THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 





Executive Committee Reaffirms 

 Policy 



The following report of the Committee on Pub- 

 lic Relations held on September 5, tttS. attended 

 bv Earl C. Smith, preeident. R. A. Cowles. treas- 

 urer, J. L. Whitnand, Chae. MarehaU and Frank 

 D. Barton, woe ur%animou*ly adopted by the 

 /. A, A. Executive Committee at its regular 

 meeting in Chicago, Sept. 7, IStS: 



' ' TTAVING received a report of 



J_X the 14 district picnics for 

 which our Association had secured 

 speakers of national reputation, among 

 whom were farm leaders from North, 

 South, East and West, as well as Re- 

 publican and Democratic leaders in 

 Congress who had demonstrated their 

 loyalty to agriculture and therefore 

 were asked to discuss the agricultural 

 issue fully and impartially; and after 

 hearing a report on Farm Bureau Day 

 at the State Fair where Congressman 

 Dickinson of Iowa, representing the 

 National Republican Committee, told 

 how the Republican Party expected to 

 solve the agricultural problem in the 

 next session of Congress, while Sena- 

 tor Caraway of Arkansas, representing 

 the National Democratic Committee, 

 told how the Democra+ic Party expect- 

 ed to solve the same problem, and 



"Also having carefully considered 

 the developments up to date in both 

 the great political parties on the para- 

 mount issue of the national campaign 

 — ^that of establishing a national pol- 

 icy for agriculture comparable to that 

 already established for industry, labor, 

 transportation, and finance, and 



"In view of all these reports and 

 developments your committee on Pub- 

 lic Relations wishes to recommend to 

 you, the Executive Committee, that 

 we reaffirm and recommend a continu- 

 ance of the policy adopted at your 

 regular meeting on July 13 and re- 

 affirmed at the regnilar meeting of the 

 Committee on August 11, which is as 

 follows: 



"The primary interest and purpose 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 is to serve the true and permanent in- 

 terests of the farmers of Illinois. The 

 policy of the Association in all poli- 

 tical matters has always been and will 

 continue to be strictly non-partisan. 



"We recognize that agricultural 

 issues are economic rather than politi- 

 cal. This was conclusively shown by 

 the majority vote of both parties in 

 each house of the 69th and 70th Con- 

 gresses, by which the McNary-Haugen 

 Bill was passed. It has also been re- 

 peatedly revealed by the non-partisan 

 vote supporting and passing such con- 

 structive agricultural legislation in our 

 state. 



"National, state and district issues' 

 should be carefully considered on their 

 relative merits and in no way should 

 they become confused. 



"We seek to furnish full, fair and 

 impartial information 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 in- 

 formation in hand, farmers and all 

 true friends of agriculture are in a 

 position to support candidates for of- 

 fice who will best serve the economic 

 interests of agriculture. We urge our 

 members at all times to support those 

 candidates, regardless of party, who 

 by their records or definite commit- 

 ments have proven their worthiness of 

 this support. 



"The policy as above set forth will 

 be continued." . \ 



SWEETENING UP IN BROWN COUNTY 

 A TRAINLOAD of limestone, 46 cars in all, moved into Brown county 

 on Aug. 16 to prepare the way for bigger and better crops of 

 sweet clover, alfalfa, corn and wheat. A special feature of the train 

 was eighteen side-dump cars which were unloaded along the Wabash 

 Railroad between stations. The Wabash provided a special crew to 

 assist and the farmers picked the sites for unloading the limestone. 

 Each purchaser furnished two men for each car bought and these men 

 accompanied the train during the dajr. Thirty-six men unloaded the 

 18 carloads in 7,^ hours. The Brown County Farm Bureau, the Wabash 

 Railroad, and the Brownell Improvement Co. co-operated in the project. 

 Farmers remotely situated from the railroads will crush approximately 

 2000 tons this year with the two crushers now working on local lime- 

 stone deposits. '-. 



The Ohio Farm Bureau Mutual 

 Auto Insurance Company has 27,000 

 Farm Bureau member policyholders. 

 It recently established a branch office 

 in Maryland at the invitation of the 

 Maryland Farm Bureau where the 

 auto insurance service will be made 

 available to Farm Bureau members 

 there. 



L. Burl Hornbeck, of Winchester, a 

 member of the Scott County Farm Bu- 

 reau, won one of the twelve prizes 

 offered in a national contest promoted 

 by the Bureau Farmer, official maga- 

 zine of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, in which entrants sub- 

 mitted letters on the topic, "What My 

 Farm Bureau Means to Me." First 

 place, with a prize of $10, went to H. 

 E. Meeker, Gait, Iowa, and second 

 place to Mrs. Louise W. East, Warren, 

 Utah, who received $5. The other ten 

 received $1 each. A second Illinois 

 prize winning letter was submitted by 

 Sartory Brothers, Warsaw, Hancock 

 County, 111. 



Farmers Warned Not To Let 

 Insurance Lapse Thru Neglect 



Attention Called To Mistakes By 

 Policy Holders 



FARMERS should be careful not to 

 void their fire and tornado insur- 

 ance through failure to comply with 

 certain well-established rules of all in- 

 surance companies. In a letter to all 

 its borrowers, the Federal Land Bank 

 of St. Paul calls attention to the fact 

 that a number of its clients who had 

 fire losses during the past year had 

 voided their policies by neglecting to 

 observe the conditions of the contract, 

 and offers the following words of 

 caution : 



i "If your build, 

 ings are vacated, 

 fire insurance be- 

 comes null and 

 void in a certain 

 number of days, 

 unless the in- 

 sured obtains a 

 'vacancy permit.' 

 "Remedy: If 

 your buildingrs 

 are not occupied, 

 even for a short 

 time, report the 

 matter to the in- 

 surance company 

 at once and ob- 

 tain a 'vacancy 

 permit.' In writ- 

 ing, request one 

 from the local 

 agent. 



"The insurance 

 company's liabil- 

 ity ceases at once 

 when the farm is 

 transferred. 



"Remedy: Re- 

 port transfer of 

 farm to the insurance company imme- 

 diately, in writing. The policies can 

 either be transferred to the new own- 

 er, in which case the company should 

 be asked to make the transfer and the 

 new owner should pay for the unex- 

 pired insurance, or the policies can be 

 cancelled and the unused premium re- 

 covered from the company. 



"Insurance is immediately suspend- 

 ed and of no force if any premium 

 note given in settlement for it is not 

 paid when it comes due. This is also 

 true as regards assessment policies 

 where assessments are not paid in a 

 certain number of days (according to 

 the terms of the policy) after they are 

 levied. 



"Remedy: Pay premiums and as- 

 sessments when due." 



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The Tampico Livestock Shipping 

 Assn. in Whiteside county sold $253,- 

 270.40 worth of livestock during the 

 12 months ending March 1, 1928. 



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