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ance Company, the Illinois Agricil 

 tural Cooperatives Association, ihe 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball Leag^ie, 

 and the Illinois Farm Bureau Senim 

 Association. Officers and directors of 

 the State Baseball League are pl^n 

 ning a session on Monday night p 

 paratory to the meeting the follojw 

 ing day. Sectional conferences )n 

 cooperative marketing, organizat: on 

 and publicity, business service, home 

 and community, and public relations 

 will be held concurrently on Wedmis- 

 day afternoon, January 30. All busi- 

 ness sessions will be held in the Ter- 

 race Theatre. 



A complimentary dinner and con- 

 ference for Farm Bureau .presiden ;s, 

 farm advisers, I. A. A. officers a id 

 staff members is scheduled for Tu( s- 

 day evening, January 29. 



Early OCBcers 



Among the early leaders who w 11 

 be invited as guests of the Association 

 are: Sam H. Thompson of iQu^ncy; 

 Howard Leonard, Eureka; Hermi n 

 Danforth, St. Louis; Harvey J. Sconce, 

 Sidell; J. W. Kirkton, J. C. Sailor, 

 Cissna Park; George A. Fox, Syci- 

 more; Dave Thompson, C. V. Grei:- 

 ory. Dean H. W. Mumford, Z. M. 

 Holmes, and a host of others. 



The meeting is expected to be a 

 mecca for all the new and old Farn 

 Bureau leaders of the state. Theie 

 will be much "back-slapping" and ris- 

 newing old, old friendships. It will 

 be a place where early friends and 

 leaders of the movement can me<t 

 and swap stories about "way back 

 when." It will be a time for happ^r 

 memories of the early days of the 

 Farm Bureau movement in Illinoii . 

 Every organized county in Illinois wi 1 

 be represented. 



Accommodation* Ample 



The ease of accessibility of Dar 

 ville both by train and hard road is 

 expected to bring out one of the larg- 

 est gathering's held in recent years 

 Several delegations are considering 

 making the trip in specially chartereil 

 motor busses. Ample hotel accommo- 

 dations have been assured by this 

 Danville Chamber of Commerce, bu; 

 it is urgent that reservations be madd 

 early. The overflow crowd will b(! 

 housed in private homes if necessary 



Prairie Farmer's radio statioi 

 WLS has offered its facilities t< 

 broadcast the convention. If propei 

 arrangements can be made a specia 

 wire will be engaged between th(i 

 broadcasting station at Crete anc 

 Danville for the principal events oi 

 the session. 



Invite the Women 



Three hundred men and women at 

 tended the dinner and annual meet 

 ing of the Coles County Farm Bureau 

 at Charleston recently. 



"It was the best annual meeting ever 

 held in the county," declared J. L. 

 Whisnand, who represents the 19th dis- 

 trict on the I. A. A. Executive Com 

 mittee. 



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L. J. Dickinson 



Dickinson Tells Why 



Farm Legislation 



Should Await Hoover 



Declares Special Session Is Place To 

 Frame and Pass Surplus Control Bill 



DECLARING that farm legislation 

 should await the inauguration of 

 the incoming President, Congressman 

 L. J. Dickison of Iowa stated em- 

 phatically that everyone participating 

 in the presidential campaign would be 

 embarrassed if the short session 

 should pass farm legislation, the 

 Hoover prog^ram should be ignored, 

 and the personnel of the new admin- 

 istration should be deprived of di- 

 recting the details by which the pre- 

 election promises are to be enacted 

 into legislation. 



"The wording of the new bill will 

 be all important," said Dickinson. 

 "The authority given the Board is to 

 be all controlling. The conditions 

 upon which federal financing can be 

 used is far reaching. The very de- 

 tails of the legislative authority 

 granted is the yard ^tick by which the 

 benefits of the legislation can be 

 measured. Those interested have 

 every faith that President-Eleet Hoo- 

 ver will set forth these provisions in 

 plain definite legislative provisions 

 that cannot be misunderstood." 



Wants Special Session 



Congressman Dickinson seemed to 

 think that a much better agricultural 

 bill could be written in the special 

 session promised by President-Elect 

 Hoover, directly after the latter's in- 

 auguration. He believes that Mr. 

 Hoover should be allowed to counsel 

 with farm leaders in congress, that 

 his own ideas may be incorporated in 

 the bill finally submitted for passage. 

 "Experience has shown us," he said, 

 "that the surest way to write an agri- 

 cultural law on the statute books is 

 to join with the administration in the 

 program embodying the enactment of 

 such a law as can be mutually agreed 

 upon and thereby procure administra- 

 tion aid in both the legislative ap- 



proval and the signing of the meas- 

 ure." 



Qaote* From Record 



The Congrressman quoted freely 

 from the editorial in the October I. 

 A. A. Record. "The Illinois Record 

 can proudly say," said Dickinson: 

 " 'Never before in the history of the 

 United States was ag^riculture given 

 so much consideration in the cam- 

 paigns' of two political parties. Never 

 before in the history of the country 

 were such far-reaching declarations 

 and commitments made by presiden- 

 tial nominees. From this point of view 

 it was a victory for the American 

 farmer. Organized agriculture had 

 done its job and done it well.' 



"In his acceptance speech, the suc- 

 cessful candidate,. Mr. Hoover, said: 

 'The most urgent economic problem 

 in our nation today is in ag^riculture. 

 It must be solved if we are to bring 

 prosperity and contentment to one- 

 third t)f our people directly and to 

 all of our people indirectly. We have 

 pledged ourselves to find a solu- 

 tion . . .' " 



Speech Well Receivecl 



^Congressman Dickinson's speech 

 was well received. Theire seemed to 

 be general agreenienti that agricul- 

 tural legislation should await the in- 

 coming President who so definitely 

 committed himself on this point dur- 

 ing the campaign. 



Dickinson quoted freely from 

 I*resident-Elect Hoover's campaign 

 speeches. He declared that "on gen- 

 eral principles the plain duty of an 

 outgoing official is to leave all policy- 

 fixing legislation to his successor, for 

 the incoming official is entitled to an 

 unobstructed field. 



"Then the farm relief program will 

 be accepted from the new administra- 

 tion by the farming population of the 

 country, with more confidence," he 

 continued, "and a better spirit of co- 

 operation from the new officials 

 would be forthcoming, and the charge 

 could not he made that the officials 

 in power had failed to keep the 

 faith." 



Dickinson called attention to the 

 changes in present economic condi- 

 tions pertaining to agriculture. "The 

 farming interest," he said, "must pre- 

 pare itself to meet new conditions. 

 It is my belief that changed condi- 

 tions on the farm will be met by the 

 farmers themselves. Beyond the con- 

 trol of the farmers and outside of his 

 front gate are legrislative policies of 

 state and nation vitally affecting the 

 farmers' interest." 



Still Investigating 



The Wabash Valley telephone case 

 in which the I. A. A. transportation de- 

 partment and southeastern Illinois 

 Farm Bureaus are representing the 

 interests of rural subscribers is still 

 under investigation. ,' 



The Champaign County Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association will begin opera- 

 tions' on January 1, 1929., 



