December, 19}0 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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BELIEVE half you ic.id, one-tenth 

 you 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- 

 ^ Jng. 



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 n careless speak- 

 er tries to "crawl out" of his mistakes 

 by charging the reporter with "mis- 

 quoting" him. And the prominent 

 speaker frequently su;xceds in making 

 the conscientious 'cporter the goat. 



Not so .vitli the writer. His wor.ls 

 are preserved for all time. There they 

 are read to be thrown back at him. 

 waiting to rise up and damn him before 

 all tlie people. A suit for slander- (oral 

 defamatiiiii) is rare, a successful one 

 rarer because slander is usual!;, hard to 

 prove. Cases of libel (written defama- 

 tion) are tried every day. Scores of 

 newspaper have been put iiit of busi- 

 ness because of them. 



The doctor's mistakes ar.. buried, the 

 speaker's denied, the lawyers charged 

 against his luckless client. But the 

 writer's go down in history, saved tor 

 generations. 



Arthur Brisbane, the S 100,000 a 

 year columnist, was accused of being 

 inconsistent .-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 publisiicr 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 pub- 

 lications should be encouraged and re- 

 warded. — E. C. T. 



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Sarah Tolan's Calf 



Brings 56c a Pound 



A SMALLER cri)wd than usual at- 

 tended rhe International Live 

 Stock Expo-iiiion in Ciiicago. which 

 closed on December 6. Reduced gate 

 receipts, how ever, were not unexpected. 

 Exhibits were up to standard in most 

 departments. 



Of interest to Illinois live siocl; nu:i- 

 and -J-H club members v,as the junior 

 feeding contest won by Sarah Toian. 

 Farm Bureau member's daugliter of 

 Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, 

 on her black Angus steer. The calves 

 were sold on Friday afternoon, the 

 grand champion calf bringing S6 cents 

 per pound. It was purchased for S574 

 by the Wabash railroad dining ser\ ice. 



Half of the receipts of the grand 

 champion calf were donated b\- 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 

 smcK)th yellow dent corn. 



"Doctoring" of live stock such 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 



ih cliuiipions did not show the smooth- 

 tiLss of t!ie "doctored" champions of 

 past yca(s, the fact that "honesty" ha* 

 F,en adopted as the policy in the "In- 

 urn.itional" show ring promise; to havi 

 .1 whole Ome influence for the future. 



The '.{rand champion steer, a Mick 

 Angus r -m Missouri, was a thick, 

 short, pliuinp individual worthy of the 

 high hortor. The reserve grand cham- 

 pion was .1 Shorthorn. 



Fnrm Bureau Basketball 



,\ Stall. 1 arm inireau Basketball 

 league with inter-County games lead- 

 inu to a state championship tourna- 

 ment has been -uguesied as a means of 

 providing sport and recreation for farm 

 boys and nun. mtertainment for young 

 and old, iluring the w inter. 



High sc!ui«>l and community gym- 

 nasiums ean be obtained for regular 

 practice .xuil pla\ . 1 he cost of running 

 County Farm l'ur(.-au teims will be- 

 light. I-Jxpenses can be met b\ charg- 

 ing small admission fees CO games. 



Iroquois count) is ready to go, pro- 

 viiling other counties will bring out 

 teams to furnish competition. 



Fligibilitv rules similar to those used 

 in the I^irm Bureau Baseball League are 

 con tern plated. 



Get ill touch with your County Farm 

 Bureau olfice if you want a team, or 

 write Department of Information, I. 

 A. A.. 6<iS S. Dearborn St., Chicago. 



