Questions 



If nominated and elected Governor of 

 Illinois: , , , -, 



1. Will you use the rightful influence 

 of your office to assist recognized 

 spokesmen for the farmers of Illi- 

 nois to secure appropriate action by 

 the General Assembly designed to 

 assure the full and effective admin- 

 istration of the Federal Soil Conser- 

 vation Act in Illinois in cooperation 

 with the Federal Government? 



2. Will you assume aggressive leader- 

 ship to secure the submission by the 

 General Assembly and adoption by 

 the voters of an amendment to the 

 Revenue Article of the State Con- 

 stitution which will make it possible 

 to revise our revenue system and 

 equitably apportion the tax burden 

 in accordance with ability to pay? 



S. Will you support and insist upon 

 the impartial administration of the 

 tax laws in order to assure a fair 

 and honest equalization of assessed 

 valuations of property for purposes 

 of taxation? 



4. Will you favor such laws as will 

 provide, from sources other than 

 property, the necessary revenue to 

 carry on the proper functions of the 

 State Government on an economical 

 basis? 



5. W'ill you oppose and use the influ- 

 ence of your office to prevent any 

 further reduction in motor fuel tax 

 and motor license fee revenues and 

 any further diversion of such reve- 

 nues to purposes other than the 

 construction, improvement and 

 maintenance of roads and streets, at 

 least until such time as a large 

 majority of the farms of Illinois 

 now on dirt roads are provided an 

 all-weather highway outlet? 



6. Will you support a program for the 

 use of motor fuel tax and motor 

 license fee revenues not currently 

 obligated for the payment of prin- 

 cipal and interest on bonds, the 

 matching of Federal funds and the 

 maintenance and policing of State 

 highways, in the construction of 

 low-cost, all-weather farm-to-mar- 

 ket roads? 



7. Will you favor the administration 

 of relief by local officials and sup- 

 port legislation to require the prop- 

 er local governmental units to uni- 

 formly provide a reasonable portion 

 of relief funds before they become 

 eligible to participate in and re- 

 ceive State relief funds? 



8. Will you oppose the enactment of 

 laws designed to force or coerce the 

 consolidation of rural schools, at 

 least until such time as rural high- 

 ways are so improved as to assure 

 regular and reasonably safe trans- 

 portation of children to and from 

 consolidated schools and our State 

 revenue system is so revised as to 

 protect rural taxpayers from the 

 imposition of an unfair and dispro- 

 portionate share of the cost of 

 building and maintaining consoli- 

 dated schools? 



9. Will you support legislation to safe- 

 guard elections and insure that 

 only qualified citizens are permitted 

 to vote and that their ballots are 

 honestly counted ? 



10. Will you aggressively oppose at- 

 tempts to change or detach the 

 State or any portion thereof from 

 the Central SUndard Time Zone? 



C. Wayland Brooks 



1. Yes. 



::. Ves. 



4. Yes. 



o. Yes. 



Yes. 



Yes. 



8. Yes. 



9. Yes. 



10. I am personally opposed to the 

 changing of the time and will ag- 

 gressively oppose attempts to 

 change or detiich the State or any 

 portion thereof from the Central 

 Standard Time zone with this one 

 exception. Since the time in the 

 City of Chicago has been changed 

 through no effort of mine by a 

 body over which I had no control 

 and since I understand the people 

 of the entire City of Chicago are to 

 be given an opportunity to vote 

 on this question I pledge to follow 

 the will of the majority as they ex- 

 press it by their vote. 



Len Small 



1. The soil conservation program as re- 

 cently passed by the Congress of 

 the United States, proposed to them 

 by the Agricultural associations of 

 America, is one that I am very 

 much in favor of to assist in getting 

 a parity price for farm products 

 by the reduction of acreage and 

 also build up fertility for future 

 generations. I favor such a plan 

 and the State of Illinois should co- 

 operate. 



2. Before there can be any just and 

 fair system of taxation in the 

 State of Illinois from the stand- 

 point of ability to pay, the revenue 

 section of the Constitution must be 

 amended, and I will use the influ- 

 ence of the office if elected Gover- 

 nor to bring this about. This is one 

 of the most important things we 

 have before us. 



3. Any fair man in the office of Gov- 

 ernor should do this and I subscribe 

 to it. 



4. It is not fair that one class of 

 property shall bear the entire 

 burden of state government, and 

 to make a proper distribution of the 

 cost of government other sources 

 must be taken advantage of, and I 

 subscribe to this. 



5. Seventy-five per cent (75%) of the 

 farmers of Illinois still live on dirt 

 roads and have no connection with 

 the hard road in case of wet or bad 

 weather. These farmers have paid 

 their license fees and gas tax the 

 same as anyone else and I am op- 

 posed to the diversion of road funds 

 until such time that all the farmers 

 of Illinois have an all-weather road 

 to their door, thereby insuring a 

 proper and orderly marketing of 

 farm products. 



6. If, after due consideration and 

 there is no better way to provide 

 funds, this seems necessary to get 

 the roads built. 



7. I believe that each and every com- 

 munity should first draw upon their 

 own resources to a reasonable ex- 

 tent and in like amount before they 

 are permitted to reach into the 

 State Treasury funds to meet the 

 cost of unemployed relief in their 

 communities. And I believe that if 

 the relief problem were controlled 

 and administered by local public 

 officials that we would be able to 

 reduce the cost of relief at least 

 50%. I favor such a plan. 



8. At the present time local school 

 districts should not be forced into 

 consolidation, should not be forced 

 into the expense of erecting high- 

 cost school buildings, and should 

 not be forced to assume an unrea- 

 sonable proportion of such consoli- 

 dation program until such time as 

 there can be an equitable revenue 

 system to defray the expense of 

 school purposes. If consolidation 

 now was forced upon the country 

 school districts, they would un- 

 doubtedly pay a very large and un- 

 fair proportion of such expense. I 

 favor this being optional with the 

 school districts themselves. 



9. The unfair and illegal practice at 

 elections in some of our larger cities ■ 

 has defeated many a good candidate 

 when in reality he was elected. 1 



(Continued on page 9, Col. 3) 



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