$100,000,000 Available 

 For Rural Electrification 



This Fund Is For Loans, Not Grants, To Groups of Farmers 

 Who Want Electricity 



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The list of data presented below must 

 accompany applications for loans for 

 rural electrification according to infor- 

 mation received from Chester Gray, 

 Washington representative of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation. 



Groups of farmers desiring electric 

 service need not employ engineers to as- 

 semble the necessary information, he 

 says. Senator Bone of Washington re- 

 cently prepared a statement on the sub- 

 ject "Who Will Get the $100,000,000 for 

 Farm Electrification" which was deliv- 

 ered in the United States Senate on May 

 15 and later printed in the Congressional 

 Record. Copies can be had by writing 

 the A. F. B. F. Washington office in the 

 Munsey Building. Senator Bone outlines 

 procedure to be followed so that most 

 of the benefits of the fund may accrue 

 to farmers who need the service rather 

 than to the utility companies. 



Applications containing the following 

 information should be sent to Morris 

 Cooke, Director Rural Electrification 

 Administration, 2 Massachusetts 

 Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Data Desired in Application for Rural 

 Electrification Loan 



1 — The name of the organization or 

 proposed organization making appli- 

 cation for the loan and the name, 

 title, and address of the official rep- 

 resentative. 



2 — A county, township or road map of 

 the area on a reasonable size scale 

 on which should be drawn the pro- 

 posed lines and those houses which 

 would be served if the electric line 

 is built. 



3 — The length of each line should be 

 given, together with the wholesale 

 price per kilowatt hour to be paid 

 the service company for the energy. 

 (If there is no present source of 

 energy, this should be stated.) 



4 — The voltage of the line with which 

 you wrill connect, and if available the 

 length of that line from its point of 

 supply. 



5 — The total number of customers on 

 each line proposed, and th« esti- 

 mated kwh, consumption per year of 

 those prospective customers, ex- 

 pressed perhaps in the monthly 

 charge each cooperating customer is 

 willing to pay. 



6— An estimate of the amount the av- 



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erage customer on each line could 

 spend each month for appliances 

 (refrigerator, electric range, water 

 heater or motor) in addition to the 

 amount he would pay for current. 

 7 — The estimated cost, if one has been 



made, of the project. 

 8 — Who will operate and maintain the 



project ? 

 9 — The suggested rate for customers 

 who will connect to the line. 



10 — Estimated revenue for each line. 



11 — If any power load in excess of five 

 horsepower is contemplated, give 

 size of the load to be connected, and 

 show on the maps submitted, the lo- 

 cation of this power load. 



12 — Will the project compete with any 

 existing facilities? 



13 — How soon could construction work 

 be started, and what do you estimate 

 the length of time to complete? 



Observations 



(Continued from page 12) 

 whipped. With this he started his tramp 

 across country. If he was caught beg- 

 ging he was punished, but every evening 

 a village constable, if Bose could find 

 one, had the duty of providing him with 

 food and lodging. When Bose at last 

 reached Stockbridge, if there was money 

 in the poor box, he could get something 

 for food, and later he might be given 

 work on the land or on the roads. If he 

 was too old or too feeble for work he 

 would get a license to beg. If he re- 

 fused to work, he might be put into the 

 "house of correction," as it was then 

 called. ._ 



In England, as in this country, ths 

 unemployment problem became acute 

 with the rise of industrialism and con- 

 gestion of people in the cities. When 

 the United States was largely agricul- 

 tural it had no unemployment problem. 

 Due to the general derangement of our 

 industrial system it is quite possible that 

 we are in for a long siege of unemploy- 

 ment. England has had the dole ever 

 since the war. 



Henry Ford who has thought more 

 deeply on this question than most other 

 industrial leaders is attempting to work 

 out a solution. Most of his factories and 

 assembly plants are in the country or at 

 the edge of industrial centers. Many 

 farm boys not needed at home are em- 



A. F. B. F. and f. A. A. Join 

 in Effort to Secure 

 Less Expensive Roads 



A teleg^ram requesting Secretary of 

 Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to confine 

 federal work relief funds marked for 

 secondary roads to the building of a less 

 expensive all-weather type of road in- 

 stead of the more expensive, permanent 

 type of construction heretofore ordered 

 by the Bureau of Public Roads, was dis- 

 patched by directors of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation meeting in 

 Chicago June 5-6. 



The resolution which was largely 

 drafted by President Earl C. Smith 

 points out that "what has been termed 

 both primary and secondary road build- 

 ing by the Bureau of Public Roads ha.« 

 in reality been confined largely to the 

 building of main arteries of traffic of a 

 permanent and expensive type. We be- 

 lieve that the expenditure of all funds 

 allocated for secondary road building 

 should now be confined to the building 

 of a much lower type, less expensive, 

 all-weather construction with the dual 

 purpose of providing work in a much 

 wider territory and rendering service to 

 many more people through the construc- 

 tion of many more miles of roads. 



"We believe that specifications for 

 secondary roads should be reduced to a 

 minimum commensurate with traffic 

 needs," the resolution continues, "that 

 such action by you will meet with the 

 approval of rural citizens of the United 

 States." 



The resolution telegraphed to Secre- 

 tary Wallace and President Roosevelt 

 was signed by Edward A. O'Neal, presi- 

 dent of the Federation. It supports ac- 

 tion taken by delegates at the recent 

 annual meeting of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, and coincides with the 

 purpose of the Lohmann and Lantz road 

 bills now pending in the Illinois Gen- 

 eral Assembly supported by organized 

 farmers. 



ployed in these plants. W'orkers from 

 the cities are encouraged to acquire a 

 piece of land on which they can live in- 

 expensively and raise part of their food 

 supply when the factory shuts down. At 

 the Hegewisch plant, south of Chicago, 

 a substantial number of young men who 

 live on nearby farms are employed. They 

 drive back and forth daily to work, tf 

 the factory closes they still have a home 

 and a means of support. 



Experimentation by government in 

 solving unemployment relief will prob- 

 ably continue. The problem is one in 

 which farmers, through organization, 

 must take an active interest because it 

 affects the taxes we pay and the market 

 for farm commodities. — E. G. T. 



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