instead of taking the long view. Their 

 thoughtless, Samson-like blindness wouhi 

 pull the pillars from the temples of our 

 national life with no thought of the 

 welfare of the nation as a whole. 



"It is important to hold on to the 

 AAA." he said. "It isn't perfect as Earl 

 Smith just told you. It is probably as 

 crude as the motor car of I'JOO. It can 

 be perfected and it ought to be. The 

 processing tax is the farmers' tariff. If 

 industry will give up her high tariffs, 

 corporations, and special legislation,' I'm 

 sure farmers will be willing to giv'e up 

 the .-VAA and processing taxes. You 

 don't need to be afraid to make the offer. 

 Hamilton Started It 



"I think farmers must learn to live 

 with high tariffs and big corporations. 

 But we want to work on them all the 

 time, though while we are working let's 

 not go to the poor house. Alexander 

 Hamilton with his passion for unity 

 started the practice of conferring the 

 centralizing power of government on cer- 

 tain classes. Perhaps he had to get the 

 nation underway. Since the world war, 

 this situation has borne more heavily on 

 farmers and for a number of years 

 farmers have been trying to get their 

 juiit share of the centralizing powers of 

 government. 



"Farmers have finally got to the till 

 of government too. They are sitting- 

 right there with industry now. Indus- 

 try reconciled to labor which has ob- 

 tained its share of centralization of 

 power wants the farmers out." 



He said that some farmers have pros- 

 tituted themselves in opposing the farm 

 program by selling out to the big fat 

 boys of Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas 

 City. "They sell out to get certain pref- 

 erences for themselves not caring for 

 the welfare of the rank and file of 

 farmers." 



Remember Consumer 



Secretary Wallace warned against 

 "overplaying our hand with the con- 

 sumer" in getting a better price for farm 

 products. "We mustn't forget the con- 

 sumer," he said. "If we get prices too 

 high the consumer will rebel and take 

 the AAA away from us. And we will 

 deserve it. Fainiers have a sacred duty 

 to produce enough food so that every- 

 one will be Well fed. But when we do 

 that, government has a sacred duty in 

 seeing that farmers are given some pro- 

 tection so they don't go broke doing it. 



"What we have to do is to give these 

 big fat boys a good licking and then say 

 'let us talk sense. Let's get busy and 

 produce the quantity of goods that the 

 people want and can afford to buy.' You 

 can't talk to the big boys until you have 

 them where the hair is short. 



"We cannot afford to play at indus- 

 try's game of scarcity. We've got to 

 learn to get along together. Insofar as 



St. Louis Bank Farm 



Loans Total $145,000,000 



KARL LACY. RIGHT. DIRECTOR OF PRO 

 iucers Creami''iy of GaVsbiirg from Orange town- 

 ship. Knox county, assisted by Fonesl Wills, left, 

 put tJii'ir township over the top in the creamery 

 -itock solicitation canipa:gn. In about a veek they 

 sold 55 shares to 53 individuals — about $€00 of 

 this in cash, the balance in notes. 



we get a fair share of the centralizing 

 jiower of government let us use it prayer- 

 fully, humbly, intelligently, and co-opera- 

 tively with industry and labor to build 

 the kind of country we ought to have." 



We've got to fight to pass the .\.\.A 

 amendments and we've got to fight to 

 keep the processing tax, Kdward A. O'- 

 Neal, president of the .-Vmcrican Farm 

 Bureau Federation told hi.s audience. 

 "Let's go out and get what's ouis. We've 

 been fed on peanuts too long." 

 Lauds President 



Mr. O'Neal lauded President Roo.sevelt 

 for his aggressive statement and speech 

 in support of the crop adjustment pro- 

 gram before the recent gathering of cot- 

 ton, tobacco, and wheat growers in 

 Washington. Speaking of the need for 

 strengthening the licensing section of 

 the Adjustment Act, he said, "Which 

 is more important, to make a few dis- 

 tributors wealthy or to help the millions 

 of farmers who are pullin' old Sue gel 

 a fair price for milk." 



Donald Kirkpatrick, counsel of the As- 

 sociation ex|)lained the Jones Commodity 

 Exchange bill and asked that the county 

 delegations let their congressmen know 

 they want that bill enacted. He made 

 an able presentation of the I. A. .-^.'s sec- 

 ondary road improvement program 

 speaking under difficulties as jiart of the 

 crowd started to leave to make the long 

 drive homeward. 



Pointing to the fact that of appro,xi- 

 malely 100,000 miles of public roads "in 

 Illinois, about 09,000 are yet unimproved, 

 he outlined the provisions of the Loh- 

 mann and Lantz bills introduced in the 

 state senate which the I. A. A. is sup- 

 porting. These bills |)rovide among other 

 things that at least one-half of work re- 

 lief funds to Illinois marked for roads, 

 highways, and streets be used in improv- 

 ing secondary roads, that specifications 

 (Continued on page T, Col. 1) 



.According to Walter L. Rust, presi- 

 dent of the Federal Land Bank of St. 

 Louis. 46,500 land bank and commis- 

 sioner loans were made in two years to 

 farmers of Illinois, Missouri and Arkan- 

 sas for a total of more than $145,000,000. 

 This is more in number of loans and 

 money than had 

 been loaned by the 

 bank in the pre- 

 vious IG years. 



"The benefits to 

 farmers of the Farm 

 .Mortgage Refinanc- 

 ing Campaign can- 

 not be measured in 

 dollars and cents," 

 Mr. Rust said. "The 

 benefits m u s t be 

 measured in the „r, r„st 



happiness of family 



life restored to the fireside, of homes 

 saved from foreclosure: in the generally 

 improved morale of farmers; in pay- 

 ments made on delinquent and current 

 taxes; and in land prices improved by 

 the stoppage of wholesale foreclo- 

 sure . . . 



"By meeting their installment pay- 

 ments promptly farmers are not only 

 insuring that the cooperative long term 

 credit system shall be passed on to bene- 

 fit future generations but have made it 

 possible for the interest rates on new 

 Federal land bank loans to be reduced 

 to 4 ' 1 per cent for the life of the loan." 



More People on Farnns 



Expansion of crop acreage is the 

 watchword of the day and the Bureau 

 of Agricultural Economics in Washing- 

 ton reports that U. S. farm population 

 likewise is on the increase, the largest 

 in the nation's history. It estimates 

 that on January 1, VJ'Mi, there were 

 .•;2,"7".i,000 persons, an increase of 270,- 

 000 persons over the same date in l!l.'^4. 

 The increase is attributed to a surplus 

 of births over deaths rather than to any 

 marked farmward movement from cities. 

 The net migration from farms was 211,- 

 000 persons, but this loss was more than 

 made up by a surplus of 481,000 farm 

 births over deaths. 



Vice-president Talmage DeFrees ad- 

 dressed the Galesburg Kiwanis Club 

 Farmer-Businessmen get-together 

 supper at St. Augustine in Knox county 

 May 14, and the East Oswego Com- 

 munity Club in Kendall county May 16. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



