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The Marshalls Believe in 

 Co-opera+ion 



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 a trip into Pittsfield or more often to 

 Hannibal, Missouri about eight miles 

 away. 



"They have dances around here but 

 they're mostly public and we kids don't 

 take them in. Anyway, our families are 

 against the idea so we work out our own 

 parties." lone graduated in 19.'?2 with 

 honors from the high school in Payson. 

 She carries her part of the work of tak- 

 ing care of the five room home and help- 

 ing her mother with other household 

 tasks. 



Gera'd is rosy cheeked and husky. He 

 likes to tinker with machinery and does 

 plenty of it according to Rollie. The 

 new tractor is his special pet and it's 

 kept shining. Gerald finished the grades 

 and tried a little high school but didn't 

 like it much. He said he'd rather work 

 on the farm as he couldn't learn any- 

 thing about machinery at high school. 

 Mr. Marshall said, "I told him he'd bet- 

 ter stay with it until he graduated, that 

 I didn't need him that badly on the farm. 

 But he wanted to work with machinery 

 and that's what he's doing. I think if 

 there was a school around here where 

 they had a vocational course you couldn't 

 keep Gerald away from it." Both Ger- 

 ald and lone are in the Pike County 

 Skilled Drivers Club but it's 34 miles to 

 Pittsfield over poor roads much of the 

 way and they find it difficult to get into 

 meetings regularly. 



Merle, 22. the oldest boy, wasn't at 

 home. He drives a cream truck for the 

 Mt. Sterling creamery and that keeps 

 him away most of the time. Both he 

 and lone were in high school together 

 but Merle only went a year and. like 

 Gerald, put in all of his time on the farm. 



Mr. Marshall according to reliable 

 sources is one of the best men in mem- 

 bership work they have in Pike county. 

 In fact it is said that there is probably 

 not a Farm Bureau member in his town- 

 ship that he didn't help write. When he 

 joined, there was only one other member 

 in the township. Now there are better 

 than twenty-five, and Rollie has helped 

 to get them in. 



"You know, I'd feel like a slacker if I 

 didn't belong," said Rollie. "I owe it to 

 my business to belong and so does every 

 other farmer. The biggest thing the 

 Farm Bureau offers is the power of its 

 organization in county, state and na- 

 tional affairs. Another thing is the so- 

 cial side. About the only amusement in 

 the country are the Farm Bureau social 

 activities, meetings and so forth. Then 

 too, the Farm Bureau helped to set up 

 the AAA. I believe in the principle of 

 crop control. I've worked with it as 

 much as I am able, being a tenant farm- 

 er, and I believe in it all around. I can't 



smiled. We'll bet she was pretty grand 

 to have around when things looked black. 

 We'll bet she brightened things up. We'll 

 bet Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Marshall have a 

 lot in common that no one but them- 

 selves will ever know. — John Tracy.. 



MISS lONE MARSHALL 

 "It will be nice when we hav* •Uctriclty." 



see where it isn't good business to pro- 

 duce only what the market will stand." 



The Marshall family believes in co- 

 operation in its simplest terms. Their 

 creed is helping one another. They be- 

 lieve in patronizing the services offered 

 by the Farm Bureau because those serv- 

 ices were set up to be used. The car is 

 insured in the auto insurance company. 

 Rollie carries term insurance in Country 

 Life and Merle also carries a life policy. 

 Only service company products are used. 

 The household goods are insured in 

 Farmers Mutual and this year, the wheat 

 was insured against hail loss. 



There's no point in detailing all the 

 various things Rollie Marshall has been 

 in over a period of years. He has served 

 on the township boards of one kind and 

 another. For a year he was constable. 

 He serves on organization committees 

 and leads the way in signing up new 

 Farm Bureau members. When you need 

 him he's always on deck, doing the job 

 the best way he knows how and not 

 pulling his punches. "I guess I'm just 

 organization minded," Rollie explains. 

 "I like the work. Next to farming it's 

 the thing I'd like to do all the time." 



But his first love is his farm work. He 

 puts into it all the thought and experi- 

 ence at his command. He says that 

 things have looked pretty tough at times 

 but he managed to wiggle through one 

 way or another. 



"Yes," he said musingly and looked 

 across the table at Mary Marshall, "we've 

 had some pretty close squeaks, haven't 

 we?" Mrs. Mary Marshall merely 

 nodded her head in agreement and 



Await Decision on AAA 



(Continued from page 18) 



It 's urged in the brief that processing 

 taxes are taxes to provide for the gen- 

 eral Vv-elfare inasmuch as the expenditure 

 of their proceeds is for the general wel- 

 fare; that the determination of congress 

 as to what constitutes the general wel- 

 fare is one as to which courts will rarely 

 if ever substitute their judgment for 

 that of congress. 



It is argued that the processinrr tax 

 involves no improper delegation of legis- 

 lative power. Congress has laid down a 

 formula for ascertaining the processing 

 tax rate which is even more precise than 

 the flexible tariff rate formula previously 

 sustained by the Supreme Court: that 

 the time that the processing tax takes 

 effect is automatic and contingent upon 

 the exercise of the inherent executive 

 power of making expenditures and there- 

 fore involves no delegation of legislative 

 power. 



In any event, says the brief, the con- 

 tention as to delegation of legislative 

 nower has become immaterial because of 

 the action of congress in ratifying the 

 action of the treasury in collecting 

 processing taxes, just as previously in 

 the Emergency Banking Act and the 

 "Thomas" amendment, congress has rati- 

 fied numerous earlier actions of the 

 President and the Secretary of the 

 Trepsury with regard to the monetary 

 and banking system of the country, which 

 were of doubtful validity. 



In attacking the Adjustment Act at- 

 torneys for the Hoosac Mills Corporation 

 asserted the amendments were "a fraud. 

 in essence, upon the powers delegated to 

 cong^ress by the people," and constituted 

 a "rubber stamp of acts" by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. It charged the 

 amended law was a "bare-faced attempt 

 to collect and keep proceeds of these 

 taxes whether they are legal or not." 



The Hoosac lawyers charged that con- 

 frress has abdicated its function of mak- 

 ing laws for the people it represents and 

 that the Secretary of Agriculture was 

 given unlimited, discretionary powers in 

 expending their proceeds. They also as- 

 serted that the AAA invaded the field of 

 state power since the farmer plants and 

 harvests his crops and the manufacturer 

 spins and weaves his cloth within state 

 lines. 



They charged that the Act is not a 

 revenue measure but purely a farm con- 

 trol plan. "After all the processing taxes 

 are collected the government will not 

 have one more cent than it had before." 



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