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Launch Wayne- White 



Farm Electric Project 



^II^N^ RESIDENT Earl C. Smith of the 

 ^^XJ lAA talked to an overflow 



^ . audience in the Court House in 

 Fairfield, Wayne county, April 9, com- 

 memorating the beginning of the Wayne- 

 White County Rural Electrification Co- 

 operative. A pole-setting ceremony was 

 held at the edge of town following the 

 afternoon session. 



In his address Mr. Smith told of the 

 progress farmers had made by working 

 together not only through the lAA but 

 nationally. Farmers, he said, must as- 

 sume responsibility for looking after 

 their own interests through organization, 

 particularly so because farm people are 

 a minority group comprising about 25 

 to 30 per cent of the nation's population. 



Addressing the many business men in 

 the audience, Mr. Smith pointed out 

 the importance of close co-operation be- 

 tween farmers and business men in the 



and time saving, particularly in transportation. 

 Our armies with all their motor transport, etc. 

 can move only about 30 miles a day. The 

 Roman Emperor Julian often moved his im- 

 mense armies as much as 50. 



To show you how closely we follow the 

 regular f>ath consider the Chinese political 

 economic thought just as they went into their 

 dictatorial period in the third century B. C. 

 There was a school of political economists 

 called the legalists who, like many of our 

 Farm Bureau leaders and others, believed they 

 could legislate prosperity and the general wel- 

 fare. Among them there was one named Li 

 Ko who advocated the "ever-normal granary!" 

 It seems our modern legalists, including Henry 

 Wallace, are following true to form. The 

 Chinese Legalist school of thought soon led 

 to government by a huge bureaucracy with a 

 dictator at the top. We are headed direct for 

 this too, not only we Americans but the other 

 Western Europeans too. In fact, some of the 

 Europeans are leading us. No, I do not think 

 our development of mechanics is making our 

 culture any different except in a few minor 

 details. 



The trouble with the legalists, ancient and 

 modern, is that they do not seem to realize that 

 legislation is almost always restrictive. As 

 Walter Lippmann has pointed out, if the 

 manufacturers restrict production to maintain 

 prices, the laborers the same, and the farmers 

 the same, the nation will be poorer. If we 

 farmers in our struggle to get our share of the 

 national income produce less, we may get our 

 fair share, but it will be less in amount than 

 heretofore. It is the same with the other 

 groups. I do not know what the right solu- 

 tion is, and I even doubt if there is one. Cer- 

 tainly it is not the one our legalists have 

 chosen. 



W. B. Taber, Jr. 



Edgar County, III. 



smaller towns and cities because their 

 interests and problems are closely related. 

 The business services developed by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, he said, 

 were set up to provide advantages and a 

 definite need among farmers for higher 

 quality supplies and services suited to 

 their needs. He pointed out that these 

 services are co-operative and are de- 

 signed to increase farmers' net income 

 and so make them better customers and 

 buyers. 



The Wayne-White Electric Co-opera- 

 tive is a 165-mile project sponsored by 

 the REA and the County Farm Bureaus. 

 One line comprises 65 miles on strictly 

 rural roads serving farmers and resi- 

 dents of four hamlets of Wayne and 

 White counties. The other of approxi- 



mately 100 miles in Wayne county will 

 include six small towns. Some 900 

 farmers and rural homes will be served. 

 Several smaller spur lines are contem- 

 plated. 



The co-operative expects to get its 

 current from the municipal plant at 

 Fairfield. Farm Bureau members have 

 done most of the field work in getting 

 the project under way, according to Farm 

 Adviser Edgar S. Amrine of Wayne 

 county. 



Other speakers at the celebration April 

 9 included R. R. Parks of the Agricul- 

 tural Engineering Department, University 

 of Illinois; J. W. Pyles of the Rural 

 Electrification Administration ; Mayor 

 Smith of Fairfield ; Peter G. Rapp, presi- 

 dent of the Chamber of Commerce and 

 N. J. Smith, president of the Rotary 

 Club. 



Pyles told his audience that many 

 foreign countries have made much 

 greater progress in rural electrification 

 than the U. S., particularly Sweden and 

 Denmark. 



Representatives from ten southern Illi- 

 nois counties and the State Rural Electri- 

 fication Committee attended the meeting. 



AT THE POLE SETTING 



"Starts a 165 Mile Project To 

 Serve 900 Homes." 



OVERFLOW AUDIENCE IN 

 COURT HOUSE AT FAIRFIELD 



"While lAA President Earl 

 Smith Talked About Nationa 

 Farm Problems." 



Frazier Lemke Act 



Upheld by Court 



The Frazier-Lemke amendment to 

 the Bankruptcy Act providing that the 

 bankruptcy court may declare a three- 

 year moratorium, held constitutional by 

 the Supreme Court, does not affect the 

 policy followed by the Federal Land 

 Banks, is the comment of Governor 

 W. I. Meyers of the Farm Credit Ad- 

 ministration. 



"That policy has been that when the 

 delinquent borrower is doing his level 

 best to meet his payments and when no 

 other covenants of the mortgage con- 

 tracts are being violated, the Land 

 Banks make every effort to assist him 

 through deferment, extension or re- 



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amortization of the loan. To protect 

 the banks from loss entailed by the pur- 

 suit of this equitable policy. Congress 

 has provided them with paid-in surplus 

 for deferments and extensions. These 

 are utilized upon the decision of the 

 banks that the borrower is worthy of 

 their application," Governor Meyers 

 points out. 



The 100 membership Club of Mor- 

 gan county is a group of 100 Farm 

 Bureau members each of whom has 

 agreed to write one new member dur- 

 ing the year and to assume responsibil- 

 ity for seeing that three other members 

 are brought into more intimate con- 

 tact with the Farm Bureau and its 

 services. 



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