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Volume 6 



DECEMBER, 1928 



Number 12 



Gov. Lowden's First 



Public Statement 



Since Nov. Election 



Suggests Farm Legislation Await Incom- 

 ing President, Cooperate With Hoover 



A LETTER addressed to President 

 Earl C. Smith by the Hon. Frank 

 O. Lowden of Oregon was read by 

 Mr. Smith before the annual conven- 

 tion of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, Chicago, last week. The 

 letter bore the first public utterance 

 of Mr. Lowden since the election. 



Mr. Smith mounted the platform 

 directly after the principal resolution 

 dealing with the farm legislative sit- 

 uation was read. 

 In introducing the 

 subject he called 

 attention to the 

 fact that every 

 great struggle for 

 _^^^ economic freedom 



\.^B^^^B or justice has de- 

 ^^H 4 j^^l veloped individuals 

 ^^^H ^ y^^^l who have become 

 ^^BfB^^^^I martyrs the 



^~^~^^" cause. "The fight 



Frank O. Lowden , , , , , , ,, 



initiated by the 

 Farm Bureau organization of Amer- 

 ica in behalf of a national policy for 

 agriculture," said Mr. Smith, "is no 

 exception in this respect. 



"The I. A. A. has reason to feel 

 very proud," he said, "that its most 

 distinguished member perhaps was 

 more responsible than any other citi- 

 zen in the United States for the con- 

 sideration given the farm problem 

 during the past few years and more 

 particularly in recent months. He 

 buried all personal ambition in be- 

 half of the cause he held most closely 

 to his heart." 



Mr. Lowden's letter which follows 

 was written in reply to an invitation 

 to address the 14th annual meeting 

 of the I. A. A. at Danville the latter 

 part of January. 



The Letter 



Frank O. Lowden, 

 SiNNissippi Farm, 

 Oregon, Illinois 



December 7, 1928. 



My dear Mr. Smith: 



Upon my return home after a brief 



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TO DANVILLE JAN. 29-30-31 



The proffram for our 14th Annual 

 Meeting will be presented in detail :n 

 the January RECORD. The dates are 

 Jan. 29-30-31, the place, Danville. 

 Affiliated organizations will meet on 

 Tuesday, the 29th. Make reservations 

 for hotel accommodations and tickets 

 with Otis Kercher, Farm Bureau office, 

 Danville AT ONCE. Watch for further 

 announcements. 



absence I find your recent letter. 



I cannot tell you how greatly I ap- 

 preciate your invitation, for there is 

 no body of men and women in the 

 United States before whom I Would 

 rather speak than the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. It so happens, how- 

 ever, that we are planning to sail 

 from New York on January 3 for a 

 trip abroad. I regret more than I 

 'can say that this will deprive me of 

 the very great pleasure of being with 

 you at your annual meeting. 



I should also have greatly appre- 

 ciated this as a fitting opportunity to 

 say some things that I have had in 

 my mind with reference to the pres- 

 ent situation so far as possible legis- 

 lation is concerned. 



There never was a presidential 

 campaign I think in which the prob- 

 lems of agriculture played so con- 

 spicuous a part as in the campaign 

 just closed. The candidates of the 

 two chief parties e^ch recognized the 

 gravity and importance of the prob- 

 lems. 



A perfectly clean cut issue was de- 

 veloped, however, as to remedies. 

 Both proposed a federal farm board. 

 Mr. Hoover would have the board set 

 up a stabilization corporation, with 

 liberal advances from the Govern- 

 ment, the purpose of which would be 

 to stabilize the prices of farm 

 products. Such corporation would, 

 of course, attempt to handle seasonal 

 and occasional surpluses, with the 

 hope that they could prevent the de- 

 moralization of the market caused by 

 such surpluses from time to time. 

 He, however, frankly rejected the 

 idea that the cost to the equalization^ 

 corporation of thus caring for the 

 surplus should be distributed over the 

 (Continued on page 8) 



EJarly I. A.- A. Leaders 

 Coming To Convention 

 Danville, Jan. 29-30-31 



Visitors and Delegates Shpuld Make Res- 

 ervations For Accommodations Now 



THE Hotel Wolford will be head- 

 quarters for the 14th annual 

 convention of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association at Danvillfe, January 

 30 and 31, 



Following a recent conference in 

 Danville between President Earl C. 

 Smith, Treasurer Robert A. Cowles, 

 Farm Adviser Otis Kercher, and offi- 

 cers of the local Chamber of Com- 

 merce, the committee on local ar- 

 rangements was set up with Otis 

 Kercher as chairman. Official dele- 

 gates and Farm Bureau members are 

 being requested to make early 

 reservations for rooms, and banquet 

 and luncheon tickets with Chairman 

 Kercher, in care of the Vermilion 

 County Farm Bureau, Danville. 



j Pioneers Invited 



While the convention in January 

 will be the 14th I. A. A. annual nfeet- 

 ing, it will be the . 10th anniversary 

 of the I. A. A.'s reorganization on 

 its p/esent basis. In commemoration 

 of ^his event, the early officers, di- 

 rect«rs, and pioneers in the move- 

 ment, which resulted in the formation 

 of the strongest state farm organization 

 in America, will be invited as guests. 



"We are now realizing the fruits of 

 the .early eflforts of these pioneers," 

 stated President Smith. "It is fitting 

 that they should be recognized." 



Speakers are- being selected to dis- 

 cuss the major questions and prob- 

 lejris of particular interest to farm- 

 ers of to-day. Speakers' names will 

 be announced later. Entertainment 

 and fun will be provided by the Dan- 

 ville Chamber of Commerce. 



The annual banquet will be held on 

 the evening of January 30 "and the 

 great luncheon at noon the next day. 

 Both events will take place in Dan- 

 ville's mammoth armory. 



Four Groups Meet 



Tuesday, January 29, will be de- 

 voted to the annual meetings of four 

 afSliated organizations, including the 

 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 





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