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True Life Values 



(Continued from page 8) 



Every good father has certain plans 

 for the education of his children. But, 

 if the unforeseen occurs, and his earning 

 power is taken away, he can provide 

 that in such a case his life insurance will 

 replace his earning power sufficiently, 

 in addition to his wife's monthly income 

 provision, and in" addition to his cash 

 for mortgage and readjustment, to give 

 each child $30 or f40 a month until they 

 attain the age of 22 years. This would 

 serve as an education fund to give them 

 the equipment he had planned for them 

 had he lived. 



Ox -cart days came and went. Power 

 farming is only beginning. Farm home 

 conveniences and new means of trans- 

 portation and communication advance 

 the farmer to the mid-day of our latest 

 methods of living and doing. New needs 

 require new programs and new respon- 

 sibilities. 



Hence, Country Life insurance leaps 

 ahead in a field in which there is greater 

 need and greater use for protection than 

 in possibly any other. Farmers are em- 

 bracing life insurance as a solution for 

 the problem of unfinished programs just 

 as they embraced new methods of farm- 

 ing. 



It is now possible for Illinois farmers 

 to get in their own legal reserve com- 

 pany which they own and operate the 

 benefit of the greatest strength and se- 

 curity and at low money-saving rates, all 

 the benefits about which higher pre- 

 mium, eastern-owned companies always 

 have harped. 



What's the Law? 



(Continued from page 7) 

 During the past two years codes af- 

 fecting farmers interests have been 

 modified and marketing agreements 

 drawn up, hearings have been attended, 

 and legislation drafted, all of which has 

 required the attention of the legal de- 

 partment. In a nation governed by law. 

 rather than by kings and dictators, 

 knowledge of the law is most important. 

 And in Illinois, organized farmers have 

 found and will continue to find increas- 

 ing use for legal assistance in their many 

 lines of co-operative effort. 



I. A. A. Continues Efforts 

 For Revenue Amenclment 



Here Is Text of Resolution Supported In 59th General 



Assembly / 



Carroll County Farm Bureau has two 



soft ball leagues in operation, one for 

 Farm Bureau members and the other for 

 younger players from families of Farm 

 Bureau members. There are 10 teams 

 from as many townships, each of which 

 play one game a week. Most of the 

 games are played on lighted fields at 

 night during the busy season. 



A record crowd of 154 young people 

 assembled at Tremont June 19th for the 

 sixth county-wide discussion and recre- 



Following is the text of the revenue 

 amendment advocated by the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association in the 59th Gen- 

 eral Assembly which is scheduled to ad- 

 journ July 1. 



John C. Watson, director of taxation, 

 explained the proposed amendment in a 

 50 minute address to the House of Rep- 

 resentatives at Springfield, meeting as 

 a Committee of the Whole, Thursday 

 night June 20. To pass, the measure re- 

 quires a two-thirds majority in both 

 houses of the legislature and the signa- 

 ture of the governor. 



If enacted the proposal would be voted 

 upon in 1936 and a majority of all votes 

 cast would be required to make it effec- 

 tive. The resolution was introduced in 

 the House by Rep's. Sinnett, McClure, 

 Brockhouse, L. Green, Branson and G. 

 Johnson and in the Senate by Senators 

 Searcy, Hickman, Lantz, Fribley and 

 Gunning. ■; 



House Joint Resolution 58 



RESOLVED, By the House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the Fifty-ninth General 

 Assembly of the State of Illinois, the 

 Senate concurring herein, that there shall 

 be submitted to the electors of this State, 

 for adoption or rejection at the next elec- 

 tion of members of the General Assem- 

 bly of the State of Illinois, in the man- 

 ner provided by law, a proposition to 

 amend Article IX of the Constitution, by 

 adding Section 14 thereto, this added 

 section to read as follows: 



Article IX 



Section 14. The limitations expressed 

 or implied in Sections 1, 3 and 9 and in 

 the first sentence of Section 10 of this 

 Article shall not apply to any general 

 law or amendment thereto which shall 

 be passed by vote of two- thirds of the 

 members elected to each House of the 

 General Assembly. Any such law or 

 amendment thereto may classify any ob- 

 ject or subject or the objects and sub- 

 jects of taxation; may exempt any ob- 

 ject or subject of taxation, or any class 

 thereof, in whole or in part, from taxa- 

 tion; and may vest counties or other 



ational mixer sponsored by the Tazewell 

 County Farm Bureau and the Home Bu- 



municipal corporations with power to 

 levy taxes for payment of general in- 

 debtedness, or for any other general cor- 

 porate purpose, upon any object or sub- 

 ject of taxation, or class thereof, except 

 income, within the jurisdiction of the 

 body imposing the same, and to certify 

 such taxes, except on property, for col- 

 lection by the State, the net proceeds of 

 which shall be paid to the county or/)ther 

 municipal corporation levying the same. 

 Estates of homestead occupied by the 

 owner as a residence may be exempted 

 from taxation in an amount not exceed- 

 ing $1,000 of the fair cash value by 

 general law passed by vofe of a major- 

 ity, and in a greater amount of the fair 

 cash value by general law passed by 

 vote of two-thirds, of the members 

 elected to each House of the General As- 

 sembly. 



Except for the payment of indebted- 

 ness existing on the effective date of 

 this amendment, and of indebtedness 

 thereafter incurred by authority of a 

 vote of the people of the State, county 

 or other municipal corporation incurring 

 the same, the aggregate of taxes levied 

 for all general purposes for any one year 

 on any property except income within 

 the jurisdiction of any city, village or 

 incorp'orated town shall never exceed one 

 per centum of its fair cash value, and , 

 on any such property not within the 

 jurisdiction of any city, village or in- 

 corporated town shall never exceed 

 seven-tenths of one per centum of its 

 fair cash value. The General Assembly 

 shall, by general law, allocate tax rates 

 which may be levied upon such property 

 for general purposes, among the several 

 taxing bodies authorized to levy such 

 taxes. 



In order that no inconvenience may 

 arise from this amendment and that ade- 

 quate time may be given for the enact- 

 ment of legislation based thereon, and 

 for judicial determination of the validity 

 of such legislation, no law based upon 

 this amendment shall take effect prior to 

 January 1, 1938, except insofar as may 

 be necessary for putting such law into 

 effect on such date and for the adminis- 

 tration thereof. None of the provisions 

 of this amendment shall invalidate any 

 tax levied or indebtedness incurred prior 

 to January 1, 1938. 



JULY. 1935 



