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Page Four 



Franz, C. D. 

 Green 



Holten I 



Lyons 



Representatives 

 and M. E. Bray— 



Sinnett | 

 Walker 

 Wilson, R. J. 



Charles Johnson 

 not preserit. 



Thus ended another chapter in the 

 efforts of the property tax-payers of 

 Illinois to secure relief from the in- 

 equitable and unjust portion of taxes 

 that the property of Illinois is and 

 has been bearing. 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion enjoyed very able and effective co- 

 operation from The Illinois Bankers 

 Association, The Illinois State Federa- 

 tion of Labor, Prairie Farmer and 

 much of the down-state press; while 

 the opposition consisted of the Chi- 

 cago press. The Illinois State Chamber 

 of Commerce and the Illinois Manu- 

 facturers Association. 



The supporters of the Income Tax 

 Bill, while disappointed, are not dis- 

 couraged. They recognize that the 

 consideration of this bill made possible 

 and has resulted in a much more in- 

 telligent understanding of the iniqui- 

 tous, antique and unjust taxing system 

 operating in this state. 



As we go to press, it is reported that 

 The State Administration is seriously 

 considering calling a special session of 

 the General Assembly for the purpose 

 of submitting to the voters at the next 

 general election an amendment to the 

 Revenue Article of the Constitution, 

 which would require a two-thirds vote 

 of the General Assembly, and if that 

 is found to be impossible, for the pur- 

 pose of considering and enacting an 

 equitable income tax measure, which 

 only requires a majority vote. Friends 

 of a fair taxing system will stand 

 ready, willing and anxious to lend their 

 support to a progfam of this character. 



Consumer Co-ops. 



Blame Wheat Pool 



High Price of Wheat Laid to 

 Canadian Co-operation 



^PHE anomaly of a co-operative or- 

 ^ ganization of consumers in Scot- 

 land crying out against a co-operative 

 organization of producers, namely, 

 the Canadian Wheat Pool, for increas- 

 ing the price of wheat is disclosed in 

 a recent issue of "The Scoop Shovel," 

 the official organ of the Manitoba 

 Wheat Pool. 



The consumers' organization known 

 as the United Co-operative Baking 

 Society of Glasgow, Scotland, blames 

 the Canadian Wheat Pool for the high 

 price of wheat in spite of the fact that 

 "a surplus exceeding all previous 

 records exists and yet the price of 

 wheat has not come down." "In- 

 stead," related Mr. Buchanan, chair- 

 man of the Baking Society, "it has 

 gone up. And the cause? The 

 Canadian Wheat Pool." i 



Queer Contradictions 



Commenting upon this situation a 

 British publication called Broomhall's 

 "Milling" said editorially in a recent 



issue: "The Canadian Wheat Pool has 

 provided the world with a crop of 

 queer contradictions. In the first 

 place, it is a system of co-operation 

 a'mong producers, and because it has 

 managed to keep prices up, it is criti- 

 cized adversely by co-operators in this 

 country. In other words, co-operators 

 are actually hostile to co-operation. 

 In the second place, there is an out- 

 cry for the stabilization of wheat 

 prices, and an even greater outcry be- 

 cause the Canadian Pool has succeeded 

 to some extent in that object! We 

 have maintained, and still do so, that 

 the public has no right to expect cheap 

 bread at the expense of the producer. 

 The man who has to face the first 

 risk is entitled to the first, and a fair 

 profit. He does not always get it, to 

 wit, the British wheat grower, but in 

 this particular case it is partly due to 

 factors against which it is useless for 

 him to fight. If he could grow wheat 

 as cheaply as it is grown in North 

 America or South America, the grain 

 would still lack characteristics pos- 

 sessed by imported wheat and requi- 

 site to what is comprehensively known 

 as 'bread grain.' We have no brief 

 for the Canadian Wheat Pool, but we 

 are bound to say they have done un- 

 commonly well, and that their mem- 

 bers have reason to feel satisfied with 

 the organization. At the same time, 

 it is queer that another co-operative 

 movement should look on the Pool's 

 methods as rough shod. 



"We commend these remarks to the 

 thoughtful consideration of Mr. 

 Buchanan and the peculiar type of 

 co-operator he represents, if indeed 

 there is another like him among the 

 whole five millions of British co-opera- 

 tors." 



This is a powerful testimony in be- 

 half of the effectiveness of co-oper- 

 ative marketing and discounts the 

 statements of many buyers to the 

 effect that little or nothing can be 

 gained through the co-operative mar- 

 keting of staple and non-perishable 

 products. 



Sanitary Milk Producers 



Getting Under Way 



REPRESENTATIVES of the 200 

 whole milk shippers in Jersey 

 county met at Jerseyville Tuesday, 

 June 4, to lay plans for organizing a 

 unit of the Sanitary Milk Producers 

 in that section. G. R. Pearce, who 

 represents the county on the board of 

 directors of the new co-operative, pre- 

 dicted that at least 90 per cent of the 

 milk shippers in that section will join 

 the sanitary milk producers to help 

 themselves get control of their product 

 and market it co-operatively. 



T^ W. TIEDEMAN of St. Clair coun- 

 -L^' ty scheduled a meeting at Belle- 

 ville for June 15 when St. Clair county 

 whole milk producers will start their 

 drive for perfecting an organization of 

 the Sanitary Milk Producers in that 

 area. Membership in the St. Louis 



THE I 



A. RECORD 



A. D. Lynch 



they will get 

 milk check or 



iD.\IKY 

 MarMing 



By Art Lynch 



ORGANIZED dairymen get their 

 money from the buyers when it is 

 due. Organized dairymen at such 

 markets as Chi- 

 cago, Peoria, 

 Champaign, 

 Blooming^ton and 

 others collect 

 without losses be- 

 cause they watch 

 tlie credit rating 

 of their buyers. 

 * * * 



UNORGANIZED 

 dairymen sell- 

 ing as individuals 

 do not know 

 within a row of 

 apple trees whether 

 their next month's 

 not. In one northern Illinois county 

 unorganized dairymen four years ago 

 lost on the average $62 per man per 

 year in bad milk accounts. 



* * * * 



MILK is sold on credit. The dealer 

 has some of your milk 45 days 

 before he pays. The practice is to 

 deliver milk a whole month and get 

 paid for it the 15th of the next month. 



* * * 



WATCHING the credit standing of 

 the buyer is an important func- 

 tion of a milk-selling organization. 



* * * 



HOW is it done? At Chicago every 

 dealer has to put up a $2,500 

 bond. At Peoria, Bloomington and 

 Champaign the organized dairymen 

 have contracts with their dealers under 

 which the association can demand a 

 guarantor (certified check or cash) to 

 make sure of the payment if the deal- 

 er's finances look "shaky." 

 « * * 



IN the past some irresponsible dealers 

 got lots of milk they never paid for. 

 The going is tough for such dealers 

 these days with a business-like farm- 

 ers' organization looking after the in- 

 terests of its members. 



* * * 



SOME patrons in the old days would 

 threaten to stop shipping if the 

 dealer gave them "bum" checks. The 

 dealer had the nerve to tell his patrons 

 in such cases that he had to have their 

 next month's milk or he would be un- 

 able to pay for the previous month's 



milk. 



« * * 



ORGANIZED dairymen get their 

 money because they know which 

 dealers are safe. They let the non- 

 member take the chances. 



territory is growing steadily. Excel- 

 lent headway is reported among the 

 milk shippers in Missouri. 



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