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Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



January y 19} 1 



Boycott Case Reviewed 



At E. St. Louis Meeting 



Kirkpatrick Says Defense Testi- 

 mony Mostly Chaff to Becloud 

 Real Issue. 



Sam Sorrells 



'A <(T) ROGRESS put liverymen out of 

 ■■- business. Co-operative marketing 

 is not designed to put anybody out of 

 business, but it gives the live stock 

 farmer the oppor- 

 tunity to direct the 

 marketing of his 

 own products," J. R. 

 Fulkcrson, president 

 of the St. Louis Pro- 

 ducers Commission 

 Association, declared 

 at a meeting in East 

 St. Louis on Decem- 

 ber 23, called to 

 give live stock farm- 

 ers in that territory 

 first-hand informa- 

 tion about the boycott case. 



The meeting was called by the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and was 

 presided over by Sam Sorrells, chairman' 

 of the L A. A. Marketing Committee. 

 Two hundred and ten live stock pro- 

 ducers from 30 Illinois counties at- 

 tended the meeting. It was suggested 

 by E. A. Downey of Jersey county to 

 hold similar meetings in southwestern 

 Illinois tributary to the St. Louis live 

 stock market. 



Business Picks Up 



"During the boycott hearing receipts 

 of the Producers at St. Louis increased 

 from 22.4 per cent to 24.9 per cent," 

 H. D. Wright, manager of the Pro- 

 ducers Association, said. "There are 2 5 

 firms buying regularly from us," he 

 continued. "Thus our outlet has been 

 affected very little by the boycott. Last 

 year the Producers at the National 

 Stock Yards saved its patrons more than 

 $129,000, and their total savings since 

 1922 have exceeded $908,000." 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 

 the I. A. A., declared that of the 2,900 

 pages in the boycott case more than 

 2,800 are chaff. The defense testimony 

 was devoted to an attack on co-opera- 

 tive marketing policies in general and 

 upon the constitutionality of the Pack- 

 er and Stock Yards Act and the Agri- 

 cultural Marketing Act in particular. 

 Apparently the attacks were made in 

 an attempt to becloud the real issue in 

 the case, namely, that there was a con- 

 spiracy on the market to deny the 

 farmer the right to market his own 

 product. All of this, in spite of the 

 fact that seven years ago the late Chief 

 Justice Taft of the Supreme Court, in 

 rendering a decision upholding the con- 

 stitutionality of the Packer and Stock 



Yards Act, said: "The entry of pro- 

 ducers of foodstuffs into the market 

 places of the country lends purity to 

 those markets, and is the indisputable 

 right of the pii>duuiiirs of any class of 

 conimoditv,** - . 



Too Many Office Holders 



Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 



THERE are hundreds of columns be- 

 ing printed about the unemployed, 

 and how the other fellow should help 

 them, but very little pertaining to the 

 cause. The big idea seems to be to have 

 the employed laborers give of their re- 

 duced wages. 



Would it not sound much better, be 

 better, and make everyone think and 

 feel better, if our big office holders 

 would follow the example set lately? 



If 12 to 3 5 per cent cut on the. sal- 

 aries of the office holders of Italy would 

 save the taxpayers there $42,000,000 

 per year, a like cut in the United States 

 should run into billions of dollars. 



Hard times benefit most office hold- 

 ers by enabling them to buy more with 

 their rtioney, while their salaries remain 

 the same. Are not the mistakes of our 

 high-up office holders more to blame 

 than any other one cause for depressing 

 times? Do they not make our laws, 

 and are they not supposed to see that 

 law is enforced, or have they passed 

 three-fifths of our laws to only make 

 more office holders to help the political- 

 ly inclined? 



Including our police, is not there about one 

 office holder for every eight or ten taxpayers, 

 to say nothing about the assistants, secretaries, 

 auditors, solicitors, .inspectors, overseers, com- 

 mispioncrs, committeemen, detectives, test^trs, 

 stenographers, janitors, office rooms, heat and 

 light, automobiles, etc.? 



