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. A. RECORD 



RES0LUTI01\S 



Adopted by Board of Delegates at 24th Annual 



Meetings Illinois Agricultural Association, Stevens 



Hotel, Chicago, Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 1939 



I. Economic Balance 



Prosperity cannot be restored in Amer- 

 ica except through the correction or re- 

 moval of the economic maladjustment 

 now existing. Each of the major eco- 

 nomic groups has been trying to main- 

 tain or increase its income by means 

 largely within its own power without due 

 regard to the rights of others. While 

 expedients of this character may be tem- 

 porarily helpful to those engaged in a 

 given industry, they do not contribute to 

 the removal of disparities known to exist 

 between groups and until this is accom- 

 plished through the attainment of a fair 

 economic balance, present difficulties will 

 continue and may increase. 



The complexities of the problem and 

 the seriousness of the situation fully 

 justify our hearty endorsement of the 

 resolution adopted at the recent conven- 

 tion of the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration which urged the President of the 

 United States to call together representa- 

 tives of industry, labor and agriculture 

 to discuss a program of action designed 

 to promote economic balance between 

 these groups on a basis that will permit 

 full utilization of our great proauctive 



24lh Annual JUf eting 



(Continued from page 6) 



committee and has officiated for several 

 years as chairman of the Illinois Farm 

 Sports Festival committee. Mr. States 

 is a prominent farm operator and farm 

 manager from Will county, formerly 

 president of the Will County Farm Bu- 

 reau. A short biographical sketch intro- 

 ducing him to Farm Bureau members 

 throughout the state appears in this issue. 



County with the greatest number of reg- 

 istrations at the lAA annual meeting was 

 Champaign with 107. DeKalb was next 

 with 85, Kane third with 66, Henry fourth 

 with 63. Pulaski, located in the southern- 

 most tier of counties, was represented with 

 14 conventioneers who travelled more than 

 400 miles. 



Station WMBD's (Peoria) new 5000 watt 

 transmitter makes this station one of the 

 most valuable outlets for news, stock and 

 produce markets, and programs of interest 

 to the rural listeners in central Illinois, 

 says Farmer Bill. The noon program, daily 

 at 12:30 except Sunday, includes latest quota- 

 tions on poultry, eggs, butter, livestock and 

 grain, weather outlook and general farm 

 news. For an hour and a half of real fun 

 and wholesome entertainment, tune in 

 WMBD's regular Saturday Night Barn 

 Dance Show, 7:00. 



FEBRUARY. 1939 



resources and which urged the President 

 of the United States to use the powers of 

 his high office to keep such representa- 

 tives in conference until they agree upon 

 such a program. 



II. Federal Farm Program 



We endorse without reservation the 

 declared approval of our national organ- 

 ization of existing federal law covering 

 soil conservation, acreage adjustment, 

 surplus control, and marketing agree- 

 ments ; and, for the purpose of emphasis, 

 we reassert our faith in the provisions of 

 law embodied in the Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act of 1938. We commend to 

 our members and to all farmers of this 

 State, the fullest cooperation in the cur- 

 rent soil conservation and adjustment 

 programs. We urge those charged with 

 locjd direction of these programs to be 

 effective, expeditious and economical in 

 the administration of their duties. We 

 insist that central administration per- 

 fect, simplify and make certain every 

 regulation, diat it equitably distribute 

 acreage allotments, extend every advan- 

 tage of loan provisions, and perform 

 these functions with dispatch. 



We further urge that the County Farm 

 Bureaus and the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation assert every rightful influence 

 in securing the selection of the best 

 qualified farmers for impartial, econom- 

 ical and effective administration of these 

 laws. 



Organized agriculture in Illinois re- 

 asserts its objective of parity price and 

 parity relationship and will not be turned 

 aside through appeals of prejudice, par- 

 tisanship or propaganda. Neither will it 

 turn back in the direction of unlimited 

 production and uncontrolled surpluses, 

 regardless of any high-sounding name 

 which gift-bearing proponents may be- 

 stow upon such plan or plans. Real 

 freedom for agriculture will come 

 through understanding, cooperation, rec- 

 ognition and observance of equitable pro- 

 visions for adjustment and not through 

 the wanton disregard of the principle of 

 production in line with effective demand. 

 III. Tariff 



We reaffirm our previous position in 

 support of agricultural tariffs to fully 

 protect the domestic market from com- 

 peting imports that hold or force Ameri- 

 can prices below parity levels; reduction 

 of excessive industrial tariffs to equalize 

 the price levels of industrial and agri- 

 cultural commodities; more aggressive 

 efforts to develop new domestic and 



foreign outlets and markets for Ameri- 

 can grown farm products with the con- 

 tinued use, for this purpose of a sub- 

 stantial amount of import revenue. 



We favor and will support only such 

 reciprocal treaties as assure through their 

 provisions a substantial balance of ad- 

 vantage in the export of agricultural 

 products over industrial products, until 

 such time as the domestic price levels 

 of agricultural products arc brought into 

 line with the price levels of industrial 

 products. 



IV. Social Security 



Projwsals have been made to include 

 agricultural labor under the Federal So- 

 cial Security Law. We approve the broad 

 humanitarian objectives of this law. How- 

 ever, we believe the administration of this 

 law to be so complicated and the reports 

 and returns required to be so burdensome 

 as to render its application to agricultural 

 labor impractical, if not impossible. The 

 expanse of administration of this law as 

 applied to agricultural labor would be 

 prohibitive. We oppose the inclusion of 

 agricultural labor under the Federal 

 Social Security Law, at least until the 

 administration thereof and the reports 

 and returns required thereunder have 

 been simplified. 



V. Schools 



We reaffirm our previously declared 

 position in favor of reasonable reorgani- 

 zation of schools into larger administra- 

 tive units whenever such changes are ap- 

 proved by the farm people of such units 

 and can be accomplished at reasonable 

 cost. We oppose any effort to force such 

 reorganization by State or County boards 

 of education with mandatory powers, or 

 to centralize administrative authority 

 either in the State or any other units so 

 large as to prevent the intimate knowl- 

 edge of and the lively interest which we 

 believe every citizen should have in his 

 public schools and his other governments. 



We favor cooperation by the Associa- 

 tion with other groups in a careful study 

 of reorganization of school districts. For 

 this purpose we favor the establishment 

 of a temjxjrary fact-finding body in each 

 county, with proper representation of the 

 parents of rural children in rural schools 

 and of rural taxpayers, such body to have 

 advisory duties only, to carefully study 

 the possibilities of reorganizing school 

 units, and to recommend equitable meth- 

 ods of reorganization for consideration by 

 the citizens resident in each proposed 

 larger unit. If citizens of such proposed 

 units shall jjetition for an election there- 

 on, we regard it as indispensable that 

 the vote shall be taken separately in the 

 limits of any city, village or incorporated 

 town in whole or in part therein and in 

 the territory outside the limits of such 

 city, village or incorpwrated town, and 

 that such a proposition shall not be 

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