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THB5 I. A. A. RECORD 



I LLilNOIS 



CCLTURAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



To advance thm purpose tor which the Farm Bureau waa orgar\ized, 

 namely to promote, protect and represent the bumineta, economic, 

 political, and educational intereata of the farmera of Illinoia and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Poblisbed once ■ month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, 

 Illinoii, by the Illinois ABrieultDral Associmtion. Edited by DepsrtmeAt 

 of Information, E. C. Thiem, Director, £08 South Dearborn Strevt, 

 Chieaco, Illinois. Entered as second-class matter October 20, 1925. at 

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

 Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in SfC- 

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

 individual membership fee of the Illinois ARricuttural Association is 

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

 scription to the Illinois AGRirin^TURAL Association Record. Pust- 

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

 key number on address as is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton Cornell 



Treasurer, R . A. Cowles ,' Bloomington 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to llth H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



I2th i G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



Uth C. E. Bamborough. Polo 



14th I M.G. Lambert, Ferris 



ISth i A. N. Skinner, Yates City 



16th A. R. Wright, Varna 



17th Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



Kth R . F. Karr, Iroquois 



I9th i J. L. Whisnand, Charleston 



20th Charles S. Black. Jacksonville 



21st , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd ; Frank Ocxner, Waterloo 



23rd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th t Charles Marshall. Belknap 



iSth Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Service Geo. R . Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lyrich 



Limestone-Phosphate J. R. Bent 



Finance ; R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing , A. B. Leeper 



General Office J . H. Kelker 



Information ■. E.G. Thiem 



Insurance Service V. Vanlman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. MilUr 



Organization ; G. E. Metzger 



Poultry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics , J. C. Watson 



Transportation !-• J- Quasey 



/. A. A. Policy 



SINCE the close of the political conventions, many in- 

 quiries and suggfestions as to our future course in 

 these matters have been received. After careful con- 

 sideration at the regular meeting on Friday, July 13th, 

 the Executive Committee of the Association authorized 

 the following statement be issued: 



"The primary interest and purpose of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association is to serve the true and permanent in- 

 terests of the farmers of Illinois. The policy of the As- 

 sociation in all political matters has always been and will 

 continue to be strictly non-partisan. 



"We recognize that agricultural issues are economic 

 rather than political. This was conclusively shown by the 

 majority vote of both parties in each house of the 69th 

 and 70th Congresses, by which the McNary-Haugen Bill 

 was passed. It has also been repeatedly revealed by the 

 non-partisan vote supporting and passing such construc- 

 tive agricultural legislation in our state. 



"National, state and district issues should be carefully 

 considered on their relative merits and in no way become 

 confused. ' 



"We seek to furnish full, fair and impartial informa- 

 tion on agricultural issues to our members and friends, 

 also the records and commitments on these issues of 

 political parties, men in office and those seeking positions 

 of trust and responsibility. With this information in hand, 

 farmers and all true friends of agriculture are in a posi- 

 tion to support candidates for office who will best serve 



the economic interests of agriculture. We urge our mem- 

 bers at all times to support those candidates, reg^ardless 

 of party, who by their records or definite commitments 

 have proven their worthiness of this support. 



"The policy as above set forth will be continued." 



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The Republican Farm Plank 



Excerpta from Statement Made by Earl C. 



Convention 



Smith at the /Kansas City 



THE agricultural section of the Republican platform is un- 

 satisfactory for the following reasons: 



First, while farmers have been struggling for legislation neces- 

 sary to control crop surpluses in a manner to secure benefits of 

 the tariflf, it fails to suggest the ways and means through which 

 the party proposes to accomplish this end. In fact, it is silent 

 on that question. 



Second, it fails to state the means by which the party proposes 

 to accomplish its general pledge to restore economic equality to 

 agriculture. 



Summed up, it fails utterly to recognize the fundamental prob- 

 lems facing agriculture, dealing as it does in general phrases 

 which will be particularly unsatisfactory to farmers, due to the 

 failure of the party in the past seven years to suggest construc- 

 tive remedial legislation for the correction of agricultural con- 

 ditions recognized, and general pledges made in the 1920 and 1924 

 platforms. 



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The Democratic Farm Plank [ | 



statement by Earl C. Smith. President ' ' 



''I^HE agricultural plank in the Democratic platform adopted 

 X at Houston covers the essentials of a national farm policy 

 more completely than any platform previously adopted by a poli- 

 tical party. It fully recognizes the funclamental problem of crop 

 surpluses which farm groups have for years contended must be 

 met by any legislation if it is to be effective and satisfactory. 



It further frankly recognizes the impossibility of effectively 

 controlling surpluses unless there is authority to spread costs of 

 such operation over all the commodity benefited. 



It pledges the enactment of legislation to prevent the price 

 of surpluses from determining the price of the entire crop and 

 also recognizes the soundness of distributing costs incurred in 

 handling surpluses over the commodity benefited. 



While it pledges the enactment of legislation to prevent the 

 price of surpluses from determining the price of the entire crop 

 and also recognizes the soundness of distributing costs incurred 

 in handling crop surpluses over the commodity benefited, it fails 

 to pledge the party specifically to enact legislation embodying 

 the only device yet proposed or seriously considered by Congress 

 to accomplish that end. It does, however, pledge the party to 

 an earnest endeavor to solve this problem, making it a matter of 

 prime and immediate concern of a Democratic administration. 



The Democratic tariff pledge is satisfactory and in addition, 

 the platform covers the farm demand for a way to make existing 

 tariffs, whatever, they may be. effective on the crops whose pro- 

 duction exceeds the needs of the domestic market. Farmers will 

 watch with interest and concern for the interpretation placed 

 upon this plank by the party candidate, in view of the treat- 

 ment which platform pledges have recently received by officials 

 after election. i 



THE PRESS SAYS 



Translating the Platforms 



NEITHER party has made a hit with its platform this year, with the 

 single exception of the farm plank in the democratic platform, and 

 even this is given various constructions by the press and politicians. 

 Because of this fact and the further one that the candidates are both 

 men of unusual personality, the voters will be inclined to construe the 

 meaning of the various planks according to the views of the candidates 

 themselves. 



Platforms as a rule are a sort of catch-all designed to attract one 

 class of voters without offending others who hold opposite views. Where 

 it is deemed safe, the platform straddles an issue ; often it is so vague 

 that its meaning is obscure to the most discerning and analytical voter. 



This year, the platforms as guides to the electorate are less satis- 

 factory than usual. They will only exert an influence upon intelligent 

 people as the candidates themselves translate them into action. This, 

 after all, is the safest, if not the only safe guide for the voter. — Chicago 

 Journal. 



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