compete more favorably 

 abroad. Certainly such a policy is 

 not favorable to the economic de- 

 velopment of the middle west or the 

 nation." 



The Committee of 22 which met 

 on Tuesday passed a resolution con- 

 curring in the resolutions of the 

 corn belt committee quoted above. 



George N. Peek expressed almost 

 the same sentiments in his report to 

 his committee. 



Peek Hits Administration. 



"It is the plain and unmistakable 

 attitude of the administration," Mr. 

 Peek said, "to oppose making the 

 tariff effective for agriculture be- 

 cause of the belief it would raise 

 the price of foodstuffs above the 

 foreign costs. This, the administra- 

 tion insists, would react to the dis- 

 advantage of American industry In 

 the export markets." 



Investigations by congressional 

 committees of "interrelations that 

 appear to give to industrial advis- 

 ers who are not without self-interest 

 as dealers and speculators in farm 

 products, the deciding voice not only 

 in influencing the enactment of 

 agricultural legislation but in de- 

 termining the manner of adminis- 

 tration of such laws after enact- 

 ment" were recommended by the 

 corn' belt committee. 



By these investigations the corn 

 belt committee seeks to learn of pos- 

 sible collusions which it suspects. 



"The activities of Secretary Hoov- 

 er to dominate and encroach upon 

 the functions of the Department of 

 Agriculture, including interference 

 by Mr. Hoover in the personnel of 

 the department and the source of 

 the opposition toward effective agri- 

 cultural legislation described by 

 Senator Norris in his speech of June 

 14 in the Senate were other lines of 

 investigation recommended. 



In a brief conference with George 



Tentative Program State Picnic Aug. 12 



9:00 A. M. — Horseshoe Tournament Opens 

 10:00 A. M. — Band concert, Peach Grading Demonstration 

 10:15 A. M. — Woman's Program Begins 



Boy.s* and Girls' Club Demonstrations and Stunts un- 

 der direction of E. I. Pilchard and Nathalie Vasold, 

 state club leaders. 

 Address by Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell, Otterbein, Indiana 

 10:00 P. M. — Championship Baseball Game I 



12:00 M. — Hog Calling Contest . \ 



Chicken Calling Contest ; 



12:30 P. M. — Band Concert, Dinner. ! 



1 :30 P. M. — Inspection of Exhibits and Displays 

 Peach Grading Demonstration 



1 :45 P. M. — Speaking program begins with President Earl C. Smith 



presiding. 



Address of welcome — Mayor Koons 



Feature music . • 



Adarding of trophies. 



Address by Hon. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana 

 3:30 P. M. — Band concert 



Peek and Chester Davis in Chicago 

 recently, Senator McNary of Ore- 

 gon, new chairman of the Commit- 

 tee on Agriculture in the Senate, 

 expressed the same interest and de- 

 termination in renewing the fight 

 for surplus control legislation in 

 the next Congress. 



Both committees took steps to 

 form a closer alliance between states 

 of the middle west, far west, and 



south. Summer and fall meetings 

 were planned for states of the 

 south and middle west at which 

 farmers may discuss their common 

 economic problems. The ultimate 

 outcome of such meetings it is hoped 

 will be to increase farm strength in 

 Congress. 



The I. A. A. Record will report 

 the latest developments in the fight 

 for farm relief in the next issue. 



Senator James E. Watson of Indiana \ 

 To Speak At I. A. A. Picnic, Mt. Vernon 

 Aug. 12; All Set For Big Annual Event 



Southern Illinois City To Be Mecca For Thousands Expected 

 From Every Part of State; Horseshoe Tournament Draws 

 Many; Free Peaches Special Attraction; Championship 

 Baseball Game Scheduled 



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GOME to Mt. Vernon, Aug. 12. Come and see our won- 

 derful peach harvest. Let us show you the »vonders 

 of "Little Egypt." Get acquainted with you^ neigh- 

 bors in the lower third of the state. Give us 

 a chance to demonstrate real southern hos- 

 pitality. That's the invitation and welcome 

 Southern Illinois is broadcasting to its neigh- 

 bors to the north in preparation for the. greats 

 est state farmers' picnic of all time. 



Thursday, August 12, will be a big day in 

 Southern Illinois. They expect to make his- | 

 tory at Mt. Vernon. Never before has the 

 I. A. A. picnic, the gala event unequalled I 

 anywhere in past years, gone so far south. 

 And to show how much they appreciate the honor, Jefferson. 

 Wayne, White, Franklin, Jackson, Marion, Williamson, Ran- 

 dolph, and those other counties where Illinois history was 

 first made, are cooperating to display Egypt in ail her glories. 

 The beautiful wooded city park at the edge of Mt. Vernon 

 will be the setting for the picnic. Shade, water, swimming, 

 wading pools, playgrounds, tourist camp, rest, theso a-e only 



a few of the ac- 

 commodations it 

 offers. 



But the pro- 

 gram of the pic- 

 nic itself where 

 records are 

 smashed and new 

 champions are 



made, where statesmen proclaim 

 views of national import, will be 

 the great mecca to bring thousands 

 from every nook and corner of the 

 state. Here arc a few of the features. 



1. James E. Watson, senior Unit- 

 ed States senator from Indiana, a 

 leader in the fight for the McNary 

 bill in the Senate, will be the speak- 

 er of the day. Senator MdKellar of 

 Tennessee, who has been invited, 

 promised • to come providing the 

 health of a member of his family is 

 such that he could get away. 



2. Mrs. Chas. E. Sewell of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation. 



a speaker of na- 

 t i o n a I promi- 

 nence known ev- 

 er>-wher« to farm 

 bureau people, 

 will speak on the 

 morning program 

 arranged e s p Cr 

 ciaily for the women. 



3. A giant fruit display from the 

 best orchards in Southern Illinois. 



4. Free peaches to be di»tributed 

 by the Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex- 

 change. Peaches for sale in handy 

 packs for carrjing home. 



5j The Annual State Horseshoe 

 Pitching Tournament. 



6. The Annual State Baseball 

 Championship. 



7. Hog Calling and ChicVcn Call- 

 ing Contests. 



8. Boys' and girls' clubs demon- 

 strations and displays. 



9. Band concert. 



10. Awarding of trophies. 



11. Peach Grading and Sorting 

 Demonstration. 



12. Southern 

 Illinois exhibits 

 of: 



a.' Red Top by 

 Egyptian Seed 

 G r o w e r s' Ex- 

 change. 



<CoDtin«ed on pace 4, coL 1| 



