July, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



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A LITTLE blue-covered booklet en- 

 titled "The Passing Show" con- 

 taining extracts from the daily propa- 

 ganda sheet of Lowell-Hoit & Co., Chi- 

 cago grain middleman, came to our 

 desk several days ago. 



The contents are representative of 

 the tons of printed matter the organ- 

 ized middlemen are flooding the country 

 with in the hope of destroying the 

 efforts of farmers in bettering their eco- 

 nomic condition. 



And no one but the farmer pays for 

 the anti-co-operative propaganda. That's 

 where part of the commission fees go. 

 The Passing Show reminds us again of 

 Eddie Cantor's favorite bed time story. 

 Once upon a time mamma skunk and 

 her little ones were walking through 

 the great dark woods when they came 

 upon a big black bear. "Mamma," cried 

 the little ones in fright, "what shall 

 we do?" 



"Children, let us spray," was the 

 mother's ready reply. , > 



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Middlemen Organize 



Abandon all your farm organizations 

 and co-operative efforts, ship your grain 

 to us, and we'll solve all your problems 

 for you, about sums up the benign ad- 

 vice handed out gratis in this pam- 

 phlet. ,: ••., ;■" .'-.•;. 



No suggestion is made that cash com- 

 missions be cut until grain prices re- 

 cover to a normal level. That would 

 be constructive action farmers would 

 appreciate. Instead the author resorts to 

 calling names and belittling everything 

 farmers are doing in their own behalf. 



"The Federation of American Busi- 

 ness Men" is the title of the latest grain 

 middlemen's organization which will 

 seek to undermine co-operative market- 

 ing under the guise of "getting the 

 government out of business." 



One thousand members at $25 per 

 year for four years is the goal. R. I. 

 Mansfield and Mark Pickell, anti-co- 

 operative propagandists, will collect the 

 cash and carry on the program. 



Country elevators alone escape attack. 

 As they carry forward their co-opera- 

 tive marketing program to its logical 

 conclusion, presumably they, too, will 

 fall from the middleman's good graces. 

 For then they will cease to be custom- 

 ers. The profits in handling grain will 

 go back to the country where they 

 belong. .'.' ? ■;: , 



Hoit & Co. doesn't like the Farm 

 Bureau any more for which we are 

 sorry. So long as it confined its teach- 

 ings to growing bigger crops to make 

 more commissions all along the line it 

 was lauded as a great organization. 

 Since it began to give some attention to 

 farm prices, to teach co-operative sell- 

 ing, to advise collective bargaining, to 

 cut insurance and other costs, equalize 

 the tax burden, make the tariff effec- 

 tive on farm products it is criticized 

 for "getting out of its field." 



Girls from Peoria, Tazewell, Fulton, 

 Marshall-Putnam and Woodford coun- 

 ties will meet at the Tazewell County 

 Recreational Camp near East Peoria, 

 August 5, 6, 7 and 8 for a four-day 

 Girls* 4-H Club Camp. The camp will 

 be under the supervision of the Home 

 Bureau Advisers and County Club lead- 



ers. 



Reports of games over the week-end 

 indicate that many of the 34 teams of 

 the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 

 were idle July 4 as the second half of 

 the season got under way. The only 

 change in the standing was made in the 

 second division when LaSalle nosed Ken- 

 dall out of third place. 



Kendall defeated DeKalb county in a 

 one-sided game at Yorkville on July 2 

 by a score of 10 to 2, but slipped out of 

 third place when Will county trounced 

 them, 15 to 5, July 4. In the latter 

 game Kendall used four pitchers in an 

 effort to stop the Will county sluggers 

 who drove out 16 hits. Schultz did all 

 the hurling for Will county. 



Greene county increased its lead over 

 Christian by administering a 6-to-5 de- 

 feat to the runner-up nine in a close 

 contest on July 4. Two runs in the 

 ninth won the game. Greene county 

 outhit Christian by getting nine hits 

 while the latter nine totaled five. The 

 game was very erratic, Greene making 

 nine bobbles and Christian five. 



Douglas county gave Champaign its 

 sixth defeat of the season in a 5-to-4 

 contest at Urbana, July 4. Champaiv^n 

 made eight hits to six for Douglas. 



DIVISION V 



McDonough 



Knox 



Henry 



Henderson 



But critics like the writer of the 

 Passing Show or The Comedy of Errors, 

 or the Follies — call it what you like — 

 offer nothing constructive. They call 

 names, make faces, belittle, seek to 

 undermine farm organization but sug- 

 gest no way out. A do nothing policy. 

 Their interests stop with advising greater 

 production, buying the farmer's pro- 

 duce as cheaply as possible, and collect- 

 ing tolls. ■;;:":•■;: :-/;;s .;- •■.■:^;...,,v^ ■;:•,: 



Official Standing of Teams in the Illinois 

 Baseball League for Week Ending July 



DIVISION I Won 



Carroll J 



JoDaviess 4 



lee 1 



Stephenson 



DIVISION n 



Will 4 



Grundy 3 



LaSalle 2 



Kendall 2 



DeKalb 1 



DIVISION in 



Livingston 5 



McLean 2 



Iroquois I 



Ford 1 



DIVISION rv 



Woodford 4 



Tazewell 3 



Marshall-Putnam 2 



Stark 1 



Peoria 1 



Lost 

 

 2 

 3 



4 



1 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 S 



Pcf. 

 1.000 

 .667 

 .2J0 

 .000 



.800 

 .750 

 .JOO 

 .400 

 .167 



DIVISION VI 



Logan 



Macon 



Douglas .... 

 Champaign . 



DIVISION VII 



Cass 



Sangamon . . . 



Morgan 



Menard 



1 

 1 



4 

 2 

 3 



.800 

 .750 

 .333 

 .333 

 .250 



DIVISION vni 



Greene 



Christian ... 

 Montgomery 

 Macoupin ... 



Now It's "Auditing" Ass'n. 



I. 



The Illinois Agricultural Auditing 

 Association is the new name for the 

 organization formerly known as the 

 Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Asso- 

 ciation, a subsidiary of the I. A. A. 



This became effective June 26 when 



the company was reorganized as a stock 

 association under the act of 1923. Up 

 to that time it had been a membership 

 association. New by-laws and new arti- 

 cles of incorporation were adopted con- 

 forming to the state co-operative act. 

 This change will permit the association 

 to serve any agricultural or closely allied 

 concern. 



