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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Public Relations 



I Committee Reports 



John Watson Studies Proposed 

 Revenue Amendment 



THE official report of the public re- 

 lations committee of the I. A. A. 

 Board, which met on July 22, was pre- 

 sented to the directors on the follow- 

 ing day by Chairman Black. The re- 

 port is as follows: 



"Your committee met on July 21, 

 1930. Those present included all mem- 

 bers of the committee, the officers of 

 the association, the director of the De- 

 partment of Taxation, and by invita- 

 tion, Mrs. Homer Johnson, chairman of 

 the legislative committee of the Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation. 



"Mr. Watson reported the results to 

 date of his study and analysis of the 

 proposed revenue amendment to the 

 state constitution recently submitted to 

 the electors of the state by the special 

 session of the General Assembly. His 

 report shows that the proposed amend- 

 ment embodies some provisions which 

 have been advocated for years by the 

 association, but also contains other pro- 

 visions that might easily prevent farm 

 and tangible property from obtaining 

 any substantial relief from the present 

 grossly unfair burden of taxation, and 

 that seem to offer the possibility of seri- 

 ously jeopardizing some of the protec- 

 tion property taxpayers have under the 

 present constitution. 



"Your committee has requested the 

 officers of the association ' and the di- 

 rector of the Department of Taxation 

 to give intensive study to these provi- 

 sions and report to the committee their 

 analysis and findings as a result of this 

 study, supported by legal opinion. Un- 

 til your committee can receive and 

 carefully consider this further report, 

 it recommends that the association 

 withhold any declaration of its attitude 

 toward the proposed amendment. 



"By the Committee, 

 , "Charles Black, Chairman, 

 "C. J. Gross, » 



"Geo. B. Muller, 

 "G. H. Iftner, Farm Adviser." 



John C. Watson, director of taxa- 

 tion, appeared before the board and re- 

 ported, orally, the results to date of his 

 study and analysis of the proposed 

 amendment to the state constitution. 

 The president and treasurer supple- 

 mented his report by advising the board 

 relative to the developments in Spring- 

 field, leading up to the submission of 

 the proposed amendment to the electors 

 of the state by the special session of 

 the General Assembly. 

 \ After considerable discussion it was 



moved by Chairman Black, seconded 

 and unanimously carried: 



"That the board of directors concur 

 in the report of the public relations 

 committee, in that, pending further 

 study and consideration of the analysis 

 of the proposed amendment to the 

 state constitution, the association with- 

 hold any declaration of its attitude to- 

 ward the proposed amendment." 



Further Progress in 



National Grain Corp. 



Co-Operative Helps Relieve Wheat 

 Congestion in Southwest 



"Station Agents Must 



Stay on Job" — I. C. C. 



FARMERS and townspeople in and 

 about Richardson, Virgil and Egan 

 in northern Illinois will not be deprived 

 of station agent service as a result of 

 action taken by the Illinois Commerce 

 Commission, July 9, denying petitions 

 of the Chicago Great Western Railway 

 Company. 



The company had petitioned to dis- 

 continue station agents at these points. 

 The Kane County Farm Bureau secured 

 the co-operation of the I. A. A. trans- 

 portation department in presenting 

 testimony through local witnesses show- 

 ing why the agents should not be re- 

 moved. These stations are of consider- 

 able importance to the community. 



It was revealed that the railroad's 

 revenues at these points far exceed their 

 expenditures in maintaining local agents. 

 Shipments are made throughout the 

 year, and great inconvenience and 

 financial loss to local residents and ship- 

 pers would result if they were made 

 non-agent stations. 



The Big Four Railroad will be com- 

 pelled to maintain its agency at Ver- 

 milion Grove, according to a decision 

 of the Illinois Commerce Commission 

 on July 17. 



The I. A. A. helped the Vermilion 

 County Farm Bureau oppose the pro- 

 posal of the Big Four Railroad to dis- 

 continue the agency at the Vermilion 

 Grove station. Farm Bureau members 

 testified before the commission tending 

 to show that the removal of the agency 

 would work a hardship on local shippers. 



Home Bureau 



Mrs. Homer Johnson, chairman of 

 the legislative committee of the Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation, met with the 

 I. A. A. board of directors at its regu- 

 lar meeting on July 22 in Chicago. 



Near the close of the meeting Mrs. 

 Johnson briefly explained the orgaifiza- 

 tion of the Home Bureau and its pro- 

 gram of work, expressing the hope that 

 some arrangement might be effected 

 whereby the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation can more actively assist the 

 women of Illinois in their work. 



GRAIN purchases by the Farmers' 

 National Grain Corporation dur- 

 ing July, the first month of the new 

 crop year, totaled 17,121,718 bushels. 

 Activities have not been confined to 

 wheat, the corporation handling corn, 

 oats and barley. Figures on the total 

 grain purchases do not include large 

 quantities of wheat stored by members 

 to be sold through Farmers' National at 

 such times as the member-owners of the 

 grain wish to place it on the market. 



Thirty-two per cent, or nearly one- 

 third, of the total wheat receipts at 

 Kansas City during July, was handled 

 by members of the Farmers' National. 

 Branch offices at Omaha, Neb., Enid, 

 Okla., and Wichita, Kan., also d'd a 



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Dairymen Ban Oleo 



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more than any other single factor. 



"A one-cent drop in butterfat means 

 a $100 loss to the producers in an aver- 

 age county in Illinois. The drop in 

 butterfat prices, the first of this year, 

 resulted in a loss of $1,000 to $1,J00 

 a day, or $30,000 to $45,000 a month 

 to the average county in Illinois. 



"The average county in Illinois is 

 spending $15,000 a month or more 

 for oleo. This would run from $50,000 

 to $75,000 loss that should be in the 

 bank deposits each month, in the aver- 

 age Illinois county. 



"After my investigations, we called 

 together 15 farm advisers from coun- 

 ties in eastern Illinois and organized the 

 Illinois State Dairy Boosters' Associa- 

 tion with Melvin Thomas of Coles 

 county, president; Herschel VanMatre 

 of Edgar county, secretary, and R. E. 

 Apple of Clark county, treasurer. 



"Throughout this area we are work- 

 ing to promote the use of butter in- 

 stead of oleo both on the farm and in 

 town and city. We are asking the 

 people to buy home products, patronize 

 home industry, and quit eating the 

 vegetable oils imported from foreign 

 countries, in most cases free of duty, 

 to undermine the farmer's business. 

 We hope to extend our campaign to 15 

 to 20 other counties this fall." 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 has been using its influence since the 

 first of the year over the radio and 

 through other publicity channels, first 

 to get farmers to ban oleo from their 

 tables, and secondly to promote greater 

 consumption of butter in towns and 

 cities. <v:". -"'y-^' r i ■ 



