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Farm Baseball Season 

 Opens May 26, Eight 



Divisions To Compete 



Each District Schedules Own Games, 



Keen Competition Seen For 



State Title 



FARM Bureau baseball in Illinois 

 will be ushered in on Saturday, 

 May 26, and to all indications games 

 will be played in the eight divisions of 

 the State League, with one or two ex- 

 ceptions, on that date. 



Playing schedules have been or will 

 be announced, it is hoped, within the 

 next 10 days in official Farm Bureau 

 organs or in the local newspapers. 



At least seven new teams are ex- 

 pected to compete in the race for the 

 state title which promises to be keenly 

 contested. Division I, comprising 

 Whiteside, Henry, and Stark, has all 

 new teams to play for the first time 

 in years, this season. Whiteside had 

 a team several years ago but neither 

 Stark nor Henry has competed hereto- 

 fore. 



New Coantiet Enter 



Champaign, Scott, Washington, and 

 McDonough counties also will enter 

 Farm Bureau teams for the first time 

 this year. Jackson, and possibly Piatt 

 counties, likewise, may bring out farm 

 baseball nines. With favorable weather 

 there will be more Farm Bureau teams 

 entered in the race this year than ever 

 before. 



Pla3ring has improved steadily since 

 the League was organized four years 

 ago. The team captains, managers, and 

 farm advisers are keeping their eyes 

 open for likely talent among the boys 

 and younger men. This activity was 

 revealed in the improved playing of 

 several teams last year. 



Dirition III Lead* 



Peoria county arose from its cellar 

 position to become a championship con- 

 tender. This county, as well as others 

 in Division III comprising Tazewell, 

 Peoria, Marshall-Putnam, and Wood- 

 ford, will fight for League leadership 

 in '28. 



Division III has had the champion- 

 ship team ever since the League was 

 organized, although Henderson county 

 was a worthy contender on several oc- 

 casions. Henderson county has a 

 strong team but the competition in 

 Western Illinois has been less keen, 

 hence this county usually has entered 

 the semi-finals with less playing ex- 

 perience than is the case in other divi- 

 sions. 



Egypt Ha* Good Team* 



The Southern Illinois counties of 

 Lawrence, Wayne, Clay, and Effingham 

 have been placed tentatively in Division 

 VIII, while Jefferson, Bond, Washing- 

 ton, and possibly Jackson will play in 

 Division VII. 



Members who are interested in base- 

 ball, but have no county team should 

 see their farm adviser about organiz- 

 ing one. Usually it is advisable to 

 play locally a year and get experience 



More Farm Relief 



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before entering the stiffer competition 

 in the State Farm Bureau League. 

 Where the players have had experience 

 working together on local teams this 

 is not necessary. ^ 



Thirteenth District to 



Picnic at Freeport 



THE I. A. A. Farm Bureau picnic 

 in the 13th congressional district 

 will be held at Taylor's Park, Freie- 

 port, according to a recent announce- 

 ment of C. E. Bamborough, I. A. A. 

 Executive Committeeman from Polo. 



Representatives from Jo Daviess, 

 Stephenson, Carroll, Ogle, Lee, and 

 Whiteside counties met at Freeport 

 recently to make preliminary arrange- 

 ments. 



The exact date was not definitely 

 set but members of the committee pre- 

 fer that it be held the latter part of 

 August. 



Whiteside county asked to have the 

 picnic next year. Thereafter the pic- 

 nic will go to a different county in the 

 district each year until all have been 

 served. . , 



Livestock Shippers at ! 



Cissna Park Get Shed 



L[VESTOCK shippers about Cissna 

 Park, Iroquois county, recently ex- 

 pressed their thanks to the Iroquois 

 County Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. 

 Transportation Department for the 

 new stock shed built by the C. & E. I. 

 railroad at that point. 



The appeal for the new sheds was 

 initiated by L. W. Wise, farm adviser 

 at Watseka. The I. A. A. Transpor- 

 tation Department assisted by pre- 

 senting the Farm Bureau's plea to the 

 carrier. The Cissna Park Shipping 

 Association had asked for the conveni- 

 ence more than two years ago. Live- 

 stock had been without any shelter 

 whatever in these yards before the 

 shed was built. . 



FIFTY CANADIAN FARMERS 

 are members of the lower house of 

 Parliament, according to the National 

 Farm News. Four others are members 

 of the Federal Cabinet Council. 



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Railroads May Enter 



Truck Transportation 



Field in Near Future 



Commerce Commission Makes Recom- 

 mendation on Motor Truck Regulation , 



THE Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion recently reported the follow- 

 ing conclusions as a result of a series 

 of hearings held during 1927 on motor 

 truck and bus transportation: Rail- 

 roads, whether steam or electric, and 

 water carriers subject to the interstate 

 commerce act should be authorized to 

 engage in interstate commerce by mo- 

 tor vehicles on the public highways, 

 and thereafter such service should be 

 subject to the provisions of the inter- 

 state commerce act, with the possible 

 exception of section 15 (a). 



Railroads and other carriers subject 

 to the interstate commerce act should 

 be authorized to participate in joint 

 rates and through routes with common 

 carrier motor truck or motor bus lines. 

 ' The problem of regulating motor 

 i vehicle operations in interstate com- 

 merce is so new that it is too early to 

 attempt too detailed regrulation. . 



Need Regvlatory Law* 



Regulation of interstate commerce 

 by motor vehicles operating as com- 

 mon carriers of passengers on the pub- 

 lic highways over regrular routes or 

 between fixed termini should be pro- 

 vided for by law. 



There does not appear to be at the 

 present time public need for regulat- 

 ing interstate transportation of prop- 

 erty by motor vehicles. 



The right of any party to appeal to 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 from the action of a state board or a 

 joint board should be provided. 



Recommend Operate One Year j 



The law should provide that an ap- 

 plicant for a certificate of public con- 

 venience and necessity must be in 

 operation as a common carrier over 

 the route described in the application 

 at least one year prior to the first day 

 of the legislative session in which such 

 law is enacted. 



Holders of certificates of public con- 

 venience and necessity should be re- 

 quired to furnish such additional serv- 

 ice as the public demands. 



The law should require that the in- 

 terstate fares and charges of motor 

 bus lines be just, reasonable, not un- 

 justly discriminatory, and not unduly 

 preferential or unduly prejudicial. 

 Tariffs should be filed and posted. 



Provision should be made for the 

 filing of complaints against fares, 

 charges, practices or service of motor 

 bus lines operating as common car- 

 riers. 



Additional recommendations are 

 made that broad discretionary pwwer* 

 be given regulatory boards in classi- 

 fying vehicles, the issuance of free- 

 passes and free transportation, trans- 

 portation of explosives and inflam- 

 mables, preventing monopolies and' 

 effecting co-ordination of all existing; 

 transportation agencies. 



