lAA Meeting 



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many are forecasting that 75 per cent or 

 more of all corn belt farmers will par- 

 ticipate which compares with about 50 

 per cent for 1938. Mr. EvaTis, a clear, 

 forceful speaker will bring first hand 

 information from Washington and will 

 discuss matters farmers want to know 

 about on the morning program, Feb. 1. 



Senator-elect Scott Lucas, who made 

 one of the outstanding addresses at the 

 American Farm Bureau convention in 

 New Orleans, will have been in the 

 United States Senate for nearly a month 

 by the time of the lAA meeting. His 

 personal observations regarding the out- 

 look for new legislation, together with 

 his experience on the Agricultural Com- 

 mittee of the House where he handled 

 the amendment providing for the corn 

 loan schedule in the AAA of 1938 will 

 make his appearance on the program 



SENATOR SCOTT LUCAS 



"He'll come from Washington." 



Tuesday evening one of the high lights 

 of the convention. 



Scott is already well known to a host 

 of Illinois farmers. He is a member of 

 the Mason County Farm Bureau and the 

 lAA, is interested in farming there, was 

 born in Cass county in 1892 where his 

 parents operated a rented farm. 



Lucas worked his way through law 

 school at Illinois Wesleyan, Blooming- 

 ton, firing furnaces, waiting tables, and 

 playing baseball in the Three-I League. 

 He finished his legal training in 1914, 

 opened a law office in Havana, went into 

 the service as a private three years later, 

 became a lieutenant, joined the Reserve 

 Corps after being mustered out, became 

 Illinois state commander of the American 

 Legion, national judge-advocate, was 

 elected states attorney of Mason county 

 in 1920. 



For several years farmers have been 

 made conscious of farm imports and ex- 



ports. They have heard much about 

 Argentine corn and canned beef, and 

 Polish hams. The short corn crop of 

 1936 and the 40 per cent reduction in 

 hogs largely as a result of ruinous prices 

 in 1932-33 coupled with a shortage of 

 feed, farmers know had something to do 

 with this situation. 



During recent political campaigns farm 

 imports and exports got a ready play in 

 efforts to win farm votes. Many of the 

 statements made from political platforms 

 were inaccurate as to fact and conclusion. 

 Speakers grotesquely compared imports 

 of corn in 1932 (when the price was 12 

 to 25c a bu.) with imports in 1937 when 

 corn sold for more than $1 a bushel, to 

 show how imports had increased under 

 the farmers AAA program. 



The subject of imports and exports 

 and the trade agreements will be handled 

 on Wednesday morning Feb. 1 by Pro- 

 fessor Theodore W. Schultz, chief of 

 agricultural economics at Iowa State Col- 

 lege. Prof. Schultz has made a thorough 

 study of his subject since he joined the 

 economics staff at Ames eight years ago. 

 His papers and publications include "Tar- 

 iff as they AflFect the Corn Belt," "Van- 

 ishing Farm Markets and World Trade,'" 

 and others. He has collaborated with 

 several federal agencies including the 

 Soil Conservation Service, holds high of- 

 fice in several sectional and national pro- 

 fessional economics groups. 



NOTICE 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 

 ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to be held 

 during the months of January and 

 February, 1939, at the hour and place 

 to be determined by the Board of 

 Directors of each respective County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing of such County Farm Bureau, 

 and who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such members 

 of Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and vote on all matters before the 

 next annual meeting or any special 

 meeting of the Association, including 

 the election of officers and directors, 

 as provided fo rin the By-Laws of 

 the Association. 



During January, annual meetings 

 will be held in Carroll, Champaign, 

 Cumberland, DeWitt, Edgar, Fulton, 

 Greene, Knox, McDonough, McHenrj', 

 Mason, Mercer, Peoria, Rock Island. 

 Sangamon, Winnebago and Woodford 

 Counties. 



During February, annual meetings 

 will be held in DeKalb, Douglas, 

 Lake, Monroe, Will and Whiteside 

 Counties. 

 Dec. 29, 1938. 



(Signed) PAUL E. MATHIAS, 

 Corporate Secretary 



PROF. T. W. SCHULTZ 



His subject "Agriculture and Foreign 



Trade." 



Mark A. Dawber of New York Cit}' 

 is a minister, lecturer, and Christian 

 worker. He is executive secretary of the 

 Home Missions Council, New York City. 

 A native of England, Dawber has ob- 

 served and studied conditions in a num- 

 ber of foreign countries, is widely trav- 

 eled, and has a broad, general knowledge 

 of world affairs. His address will be of 

 an inspirational nature. He will prob- 

 ably speak on the evening program Tues- 

 day night in the Stevens Hotel ballroom. 



The sectional conferences Tuesday af- 

 ternoon should hold something of inter- 

 est for every member. Set sp)eeches are 

 "out," these sessions are to give the mem- 

 bers an opportunity to suggest, criticise, 

 discuss, and debate any part of the work 

 of the Illinois Agricultural AsscKiation 

 and count)' Farm Bureaus. To crystallize 

 thought on problems that have been 

 raised at county and township meetings 

 of Farm Bureau members, subjects will 

 be outlined in the printed program to be 

 distributed at the convention. But this 

 outline by no means is meant to limit or 

 confine the discussion. Members have 

 the privilege of bringing before the con- 

 vention any matter they wish to have 

 clarified or debated. 



The annual banquet for County Farm 

 Bureau presidents and farm advisers and 

 directors, officials, and staff members of 

 the lAA will be held in the Stevens 

 Hotel, Monday night following the an- 

 nual meetings and conferences of the as- 

 sociated companies. Here again oppor- 

 tunity will be afforded the responsible 

 officials of the county, and state organiza- 

 tions to discuss in private, relationship 

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JANUARY, 1939 



