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Number 1 



January, 1931 



Volume 9 



Important Message Is 



Expected from Mr. Legge 



Farm Board Chairman and Mrs 

 Sewell Will Speak at Banauet. 



Banquet Speaker 



Governor Emmerson Is 



Friday P. M, Speaker 



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ALEXANDER LEGGE, the cour- 

 ageous, outspoken chairman of the 

 Federal Farm Board /ho is honestly 

 and sincerely trying to make the Mar- 

 keting Act work for the best interests 

 of the farmer, is expected to make 

 some new and important pronounce- 

 ments in his banquet address on Thurs- 

 day night, Jan. 29, at the coming I. 

 A. A. convention, Springfield. 



Mr. Legge is not an orator. He is 

 not flowery. He wastes no time slap- 

 ping his audience on the back. He 

 talks facts, hits hard, and wraps up 

 much thought in few words. He says 

 what he thinks whether you like it or 

 not. He is no politician, in the popu- 

 lar meaning of the word. Many of us 

 like that kind of a man. 



Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, home and 

 community chairman of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, will have a 

 place on the banquet program with 

 Mr. Legge. Her address will be de- 

 voted to the influence of co-operative 

 efforts among farmers on community 

 and home improvement. 



Marketing Prominent ■; 



Co-operative marketing will be given 

 prominence at the various meetings and 

 sessions on January 28 and 29. John 

 Brandt of St. Paul, president of Land 

 O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., arid Tom A. 

 Borman, Chicago, manager of the Bea- 

 trice Creamery Co., will address the 

 annual meeting of the Illinois Produce 

 Marketing Association on "Wednesday 

 afternoon, Jan. 28. , • . 



George S, Milnor, Chicago, general 

 manager of the Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation and president of the Grain 

 Stabilization Corp., will talk to the 

 Marketing Conference Thursday after- 

 noon. Other group conferences to be 

 held simultaneously with those men- 

 tioned are Organization-Information, 

 Business Service, and Home and Com- 



Questions of Public Policy Affecting 

 Farmers to Have Consideration. 



HON. ALEXANDER LEGGE ^ 



munity. Mrs. Henry J. Mies of Pon- 

 tiac, president of the Illinois Home 

 Bureau Federation, is arranging a pro- 

 gram for the latter conference of spe- 

 cial interest to women attending the 

 convention. 



Grimes to Speak 



One of the outstanding speakers of 

 the three-day session will be J. Frank 

 Grimes of Chicago, the aggressive pres- 

 ident of the nation-wide Independent 

 Grocers' Alliance of America, a chain 

 of more than 11,000 independently- 

 owned grocery stores. How these stores 

 are succeeding through co-operative ef- 

 fort and good business administration 

 is a colorful story of particular interest 

 to organized farmers who are working 

 toward similar ends. Mr. Grimes, who 

 has addressed some of the largest con- 

 ventions in the country during recent 

 years, is known widely as a forceful, 

 vigorous speaker. He is scheduled to 



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QUESTIONS of public policy in - 

 eluding taxation, good roads, re- 

 apportionment of the legislature, the 



gas tax, drivers' license law, rural 



school improvement and other will be 

 considered both at the Public Relations 

 Conference on Thursday afternoon and 

 at the afternoon session on Friday, 

 J'anuary 30. 



Governor Louis L. Emerson wil speak 

 at the luncheon on Friday, where rep- 

 resentatives of state-wide organizations 

 and others will be guests. Resolutions 

 defining the policies of the organization 

 to be followed in the coming year will 

 be 4:hreshed out and adopted at the close 

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'■■:.:^r-(:- First Appearance ' ' / : ;: 



The governor's appearance at the an-' '^: 

 nual luncheon will be his first since 

 taking office, before a meeting of the 

 association. In his recent biennial mes- 

 sage to the legislature. Governor Em- :"=:• 

 merson touched on many important is- 

 sues. He made a definite recommenda- 

 tion on the reapportionment issue, sug- 

 gesting representation by population in 

 the state senate, and territorial repre- 

 sentation in the house. This is a plan' 

 similar to that in use in most states 

 having large metropolitan areas, namely 

 New York, Pennsylvania and Califor- 

 nia, and one favored by farmers. He 

 asked that the present plan of distribut- 

 ing gas tax money be left undisturbed 

 so that the state-wide road building 

 program now underway can be com- 

 pleted. 



The present depression in the field of 

 agriculture, according to Dr. W. J. 

 Spillman of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, will continue as long as- 

 acreage of wheat and cotton continues 

 to expand at a rate faster than the in- 

 crease in the demand. •> ■■■■■:--}'--'----^ ■J:-::,^:.' 



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