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How Much is a Wife Worth? 



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munity than building Boulder Dam was 

 to the entire great Southwest. What 

 must our early ancestors think of us 

 as they look back over the obstacles 

 they overcame while settling this great 

 fertile valley as compared to ours when 

 we cry, "Electricity costs too much." 



A statement was made by one of the 

 speakers at the East Nelson Township 

 meeting something like this: "If you 

 people want electricity Id stake my 

 bottom dollar you could get it in less 

 than 6 months." 



If we are to have electricity in the 

 country it is essentially necessary that 

 landlords display a type of generosity 

 broader than has been their policy in 

 the past. While I have called it "gen- 

 erosity," in all reality it is wisdom. 

 This is particularly true of the absentee 

 landlord, and more so as affecting the 

 hired man's tenant house. Better for 

 us to face the facts now. 



Five dollars is a lot of money to 

 spend each month on a woman but 

 if she were to say, "George, 111 let 

 you use my egg money if we can have 

 electricity," why "George" would just 

 about run the wheels off the car get- 

 ting to town to sign up and would 

 cuss every other farmer, who held back, 

 for being a blind, obstinate, contrary 

 mule. 



If Bessie were so say, "Henry, why 

 don't we have lights in the barn first 

 and put them in the house later?" 

 Henry would get a wild look in his 

 eye and wonder why HE hadn't thought 

 of that. 



Most any man would be willing to 

 put in an electric water pressure sys- 

 tem for his hogs without it entering 

 his head that the same system could 

 supply bath water at the house. The 

 very farmer who is first to shout, "$5.00 

 a month is too high" is the very man 

 who hires his crops trucked to the 

 elevator while his horses eat their 

 heads oflF and the wheels rot off the 

 wagon (they put iron wheels on wag- 

 ons now days to keep them from rot- 

 ting out because you don't use them). 



Requiring us to use $5.00 worth of 

 electricity a month is really more of 

 a blessing than a handicap. If we are 

 going to have to pay for it anyhow, 

 it's pretty certain we will use it. This 

 amount of electricity will insure an 

 ample supply for the average farm 

 home. No husband is going to trail 

 after his wife, pinching off the lights 

 and thereby taking all the pleasure out 

 of having electric lights. He will be 

 figuring new ways to use HIS share of 

 electricity and thereby make a profit 



APRIL. 1938 



Illinois Grain CorporalBlbn 

 Plans Grain Market Service 



Dissolution of Farmers National Puts Job Up 

 To Each Regional, More Than $43,000 Sub- 

 scribed By March 21 By Member Elevators. 



(/^N the way toward organizing its 

 f^^ I own grain handling service foi 

 \^ the cooperative farmers elevators 

 in the state, the Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion reported that $43,100 in stock 

 subcriptions had come in by March 21. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and County Farm Bureaus already had 

 pledged to raise $60,000 when the ele- 

 vators raise a like amount and agree 

 to pledge a sufficient volume of grain 

 to justify employment of competent 

 personnel and lease of offices and fa- 

 cilities for a first class sales service. 



The initial stock subscriptions which 

 represents more than two-thirds the 

 amount required from the elevators, 

 came in within a short time following 

 a series of six district meetings for 

 elevator officials called by Grain Cor- 

 poration directors in their respective 

 districts. 



from it. He will buy large light bulbs 

 instead of buying the dimmest he can 

 find. He will encourage his wife to 

 use the radio while she does her work 

 instead of just to get the market reports 

 and listen to HIS program. A $5.00 

 electric bill is sorta' like castor oil — 

 hard to take but good for us. 



It has been said that the money we 

 spend for kerosene, gasoline, wicks, 

 chimneys, mantles, generators, air 

 pumps, and repairs on lamps amounts 

 to about $2.00 a month ; that to operate 

 a gasoline washing machine costs 50 

 cents; $1.00 for a radio; a gas engine 

 to pump water, 50 cents and other mis- 

 cellaneous expenses $1.00. In other 

 words, we are paying for electricity, 

 why notiiave it.' I believe the man who 

 said that is right! 



Summing it all up, it is not a ques- 

 tion of whether or not we can have 

 electricity on the farm as it is, 



"IS A WELL AND HAPPY FARM 

 WIFE WORTH $5.00 A MONTH?" 



Reader, what do you think? Put 

 your ideas, regarding this great ques- 

 tion, in a letter and mail it to lAA 

 Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 



P. S. Sympathizers please stand by to 

 render assistance! I'll probably be called 

 everything from a power company stooge to 

 a traitor to my sex. — J.G.W. 



The Grain Corp>oration has a mem- 

 bership of some 200 elevators in Illi- 

 nois whose annual handlings amount 

 to more than 38,000,000 bu. of grain 

 annually. To maintain an efficient per- 

 5onnel with main office and branch 

 offices to serve the state would require 

 only about 12,000,000 bu. of grain an- 

 nually. The Corporation has handled 

 more than this amount each year in- 

 cluding the years following the drouths 

 of 1934 and 1936 when Farmers Na- 

 tional did the actual marketing. 



As this is written, a substantial num- 

 ber of elevators whose subscriptions 

 have not been received are planning 

 to come in and help launch the new 

 sales program, reports show. The fact 

 that the Illinois Grain Corporation has 

 a clean record of successful operation 

 from the moment it opened for busi- 

 ness some eight years ago has inspired 

 confidence among the members to go 

 forward and take over their own mar- 

 keting operations. Whatever facilities 

 are needed will probably be leased and 

 branch offices at stategic points in the 

 principal grain producing areas are 

 contemplated. 



Arthur E. Burwash, newly elected 

 president of Illinois Grain Corporation 

 operates the 530 acre farm three miles 

 south of Champaign he was born on Jan. 

 7, 1889. Corn, soy- 

 beans, wheat, sweet 

 clover, alfalfa and 

 hogs are the prin- 

 cipal crops. 

 >>^ n|f Mr. Burwash has 



been an active 

 member of the 

 Champaign County 

 Farm Bureau for 

 many years. He is 

 vice-president and 

 A. E. Burwash director of the Sa- 

 voy Grain and Coal 

 Co., one of the early members of the 

 Illinois Grain Corporation. He was 

 the first president of the Champaign 

 County Service Co. serving in that 

 capacity for eight years. 



Burwash attended the College of 

 Agriculture, University of Illinois 

 where he graduated in the Class of 

 1912. He is married and has one son, 

 a junior in the ag college at Urbana. 



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