THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



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Tune in on the I. A. A. half hour program 

 broadcast daily at 12:00 o'clock noon from sta- 

 tion WJJD, Chicago (365 meters) . The facil- 

 ities of station WJJD are loaned the Aesocia- 

 fion through the courtesy of the Loyal Order 

 of Moose, Mooseheart, III, No program on Sat- 

 nrdaya and Sundays. 



Wing to New York 



"TTITTJ are admonished to bear one 

 » ' another's burdens, but farmers 



are carrying some that a lot of easy- 

 going people have 

 saddled onto 

 them," stated De- 

 Witt C. Wing, new- 

 ly appointed edi- 

 tor the Rural New- 

 Yorker in a fare- 

 well address to 

 corn belt farmers 

 on the I. A. A. 

 radio program re- 

 cently. 



"If a pack horse 

 doesn't buck and 

 unload some of his 



O. C. Wing 



excess baggage, you can be sure that 

 he will be loaded up with more, until 

 he will either balk or lie down in ab- 

 ject, hopeless despair. When a man's 

 spirit breaks, he is no longer a man 

 but a drudge. So long as he will 

 fight in his own interest there is hope 

 for him. 



"The champions of mechanical ef- 

 ficiency seem to rejoice in the fact that 

 our farm population is decreasing. Our 

 agricultural troubles, they say, are 

 caused by a surplus of inefficient 

 farmers. They overlook the important 

 fact that national decay begins when 

 farmers are compelled to give up their 

 land and join the landless hordes in 

 cities and towns. 



Source of Strength 



"The living waters of life spring 

 from the hills and valleys, from which 

 man draws the strength and power 

 that produce clean, rOigged people. 

 The stream of life is polluted by its 

 passage through cities." 



In his closing remarks, Mr. Wing 

 said, "Instead of saying goodbye to 

 my corn belt friends, I would like to 

 leave these questions with you: How 

 many farm journals are published for 

 farmers, in the interest of farmers? 

 How many of them are influenced to 

 a far greater extent by their adver- 

 tisers than by their farmer readers? 

 Is the farm press a free press? I 

 know a few journals that are free to 

 represent and fight for the rights of 

 farmers. I am going to work for one 

 of this small group." 



Mr. Wing succeeds the late H. W. 

 Collingwood. His new address is 333 

 W. 30th St., New York City. 



Editor Record: 



"We are charter members of the Ancient 

 Order of Radio Bugs and Broadcasters and 

 were delijrhted to hear you and our mutual 

 friend, DeWitt C. Wing, at noon today on the 

 air. 



"Your Ezry Doolittle's dialogue and satire 

 on campaifrn expenses was amusinfi: and enter- 

 taining, but don't Bet him smeared with oil as 

 that Tea Pot Dome affair is putting the skids 

 under the G. O. P. and Al Smith is running 

 like a new Ford and may some day be getting 

 his mail in Washington." 

 CarroU County. C. T. CROFTON. 



Pure Milk Association 



Gains New Membership 



MEMBERSHIP in the Pure Milk 

 Association is mounting steadily, 

 according to a report recently issued 

 by Don Geyer, field representative. 

 The members of the organization now 

 control more than half of Chicago's 

 daily fluid milk supply. 



The orgfanization now embraces 17 

 counties in Northern Illinois, Southern 

 Wisconsin, and NorthwestJt-n Indiana. 

 More than 600 dairymen in Kane coun- 

 ty are members and by the end of June 

 officers of the association hope to bring 

 the total of this county to 1,000. The 

 first unit was organized in Lake 

 county, Indiana, on May 23. Work is 

 now in progress toward building the 

 membership in that state. 



An important meeting of the Wis- 

 consin Council of Agriculture was held 

 at Madison on June 14 to discuss the 

 fluid milk section and particularly the 

 welfare of the Pure Milk Association. 

 The Council hopes to co-ordinate the 

 major farm and dairy organizations in 

 Wisconsin to bring about some unity 

 and co-operation in fluid milk market- 

 ing. 



In some instances in the past one 

 group of milk shippers has fought an- 

 other so as to flood the market and de- 

 press prices to the detriment of all. 

 The new piovement hopes to stop re- 

 currences of this kind. The 4,000 

 members of the Pure Milk Association 

 are divided into more than 100 locals 

 which vary in membership from 100 to 

 275. 



The injury done to the Illinois wood- 

 lots by using them for pasture is 

 greater than injury from all other 

 sources, according to R. B. Miller, 

 chief forester of the State Department 

 of Conservation. Throughout Central 

 and Northern Illinois, woodland is not 

 only being injured but it is being con- 

 verted to cleared land by grazing, he 

 says. 



Farm production in the United 

 States in the five years from 1922-26 

 was about 14 per cent greater than in 

 the five years 1917-21, whereas popu- 

 lation increased less than nine per 

 cent. 



The Government printing oCBce at 

 Washington is by far the largest book 

 and job printing plant in the world. 



Wm. H. Malone 



Malone Speaks At 



Champaign County 



Tax Gathering 31st 



Declares There Is No Tax Roll at Pres- 

 ent Time 



CHAMPAIGN county farmers turned 

 out 800 strong at a meeting of tax- 

 payers in Champaig^i on May 31 to 

 hear William H. 

 Malone, chairman 

 of the State Tax 

 Commission, bring 

 the latest word on 

 the controversy 

 over the legality 

 of the assessment 

 in that county. 



Mr. Malone stat- 

 ed that there is no 

 tax roll in Cham- 

 paign county at 

 the present time 

 since the present assessment was de- 

 clared null and void by the Commis- 

 sion. 



"The order of reassessment will 

 stand until it is changed by a court of 

 competent jurisdiction," said Mr. Ma- 

 lone. 



"The Tax Commission grave a fair 

 and open hearing to the farmers of 

 Champaign county, to the Board of 

 Review, and numerous lawyers and 

 county and city officials. They found 

 that property in Champaign county 

 had not been equally assessed and 

 signed an order for reassessment. And 

 I say to you, if the assessors reassess 

 and it comes back the same as before 

 I will sign an order for another reas- 

 sessment. 



Obey the Law 



"The Statfr^ax Commission, created 

 under the law of this state and vested 

 with the powers I have read to you, 

 plain, clear, and definite, has ordered 

 a reassessment of Champaign county. 

 I suggest that the county officers obey 

 the law and if they don't, the State 

 Tax Commission will go into the Su- 

 preme Court of this state and ask for 

 a writ of mandamus to compel them 

 to, and ask for a writ of malfeasance 

 in office to put them out where they 

 belong." 



John C. Watson, director of taxa- 

 tion, spoke briefly following Mr. Ma- 

 lone. He read excerpts of the October 

 6 hearing before the Commission re- 

 vealing that the Board of Review had 

 knowledge of the tax summary as pre- 

 sented; that it did not question the 

 method by which these facts were se- 

 cured; and agreed that the summary 

 stated the facts as the board knew. 



Sixty-two livestock growers from 



Logan county visited the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers on May 31. J. H. Checkley, 

 farm adviser, led the pilgrimage. 



They came up in a special car on 

 the I. C. R. R. returning home the 

 same day. 



