THE I. A. A. RKCORD 



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THE week ending May 3 1 saw all of 

 the eight divisions in the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League active, 

 and all teams playing ball with the ex- 

 ception of LaSalle, Kankakee and Ful- 

 ton. 



With 29 teams already in the field 

 the league this year is at the heighth 

 of seven years of growth. Every year 

 has shown a steady increase in the num- 

 ber of active teams and games played. 



Following are baseball scores for 

 May 24, May 30 and May 31: 

 MAY 24 



McLean, 9; Logan, 8. 



Morgan, 10; Menard, 1. 



Lee, 10; Carroll, 6. 



McDonough, 6; Henderson, 1. 



Woodford, 20; Tazewell, 5. 



Livingston, 4; Marshall-Putnam, 1. 



Knox, 11; Peoria, 8. 



Henry, 17; Stark, 0. 



Sangamon, 7; Macoupin, 1. 



Ford, 9; Champaign, 8. 



JoDaviess, 12; Stephenson, 4. 

 MAY 30 



Carroll, 12; JoDaviess, 7. 

 '■. Lee, 14; Stephenson, 4. 

 MAY 31 



McDonough, 24; Warren, 1. 



McLean, 9; Ford, 7. 



Woodford, 9; Livingston, 6. 



Grundy, 20; Iroquois, 4. 



Logan, 18; Champaign, 6. 



Sangamon, 14; Montgomery, 2. 



Henry, 6; Knox, 2. 



Greene, 8; Morgan, 7. 



Cass, 10; Menard, 1. 



Peoria, 10; Stark, 6. 



Marshall-Putnam, 6; Tazewell, 3. 



Macoupin, 8; Macon, 3. 



Income Tax Wins 



[Continued from page 11) 

 long needed relief." Turner received 

 the endorsement of Ex-Gov. Frank O. 

 Lowden of Illinois and former Gov. N. 

 E. Kendall of Iowa. 



Mr. Turner used facts and statistics 

 compiled by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and presented at a hearing 

 in Des Moines last year by John C. 

 Watson, showing the unfairness of the 

 present taxing system in Iowa toward 

 property. The Iowa Farm Bureau has 

 waged a vigorous fight for tax relief. 



Congressman L. J. Dickinson de- 

 feated Gov. John Hammill for the Re- 

 publican nomination for United States 

 senator. 



OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE 



ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE FOR 



WEEK ENDING MAY 31, 1930 



DIVISION I Won Lost Pet. 



Lee 2 1.000 



JoDaviess 1 1 .500 



Stephenson 1 2 .333 



Carroll 1 .000 



DIVISION III 



Woodford 2 1.000 



Marshall-Putnam 1 1 .500 



Livingston .1 1 .500 



Tazewell 2 .000 



DIVISION V 



McLean 2 1.000 



Ford 1 1 .500 



Logan 1 1 .5 00 



Champaign 2 .000 



DIVISION VII ' ^ ' 



Gus. . ..:.....■. . 2 1.000 



Morgan . 1 1 .500 



Greene 1 1 .500 



Menard 2 .000 



LaSalle 

 Kankakee 



DIVISION VIII 



Sangamon ^ 



Macoupin 2 



Macon 



Montgomery ... 



1.000 

 .666 

 .000 

 .000 



High School Boy Wins 



Cup as Best Speaker 



Federal Farm Board and Duty of 



Farmers to Co-Operate Is 



Subject 



VERNON THOMAS, Heyworth, 

 111., high school boy and son of 

 Floyd Thomas, McLean County Farm 

 Bureau member and chairman of the 

 county grain marketing committee, 

 won the silver loving cup donated by 

 the Bloomington Chamber of Com- 

 merce in the local Future Farmers' 

 public speaking contest, announces the 

 Bloomington Pantagraph. 



Vernon talked about the federal farm 

 board and its program emphasizing the 

 fact that farmers themselves will deter- 

 mine how much benefit they will secure 

 from co-operative marketing develop- 

 ment. 



Farmer Responsible 



"The farmer is responsible for the 

 success of the act, not the President or 

 the Farm Board," Vernon asserted. 



"The first thing a farmer can do is 

 to join the local organization if there 

 is one. If there is not one, start one 

 and encourage your neighbors to join. 

 Then if at all times it doesn't work the 

 way you think it should, don't throw 

 mud at it, but get into the organization 

 and stop the trouble. 



"It is often hard to get some farmers 

 to join but that is the only way to get 

 complete control." 



Vernon quoted Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture Arthur M. Hyde as saying that the 

 trouble with the farmer is that he is 

 waiting for someone to hand him farm 

 relief in a neat little package with a 

 blue ribbon tied around it, but that he 

 will have to wait a long time before 

 such an event comes to pass. 



The farmer needs help which he will 

 get only through the Federal Farm 

 Board, the speaker contended. Congress 

 passed the law. President Hoover signed 

 it and named the board, the board pro- 

 vides assistance for farmers to get con- 

 trol of the marketing of their products, 

 but the farmer himself must make the 

 program work. 



Seek Larger Returns i 



"We all know that it takes a large 

 sum of money to market the farm 

 products," Vernon explained. "Senator 

 Smoot of Montana says ihar the wheat 

 producers of the United States get ten 

 billion dollars for the wheat crop and 

 the consumer pays twenty billion for 

 the same wheat. In that case the other 

 men or companies get a large sum of 

 money for handling the grain. We 

 could not expect the farmer to get all 

 of the other ten billion, but he should 

 get 80 per cent of it." 



The combination of co-operation and 

 education will bring success to agricul- 

 ture, the speaker concluded: i 



"When the farmer learns that four 

 bushels of wneat at S1.50 a bushel is 

 S6, and that five bushels at $1 is only 

 S5, he. will surely produce the four 

 bushels because it is easier and better." 



