Launch Wayne- White 



Farm Electric Project 



^S^^S. RESIDENT Earl C. Smith of the 

 L^ lAA talked to an overflow 



_/. audience in the ( ourt House in 

 Fairfield, Wayne county, April 9. com- 

 mcmoratint; the beyinninp of tlie ^X'avne 

 ^X■hlte C-Ounty Rural IHectrifuation Co 

 operative. A pole-setting ceremony was 

 belli at the educ of town followini,' the 

 afternoon session. 



In his address Mr. Smitii told of the 

 progress farmers had made by working 

 to^'ether not only throutjli the lAA but 

 nationally. Earmers, he said, must as- 

 sume responsibility for looking after 

 their own interests through organization, 

 particularly so because farm people are 

 a minority ^roup comprisint: about 2'S 

 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 nun in the 



and time sjMni;, p.utK'ul.iily in tr,m^pl'^t.ltI(ln- 

 Our .irmits with .ill tluii motor tr.ln^port. etc. 

 cin move only .ihout iO niiks a d.iy. The 

 Roman Hmpcror Julian often moved lii.s im- 

 mense .irmies js nmtli as 50. 



To show you how closely we follow' tlie 

 re(;ular path consider the <;hinese political 

 economic thoucht just as they went into their 

 dictatorial perKnl in the third century B. C. 

 There wai a .school of political economists 

 called the lef;alists who. like many of our 

 Farm Bureau leaders and others. bclie\ed thev 

 could legislate prosperity and the general wel 

 fare. Amonc them there was one named l.i 

 Ko who advocated the ever-normal uranary' 

 It seems vux modern le,i;alists. includini; Henry 

 V('al!ace. are following true to form. Tin 

 Chinese Lej;alist schiHil of thought scmn led 

 to j;overnmcnt by a huce bureaucracy with a 

 dictator at the top >Xe are headed direct for 

 this too. not only we Americans but the other 

 Western Europeans too. In fact, some of the 

 Europeans are leadini; us. No, I do not think 

 our development of mechanics is makin,i: our 

 culture any different except in a few minor 

 details. 



The trouble w itli the legalists, ancient and 

 modern, is that tliey do not seem to realize that 

 lej;islation is almost always restrictive. As 

 >X'alter Lippmann has pointed out, if the 

 manufacturers restrict provluction to niaintain 

 prices, the hiborers the same, and the farmers 

 the same, the nation will be poorer. If we 

 farmers in our stnicizle to pet our share of the 

 national income produce less, we may pet our 

 fair share, but it will be less in amount than 

 heretofore It is the s.ime with the other 

 proups. I do not know what the ripht solu- 

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

 tainly it IS not the one our lepalisls h.we 

 chosen. 



W. B. Tabcr. Jr. 



Edpar County, III. 



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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 

 dehnite need among farmers for higher 

 ijuality supplies and services suited to 

 their needs. He pointed out that the.se 

 services are co-operative and are de- 

 signed to increase farmers' net income 

 and so make them better customers and 

 buyers. 



The VC'aync-White E.lectric ( o opera- 

 tive is a 16'j-mile project sponsored bv 

 the REA and the ( ounty I'arm Bureaus. 

 One line comprises 6^ miles on strictly 

 rural roads serving farmers and resi- 

 dents of four hamlets of Wayne and 

 White counties The other of approxi- 



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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 cooperative e.vpects to get its 

 current from the municipal plant at 

 I'airheld. Farm Bureau members have 

 done most of the field work in getting 

 the project under way. according to I"arin 

 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 Cdiamber of Commerce and 

 N. I. Smith, president of the Rotary 

 Club. 



Pyles told his audience that many 

 foreign countries liave made much 

 greater progress in rural electrification 

 than the U. S.. particularly Sweilcn and 

 Denmark. 



Representatives from ten southern Illi- 

 nois counties and the St.Ue Rural Electri- 

 fication C ommittee attended the meetinc 



AT THE POLE SETTING 

 Starts B 165 Mile Project To 



Serve 900 Homes.' 



OVERFLOW AUDIENCE IN 

 COURT HOUSE AT FAIRFIELD 



"While lAA President Earl 

 Smith Talked About Natlof>dl 

 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 

 delincjuent 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- 



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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