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°age Two 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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renience the press men called the 

 crowd 2000. Since the newspaper 



tnen and women seldom get mentioned 

 hey are presented as follows: Allen 

 R. Dalrymple, Chicago, Associated 

 Press; Frank Ridgway, Chicago Trib- 

 une; E. J. Beckman, Chicago Journal 

 pf Commerce; Gifford Ernest, Chicago 

 paily News; Frank Bill, Bloomington 

 Pai;tagraph; Agricultural Editor Ker- 

 ther of the Decatur Herald; Jack Wil- 

 liams, Danville Commercial News. The 

 f&Tza journalists, all from Prairie 

 Fahner's staff, were Floyd Keepers, 

 John Lacey, Miss Lois Schenk. Editor 



f/. V. Gregory is mentioned among the 

 'old-timers." He was "in" at the 

 t)irth of the I. A. A. S. J. Duncan- 

 Dlark, editor of the Chicago Evening 

 ?ost, was the principal speaker before 

 ^he Organization-Publicity conference. 



Zero Weather Arrive* 



Lack of space forbids printing in 

 ^his issue all the interesting speeches. 



lost of the news you already have 

 $een in the press dispatches and in 

 t*rairie Farmer. The reporters handled 

 <he news of the convention most ably. 

 The Associated Press stories found 

 their way into newspapers throughout 

 fhe United States. 



Every official delegate to the meet- 



ng "checked in." Every one stayed 

 to be in on the final session Thursday 

 ^ternoon. Snow and zero weather 

 blew in the last day of the meeting 

 but apparently everyon^ went home 

 iappy. i 



AS OTHERS SEE US 



Earl C. Smith on Farm Relief 



That Earl C. Smith of Pittsfield has 

 Teen reelected president of the Illinois 

 J Agricultural association with a mem- 

 ership of 60,000 is an honor of which 

 e may well be proud. His has been 

 delicate and difficult task during the 

 last year of bitter controversy over 

 gricultural relief. As a delegate to 

 e republican national convention at 

 Kansas City, he championed the 

 iLowden farm relief plan, based largely 

 ijpon the principle of the equalization 

 e, but the agricultural group which 

 resident Smith represented went 

 own to defeat. The division of agri- 

 Itural forces on other issues during 

 t^e election campaig^n made collective 

 rm action at the po|^ impossible, 

 ut all of the various groups, although 

 icing conflicting opinions, agreed 

 that great good had been accomplished 

 through agitation of the question of 

 ffarm relief which brought from Mr. 

 Hoover, the successful candidate for 

 the presidency, a pledge that he would 

 call a special session of congress and 

 that farm relief would be made a para- 

 mount issue in his administration. In 

 this agitation President Smith took an 

 active part. He now advises that Presi- 

 dent-elect Hoover "should have the 

 o^jportunity to direct the preparation 

 aiid enactment of legislation embody- 



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i COVERED THEMSELVES WITH GLORY 



' THE "PAWNEE FOUR" 



Left to ri(ht: D. C. Dragoo, H. B.' Austin, W. L. Dragoo, 

 Hoagland. 



E. V. 



ing the necessary principles to carry 

 out promises made by him during the 

 campaign." No other position could 

 be taken logically and with any prom- 

 ise of desirable and practical results. 

 As Mr. Smith suggests, farmers must 

 not be too reliant upon others, but 

 must develop the "self-help" plan. The 

 State Reg^ister believes in the power 

 of organization and sees in the grad- 

 ual coordination of farm groups the 

 greatest promise of practical legisla- 

 tive results. Certainly, the practical 

 progrram for all concerned at this time 

 should be one of cooperation regard- 

 less of conflicting views and prejudices 

 created during the campaign. They 

 will thus expedite the passage of farm 

 relief legislation by the Hoover ad- 

 ministration and aid in making it ef- 

 fective. 



The State Register favored the 

 equalization fee farm relief plan and 

 agreed whole-heartedly with the Low- 

 den forces in the republican national 

 convention, but as President Smith of 

 the I. A. A. said yesterday in Danville, 

 the Hoover plan must now be tried 

 and to make it successful there must 

 be self-help and agricultural coopera- 

 tion. There can be no denial of the 

 fact that agriculture has suffered from 

 economic injustice, and has not en- 

 joyed a fair share of national pros- 

 perity. As it is the basic industry 

 such an injustice is indefensible. 

 Prosperity for the farmers means a 

 more general spread of prosperity for 

 the entire human family. — Springfield, 

 111., Register. 



What Busy Farm Organization Can Do 



Newspaper readers who do not or- 

 dinarily scan the pages devoted to 

 agricultural interests, would do well 

 to look over the annual report of Earl 

 C. Smith, president of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, as published 

 in The Pantagraph of Friday. With- 

 out here attempting even to refer to 

 the many forms of activity for the 

 benefit of farmers in which that organ- 

 ization has engaged the past year, it 

 can be said that the President's an- 

 nual report served to open the eyes 

 of the average layman as to the possi- 

 bilities of organized effort for agri- 

 culture. One wonders how the busi- 

 ness of the farm was carried on in the 

 old days before there were organiza- 

 tions of farmers and the many forms 

 of advice and information which they 

 are now dispensing. — Bloomington 

 Pantagraph. 



The Price of Unequal Representatio* 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 has renewed its demand for a state 

 income tax. The farmers represented 

 by the Association contend that the 

 present taxes bear too severely upon 

 land, and therefore upon agriculture. 

 They wish an income tax because it 

 would relieve farmers and transfer a 

 part of their burden to salary and 

 wage earners. 



As long as the legislature of Illi- 

 nois deprives the cities of an honest 

 apportionment, based on the census, 

 the merits of the farmers' argument 

 are not likely to be given serious con- 

 sideration. The city members can 

 block a state income tax law, and they 

 must do so at least until the taxpayers 

 who will bear the burden of the new 

 tax are given a fair share in the legis- 

 lature which levies it. — Chicago Trib- 

 une. 



Prejudice Is Bar To 

 Understanding 



"Develop your genius for communi- 

 cation from among your own young 

 people. Modern writers are needed to 

 tell the story of farm success and 

 achievement," said S. J. Duncan-Clark, 

 editor of the Chicago Evening Post, ad- 

 dressing the Organization-Information 

 Conference during the I. A. A. conven- 

 tion at Danville. "You have a story," 

 said Mr. Duncan-Clark. "Tell it. Call 

 on the young people who have writ- 

 ing ability from among your own 

 ranks." 



Mr. Duncan-Clark spoke of the 

 prejudices which exist between the 

 city and country. 



"The comment and criticism of the 

 farmer you hear in the city," said 

 the speaker, "is that he is always 

 grumbling. Somehow we have gotten 

 that impression and somehow you have 

 given it to us. You know more about 

 us than we know about you. You read 

 about our scandals in the newspapers 

 and may judge us accordingly. We 

 read about you only when you throw 

 our milk into the ditches and have a 

 grievance. Thus, both of us have the 

 wrong impressions of each other." 



During the course of the speaker's 

 address a delegrate in the audience 

 shouted "Put it in the Chicago 

 papers," referring to Duncan-Clark's 

 suggestion that farmers tell their 

 story of achievement. "That's a good 

 suggestion," returned the speaker. 

 "Maybe it will bear fruit." 







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