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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Law Is Unfair To 



Corn Sugar, Wider Use 

 Will Help Price Corn 



By Mrs. Thora M. Car me An 

 Caaner, lllinots i 



Mrs. Carmean 



THE farmer wants more corn used 

 and a better price for corn sold. 

 The governmental discriminations 

 against corn sugar 

 must be removed. 



The corn belt 

 farmer is overlook- 

 ing an opportunity 

 which, if seized, 

 would improve his 

 market an4 put dol- 

 lars in his pocket. 

 Corn sugar offers 

 this opportunity — a 

 sugar manufactured 

 from a product of 

 the corn belt — a 

 fine white sugar 

 generally used in hospitals and sani- 

 tariums because of its wholesomeness 

 and food value — a sugar rated by the 

 Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation as "par excellence the physi- 

 ologic sugar." 



The purity, wholesomeness and food 

 value of corn sugar is accepted with- 

 out question by the medical profession 

 as well as the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, which is responsible for 

 the administration of the Pure Food 

 and Drugs Act of 1906. The arbitrary 

 system of definitions and standards, 

 under which this Act is administered, 

 requires special label mojition of the 

 use of corn sugar, dextrose, as an in- 

 gredient, although declaration of the 

 use of imported foreign sugars is not 

 repuired. On account of this unfair 

 discrimination, potential consumers of 

 large quantities of corn sugar refuse 

 to use it except in those 'products 

 where this discrimination does not pre- 

 vail. I 

 Need Protection I 

 The United States sends between 

 four and five hundred million dollars 

 into foreign countries every year in 

 pjayment for sugar produced by cheap 

 fbreign labor. A large portion of that 

 amount could be directed into the 

 pockets of her own citizens in return 

 for sugar of equal, if not greater, 

 merit. Not content with allowing the 

 foreign sugar interests to dominate the 

 poli(*y by which that portion of the 

 Pure Food and Drugs Act is admin- 

 istered, a very light tariff of $2.21 per 

 cwt. has been placed on foreign sugar, 

 while Cuba is allowed a preferential 

 rate of 80 per cent of that paid by 

 other foreign countries. 



Bills To Be Introduced 



It is up to the farmers to work 

 through the agricultural organizations 

 to bring about a change of attitude on 

 the part of the Department of Agri- 

 culture toward the use of corn sugar 

 and through Senators and Representa- 

 tives in Congress to secure enactment 



of proper leg^islation to remove this un- 

 just discrimination against an impor- 

 tant product of the American farms. 

 Bills having this purpose are noW be- 

 fore the U. S. Senate and House of 

 Representatives, but thus far organ- 

 ized agrriculture has withheld endorse- 

 ment. This attitude of aloofness should 

 be changed without delay. 



When we buy twenty-five pounds of 

 corn sugar, we are buying a bushel of 

 our own corn. If we can help create 

 a market for corn at $1 or $1.25 a 

 bushel, it will be to our advantage to 

 do it. * 



14th District OK's 



Insurance Program 

 Endorses I. A. A. Policy 



Urge That Members Weigh All Facts In 

 Coming Contest 



O ESOLUTIONS were adopted at the 

 ■•- *■ I. A. A. district conference, Car- 

 thage, on July 27, urging that life in- 

 surance be made available as soon as 

 possible to members, commending 

 Farm Bureau leaders for their action 

 in political matters, and urging that 

 members remain open-minded regard- 

 ing their political allegiance until the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association can 

 give full information concerning the 

 stand and records of all candidates. 



Nearly 50 leaders in the 14th dis- 

 trict attended the meeting. Hancock 

 county had the largest representation. 

 A. D. Lynch, director of dairy market- 

 ing for the I. A. A., discussed the value 

 of collective effort in marketing dairy 

 products. R. J. Hamilton talked on 

 Farm Bureau organization. Executive 

 Committeeman M. G. Lambert pre- 

 sided. The late Sidney S. Carney of 

 Rock Island acted as secretary of the 

 meeting. 



Messages by Wireless 



THE Radio Corporation of America 

 recently applied to the Federal 

 Radio Commission for construction per- 

 mits to cover 65 short wave transmit- 

 ters for the establishment of a domes- 

 tic communications network serving 24 

 important cities throughout the United 

 States. 



"It is our intention," said the appli- 

 cation, "to provide rapid and direct 

 conneption between our international 

 transoceanic service now operated 

 from New York and San Francisco, 

 and the largest possible number of im- 

 portant points within this country, 

 thus supplying the need for an all- 

 radio international telegraphic service 

 not now available to the public except 

 in New York, San Francisco, Boston, 

 and Washington. In conjunction 

 therewith we w^ill offer a domestic 

 radio telegraph service competing 

 favorably in quality and in rates with 

 the existing wire line telegraphs." 



Farm Adviser Carney 



Answers Last Call 

 Many Attend Funeral 



Was One of Outstanding Men In Farm 

 Bureau Movement 



Sidney S. Carney 



MORE than 300 Farm Bureau 

 members, farm advisers, busi- 

 ness men, and representatives of local 

 and state-wide or- 

 ganizations a t - 

 tended the services 

 held for Sidney S. 

 Carney, Rock 

 Island county farm 

 adviser, in the 

 chapel at Rock 

 Island Monday, 

 July 30. Burial 

 took place the fol- 

 lowing day from 

 the First Metho- 

 dist Church at Ro- 

 chelle from which 



the body was taken to the ceme- 

 tery at Greenwood, north of Woodstock 

 in McHenry county. 



Mr. Carney lost his life in an auto- 

 mobile accident on Friday night, July 

 27, when A. D. Lynch and R. J. Ham- 

 ilton of the I. A. A., who were riding 

 with him, were injured. Glenn West- 

 cott, a passenger in the other car, died 

 after the collision. Three other pas- 

 sengers were seriously injured. 

 Born Near Steward 



Carney was born near Steward in 

 Lee county, April 25, 1889. 



After graduating from the local 

 schools he attended Evanston Academy 

 and later entered the University of 

 Illinois where he graduated with hon- 

 ors from the College of Agriculture. 

 After securing his Master's degree he 

 became a member of the teaching staff 

 in the Agronomy Department where 

 he served for five years. He left the 

 University to become farm adviser in 

 Rock Island county, February 1, 1925. 

 His ability was soon recognized, and as 

 a result of his hard faithful work the 

 Rock Island County Farm Bureau was 

 strengthened and improved in member- 

 ship and activities. 



During the war Carney served as a 

 Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps. 



He was a Mason, president of the 

 Rock Island Kiwanis Club, a member 

 of the American Legion, a member of 

 the Elks lodge, and while at the Uni- 

 versity was elected to Sigma Xi, hon- 

 orary scientific fraternity. 



He is survived by his wife, for- 

 merly Miss Mildred Marble of Green- 

 wood, McHenry county, and by his 

 mother, a brother, and five sisters. . 



Farm Adviser Frank Barrett of 

 Pike county tendered his resignation 

 recently to become effective Septem- 

 ber 1. 



