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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



^ I LiLilNOIS 



CCjLTURAL ASSOCIA 



RECORI> 



To mdvunea thm purpotm for wMeh thm Farm Bureau oat organitad, 

 namely to promote, protect and repretent the butirtemm, eeonomio, 

 poUtieal, and educational interetta of the farmerm of llHnoit and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



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OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith : Detroit 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton , Cornell 



Treasurer, R. A. Cqwlea Bloomington 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



} Jth G. F. Tullock. Rockford 



}«}» C. E. Bamborough. Polo 



Jjtn .; M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



}f«h A. N. Skinner, Yates City 



fjth A. R. Wright, Varna 



}'*}» Geo. J . Stoll, Chestnut 



}5*P R- F. Karr, Iroquois 



19th , J. L. WhUnand, Charleston 



|Oth Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



••■* ■ » Saniuel Sorrells, Raymond 



J*n? Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



Mrd VV. L. Cope, Salem 



Mth Charlea Marshall. Belknap 



""> Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Business Service Geo. R. Wicker 



Dairy Marketing A. D. Lvnch 



Limestone-Phosphate , J. R. Bent 



Finance R. A. Cowlea 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing A. B. Leeper 



General Office J. H. Kelker 



Information fe. G. Thiem 



Insurance Service V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Rav E. Miller 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Po«»ltry and Egg Marketing' F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics -» J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



Farmers Win In Tennessee 



SENATOR KENNETH McKELLAR won a sweeping 

 victory over Congressman Finis J. Garrett, minority 

 leader of the Democratic party, in the race in Tennessee 

 for the Senatorial nomination. McKellar's lead will likely 

 m.ount to 50,000 majority when the final returns are re- 

 ceived. McKellar carried nine of the ten congressional 

 districts in the State. 



And farm relief was the issue. 



More farmers in Tennessee are alive to the need of 

 surplus control legislation than ever before. 



"It's unconstitutional," shouted Garrett from a number 

 of stumps. 



"Let the Supreme Court of the United States say so," 

 was McKellar's rejoinder. 



"It involves bureaucracy," asserted Garrett. 



"We've set up bureaucracies for everybody else. Let's 

 do something for the farmer," replied McKellar. 



"It won't work; it's economically unsound," proclaimed 

 Garrett. 



"That's what they said about Fulton's steamboat," re- 

 plied McKellar. 



"The equalization fee involves taxing the farmer," de- 

 clared Garrett. 



From McKellar: "Look how the farmer is taxed by 

 the effect of uncontrolled surplus production, and how 

 much an equalization fee, whjch would give him bargain- 

 ing power, would save him." 



Back and forth the debate swept over the state. And 

 the whole nation looked on. , 



For Senator McKellar was the first democratic senator 



from the South to espouse the cause of the farmers; and 

 the first publicly to announce his support of the McNary- 

 Haugen bill. McKellar's candidacy was not^helped by the 

 fact that he was seeking the nomination for the third 

 term. No Tennessee Senator has served three terms since 

 the Civil War. 



Other issues in the campaign were soldier legislation, 

 • the Esch-Cummings bill, woman suffrage, and labor leg- 

 islation. But the farm issue transcended them all. 



If there is doubt that the cotton growers and the tobacco 

 raisers in the south are interested in surplus control leg- 

 islation, look to Tennessee. 



For Tennessee, for the last two months, has been the 

 battleground. Every argument of the Coolidge Republicans 

 was echoed by reactionary democrats and by Garrett. 

 Every argument was met and answered by McKellar, to 

 the satisfaction of the voters of Tennessee. 



Washingfton says the farmers won't vote for their own 

 interests. Let official Washington look to Tennessee. 



Opponents of justice to the farmers say that the demand 

 for farm legislation is voiced by a few job-holders who are 

 farming the farmers. Let these look to Tennessee. 



Down in the old Volunteer State lives Senator McKel- 

 lar, the tried and trusted champion of the farmers. 



He has been re-nominated for the Senate, in a state 

 where nomination is almost equivalent to election. His 

 majority is overwhelming. He swept nine of the ten Con- 

 gressional districts. He defeated Finis Garrett, arch-enemy 

 of justice to the farmer, of equality for agriculture. 



The farmers of Tennessee rallied to McKellar as never 

 before. By their votes, they proclaimed to the nation: 

 "He has fought the good fight; he has kept the faith!" 



At Albany i i 



IN LINE with the non-partisan policy of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to be impartial in present- 

 ing facts to its members, and in expressing itself fear- 

 lessly and honestly on agricultural questions as it sees 

 them. President Earl C. Smith journeyed with other farm 

 leaders to Albany, New York, recently at the invitation of 

 Gov. Alfred E. Smith to discuss the economics involved 

 in surplus control legislation. 



Those attending the conference held in the Governor's 

 mansion on August 13 were Geo. N. Peek, Earl C. Smith, 

 Wm. Hirth of Missouri, Frank Murphy of Minnesota, J. 

 N. Kehoe of Kentucky, B. W. Kilgour of North Carolina, 

 Wm. H. Settle of Indiana, and Chester C. Davis of Illinois. 



Following the conference, the leaders authorized that 

 the following statement be made: 



We came to Albany at the invitation of Governor 

 Smith to discuss the agricultural problem with him, and 

 to explain our view of national policies which should be 

 adopted toward its solution. We were not invited to dis- 

 cuss' the political situation in our states or sections. 



In general, our position, as explained to Governor 

 Smith, is that before ag:riculture can be afforded stability 

 and protection equivalent to that developed for other 

 groups, an effective control of agricultural surpluses must 

 be provided, which will permit the handling of supplies 

 that are in excess of seasonal or domestic requirements, 

 independently of the portion needed at home. If such 

 surplus control is to be effective, and if treasury subsidy 

 is to be avoided, we' explained our conviction that the 

 costs involved in handling the surplus must be assessed 

 against the units of the commodity benefited. 



We expressed the view that if the surplus crops of 

 agriculture are to secure without government subsidy the 

 results from tariffs that compact industrial groups secure, 

 these principles must be embodied in national legislation. 

 , We were pleased with the Governor's interest in and 

 understanding of the agricultural problem. 



