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manner provided in Section 204 b of 

 the National Industrial Recovery Act 

 and that the funds so allocated shall 

 be expended by the State Highway De- 

 partment under the provisions of the 

 Federal Highway Act. 



Under Section 204 b of the Recovery 

 Act one-eighth of the funds shall be 

 allocated among the states in propor- 

 tion to population and seven-eighths in 

 accordance with the provisions of Sec- 

 tion 21 of the Federal Highway Act. 



Section 21 provides that funds shall 

 be apportioned as follows: one-third in 

 the ratio which the area of the state 

 bears to the total area of the United 

 States; one-third in proportion to the 

 population, and one-third in the ratio 

 which the mileage of rural delivery 

 routes and star routes in each state 

 bears to the total mileage of such 

 routes in the United States. 



The work relief measure further 

 provides that a state shall not be re- 

 quired to match any part of the funds 

 apportioned for public highways and 

 grade crossings. 



The President is authorized to make 

 rules and regulations for the construc- 

 tion of public highways and other re- 

 lated projects, and to determine the 

 hours of work and the rates of wages 

 to be paid for skilled and unskilled 

 labor and also provide that persons re- 

 ceiving relief shall be given preference 

 in the employment upon these projects. 



Funds made available by the resolu- 

 tion may be used at the discretion of 

 the President for making loans to fi- 

 nance in whole or in part the purchase 

 of farm lands and necessary equip- 

 ment by farmers, farm tenants, crop- 

 pers, or farm laborers. Such loans 

 shall be made as the President shall 

 prescribe and shall be paid in equal 

 annual installments or in such other 

 manner as he may determine. 



Funds made available under this 

 measure may be used at the discretion 

 of the President for administration of 

 ihe Agricultural Adjustment Act as 

 amended during the period of 12 

 months after the effective date of this 

 joint resolution which was approved on 

 April 8. 



All of the funds are immediately 

 available and will remain available un- 

 til June 30, 1937. 



Definite allocations total $4,900,000.- 

 000 leaving $880,000,000 unallocated, 



which presumably is to be used for 

 relief purposes by the Federal Emer- 

 gency Relief Administration. 



The Secretary of Agriculture under 

 the provisions of the Act of June 18. 

 1934 shall act upon the projects sub- 

 mitted to him and his approval of any 

 such project shall be deemed a con- 

 tractual obligation of the federal gov- 

 ernment. Not less than 25 per cent 

 of the apportionment to any state shall 

 be applied to secondary or feeder roads, 

 including farm-to-market roads, rural 

 free delivery mail routes, and public 

 school bus routes, except that the Sec- 

 retary, upon request and a satisfactor\- 

 showing, may fix a less percentage for 

 expenditure of secondary or feeder 

 roads. 



I. A. A. States Position 



(Continued from page 4) 

 State Relief Administrative body, mate- 

 rial supplied for secondary road build- 

 ing by the State Highway Department 

 and supervision for their building large- 

 ly centered with the respective County 

 Highway Engineers and Township Com- 

 missioners. 



The Association recognizes that, large- 

 ly through the influence of organized 

 farmers' effort, the fund made available 

 to the Bureau of Federal Roads by the 

 Federal Relief program is ear-marked 

 for the purpose of building secondary 

 roads within the respective states undei- 

 the supervision of the State Highway 

 Departments. Certainly Illinois should 

 make preparation for the use of its por- 

 tion of this fund in all the counties of 

 Illinois in the most feasible, economical 

 and .serviceable manner. 



SO LONG as charges and counter- 

 charges continue both within and with- 

 out the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 

 mission as to extravagance and ineffi- 

 ciency in its administration and as to the 

 amount of additional revenue needed by 

 the Commission for the economical and 

 proper functioning of that organization; 

 and SO LONG as arbitrary and unex- 

 plained demands are made for more reve- 

 nue by Federal or State governments, or 

 both, without full explanation as to the 

 requirements; and SO LONG as laws are 

 allowed to continue on the statutes of 

 Illinois placing definite responsibility on 

 the property of all counties under town- 

 ship organization to care for their 

 respectiTe unfortunates without similar 

 requirement on the other counties of the 

 state, presant chactic conditions will con- 

 tinue and the tax-paying pubHc affected, 

 regardless of the source of revenue asked 

 for, will continue to resist the enactment 

 of such additional revenue measures. 



The Association respectfully requests 

 the members of the General Assembly 



With Our Farm Bureau 

 Presidents - 



MR. FLYNN 



MANY of our Farm Bureau lead- 

 ers came up through the ranks 

 first attracting attention as mem- 

 bership solicitors. F. J. Flynn. presi- 

 dent of the Morgan County Farm Bu- 

 reau, is one of these. His ability as 

 a membership writer is outstanding. 

 He has the reputation of having writ- 

 ten more mem- 

 bers into the 

 Morgan County 

 Farm Bureau 

 than any other 

 man in the 

 county. 



Born in Alex- 

 ander township. 

 Morgan county, 

 in 1890. the son 

 of Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Flynn. ex- 

 tensive land 

 owners, Mr. 

 Flynn attended 

 public sdiools 

 at Durbin. business college at Jack- 

 sonville, and studied one year at the 

 University of Illinois. 



Following his return from the state 

 university, Mr. Flynn began farming 

 for himself. He now operates a pro- 

 ductive 350 acre brown silt loam farm 

 south of Woodson. Livestock and grain 

 are specialties. His diief rotation is 

 corn, com. oats, wheat, and sweet 

 clover. Every acre has been limed. 

 Purebred Poland China hogs add to 

 the farm income. Mr. Flynn keeps 

 farm account records in co-operation 

 with the Department of Farm Man- 

 agement of the State College of Agri- 

 culture, 



He served five years as secretary of 

 the Farm Bureau and is now serving 

 his second year as president, Mr, 

 Flynn is president of the Morgan 

 County Wheat Allotment Committee, 

 secretary of the Morgan-Scott Serv- 

 ice Co., director of IlUnois Farm Sup- 

 ply Co. and a director of Morgan 

 County Breeders Fair Association, He 

 has clerked local sales for 25 years 

 and is now clerk of probably the 

 largest farm consignment sale in the 

 State of Illinois. Woodson Sales Com- 

 pany. 



Mr. and Mrs, Flynn 'Lillian Loner- 

 gan) have one daughter, Margaret 

 Frances. 11 years old. Their home ad- 

 dress is Jacksonville. Route 2. 



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of Illinois to give due consideration to 

 all present available revenues that might 

 be appropriated for a constructive work 

 relief program throughout the state. If 

 and when investigation establishes the 

 amount. of present available revenue and 

 it is disclosed that additional revenues 

 are necessary, the Association stands 

 ready to support the General A.ssembly 

 in the enactment of such reasonable ad- 

 ditional revenue measures as conditions 

 may seem to fully warrant. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN. 

 (Signed) Earl C. Smith, President 



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