RESOLUTIONS - Continued 



XI. Truck Regulation 

 We reaffirm our previously declared pol- 

 icy on transportation and oppose any arbi- 

 trary regulation of any form of transporta- 

 tion which may limit or frustrate its in- 

 herent ability or natural advantages to serve 

 the shipping or traveling public. In par- 

 ticular we oppose any intrastate regulation 

 of trucks except for the purpose of con- 

 serving the highways and insuring the safety 

 of traffic thereon. We further oppose any 

 regulation of small trucks which may tend 

 to deprive them of the use of the highways 

 and thus to increase the costs of truck trans- 

 portation. 



We urge that Federal procedure in the 

 regulation of railway rates be simplified and 

 expedited in every reasonable way without 

 placing an undue burden of costs upon any 

 commodities or transportation agencies and 

 without depriving any producing area of the 

 natural advantages of its location. 



XII. Relief 



We reaffirm our previously declared pol- 

 icy in favor of requiring local communities 

 to assume primary responsibility for financ- 

 ing and administering relief before they are 

 permitted, on the basis only of demonstrated 

 need therefor, to apply for any allocation of 

 State relief funds. In order to increase such 

 local responsibility, we favor increasing the 

 minimum levy of relief taxes by local units 

 as conditions permit. 



We also reaffirm our previously declared 

 policy in favor of transferring the relocation 

 of State relief funds to a separate division 

 in the State Department of Public Welfare, 

 ^fith only such powers of securing informa- 

 tion and of exercising supervision over re- 

 lief as are necessary to prevent either waste 

 of funds or suffering and hardship by de- 

 serving citizens of the State. 



XIII. 



We reaffirm our previously declared pol- 

 icy in favor of aj;nending the revenue article 

 of the State Constitution by limiting the 

 general taxes which may be levied on any 

 property to not over one per cent of its 

 fair cash value, except for payment of 

 bonded indebtedness and interest thereon, 

 and by giving the General Assembly the 

 power to tax or to authorize the taxation 

 of other sources of revenue in lieu of pres- 

 ent property taxes. 



We favor submission of such a measure 

 fo the people of the State as an amendment 

 of the revenue article rather than as part 

 of a costly general revision of the Constitu- 

 tion proposed by a State Constitutional Con- 

 vention. Until the present revenue article 

 is so amended, we regard it as unwise and 

 futile, as it was in 1922, to submit to the 

 people a new constitution dealing with sev- 

 eral highly controversial matters such as 

 revenue and representation in the General 

 Assembly. 



XIV. 



We reaffirm our previously declared pol- 

 icy opposing any legislation tending to force 

 consolidation of schools. In particular we 

 oppose consolidation of schools or annexa- 

 tion of districts or territory by elections in 

 which rural minorities are overridden by 

 iirbar. majorities. 



We request the officers and directors of 

 the Association to seek amendment or re- 

 peal, at the earliest opportunity, of legisla- 

 tion approved last June, permitting detach- 



ment of specified territory from a non-high 

 school district and its attachment to an ad- 

 jacent township or community high school 

 district merely on the filing of two petitions 

 therefor, one in each territory affected, if 

 signed by a majority of the voters in each 

 territory. Experience has already demon- 

 strated that many voters sign such petitions 

 against the best interests of the rural peo- 

 ple and pupils affected. 



XV. 



We request the officers and directors of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association to in- 

 vestigate plans for Hospital Care Insurance, 

 thus far generally restricted to urban com- 

 munities, with reference to the extension and 

 adaptation of such benefits to the rural pop- 

 ulation of Illinois. 



XVI. 



We request the officers and directors of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association to in- 

 vestigate the practicability of our organiza- 

 tion extending its insurance services to pro- 

 vide for Health and Accident Insurance. 



XVII. 



The Association reaffirms its support of 

 legislation for the licensing of drivers of 

 motor vehicles and providing for the sus- 

 pension of revocation of the licenses of 

 those persons convicted of driving while in- 

 toxicated or of serious or repeated viola- 

 tion of highway rules and regulations. The 

 increased motor revenues can easily defray 

 the cost of these licenses and render any 

 license fee unnecessary. Such legislation 

 should be coupled with such changes in our 

 State policy system as are necessary to in- 

 sure adequate policing of our highways by a 

 trained police force selected on a non-par- 

 tisan merit basis. 



XVIII. 



