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Volume 7 



FEBRUARY, 1929 



Number 2 



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Annual Luncheon Is 

 High Light Among 



Convention Events 



Guests Represent Many State -Wide 

 Organizations 



NEARLY a thousand delegates and 

 visitors attended the annual I. 



House Agricultural Committee, 56th 

 General Assembly; Senator A. S. Cuth- 

 bertson of Bunker Hill; Howard Leon- 

 ard, Eureka; and Harvey J. Sconce of 

 Sidell. Spealcers Varied 



Each guest responded, on being pre- 

 sented, with short talks. Chairman 

 Malone vigorously outlined the de- 

 A. A. luncheon held in Danville's ar- velopments in the fight for obtaining 

 mory on Thursday, Janu- ___^^ 



Annual Report Shows 

 What I. A. A. Did For 

 Members During 1928 



Indicates Active Service In All De- 

 partments for Year 



ary 31. President Earl 

 C. Smith presided. About 

 noon John H. Harrison, 

 publisher of the Danville 

 Commercial News, arrived 

 from Washington bringing 

 a special message from 

 Senator Otis Glenn who 

 was detained in the Capi- 

 tal. Mr. Harrison took 

 Senator Glenn's place on 

 the program and read a 

 personal message from 

 him, and g^reeting^s from 

 Senators Arthur Capper of 

 Kansas and C. L. McNary 

 of Oregon. Due to the ill- 

 ness of Senator Deneen, 

 Mr. Glenn decided to re- 

 main in Washington so Illi- 

 nois would be represented 

 in the fight for the passage 

 of the Cruiser bill. 

 Many Guests 

 Among the luncheon 

 guests were Wm. H. Ma- 

 lone, chairman of the Illi- 

 nois Tax Commission; C. 

 G. Ferris, secretary of the 

 Illinois Chamber of Com- 

 merce; John H. Walker, president of a fair assessment of property for tax 

 the Illinois State Federation of Labor; purposes in Cook county. The Tax 

 Representative Hugh M. Luckey of Commission had declared invalid the 

 the Illinois Legislature; Dr. R. E. valuations of 1927 after which it was 

 Hieronymus, University of Illinois; revealed that Chicago bankers had 

 James L. Donnelly, secretary, Illi- loaned $140,000,000 to the city tak- 

 nois Manufacturers' Association; State ing tax warrants as security. When 

 Senator Ray Paddock; H. E. Young, the 1927 assessment was declared in- 

 secretary of the Illinois Farmers' In- valid they were left holding the sack. 



A SURVEY of activities and accom- 

 plishments of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association for 1928 reveals 

 that fifty County Farm Bu- 

 reaus sponsored member- 

 ship campaigns since the 

 first of January; that four- 

 teen of these had increased 

 their membership over that 

 of three years ago; and 

 that twenty other counties 

 signed up approximately 

 the same number. Six other 

 counties were expected to 

 show a loss in membership. 

 Thus, the standing in the 

 fifty counties on the aver- 

 age will be little different 

 than that of three years 

 ago, according to George 

 Metzger, director of or- 

 ganization. Ten counties 

 launched membership 

 drives late in the year. 

 Four of these were ex- 

 pected to hold their own 

 while the other six were 

 expected to show an in- 

 crease. The membership 

 in the I. A. A. is close to 

 60,000. McLean and Knox 

 counties are the two lead- 

 ers in number of members. 

 Both are , large counties. 



PUBLICITY 



THE Department of Information 

 reported that news of I. A. A. 

 activities had appeared in the press 

 in practically every state in the 

 Union; that 357 written news stories 

 had been released in addition to other 

 stitute; Professor John D. Black, Har- The bankers, subsequently, assisted in short news items telephoned to the 

 vard University; Dean H. W. Mum- raising funds to reassess Cook county three press associations in Chicago; 

 ford, University of Illinois; Dean- property on an equitable basis and to that the Association had broadcast a 

 Emeritus Eugene Davenport, who is publish the assessments by street and total of 101 hours ov,er radio Station 

 back at Urbana assisting President number. WJJD, Mooseheart, and in addition its 



Represents Gov. Emmerson representatives broadcast twice on 



Silvery-tongued Orator Senator Kes- nation-wide chains of radio stations. 



singer came as the personal represent- In addition to staff members, more 



(Continued on page 13) than 40 prominent outside radio 



Kinley; President Sam H. Thompson; 

 State Senators Harold C. Kessinger 

 of Aurora and Simon Lantz of Con- 

 gerville; C. E. Bruer, Chairman qf the 



