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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



Measure of Ability to Pay 



(Continued from page 3) 

 shown convincingly that a considerable amount 

 of revenue may be derived through taxes on 

 such non-essentials as tobacco, soft drinks, cos- 

 metics, amusements, etc. 



Charge Beneficiaries 



"Our various units of government are today 

 rendering without charge or at a nominal fee, 

 a great variety of special services of a pro- 

 tective and development nature. The full ex- 

 pense of these inspections and certifications and 

 other forms of special service might very 

 properly be charged to those directly bene- 

 fited. This would mean a material saving to 

 the taxpayer. 



"The various wards of the state should be 

 employed to the limit of their proper pro- 

 ductive ability and the articles so manufactured 

 should be used to supply the needs of the 

 state institutions and activities. 



"Farmers are not the sole victims of the 

 present system which places too great de- 

 pendence upon the general property tax. City 

 home owners are also hard hit. This natur- 

 ally tends towards an increase in rents, so that 

 urban home owners and renters as well should 

 make common cause with farmers in an effort 

 to secure tax readjustment and relief. 



Farmer Can't Dodge 



"One of the most grievous features of the 

 heavy taxes borne by agriculture is that the 

 farmer has no power to pass any portion of 

 them on or shift them in any way, as he 

 has so little to say concerning the price which 

 he receives for the product of his labors. 



"It should ever be remembered that the 

 power to tax carries with it the power to de- 

 stroy. It is certainly not good statesmanship 

 to discourage the ownership of farms and 

 homes through confiscatory property taxes. 

 The ownership of reaL estate is one of the most 

 stabilizing forces in society and should by all 

 proper means be encouraged, not discouraged." 



Add 105 New Members 



CEVENTY-SIX new members were added to 

 ^-^ the Iroquois County Farm Bureau on 

 September 26 in a county- wide one-day neigh- 

 bor-sign-neighbor drive, according to C. E. 

 Johnson, farm adviser. These together with 

 the 29 new members signed up in the summer 

 by volunteers makes a total of 10 J new Farm 

 Bureau members. 



"Joe Pruitt of Wellington now claims the 

 honor of being the oldest new Farm Bureau 

 member," says Johnson. "Mr. Pruitt is 87 

 years old. Three of the Pruitt generation are 

 now members of the Farm Bureau, which in- 

 cludes Joe, his son Frank, and his grandson 

 Harold." 



The Iroquois County Farm Bureau now has 

 a membership in excess of 1,000 members. 



Farm Indebtedness 



Farm mortgage indebtedness in the United 

 States on January 1, 1929, was about one per 

 cent or $108,000,000 greater than that on 

 January 1, 1925, according to the Bureau of 

 Agricultural Economics. Estimates on January 

 1, 1928, show a total indebtedness on farms of 

 $9,468,000 as compared with $9,360,000 on 

 January 1, 1925. 



WIN IN DAIRY JUDGING 



Left to rifht ar« C. M. Hatland, coach; Lloyd Espel, Loren Hoge, and Clyde Conley, all 

 from around Walnut in Bureau county. The team won the state contest in judging dairy 

 cattle staged at the Illinois State Fair, Springfield. Hatland teaches vocational ag. in the 

 Walnut Community High School. The Bureau County Farm Bureau has long held a lead- 

 ing position in sponsoring 4-H Club and high school judging teams. i i 



Scott Going Strong 



"Scott county now has the distinction of 

 being the only county in the state with 75 

 per cent of its farmers belonging to the Farm 

 Bureau," says John C. Moore, district organiza- 

 tion manager. "We held our school of in- 

 struction during the second week of September 

 and the indications are that the boys over there 

 are determined to hold the record of having 

 the highest percentage of farmers in the Bureau 

 of any county in the state. 



"The membership drive is going nicely and 

 they have already written 57 new members or 

 farmers who have not been members during the 

 last three years. 



"The memberships expire on December 1 and 

 indications now point to a substantial increase 

 in membership in the Farm Bureau." 



Ceo. A. Fox 



I. A. A. Transportation 



Department, 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



"Have been delaying writing, 

 although I felt confident your 

 work was— the thing that prompt- 

 ed or compelled the Northwest- 

 ern Casualty Company to offer 

 and then send me $300 in settle- 

 ment for my damage claim 

 against the company. I accepted 

 the $300 offer and the insurance 

 company already has sent me the 

 money. I consider this a fair 

 settlement. 



"By way of information, the 

 lamed horse is still lame, but 

 hope she ultimately will recover. 



"For your kind and skilled as- 

 sistance in this matter I am 

 deeply grateful, and hope and 

 believe you do the same for 

 many others." 



Harry L. Reed, 

 Pe<n-ia county. 



Pageant Depicts 



Story of Com 



A PAGEANT depicting the history and de- 

 velopment of corn, together with an edu- 

 cational exhibit showing all the commercial uses 

 ' being made of the corn 

 plant will be held in 

 the Stevens memorial 

 community building at 

 Sycamore, D e K a I b 

 county, during the lat- 

 ter part of November. 

 George A. Fox, treas- 

 urer of Country Life 

 Insurance Co., is chair- 

 man of the committee 

 sponsoring the event. 

 The story of corn, in- 

 cluded in the series 

 "Farming Thiough the Ages" written by Clif- 

 ford Gregory in Prairie Farmer, will be the 

 basis for the pageant. The Playground and 

 Recreation Association of America is lending 

 assistance in dramatizing the story. 



Community groups in DeKalb and adjoining 

 counties are responding enthusiastically in put- 

 ting on different parts of the pageant which 

 will have a cast of around 150 to 200 people. 



It is expected that thousands of people from 

 northeastern Illinois will see the pageant at 

 Sycamore during the two nights when it will 

 be staged. Local organizations in Sycamore and 

 DeKalb county are busily engaged in preparing 

 for the event. School children will be offered 

 prizes for the best posters advertising the 

 pageant. An elaborate pageant illustraring the 

 history of agriculture may be prepared for the 

 coming Century of Progress Exposition, Chi- 

 cago in 1933. I 



Both the total and per capita consumption 

 of ice cream in the United States was greater 

 last year than in any preceding year. Total 

 consumption in 1928 is estimated at 348,048,000 

 gallons, as compared with 335,628,000 gallons 

 in 1927. The estimate is based on reports from 

 2,25 8 ice cream factories. 