The Fair Trade Act of Illinois, as passed 

 by the Assembly at its Fifty-Ninth Session, 

 has no justification in our economic system. 

 It contravenes every rule of reason and 

 vitiates the long established principle of law 

 prohibiting unreasonable restraints of trade 

 and illegal monopolies. This measure should 

 be repealed at the next succeeding session 

 of the General Assembly. 



XIX. 



The Association favors the enactment of 

 reasonable milk sanitation legislation and 

 regulations in order to safeguard the quality 

 of milk delivered to consumers. However, 

 any such legisl.ition and regulations should 

 stress the quality of the milk at the time it 

 is delivered to the dealer or consumer rather 

 than stress the equipment on the dairy farm. 

 Consumers must be prepared to pay the rea- 

 sonable increased costs which are necessary 

 to produce this better quality milk. 



XX. 



Frequent reports from different areas of 

 the State indicate a dangerous hazard to 

 human life and livestock from rabies and 

 from roving ownerless dogs. We recom- 

 mend the strengthening and effective en- 

 forcement of existing laws to cope with this 

 situation. 



XXI. 



Coal has been removed from thousands of 

 acres of land in Illinois through strip min- 

 ing operations. This property has been re- 

 moved from taxation, the water tables have 

 been lowered, the drainage has been .im- 



paired and these waste lands are left to be- 

 come infested with noxious weeds and pre- 

 datory animals. Thousands of additional 

 acres are subject to strip mining. This is a 

 matter of deep public concern and regula- 

 tory measures should be enacted without 

 delay. We urge the Association to sponsor 

 such legislation as in its opinion is best 

 adapted to preserve these values for taxa- 

 tion and prevent this land from becoming 

 entirely worthless. 



XXII. 



We deeply appreciate the fine hospitality 

 and courtesy extended us throughout the 

 convention by the Sangamon County Farm 

 Bureau, the Springfield Chamber of Com- 

 merce, the Mayor, School Board, Press and 

 the citizens of Springfield and are grateful 

 for their contribution to the success of this 

 annual meeting. 



Hybrid Corn (offered from floor) 



The Illinois Agricultural Association rec- 

 ognizes the intense interest of Illinois corn 

 farmers in the problems connected with the 

 production and distribution of hybrid seed 

 corn and believes that there should be proper 

 handling of inbred strains for the protection 

 of such seed stocks; also that inbred lines 

 as originally produced by our scientific edu- 

 cational institutions must be kept available 

 at all times to Illinois farmers. It is urged, 

 and recommendation is made accordingly, 

 that appropriate steps be taken by the As- 

 sociation at an early date looking to the 

 protection of the interests of farmers so that 

 the sources of inbred strains and high pro- 

 ducing seed stocks are made available at 

 reasonable costs. 



Associate Members 

 RESOLVED, that after February 1, 193S, 

 no person shall be accepted as an Associate 

 Member of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation and a County Farm Bureau unless 

 such person has shown a genuine bona fide 

 interest in agriculture and is not applying 

 for membership primarily to obtain the 

 benefit of some service offered by the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association or the Farm 

 ■Bureau, or by an associate company of either 

 thereof. No application for associate mem- 

 bership shall be accepted and no service of- 

 fered by the Association, a County Farm Bu- 

 reau or any associate company of either 

 thereof, shall be offered or made available 

 to the applicant, until such application has 

 been approved by the Board of Directors 

 (or Executive Committee) of the County 

 Farm Bureau involved. 



Employment of Directors 

 JIESOLVED, That Policy Resolution No. 



5 be amended by adding thereto a new 



paragraph to read as follows: 



And Further Resolved, That in the case of 

 new employment on and after February 1, 

 1938, and in the case of existing em- 

 ployment on and after February 1, 1939, 

 no person who is a member of the Board 

 of Directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association or of a County Farm Bureau 

 shall be employed by or continue to be an 

 employee of any company affiliated with 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association or a 

 County Farm Bureau, except for tem- 

 porary employment during the existence 

 of an emergency. 



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A resolution authorizing the lAA board 

 of directors to invest not more than $60,000 

 of the Association's funds in a grain market- 

 ing cooperative for Illinois farmers provid- 

 ing such investment shall not exceed the 

 total paid-in capital furnished by the co- 

 operative farmers elevators for such an 

 enterprise was unanimously adopted. 



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