December, 1930 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



BELIEVE half you read, one-tenth 

 yoii hear, says the sage with some 

 truth. 



This is no plea for more Doubting 

 Thomases. There is more to be said for 

 the "believer" than the "doubter." 

 Nothing is accomplished without faith. 

 Futile and useless is the man or woman 

 who doubts everything, believes noth- 

 ing. 



But there is need in these days of 

 propaganda for placing an estimate on 

 the accuracy of the spoken and written 

 word. Many a weak thought or un- 

 truth is covered up by the oratory of 

 the spell-binder. Many a careless sjjeak- 

 j er tries to "crawl out" of his mistakes 

 by charging the reporter with "mis- 

 quoting" him. And the prominent 

 speaker frequently succeeds in making 

 the conscientious .-eporter the goat. 



, ■; Not so ivith the writer. His words 

 ■■.^'.ji are preserved for all time. There they 

 ";; r are < read to be thrown back at him, 

 ; waiting to rise up and damn him before 

 all the people. A suit for slander (oral 

 • defamation) is rare, a successful one 

 rarer because slander is usually hard to 

 prove. Cases of libel (written defama- 

 tion) are tried every day. Scores of 

 newspaper have been put out of busi- 

 . ness because of them. 



The doctor's mistakes arc buried, the 

 speaker's denied, the lawyer's charged 

 against his luckless client. But the 

 writer's go down in history, saved for 

 generations. 



Arthur Brisbane, the $100,000 a 

 year columnist, was accused of being 

 inconsistent s.t times. He readily ad- 

 mitted the charge, saying that no man 

 who writes a column every day can al- 

 ways be right. The ninety-nine times 

 the writer is correct are forgotten. His 

 one mistake is remembered. 



We^ had the privilege once of ex- 

 posing a humbug in a paper of wide 

 circulation. We and the publisher were 

 promptly sued for libel, hailed into 

 court, compelled to prove the accuracy 

 of every statement. Which we did at 

 considerable expense. 



A fearless, independent and intellec- 

 tually honest press (of which there are 

 too few) remains our most useful in- 

 strument to protect the people against 

 shysters, frauds and false doctrines. 

 That kind of service by our best pubr 

 lications should be encouraged and re- 

 warded. — E. G. T. 



ILLINOIS GIRL WIKS JUNIOR GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP 



AT INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK SHO\*' 



Snmli Ann Tolan, 14-yenr-ald hii^h sphool treKhman and Farm Boreaa ni«nibrr> 



flaoKl't'i' o' Sanj^amon ronnty, captured the Krand champtoaHhip in the Jnalor 



Livestock FecKlinK Content at the International Liveiitoek ExpoMition. ChicaKO. 



She Is shown with her price-winning Aberdeen-Angus ^earlins, *K;UOCOLATE." 



Sarah Tolan 's Calf 



Brings 56c a Pound 



A SMALLER crowd than usual at- 

 tended the International Live 

 Stock Exposition in Chicago, which 

 closed on December 6. Reduced gate 

 receipts, however, were not unexpected. 

 Exhibits were up to standard in most 

 departments. ''■ '-^ .'•?;'■■ 



Of interest to Illinois live stock men 

 and 4-H club members was the junior 

 feeding contest won by Sarah Tolan, 

 Farm Bureau member's daughter of 

 Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, 

 on her black Angus steer. The calves 

 were sold on Friday afternoon, the 

 grand champion calf bringing J 6 cents 

 per pound. It was purchased for $574 

 by the Wabash railroad dining service. 



Half of the receipts of the grand 

 champion calf were donated by the 14- 

 year-old girl to the Volunteers of 

 America for their Chicago soup kitchen 

 where the unemployed are fed. 



A special class for utility type seed 

 corn was one of the features of the 

 Hay and Grain Show. Herbert Wat- 

 son, young Indiana farmer, was crowned 

 corn king on his 10 ears of medium 

 smooth yellow dent corn. i .. . 



"Doctoring" of live stock sucli as 

 removing or remedying physical defects 

 by cutting ties or lifting and filling un- 

 der the skin was barred from the show 

 ring this year for the first time. While 



the champions did not show the smooth- 

 ness of the "doctored" champions of 

 past years, the fact that "honesty" has 

 been adopted as the policy in the "In- 

 ternational" show ring promises to have 

 a wholesome influence for the future. 



The erand champion steer, a black 

 Angus 'r>m Missouri, was a thick, 

 short, plump individual worthy of the 

 high honor. The reserve grand cham- 

 pion was a Shorthorn. 



Farm Bureau Basketball 



A State Farm Bureau Basketball 

 League with inter-county games lead- 

 ing to a state championship tourna- 

 ment has been suggested as a means of 

 providing sport and recreation for farm 

 boys and men, entertainment for young 

 and old, during the winter. 



High school and community gym- 

 nasiums can be obtained for regular 

 practice and play. The cost of running 

 County Farm Bureau teams will be 

 light. Expenses can be met by charg- 

 ing small admission fees to games. 



Iroquois county is ready to go, pro- 

 viding other counties will bring out 

 teams to furnish competition. 



Eligibility rules similar to those used 

 in the Farm Bureau Baseball League are 

 contemplated. 



Get in touch with your County Farm 

 Bureau office if you want a team, or 

 write Department of Information, I. 

 A. A., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. 



