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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



I LiLillMOIS 



CCLTIJRAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD 



To advanem thm parpote for which th» Farm Bureau wat organlied, 

 namely to promote, protect and reprewent the hueineaa, economic, 

 political, and educational interettw of the farmera of ftlinoia and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Pnblished once a month at 404 North Wesle7 Ave., Mount Morris, 

 lUinoia, by the Illinois Aerieultnral Association. Edited by Department 

 of Information, E. G. Tbiem, Director, 608 South Dearborn Street, 

 Chieaco, Illinois. Entered aa second-claas matter October 20, 1925, at 

 the post office at Mount Morris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 

 Accepted for mailinK at special rate of postage provided for in Sec- 

 tion 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized October 27, 1926. The 

 individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for sub- 

 scription to the Illinois Agricultcbal Association Record. Post- 

 master: In retumine an uncalled for or missent copy please indicate 

 key number on address as is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



Preaident, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vlce-Prcaident, Frank D. Barton ; Cornell 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



(By Congressional Districta) 



lat to llth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford 



13ch C. E. Bamborough. Polo 



I4ch ,. .,.. M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



ISth A. N. Skinner, Yates City 



IWkt A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th ' Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



Itth R. F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th ; J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



Mth , Charlea S. Black, Jacksonville 



21at J Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



23rd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th \ Charlea Marshall, Belknap 



25th ^ Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Buainess Service Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lynch 



Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office i- H. Kelker 



Information ■ E. G. Thiem 



Insurance Service i V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing J. Ray E. Miller 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and StJstistica J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



Our New Grandmother 



THE organized middlemen speaking through their offi- 

 cial mouthpiece, the Federated Agn"icultural Trades 

 of America, would make a grreat distinction between co- 

 operative marketing initiated by farmers, and that in- 

 duced by what they term "subsidized" government 

 agencies. 



The F. A. T. asserts that it is not opposed to co-opera- 

 tive marketing; it is merely against the government giv- 

 ing aid and encouragring farmers to this end. It would 

 abolish the Division of Co-operative Marketing in the U. 

 S. D. A., kill appropriations to the agricultural colleges 

 under the Purnell Act for co-operative marketing investi- 

 gation, and prevent Congress from passing legislation de- 

 signed to help agriculture as other industries have been 

 fostered and helped. 



What nonsense is this? No one is being fooled by such 

 a contradictive declaration of principles. Whenever a 

 co-op spokesman counters to the organization's attack, he 

 is suavely assured that the F. A. T. is the farmers' best 

 friend. It's like the old story of Little Red Riding Hood 

 and the wolf posing as her grandmother. We might have 

 greater respect for the F. A. T. of America if it sailed 

 under its true colors. 



"Keep Out Of Politics" 



DR. WM. E. DODD of the University of Chicago uttered 

 several significant thoughts in his recent article, 

 "Shall Our Farmers Become Peasants," published in the 

 May issue of the Century Magazine. 



Answering the critics who tell farmers to keep out of 

 politics he writes: "The present vast industrial privilege 

 is the result of a hundred years of business men in politics. 

 The railway leaders have been in politics since 1850, and 

 they operate now under the protecting law of 1920. There 

 has never been a time when bankers were not in politics, 

 and the great army of financial men are now protected 

 and guided to steady and increasing profits by positive law. 

 Even the labor organizations are shielded by state and 

 national law. 'Let the farmer keep out of politics.' " 



"Keep out of politics" is familiar advice. Added to many 

 other delightful gems, this one bears further witness to the 

 farmers' eminence as the most advised man. But this is 

 one admonishment farmers will not follow if its purpose is 

 to let others do their legislating for them. Passage of the 

 McNary-Haugren bill is an illustration. We learn by ex- 

 perience. I ■ 1 '• 



We Must Progress 



OUR good friend, DeWitt C. Wing, who on June 1 be- 

 comes editor-in-chief of the Rural New Yorker — one 

 of the country's oldest and most successful farm weeklies — 

 tells us that the Illinois Agricultural Association is well 

 known in the East. 



"A strong, effective farmers' organization ttiat is doing 

 its job," is the description he brought back with him follow- 

 ing a visit to New York. It may be useful to analyze 

 why the I. A. A. has been and is enabled to grow increas- 

 ingly helpful in performing those tasks which individual 

 farmers or small groups cannot do for themselves. 



THE I. A. A. enjoys, first, a close tieup with 94 strong, 

 ably-manned county Farm Bureaus. That the farm 

 adviser or county agricultural agent is an integral part 

 of this relationship is most fortunate. In certain of our 

 neighboring states this is not true. In no other state, to 

 our knowledge, are the county advisers performing as 

 varied and helpful a service as in Illinois. Their activities 

 and interests go beyond the boundaries of the farm, and 

 properly so. 



Secondly, the I. A. A. is better financed than many organ- 

 izations. Money is necessary to maintain an organization 

 and carry on a broad prog^ram of service. Thus the Asso- 

 ciation's activities operating through 13 departments, in 

 addition to committees and subsidiaries, are made possible. 



IF THE I. A. A. stands out as a state farm organiza- 

 tion that is doing its job, the credit goes to the fore- 

 sighted, thinking farmers of Illinois who made it. As in 

 most trade organizations, certain benefits accrue to non- 

 members or "free riders" as well as to members. Out- 

 siders there are and always will be. Some folks are that 

 way unalterably. Profound individualists grubbing along 

 content with the present order and unmindful of the future 

 may be found in every walk of life. They will be run over 

 except as their more public-spirited, organized neighbors 

 protect them. 11 



THIS nation is fast becoming dominated by group ef- 

 fort. Great combines are replacing the private en- 

 terpriser. Machinery and efficiency are our new gods. 

 Business and economic groups are becoming more highly 

 organized. General Motors, U. S. Steel, Standard Oil, con- 

 solidated utilities, chain stores and newspapers, and giant 

 banking systems are on every hand or in the process of 

 development. And every group strives to use the govern- 

 ment for its economic advantage. 



The individualist farmers can't keep pace with this pro- 

 cession. Organized agriculture can. 



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