July, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seventeen 



1,000 Whiteside Folks 



— ~ Gather to Hear Debate 



Farm Bureau Gaining New^ Members 

 Every Day, Cite Progress in 



■.■-•>.': VX','-' Past Year .i,--',-, ■:v, ■..■'.■'?•;' 



At the close of the program indi- 

 vidual containers of ice cream were 

 served to the audience by 4-H Club 



1,500 at Edwardsville 



THE rank and file of Illinois farm- 

 ers are ready for co-operative mar- 

 keting and, like the American soldiers 

 in the crucial period of the World War, 

 will fall into line when the hour 

 strikes, declared Donald Kirkpatrick, 

 legal counsel of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, in a debate before 1,000 

 Whiteside County Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers June 25 in the Water Works Park, 

 Morrison. 



L. A. Williams, manager of the 

 Country Life Insurance Company, 

 speaking on the affirmative side of the 

 question, "Resolved, That Illinois Farm- 

 ers Are Not Ready for Co-Operative 

 Marketing," said that the fact that only 

 63,000 Illinois farmers out of more 

 than twice that number were affiliated 

 with organized agriculture as repre- 

 sented by the Farm Bureau was ample 

 proof that they were not ready. 



Minority Leads Way 



"Largely through failure to think the 

 thing through, too many non-members 

 are standing in their own light, leaving 

 organized co-operative effort the only 

 sane solution of the farm relief problem 

 to the progressive minority who are 

 willing to stick together and work for 

 their mutual interests," Mr. Williams 

 stated. The debate was a feature of 

 the Farm Bureau co-operative rally, one 

 of several held in vrrious parts of Illi- 

 nois. 



President A. L. Goodenough made 

 the welcoming address and introduced 

 the boys' 4-H Club Quartette, second 

 place winners at the Urbana contest. 

 The quartette, composed of Gerald 

 Hudson, Harlan Thomas, Harvey Flor- 

 ence and Wayne Mathew, sang "Pale in 

 the Amber West." 



Good Local Talent 



Rex Lawrence of Prophetstown then 

 put on his stunt, "Have a Pill," which 

 won fifth at the state contest with 22 

 clubs competing. This was an imper- 

 sonation of a quack doctor. 



Helen and Henrietta Castelein, also 

 of Prophetstown, gave several vocal and 

 harmonica duets, including "Morning 

 on the Farm" and "Juanita." Claire 

 Gsell, Morrison, entertained the audi- 

 ence with an impersonation of a colored 

 lady at the telephone trying to insure 

 her husband's life. 



Farm Adviser F. H. Shuman men- 

 tioned the addition of 110 new members 

 during the past year, also reviewed some 

 of the accomplishments of the Farm 

 Bureau. 



Edwardsville, 111., June 29. — In spite 

 of the fact that farmers in this section 

 were in the midst of harvesting oats 

 and wheat, a crowd of 1,500 from five 

 counties braved the 100 degree heat to 

 attend the Co-operation Jubilee held 

 here tonight under the auspices of the 

 Country Life Insurance Company and 

 the Madison County Farm Bureau. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 and L. A. Williams, manager of Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company, debated 

 the question, "Resolved, That Illinois 

 Farmers Are Not Ready for Co-opera- 

 tive Marketing." 



Among the speakers were: Frank D. 

 Barton, Illinois Grain Corporation; Har- 

 ry W. Day, Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change; John E. Miller, president, Madi- 

 son County Farm Bureau; A. D. Lynch, 

 manager. Sanitary Milk Producers; and 

 J. R. Fulkerson, president, St. Louis 

 Producers Commission Association. 



Farm Adviser T. W. May introduced 

 a number of guests including Sam Sor- 

 rells, chairman of the I. A. A. livestock 

 marketing committee; E. W. Tiede- 

 mann, president of the Sanitary Milk 

 Producers; J. F. Chambers and Henry 

 Backman of the Godfrey Asparagus 

 Growers' Association; George C. Martin 

 of the Midwest Grain Corporation; 

 Harry D. Wright, manager, St. Louis 

 Producers Commission Association; and 

 F. H. Anderson, secretary. National 

 Dairy Association. 



Music was furnished by the Edwards- 

 ville elementary school band, the Farm 

 Bureau ladies* quartette and the Paw- 

 nee Four of Sangamon county. Audrey 

 and Betty Miller gave a German folk 

 dance and Mary Jane Miller gave a 

 Hungarian dance. 



which were high in April life insurance 

 sales. 



In addition to the debate, a talk by. 

 F. A. Gougler, director of produce 

 marketing, on the need for co-operative 

 produce marketing in southern Illinois 

 was an interesting feature of the pro- 

 gram. 



Farm Adviser C. S. Love and General 

 Agent Arthur Bryant were given recog- 

 nition for the success of the jubilee. 

 The Pawnee Four, popular Sangamon 

 county quartet, furnished the music. 



1,000 at Steeleville 



Steele ville, June 30. — Farm Bureau 

 members, numbering close to 1,000, 

 sought the outdoor amphitheatre for re- 

 lief from the sweltering heat as they 

 gathered here tonight to attend the Co- 

 operation Jubilee sponsored by the Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company and the 

 Randolph County Farm Bureau. 



William Sauer, president of the Farm 

 Bureau, introduced the board of direc- 

 tors and guests Including A. D. Lynch, 

 manager of the Sanitary Milk Producers; 

 Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel of the 

 I. A. A., and L. A. Williams, manager 

 of Country Life Insurance Company. 



Kirkpatrick and Williams gave their 

 sixth debate on the question, "Resolved, 

 That lUinois Farmers Are Not Ready 

 for Co-operative Marketing." Mr. Lynch 

 discussed the problem of milk market- 

 ing. 



Recognition was given John Uffel-- 

 mann, general agent in Randolph 

 county, for his good work in winning 

 the award of the jubilee, which was 

 one of the seven held in the state. 



Music was furnished by the Pawnee 

 Four of Sangamon county. 



800 at Louisville 



Louisville, 111., July 1. — With 800 

 attending the Clay County Farm Bu- 

 reau Co-operation Jubilee here tonight, 

 the total attendance of the seven meet- 

 ings sponsored by Country Life In- 

 surance Company and the Farm Bureaus 

 arose to 11,000. 



L. A. Williams, manager of Country 

 Life, and Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 

 counsel for the I. A. A., met in the last 

 of their seven debates on the question, 

 "Resolved, That Illinois Farmers Are 

 Not Ready for Co-operative Market- 

 ing."_ ;•:■: ;-;,;,■,;;■.- :v.x^:■ ;.,.,,;•■, ,, 



This has been the feature attraction 

 of each jubilee held in the counties 



L. A. Williams, manager of the Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company, was the 

 speaker at the Kendall County Farm 

 Bureau booster meeting held Friday eve- 

 ning, June 26. About 800 attended the 

 meeting. Doc Hopkin?, radio enter- 

 tainer over station W M A Q, gave a 

 number of mountain songs. Band music 

 and several special numbers by Kendall 

 county boys and girls completed the 

 program. 



James T. Jardine, director of the 

 Oregon Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion and brother of former Secretary of 

 Agriculture William A. Jardine, bar 

 been selected by Secretary Arthur M. 

 Hyde to head the Office of Experiment 

 Stations. The post has been vacant since 

 the death of Dr. W. E. Allen more than 

 a year ago. 



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Culling out the boarder cows would 

 speed recovery of milk and butterfat 

 prices. 



