THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Stsite To Build Docks 



!; : Along 111. Waterways 



S. t. 339 Grants Authority to State 

 I Department for Terminals 



lA MOVE to establish docks and ter- 

 r* minals adjoining cities located on 

 ^he Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio 

 rivers so as to 

 make water trans- 

 portation available 

 to Illinois farmers 

 and shippers is 

 seen in the intro- 

 duction of S. B. 

 No. 339 in the 

 56th Illinois Gen- 

 eral Assembly. 



The deep water- 

 way will be of no 

 value to Illinois 

 unless provision is 



R. A. Cowie* 



made for docks so goods can be loaded 

 and unloaded to and from barges that 

 ply up and down the rivers. Such 

 docks, in some cases, must also be 

 equipped with loading and unloading 

 machinery, with railroad tracks and 

 spurs so freight can be loaded and un- 

 loaded from trains to and from the 

 barges. 



Illinois cities are handicapped in this 

 regard. As a result waterways to 

 date have been little used. They will 

 not be used until proper equipment is 

 made available. 



Equip 'Em Also 



Senate Bill No. 339 authorizes the 

 State Department of Purchases and 

 Construction to build and acquire ter- 

 minals, and to equip such terminals 

 with necessary machinery and facil- 

 ities. 



A hearing on the bill was held be- 

 fore the Senate Committee on April 

 15. Robt. A. Cowles of the I. A. A., 

 a member of the Illinois Waterway 

 Terminals Committee, represented the 

 Association and appeared fn behalf of 

 the measure in accordance with author- 

 ity granted in the waterway resolution 

 passed at the last I. A. A. annual 

 meeting. Theodore Brent, transporta- 

 tion adviser to the State of Illinois, 

 and Wm. F. Mulvihill, State Superin- 

 tendent of Waterway Construction, 

 testified in behalf of this measure. 

 State Shall Help 



"The legislation embodied in this 

 act contemplates that the state shall 

 do what is necessary to make possible 

 a water revival of transportation on 

 the rivers of the state," said Mr. 

 Brent. 



"The Mississippi, and the Ohio, and 

 the Illinois are already navigable. The 

 state is spending $20,000,000 and is 

 prepared to add another $5,000,000 to 

 it in order to give the people of Illi- 

 nois and the Mississippi Valley at 

 large access by cheap water transporta- 

 tion to the Chicago district, the great- 

 est manufacturing and distributing 

 center in the whole country. The ex- 

 penditure will bring but a limited re- 

 turn in public benefits until there are 



terminals at the most important in- 

 terchange points where goods may be 

 cheaply transferred between land and 

 water vehicles." _.-,-..• 



Joint Rate* 



"Washington, Apr. 21. — The Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission issued an 

 order here today directing railroads 

 connecting with the Inland Waterway 

 Corporation barge lines ■ on the Mis- 

 sissippi River to establish joint rail and 

 water rates effective Aug. 27, over a 

 large section of the country. Water 

 transportation boosters considered the 

 order an important victory for water 

 transport. 



"The water corporation, however, 

 was denied a petition for through rates 

 to provide for barge-rail-water rates 

 between Atlantic seaboard points and 

 the lower Mississippi Valley. 



"The order directed the railroads to 

 negotiate with the barge line to agree 

 on a division of the joint rates. It is 

 taken to indicate a reduction of 10 to 

 20 per cent from existing costs for 

 transporting commodities between af- 

 fected points under joint rail and 

 water tariffs." 



S. J. Stanard 



S. J. Stanard Retires 



From State Dep'tment 



S TILLMAN J. STANARD, retiring 

 state director of agriculture, made 

 a splendid record for his efficiency in 

 administering the 

 affairs of the de- 

 partment of agri- 

 culture. He dis- 

 played willingness 

 and co-operation 

 at all times in 

 serving the agri- 

 cultural interests 

 of the state. 



Mr. Stanard's 

 office was always 

 open to officials 

 and staff members 

 of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, and to rep- 

 resentatives of other farm groups. 



Pushed T. B. Work 



During his administration, he gave 

 personal attention to speeding up the 

 bovine tuberculosis eradication pro- 

 gram in Illinois. As a result the cat- 

 tle of the state are more than three- 

 fourths tested and the work can be 

 completed within a comparatively 

 short time. Hogs shipped out of more 

 than 40 accredited counties receive a 

 10c per cwt. premium at the market. 



The growth and development of the 

 State Fair at Springfield during the 

 past few years was due largely to 

 Stanard's influence and enthusiasm. 

 Dairy promotional work was improved, 

 agricultural laws overhauled and 

 amended, and the work of the various 

 divisions co-ordinated. Stanard leaves 

 office with the good will and gratitude 

 of farmers over the state for having 

 done a good job. 



Seek Solution for ! 



High School Tangle 



Would AUow Country Districts to 



Withdraw From Community 



High Territory 



AN attempt to straighten out the 

 •^ community high school tangle is 

 being made in the 56th General As- 

 sembly of Illinois 

 now in session. 



Senate Bills 

 458 and 467 al- 

 ready introduced 

 would allow the 

 withdrawal of con- 

 tiguous areas from 

 the high school 

 districts of which 

 they are now a 

 part, when two 

 A c r< .1.1. ^ thirds of the vot- 



A. S. Cuthbertson ... ... 



ers residing within 



such areas petition the county super- 

 intendent of schools to this effect. 



These measures would allow country 

 districts to withdraw from the com- 

 munity or township high school dis- 

 trict to be placed in non-high school 

 territory; to become part of another 

 high school district; or to form a part 

 or all of a new high school district to 

 be created. j 



Cuthbertson Bill 



S. B. 467 introduced by Senator 

 Cuthbertson of Bunker Hill seems to 

 have the most support. S. B. 458 by 

 Senator Finn of luka it is understood 

 will not be pushed. 



The Cuthbertson bill provides that 

 the county superintendent of schools 

 shall give 10 days' notice of the pro- 

 posed change of boundaries before he 

 enters the order making such change. 

 The county superintendent, likewise, 

 shall not add any territory to an ex- 

 isting district pursuant to a petition 

 of two-thirds of the legal voters resid- 

 ing within such territory, if before the 

 10 days five per cent of the legal 

 voters residing within such existing 

 district shall file a petition with the 

 county superintendent of schools ob- 

 jecting to such addition of territory. 



The Finn bill would prevent the 

 withdrawal of territory located within 

 five miles of the high school. The 

 Cuthbertson bill imposes no such lim- 

 itation. 



The New York State Farm Bureau 



Federation has a membership of 

 33,000, an increase of 6,000 members 

 in the past year. This is the largest 

 membership since 1923. 



The American Farm Bureau Feder- 

 ation held a tax conference of state 



Will Study Tax Situation 



John C. Watson, I. A. A. tax direc- 

 tor, will study the tax situation in 

 Marshall and Putnam counties with a 

 group of local Farm Bureau members 

 representing each township in the two 

 counties. The survey is not to be 

 made until the latter part of May. 



Farm Bureau officials in Chicago on 

 May 15. 



