THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, and 

 to develop agriculture. 



NOVEMBER, 1936 

 VOL 14 NO. 11 



Illinois Agricultural Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Eakl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFrees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias _.C3iicago 



Field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



I4th _ _ _ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th _ .M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



I6th _ _ Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th „ -Herman W. Danforth, Danforth 



19th _ Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th. _ - - K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd _ _ - A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



2}rd. _ Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th Jl. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller - R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing _ Wilfred Shaw 



Finance. _ _ - _ _ R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office. _ _ C. E. Johnston 



Organiration _ _ G. E. Metiger 



Produce Marketing _ F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ George Thiem 



Safety. _ _ _ C. M. Seagraves 



Taxation and Statistics _ J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division. .G. W. Baxter 



Young Peoples Activities _ Frank Gingrich 



ASSOOATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co... J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Auditing Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co...A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



111. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n.....Ray E. Miller, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange....H. W. Day, Mgr. 

 Illinois Grain Corporation..Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n...Ray Miller, Mgr. 



Illinois Milk Producers' Ass'n Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries....F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 

 J. B. Countiss, Sales Mgr. 



On the editorial and advertising staff: George Tbiem, 

 Howard Hill. 



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GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



V^^^^ HE campaign in the cities 

 i^to arouse consumers over 

 \J the rise in food prices has 

 a familiar ring. It is a reminder 

 of the bitter opposition in the '20s 

 to the McNary Haugen bill. In 

 that struggle of organized farmers 

 for surplus control legislation, the 

 then Secretary of the Treasury, a 

 power in Washington, opposed the 

 measure on the ground that it 

 would raise the price of food. Now 

 the same interests are using identi- 

 cal arguments in condemning agri- 

 cultural adjustment and balanced 

 production. 



The picture above shows a win- 

 dow display at Michigan and Van 

 Buren Sts., Chicago. Window cards 

 compare 1933 and 1936 prices of 

 eggs, pork, beef, vegetables, and 

 other foods. Cartoon blowups show 

 a balloon labeled "Food ■Prices" 

 leaving the ground. The farmers' 

 own agricultural adjustment pro- 

 gram adopted by a bi-partisan vote 

 of the Congress is labeled "planned 

 scarcity" and "deliberate destruc- 

 tion of food." The inference is 

 that food prices should have been 

 kept down to 1932-33 levels. 



This sort of publicity can not 

 help but arouse the ire of farmers 

 who fought long and hard to se- 

 cure parity prices for farm prod- 

 ucts. This propaganda is a dis- 

 service to those congressmen and 

 senators of both parties who 

 worked and voted to restore rea- 

 sonable prices for farm products, 

 and the farmers buying power. 



Moreover, it is viciously mislead- 

 ing for it fails utterly to recognize 

 the tremendously important part 

 higher farm prices have played in 

 business recovery. 



So unreasonable and unfair has 

 this kind of propaganda appeared 

 to Robert Vanderpoel, financial 

 editor of the Chicago Evening 

 American that he recently wrote 

 as follows: 



"Much is being said at the mo- 

 ment of the high cost of living. 

 Curiously enough comparisons are 

 always made with 1932 or 1935 

 and never with the boom years of 

 1928 and 1929 or even the more 

 normal years of 1925 to 1927. We 

 see market baskets of what the 

 consumer can buy with his dollar, 

 comparing 1936 with 1933 and 

 tending to give the impression that 

 the consumer has been crucified, 

 but failing to explain that con- 

 sumption was almost at a standstill 

 in 1933 and that the consumer's 

 dollar today will still buy sub- 

 stantially more than it would at 

 any time from the war to the de- 

 pression. 



"Should we return to the condi- 

 tions of November, 1932 when 

 Business Week,'" said: 

 'Commodity prices now bade 

 at the lows of this Spring, 

 seem to be stabilizing aFouod 

 these bankruptcy levels'? ■.■.•:•■/ 



There are interesting days ahead. 

 For one thing, the election Nov. 3 

 will clear up much of the bitter- 

 ness between strongly partisan 

 workers. Most of us are tired of 

 hearing and reading political prop- 

 aganda, charges and counter- 

 charges so much of which is un- 

 true. A change in the "news' 

 dished out by the daily press will 

 be welcome. Whatever our beliefs 

 about candidates and the issues of 

 the day, let's all get out and vote. 

 Regardless of what happens Nov. 

 3 the country will go forward to- 

 ward greater prosperity and achieve- 

 ment. Our country will be safe so 

 long as everyone acquiesces to the 

 will of the majority as expressed at 

 the polls.— E.G.T. f 



NOVEMBER. 1936 



