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the benefit of lower production costs 

 passed on to farmers in lower prices 

 of the things they buy and in lower 

 costs of living in the cities is therefore 

 the realistic supplement to the farmers 

 eflForts to attain parity prices through 

 the regularization of farm production." 

 The four broad sources of further 

 progress toward parity farm income 

 presented by Mr. Bean to make up the 

 present deficit of |l, 500,000,000 are: 

 (1) Congressional appropriation which 

 is not feasible; (2) restoration of our 

 foreign markets, particularly for wheat, 

 pork products, and cotton; (3) lower- 

 ing of agricultural production costs; 

 and (4) reducing the size of the farm 



Eopulation. If production costs are to 

 e cut by lowering the prices of goods 

 and services used in farm production 

 an increase in industrial activity is a 

 basic necessity. And if farm production 

 costs are to be reduced by greater 

 yields, more efficient feeding and more 

 power machinery it would result in a 

 still greater surplus of farm popula- 

 tion. This would require more indus- 

 trial activity, more jobs in the cities, 

 so that both city unemployment and 

 surplus farm labor may be absorbed. 



Members of the Association may se- 

 cure a copy of Dr. Bean's complete 

 address by writing the Department of 

 Information, lAA 608 So. Dearborn 

 Street, Chicago. 



TALENT NIGHT 



Springfield, III., Jan. 26: — A variety 

 show that would have been a credit to a 

 Rudy Vallee was presented here tonight by 

 a dozen Illinois farm youths before an 

 audience of 1500 Farm Bureau folks who are 

 attending the 23rd annual convention of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 



The program consisted of numbers by the 

 Sangamon county 4-H Club orchestra; piano 

 accordian solos by Harriett Reimer, Lake 

 county and Glenn Martin. Livingston coun- 

 ty; an oration, "New Frontiers," delivered 

 by Alfred Ruwe, member of Future Farmers 

 of America, Logan county; impersonations 

 by Glade Faber, Bureau county; a one act 

 play, "The Roar of a Twist," directed by 

 Allie Gibson, presented by the Blair Farm 

 Bureau Community Unit, Randolph county; 

 a reading by Mary Emma Hansen, 4-H Club 

 member, McDonough county. 



Dr. William Dern, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 evoked roar after roar of laughter in spite 

 of the fact that his subject was "It's No Laugh- 

 ing Matter" and did not crack a smile. 



Frank F. Gingrich, lAA director of young 

 peoples' activities and chairman of the talent 

 night committee, was master of ceremonies. 

 C. H. Becker, Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany, ably conducted the crowd in several 

 roof-raising songs. Others on the talent 

 committee were C. M. Seagraves and Cap 

 Mast, both with the lAA. 



Talent Night, an innovation with the 23rd 

 annual meeting of the lAA, was well re- 

 ceived and many believe that it should be 

 continued. 



A NEW RACE — SKILLED DBIVERSI 

 The 16 finalist* in the State Skilled Driven contest are the outstanding lew repre- 

 senting nearly 2000 rural young iolks who entered 42 county contests. County winners 

 vied ior district honors in practical driving tests. 



Auditing Association 



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allow strict enforcement of the Act, the agri- 

 culture director believes. 



Officers of the Association are as follows : 

 Jesse L. Beery, Cerro Gordo, president; R. 

 H. Voorhees, Jerseyville, vice-president; 

 George E. Metzger, Chicago, secretary; R. 

 A. Cowles, Bloomington. treasurer; Paul W. 

 Harker, Tiivoli; W. J. Swayer, Gurnee: 

 Burton Leamon, OIney. R. H. Voorhees and 

 Paul W. Harker, whose terms transpired, 

 were reelected. 



Manager Fred E. Ringham who has been 

 with the Association for the past 14 years 

 will leave Feb. 1 to become Secretary of the 

 St. Loui.s Bank for Cooperatives in the Farm 

 Credit Administration. 



The appointment of Clifford E. Strand, 

 Chicago, certified public accountant, to suc- 

 ceed Mr. Ringham, was announced. Strand 

 was born 36 years ago on a McKean coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania, farm. He received a bach- 

 elor of science degree in commerce from the 

 University of Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1923. 

 Since 1925 he has been a practicing C.P.A. 

 in Chicago. 



George Chapman Passes 



George M. Chapman, 65, president of the 

 White County Farm Bureau died at his 

 home Thursday, January 20, 1938, after a 

 brief illness. A familiar figure in Farm 

 Bureau activities and a man to whom many 

 went for advice, he will be missed by his 

 associates. 



In October, 1933 he was elected president 

 of the White County Farm Bureau and un- 

 til his resignation in 1936 ably handled the 

 many duties required of him. Mr. Chapman 

 was also on the Board of the Wabash Valley 

 Service Company and served as treasurer for 

 six years. 



SKHABD DRIVERS 



Springfield, 111., Jan. 28: — An unassum- 

 ing, slender farm yquth, Stephen Paydoo 

 of Kendall county, was selected here today 

 as the most skilled motor vehicle operator 

 of more than 1800 rural young folks who 

 competed earlier in 42 county contests spon- 

 sored by the lAA safety department. 



County elimination contests were written 

 examinations open to members of the local 

 skilled drivers clubs. Points stressed in the 

 quizzes were history of transportation, acci- 

 dent statistics, rules of the road, knowledge 

 of accident causes, nomenclature of the auto- 

 mobile, functions of its principal parts and 

 the social significance of the auto. 



Winners of county contests entered con- 

 gressional district driving tests supervised 

 by Illinois Highway Maintenance Police. 

 With a policeman at his side, each driver 

 was instructed to start, stop, drive in traf- 

 fic, turn around and park his car. The auto 

 was also inspected. Each driver was graded 

 on his performance, attitude and perfection 

 of his vehicle. 



The state contest for congressional dis- 

 trict winners was a stiff written quiz. Cham- 

 pion Paydon's paper was the only perfect 

 one. Other contestants were not scored. 



Congressional district winners in the 193"' 

 skilled drivers' contest were Clarence 

 Aavang, McHenry county, 11th; Stephen 

 Paydon, Kendall, 12th; Paul Virtue, Ogle, 

 13th; C. W. Ramsey, Mercer, I4th; Eugene 

 Mittleberg, Adams, 15th; Betty French, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, 16th; Richard Dillion, Living- 

 ston, 17th; Willard Viall, Kankakee, 18th; 

 Joe Durflinger, Macon, 19th; Ronald Gord- 

 ley. Brown, 20th; Marjorie Williams, 

 Macoupin, 21st; James Smith, Bond, 22nd; 

 Norval D. Reeter, Fayette, 23rd; Howard 

 Colclasure, Clay, 24th; Kathryn Maes, Jack- 

 son, 25th. 



One person has said that the chicken is 



the most useful of all farm animals because 

 "you can eat it before it is born and eat it 

 after it is dead." 



>RD 



FEBRUARY. 1938 



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