September, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Fifteen 



Larry Williams Breaks 



Record as Picnic Speaker 



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Addresses More Than 50,000 at 



Outdoor Assemblies Since 



Latter Part June 



LA. "LARRY" WILLIAMS, mana- 

 • ger of Country Life Insurance 

 Company, broke all records as a picnic 

 and farm meeting speaker during the 

 past summer. He addressed more than 

 50,000 people at 28 Farm Bureau pic- 

 nics and gatherings since the latter part 

 of June. 'i.:-ij: ^.y. ■:'},'■:■:'■ .^[' ['' ■,■■''■:-;■■■ :':< 

 "The largest assembly was in Lake 

 county where 7,000 actually registered 

 in the drawing," 

 Williams comment- 

 ed." I doubt if any 

 of the picnics had 

 less than 1,000 and 

 the average would 

 run about 2,500. 

 ^L-^T"'^ i^fc "The easiest audi- 

 g|||V M ^^^m ence to talk to was 



^^v^dK^^^^H ^^ ^^ ^^^ county 

 ^^■sf^^^^l picnic at *The Pines' 

 ^^*'^'^^^^^^' State Park. The seat- 

 Larry Wiiilnnis ing arrangement and 

 the natural auditori- 

 um which the canyon formed made 

 speaking a pleasure. 



"Ford county farmers joined with the 

 business men, making a very pleasing 

 audience to talk to at Paxton, where 

 perhaps the finest picnic grounds pos- 

 sible were made available to the crowd. 



Audiences Attentive 



"The Lee county group were inter- 

 ested listeners. Although they had to 

 stand or sit on the ground, they were 

 attentive and appreciative. The Wil- 

 liamson county picnic was particularly 

 successful in holding its crowd and cre- 

 ating interest in the contests and sports. 



"The 4-H Club shows and demon- 

 strations drew good attendance and 

 generated much enthusiasm at the pic- 

 nics where this was a feature. 



"The public address system fur- 

 nished by the I. A. A. was a great help 

 wherever it was used. The music from 

 the records provided very fine enter- 

 tainment to round out the program. 

 The speaker was greatly aided by the 

 amplifier in that he could let his voice 

 down and speak through the micro- 

 phone in a natural tone. It also en- 

 abled the audience to follow the speak- 

 er without difficulty." 



At their meeting in August the 

 I. A. A. Board of Directors ap- 

 proved an appropriation of $200 

 for the annual student livestock 

 judging contest at the University of 

 Illinois. 



"Destroy Every Third Row 

 Cotton," Advises Farm Board 



Frank Evans of Salt Lake City, Utah, 

 former secretary and general counsel of 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 is President Hoover's latest appointee to 

 membership on the Federal Farm Board. 



The members of the Farm Board now 

 are James C. Stone, Kentucky, chair- 

 man; Carl Williams, Oklahoma, vice- 

 chairman; Sam H. Thompson, Illinois; 

 C. B. Denman, Missouri; W. F. Schil- 

 ling, Minnesota; Chas. Wilson, New 

 York"; and Frank Evans, Utah. One 

 vacancy on the Board still remains to 

 be filled. Secretary Arthur M. Hyde is 

 a member ex-officio. 



Approximately 62 per cent of those 

 registering at Farm Bureau headquar- 

 ters at the Illinois State Fair were mem- 

 bers of the organization. 



Chairman Stone Dispatches TeTe^ 



grams to Governors of Big 



Cotton States 



October Is Fire Prevention 

 Month 



Now is a good time to go over 

 your farm buildings and 

 eliminate the fire hazards. Learn 

 ho'w you can reduce your fire in- 

 surance costs by reducing risks 

 "with the use of lightning rods, 

 fire-proof construction, use of fire 

 extinguishers, etc. 



Write for particulars. 

 fire Prevention Department 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



-ASSOCIATION ;^ 



608 So. Dearborn St. Chicago 



TELEGRAMS to the governors of 

 all the larger cotton producing states 

 signed by James C. Stone, chairman of 

 the Federal Farm Board, were dispatched 

 on August 12 advising them to get back 

 of a movement to have all growers plow 

 under every third row of cotton now 

 growing. 



This drastic action on the part of the 

 Farm Board was taken deliberately fol- 

 lowing the government cotton report of 

 15,584,000 bales which, according to 

 the Board's telegram, "if realized pro- 

 vides total crop and carry-over supply 

 of American cotton of more than twen- 

 ty-four and one-half million bales 

 against probable world consumption of 

 American cotton this fiscal year of 13,- 

 000,000 or possibly 14,000,000 bales, 

 leaving probable carry-over one year 

 hence of around 11,000,000 bales. 



Tried to Protect 



"This condition occurs in spite of 10 

 per cent reduction in acreage last 

 spring," continues the telegram. "It 

 has already resulted in drastic declines 

 in cotton prices which if allowed to 

 continue may bring direct disaster to 

 cotton producing states and indirect 

 distress to the nation. Through serious 

 world depression of last two years Fed- 

 eral Farm Board has steadfastly at- 

 tempted to protect cotton farmers and 

 all who deal with them from price de- 

 clines such as have affected all indus- 

 tries first by sixteen cent loans to cot- 

 ton co-operatives, second by removal 

 from market by cotton stabilization 

 corporation of 1,300,000 bales, third by 

 90 per cent loans to co-operatives last 

 year. 



"These efforts had some measure of 

 success but have been outweighed by 

 continual excess production and con- 

 tinually increasing surplus. Board be- 

 lieves that time has now come when 

 cotton producers themselves must be 

 called upon for immediate and drastic 

 action. Agricultural Marketing Act, 

 section one, paragraph four directs 

 Board to aid 'in preventing and con- . 

 trolling surpluses and in orderly mar- 

 keting and distribution so as to prevent 

 such surpluses from causing undue or 

 excess fluctuations or depressions in 

 price for the commodity.' Section five, 

 paragraph four, 'the Board is author- 

 ized and directed to investigate condi- 

 tions of over-production in agricultural 

 commodities and advise as to the pre- 

 vention of such over-production.' In 



