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ricultural Assoaauon 



KEGORD 



Issued Every Monl^ for 63,000 Thinking Farmers 



Volume 5 



NOVEMBER, W27 



Number 11 



/ Pledge Renewed At 

 j V ; St. Louis Conference 



Plans Made To Carry On Equality Fight 

 In 70th Congress 



|<4rpHERE will be an equali- 



t A zation fee in the next 



Congress or an equalization 



fight in the next presidential 



campaign." 



I Farmers and farm leaders 

 from 20 states of the Com Belt 

 and South renewed their alle- 

 giance to this pledge at St. 

 Louis on Nov. 1-2. 



I There were no signs of faltering, 

 no move to retreat from the goal al- 



.most reached in the 69th Congress. 

 But there was a determination writ- 

 ten on the faces of those who came 

 to this assembly comparable to that 

 of the Continental Congress that 

 framed the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence. With almost religious fervor, 

 this united group decided to keep the 

 faith and carry on the fight for the 

 principles embodied in the McNary- 

 Haugen bill. 



Gov. McMuIlen Keynotes ■'■ 



Governor Adam McMuUen of Ne- 

 braska, the keynote speaker, present- 

 ed forcefully the cause for which the 

 cotton and tobacco farmers of the 

 South and corn and wheat farmers of 

 the West have united. There was 

 nothing especially new in his address. 

 He called attention to the agricultural 

 problem and the need for aid. He 

 showed what had been done to help 

 other groups. He voiced the belief 

 that the equalization fee plan was the 

 best solution yet offered. He chal- 

 lenged the right of the administration 

 to proceed further in the industrializa- 

 tion of the nation at the expense of 

 agriculture. He rebuked leaders of 

 both parties for failing to fulfill the 

 party platform pledges. He reviewed 

 the history of the fight for surplus 

 control legislation. He scored Senator 

 Borah for his seeming duplicity. And 

 he advanced the idea that a determined 

 effort should be made to pass a suit- 

 able bill over the President's veto in 

 tiie next Congress if necessary. 

 (Continued on page 2, col. 2) 



I. A. A. OFFICE CALLER 



Sen. Chas. L. McNary 



SENATOR CHARLES L. MC- 

 NARY, chairman of the Agri- 

 cultural Committee in the United 

 States Senate, called at the of- 

 fice of the Illinois Ai^ricultural 

 Association while on his way to 

 Washington recently. 



Senator McNary says he will 

 stand pat on the vetoed McNary- 

 Haugen bill in the next Con- 

 gress. He sees no reason for 

 abandoning the principles of the 

 measure Mrhich the administra- 

 tion and powerful interests are 

 trying to discredit. 



"There may be some slight 

 changes in the text or wording of 

 the bill," he said, "but I con- 

 template no alteration that will 

 change the essential principles 

 of the measure.** .. . 



119 Attend St. Louis 



Meeting From Illinois 



41 Counties Represented, Including 16 

 Farm Bureau Presidents 



One hundred and nineteen Illinois 

 Farm Bureau members and leaders 

 from forty-one counties registered at 

 the St. Louis Farm Conference on 

 Nov. J. and 2. 



J. E. Harris, farm adviser in Mercer 

 county, led a delegation of eight. This 

 was the largest from any central or 

 northern Illinois county. 



Every section of the state was rep- 

 resented but the proximity of the 

 meeting to southern Illinois counties 

 resulted in larger delegations from that 

 part of the statue. 



Among the il9 delegates were 16 

 Farm Bureau presidents, 16 farm ad- 

 visers, ^\\ the officers and all men;ibers 

 of the I. A. A* executive committee ex- 

 cept three. \' '["■'■^\'- 



The counties represented ' as shown 

 by registrations were as follows: Taze- 

 well, Christian, Mercer, Sangamon, 

 Madison, Marshall, Macoupin, Wabash, 

 Cook, Henry, Monroe, Montgomery, 

 Rock Island, Randolph, Washington, 

 Adams, Williamson, McLean, Knox, 

 Pike, Morgan, Mercer, Henderson, 

 Clay, LaSalle, Woodford, Kendall, 

 Jackson, Livingston, Pulaski, Clinton," 

 Scott, Vermilion, Greene, DuPage, Ogle, 

 Mason, St. Clair, Logan, Effingham, 

 and Brown. 



Bankers Find 22 Per i V " 

 ;,! ' Cent Make Money 



AN analysis of 700 replies received 

 on a questionnaire sent out to its 

 members by the Illinois Bankers Asso- 

 ciation reveals that 35 per cent of 

 their farmer customers are losing 

 money, 43 per cent are breaking even, 

 and only 22 per cent are making 

 money. 



The bankers said that 53 per cent, 

 or more than half, of the farms in 

 their communities are operated by 

 tenants. Fewer than four out of 10 

 children bom on the farm are remain- 

 ing to .carry on the work of their par- 

 ents. Farmers were criticised by 

 bankers for owning high-priced autos, 

 trucks, tractors, especially when pur- 

 chased on deferred fiayment plans. 



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