McKELLAR ANSWERS COOUDGE VETO AT PICNIC 



GUY BENDER AND MRS. 

 ROY SMALTZ CHAMPS 



GUY BENDER of Alexander, Mor- 

 gan county, and Mrs. Roy Sraaltz, 

 Morrison, Whiteside county, are the 

 1927 hog-calling and chicken-calling 

 champions. 



Bender's long, musical, high-pitched 

 w-o-o-o-o-e-e-e-e was heard 30 miles 

 away. A telephone call from a farmer 

 near Oswego was received during the 

 contest complaining that his hogs were 

 running around excitedly. It was re- 

 vealed that the man had tuned in on 

 the picnic and his loud speaker was 

 close to the window where the hogs 

 could hear the calls given over sta- 

 tion WJJD. 



Bender won against a dozen candi- 

 dates, many of whom were county 

 champions. It was his second signal 

 victory since he carried oflf first prize 

 at the Illinois State fair in 1926. 



The judges, Arthur C. Page, David 

 L. Swanson, and Dr. E. A. White were 

 unanimous in the decision. 



Mrs. Smaltz was an easy victor in 

 the chicken calling contest against a 

 small field of six entries. Judges were 

 Mrs. Earl C. Smith, Mrs. E, G. Thiem, 

 and D. L. Swanson. Malcolm Watson, 

 farm adviser in Kendall county, man- 

 aged the hog calling contest perfectly, 

 announcing each contestant as he 

 stepped up to the microphone to de- 

 liver his call. Raymond Nelson, De 

 Kalb county, was unable to be present 

 because of illness. Harry C. Gilker- 

 son of Lake county managed the chick- 

 ,en calling contest. 



FATHER AND SON WIN 



HORSESHOE MATCH 



ED. TORBERT and his son Walter, 

 of DeWitt county, kept the state 

 horseshoe pitching title in the family 

 when they defeated Rube Bright and 

 his son, of McLean county, in the 

 Eighth Annual State Horseshoe Pitch- 

 ing Tournament at Mooseheart. 



It was a father and son contest, and 

 a battle between former champions. 



Rube Bright and Sam Smith won 

 the state title in 1924, Ed. Torbert and 

 Joe Heskitt were the champs in 1920, 

 '21 and '22, and Harry and Walter 

 Torbert, sons of Ed., carried off the 

 honors in 1923, '25 and '26. 



This year there was rearrangement 

 of the former champions, but the beau- 

 tiful loving cup awarded by the I. A. 

 A. was added to the Tor<bert collection 

 gathered in past years. 



The tournament went off smoothly 

 under the able management of Harri- 

 son Fahrnkopf of McLean county. The 

 championship was decided early in the 

 afternoon. ■>. 



EXPRESSES HOPE FOR ENACTING McNARY- 



HAUGEN BILL INTO LAW IN NEXT CONGRESS 



Lauds Lowden and Dawes As Friends of American Agriculture, 

 Criticises Money-Lending Plan of Administration as Unsound 



SENATOR KENNETH McKELLAR of Tennessee received a 

 great ovation when he attacked the Coolidge veto and up- 

 held the McNary-Haugen bill before thousands of Illinois farmers 

 gathered at Mooseheart Aug. 11 for the Eighth Annual Picnic of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



HAVE FAITH AND KEEP 

 ON FIGHTING-GREGORY 



Let's Tighten Our Belts and Help 

 Ourselves, Says Prairie 

 i Farmer Editor *■ . 



LET us have faith in ourselves, in 

 ^ our farms and in the future of 

 agriculture. Instead of marking time 

 while we are waiting for legislation 

 let us tighten our belts and put forth 

 our best efforts to help ourselves. 

 American farmers have never been 

 licked. Surplus control legislation will 

 come sooner or later. We must keep 

 on fighting until we get what we want. 

 Let us not be discouraged. 



This is the pithy advice handed out 

 by Clifford V. Gregory, Editor of 

 Prairie Farmer who preceded Senator 

 McKellar on the afternoon program 

 at Mooseheart on Aug. 11. 



Mr. Gregory called atention to 

 the fact that legislation is not every- 

 thing. "Even after we have the legisla- 

 tion we need, the battle of efficient and 

 profitable farming must still be fought 

 out on our farms," he said. "Many 

 farmers have become discouraged and 

 have lost faith in themselves and their 

 jobs. This is a bad state of mind to 

 be in. The best of legislation will 

 not greatly help the man who is dis- 

 couraged." 



President Earl C. Smith presided 

 during the afternoon program. Glenn 

 Warren, president of the Kane County 

 Farm Bureau and Rodney Brandon, 

 Executive Secretary of the Loyal Or- 

 der of Moose, welcomed the picnickers 

 to the Fox River Valley. 



George A. Fox, General Secretary 

 of the I. A. A., awarded the trophies 

 following the speaking program. The 

 Warren County Farm Bureau quartet 

 was applauded enthusiastically. 



Congressmen Henry T. Rainey of 

 Carrollton and Chas. Adkins of De- 

 catur; George N. Peek, leader of the 

 McNary-Haugen fight at Washington, 

 officials of the Loyal Order of Moose, 

 and the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, *he I. A. A. Executive Committee, 

 30 County Farm Bureau presidents, 

 and several members of the Illinois 

 legislature were among those on the 

 speakers' platform. 



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He expressed the hope that the next 

 Congress would not only pass the re- 

 lief measure but would give it a two- 

 thirds majority if necessary to pass it 

 over the President's veto. Before 

 delving into his discussion of the mer- 

 its of the measure. Senator McKellar 

 praised Frank O. Lowden and Vice- 

 President Charles G. Dawes as friends 

 of American agriculture and worthy 

 of the highest honor the nation could 

 bestow upon them. 



"Agriculture is the only great Amer- 

 ican industry which is not benefited 

 and protected by federal legislation," 

 he said. "All our laws unite in bring- 

 ing about an adequate return on cap- 

 ital. Immigration and tariff laws help 

 labor and industry. The Esch Cum- 

 mins bill provides for the railroads. 

 But the farmer must buy in a pro- 

 tected and stabilized market and sell 

 in an open market with the law of 

 supply and demand in full force." 



'' V- ■ 



Money-Lending Fails. 



Senator McKellar criticized "the 

 money-lending plan" of the administra- 

 tion and cited the illustration of the 

 recent attempt at Memphis to raise 

 cotton prices through lending money 

 to growers. "Eugene Meyer, that 

 great dirt farmer from Wall Street, 

 New York, was sent down by President 

 Coolidge to try out the money-lending 

 plan," said the speaker. "The venture 

 failed. I don't know of a single loan 

 made in my state, although I have 

 heard there were several made in 

 Texas. Farmers don't want more 

 money to get deeper in debt. They 

 want a better price for what they 

 grow." 



The money-lending plan of the ad- 

 ministration he characterized as 

 "economically unsound" because it 

 provided for extending loans to farm- 

 ers "with a reasonable expectancy of 

 their being paid back." "People don't 

 pay back money borrowed on such 

 terms," he said. "The administration 

 opposed the McNary-Haugen bill not 

 because the measure was considered 

 unworkable, but because they feared 

 it would operate successfully." 



Senator McKellar's speech delivered 

 before the microphone and broadcast 

 from Station WJJD with other events 

 of the day, held his audience in spite 

 of threatened rain which sent a por- 

 tion of the crowd scurrying for shel- 

 ter in the middle of the afternoon. 



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