I saw where a senator said our national, state, 

 county, city and town taxes in 191} were about 

 two billion dollars, while now they are about 

 fifteen billion. Is it any wonder that there is 

 not much money left to do improving or em- 

 ploy labor? Would like to ask here if, outside 

 of the office holder, there is a man in the 

 United States who thinks he is one cent better 

 off for helping pay fifteen billion dollars in 

 taxes than he was to only help pay two billion. 



Is not real estate taxed to death until only 

 a few want it? And to improve it only means 

 more tax burdens. If I cannot dispose of a 

 piece of property for a small part of what I 

 should get for it, I will not lose still more by 

 putting more taxes on it, so will let it sell for 

 the taxes this year. I am only one of thou- 

 sands, so are not the thousands of banks failing 

 and thousands of men taking the bankrupt law 

 from the same cause? 



The greater part of all farmers and common 

 laborers and their commodities have taken big 

 cuts and drops — not the case with dur office 

 jobs. Do they not keep getting higher and 

 more? This being the case, where is there any 

 incentive for a thinking man to want to own 

 or improve property? 



I have heard it said it was hard to get men 

 to fill our offices at the salaries they were pay- 

 ing, yet every election there are many wanting 

 every office. It might be best for the country 

 if half our offices were closed for this reason. 



We read and hear many views as to how to 



stop this racketeering by taking the big profits 

 out of their business. Would nut the same :'; 

 rule apply to a great many of our high offices? 



Therefore, 1 think to get quick relief to our ^ 

 business depression is up to our high office hold- 

 ers, changing their old established methods to 

 new, helpful methods for all prop>cr business. 



I think if it's possible to get our press to 

 give the public something to think on along 

 these lines, it will help business many times 

 more than many things they are <;arrying in 

 the papers. 



Here's hoping to see you start the ball roll- 

 ing. 



*- S. S. Baughman, 



■ Christian county, 111. 



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'HE Indianapolis Producers an- 

 X nounces that a 2 5 per cent patron- 

 age refund of commission charges dur- 

 ing the nine months from April 1 to 

 December 31, 1930, will be paid back 

 to patrons this year. Payments next 

 year will be based on the full 12 

 months' calendar year. .; . : 



The board of directors recently 

 changed the fiscal year, which previ- 

 ously ended March 31, to end Decem- 

 ber 31 so as to correspond with the 

 calendar year and the membership year 

 of the Farm Bureau. 



Manager Scott Meiks states that dur- 

 ing 1930, 63.39 per cent of the Pro- 

 ducers' receipts came in by truck, 

 36.41 per cent by rail. At this mar- 

 ket more than 76.23 per cent of the 

 market receipts last year came by truck. 



The association held its annual meet- 

 ing on December 30 where three di- 

 rectors were re-elected for a term of 

 three years, namely, Murray S. Barker 

 of Thorntown, Indiana; Albert M. En- 

 gle of Shelby ville, Indiana; and Orion 

 B. Coble of Charleston, Illinois. 



The meeting was one of the best in 

 the history of the organization. 



During the week ending December 

 19, Producers' commission associations 

 handled the following percentages of 

 total market receipts at the respective 

 markets as noted: Buffalo 3 5.6%, Chi- 

 cago 9.88, Cincinnati 3 3.2, Cleveland 

 30.5, Detroit 58.3, Evansville 21.3, 

 Fort Worth 9.0, Indianapolis 31.5, Kan- 

 sas City 3.1, National Stock Yards 

 23.0, Pittsburgh 27.2, St. Joseph 3.0 

 and Springfield 31.7. 



In every case the Producers were first 

 on the market except at Evansville, 

 Ind., where they were second. . -" 



During 1930, 49 cars of live stock 

 were consigned to the Producers at In- 

 dianapolis by the Farmer City Associa- 

 tion. This represents 100% of the as- 

 sociation's business to the Indianapolis 

 market. Harve Ijams is manager. 



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