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By C. W. Seagraves 



Organized agriculture in Illinois now 

 takes its stand with the four national 

 conferences on street and highway safety 

 which have year after year recommended 

 a drivers' license law for each state. 



At the recent annual meeting of the I. 

 A. A., a resolution was approved favor- 

 ing any legislation designed to create 

 safer traffic conditions in this state. 



Such a law is the pending Drivers' Li- 

 cense Bill. That a drivers' license law 

 does reduce accidents is proved by ex- 

 perience. It has worked in states having 

 such legislation in force. The National 

 Safety Council says that last year states 

 having drivers' license laws with ex- 

 aminations, reduced fatal highway acci- 

 dents nearly 2%. At the same time, non- 

 license states increased accidents by 

 more than 2%. Small figures, maybe, 

 but they represent 1000 lives that might 

 have been saved. Another fact well worth 

 noting is that no state which has ever 

 licensed ■ its drivers has revoked this 

 measure. Indeed, most of them have 

 from time to time strengthened it. 



It may be commendable that our legis- 

 lators do carefully consider new laws 

 before adopting them, although it would 

 seem that ten years of successful results 

 in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, 

 and Massachusetts, would lift any doubt 

 of uncertainty from this needed law. 

 People no longer question that the prin- 

 cipal factor in most automobile accidents 

 is the driver. Roads and cars have been 

 improved and are now much superior in 

 safety qualifications. It's time we im- 

 proved the driver, too. 



If we do not immediately disqualify 

 the physically and mentally incompetent 

 and evolve a method of checking the 

 habitual violator, we had better forego 

 the hope of any solution. As conditions 

 exist today#there is no way by which a 

 judge can determine the number of con- 

 victions for drunken driving, manslaugh- 

 ter, driving a stolen car, etc., against one 

 appearing before him unless he is per- 

 sonally acquainted with each case. There 

 is no official way to cope with the crim- 

 inally reckless driver who travels from 

 one community to another. The fact that 

 most highway deaths occur in rural 

 communities should awaken us to the 



MARCH, 1986 



THE BIS SNOW BROUGHT WITH IT EXTRA DRIVING HAZARDS. FARM BUREAU MEM- 

 ber B. F. Hoover of Whiteside County looks out of his front "gate" before entering the highway. 



Old Man Winter Grips . 



Illinois During February 



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ing to 2.5 cents per cwt. Total refunds 

 amounted to $4,764.67. 



At the annual meeting of the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Champaign, Feb. 

 14, Manager C. C. Bums reported that 

 the Creamery processed 1,247,910 

 pounds of butter last year. It aver- 

 aged above 90 score. The Creamery 

 was second in the state in low cost of 

 manufacture. A total of 326,000 pounds 

 of Prairie Farms butter was sold in 

 cartons in the Champaign territory, or 

 about 16 carloads. 



Among the speakers were Oscar 

 Swank, manager of the Producers 

 Creamery at Orleans, Indiaiifei, which 

 processed about four million pounds of 

 butter last year. Other speakers were 



C. O. Tuttle, federal butter inspector; 

 F. A. Gougler and J. B. Countiss of 

 Illinois Producers Creameries: Farm 

 Adviser W. F. Batson of Shelby coun- 

 ty; and M. E. Voile, manager, Cham- 

 paign Production Credit Association. 



The following directors were elected: 

 O. A. Hamm, Champaign county; W. 



D. Stephenson, Clark county; A. O. 

 Bowers, Coles county; A. Walker, Cum- 

 berland county; W. H. Hinnegar, Doug- 

 las county; E. J. Nelson, Ford county; 

 H. E. Crane, Iroquois county; H. S. 

 Reedy, Moultrie; J. O. Lubbers. Piatt 

 county; G. A. Lichenwalter, Shelby 



need for adequate safety legislation. Al- 

 though not perfect, the pending drivers' 

 license law is a step in the right direc- 

 tion. 



county; C. Burwash, Vermilion county. 



Five hundred people sat down to 

 luncheon in the creamery plant. Presi- 

 dent G. C. Williams of Champaign 

 presided. 



The Quincy Cooperative Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association held its 14th annual 

 meeting on Feb. 24, reports Wilfred 

 Shaw, dairy marketing director. 



Report of Treasurer Wilbur Coe dis-. 

 closed that this pioneer Illinois coopera- 

 tive organized by the Adams County 

 Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural 

 Association closed the year 1935 with a 

 good profit and total assets of $60,740 

 and liabilities of $12,376. 



Mrs. Laura Johnston, manager, re- 

 ported that the producers were paid an 

 average price for all milk delivered 

 during 1935 of $1.86 per cwt. Net sales 

 for the year increased $12,000 over 

 those of 1935 and totalled $151,000 for 

 the year. The association has an aver- 

 age of 80 producer stockholders who 

 supplied 1,999,047 lbs. of milk in 1935. 



In addressing the meeting Wilfred 

 Shaw complimented the association 

 upon its fine record of achievement dur- 

 ing the past 14 years and upon the fact 

 that during 1935, 61.5^% of the con- 

 sumer's milk and cream dollar had been 

 returned to the producers for milk. He 

 also outlined the development and ex- 

 tent of cooperative milk marketing in 

 Illinois and discussed a number of the 

 problems encountered in successful milk 

 marketing. 



Officers and directors chosen for 1936 

 are: L. F. Allison, president; Anton 

 Grawe, vice-president; Chas. Eaton, 

 secretary; Wilbur Coe, treasurer; Harry 

 Hedeman, Albert Heckle, Eldon Kno- 

 block, Ben Putnam, Fred Lewis. 



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