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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



I li L« I N OI 



CCL.T1JRAL ASS 



^RECOR 



To advance the parpote for which the farm bureau 

 namely to promote, protect and represent the 

 aocial and educational intereata of the farmers of Iflinois 

 and to develop agriculture. 



Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association. Edited by Dep 

 E. G. Thiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street, Ch 

 as second-class matter October 20, 1925, at the post 

 Illinois, imder the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for 

 postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Februa^ 

 October 27, 1925. The individual membership -fee "of 

 Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes 

 subscription to the Illisoib Agricultural AssociatioJij 

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* I OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowlcs 



Secretary, Geo. A. Fox 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



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DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Service 



Co-operating Accounting 



Dairy Marketing 



Farm Supply -. 



Finance 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing 



General Office 



Information 



Legal Counsel , 



Live Stock Marketing. 



Organization 



Poultry and Egg Marketing 



Taxation and Statistics 



Transportation 



teas organized, 



business, economic, 



and the nation. 



Detroit 



Cornell 



. Bloomington 

 .... Sycamore 



Vial, Downers Grove 



F. TuUock, Rockford 



E. Bamborough, Polo 



Moody, Port Byron 



A. M- Skinner, Yates City 



A. R. Wright, Varna 



J. StoU, Chestnut 



R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



^hisnand, Charleston 



Borgelt, Havana 



Sorrells, Raymond 



Oexner, Waterloo 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



Marshall, Belknap 



Fred Dietz, De Soto 



Frank) 



V. Vaniman 



Geo. R. Wicker 



A. D. Lynch 



J. R. Bent 



R. A. Cowles 



A. B. Leeper 



J. H. Kelker 



E. G. Thiem 



. Donald Kirkpa trick 

 . . . Wm. E. Hedgcock 



G. E. Metzger 



F. A. Gougler 



J. C. Watson 



L. J. Quasey 



Yet 



The Income Tax 



THE struggle to help the farm ;j,nd home own 

 ers of Illinois get out from und^r the crushing 

 burden of our antiquated property 

 renewed by the I. A. A. in the incoijae tax proposal 

 now before the legislature. 



This is a good bill. It deservei to pass 

 the hue and cry from the metropolitan press would 

 have US believe that this is a dangerous piece of 

 class legislation. •. 



The income tax is the most distasteful of all 

 our taxes. The very mention of it 

 diate antagonism from the salariec worker. The 

 tax merely looks like robbery be<jause so many 

 in this group have never paid any taxes hereto- 

 fore. 



When the federal income tax wajs initiated and 

 started to put the screws on hea^'y incomes the 

 payee who assumed his rightful rosponsibility of 

 citizenship for the first time squealed 

 smarts from the last check he sent 



revenue Collector. Visions of a similar state tax 



raise a chorus of howls heard from 

 state to the other. • * 



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With the tangible property taxpayer it is dif- 

 ferent. He is accustomed to paying taxes. He 

 inherited the yoke from his father, grandfather, 

 and great-grandfather and has learned to carry 

 it with grace and fortitude, heavy as the burden 

 has grown each successive year. ; | g 



But like the long suffering colonials too much 

 is plenty. It's time to have a taxpayer's Boston 

 Tea P.arty. It's time to look into our order of 

 representation without taxation. It's time for 

 a new deal. If the voters who vote the taxes had 

 to help pay them it would be good, for our state 

 government. It would help check extravagance. 



Write your senator and representatives and tell 

 them how you stand on the income tax. 



He still 

 to the federal 



one end of the 



Midwest Corn Pool 



A MIDWEST Corn Pool for the 11 corn belt 

 states was prepared by Matt Grennan, author 

 of the plan, and John Conrad, both of Whiteside 

 County, who appeared before the I. A. A. Execu- 

 tive Committee on May 6. i f 



The plan proposes a giant organization of at 

 least 75 per cent of all corn growers in. the Mid- 

 dle West. Each grower would be placed under 

 contract to market any corn not used on the farm 

 for feed, in an orderly manner. 



Every member would be apprised of his share 

 of the surplus which he must agree to keep back 

 and store on the farm. One twelfth of the total 

 supply needed for domestic use would be sold each 

 month, but never more than enough to hold the 

 price at $1.10 per bushel. No. basis, Chicago. 



Members of the committee conceded that the 

 plan has a great deal of merit. They agreed that 

 it would be a stupendous undertaking. The task 

 of organizing and then of insuring the coopera- 

 tion of every man in the pool were points dis- 

 cussed at great length. Several expressed the 

 belief that such a plan is little different than that 

 proposed by the McNary-Haugen bill whereby 

 producers would all cooperate under the law in 

 controlling surplus and maintaining a fair level of 

 farm prices. 



After considerable discussion the committee 

 adopted the following statement: 



"The committee expressed to Messrs. Grennan 

 and Conrad its appreciation for their presentation 

 of the corn pool plan and the committee's confi- 

 dence in their sincerity, but it is sense of the 

 Executive Committee that the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association is at present firmly committee to the 

 principles embodied in the McNary-Haugen bill 

 for proper control of ^arpluses in all commodities, 

 and that this committee is determined to push to 

 the utmost its activities in behalf of this measure 

 without weakening its influence or dividing its 

 energy in attempting to support other measures 

 even though those other measures might have 

 meritorious features." 



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