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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



February, 1932 



O'Neal Lauds I. A. A. 



For Accomplishments 



Membership Expansion Necessary 

 r' for Utmost Achievment, ^ 

 He Says 



ILLINOIS farmers oflFer the nation an 

 outstanding example of the power 

 of organized effort to affect the welfare 

 of agricultvire, Edward A. O'Neal, presi- 

 dent of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, declared, speaking at the re- 

 cent convention of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association in Rockford. 



The Illinois Association, Mr. O'Neal 

 said, is one of the two la'-gest state 

 organizations of farmers affi'i-ited w-tli 

 the American Farm Bui-eau Federation 

 and has attained its envi^bl" position be- 

 cause of a very sincere d;'si''e on the 

 part of its leadership to he of re^l ser- 

 vice to the agricultu"al indu'stry of 

 the state. 



Lauds I. A. A.*s Work 



"Your accomplishments in ''o-ot>era- 

 tive marketing and cntriH^cd pur- 

 chasing of farm supplies lev f-'w 

 parallels elsewhere in the nition." Mr. 

 O'Neal said. "Your cnmp^'jjn aeainsi 

 unjust taxation has attracted the ;iftPn- 

 tion of the entire nation -"id so hif'hiv 

 does the American Farm Ru-eau think 

 of it that we have for a Inn© time in- 

 sisted on using the servic* of vour tax- 

 ation expert, John C. Witson. in the 

 work which our national committee on 

 taxation is doing. 



"At. your state capital. Spnn"fi»*Id. 

 the energetic work of vou*- pr''cM,.rit. 

 Earl C. Smith, in speakin" for Illinois 

 farmers when agriculture I« rnn-'erned, 

 has long been under our obspfvation. 

 Last spring opportunity came to annex 

 him more closelv to our national organi- 

 zation and now President Smith is doing 

 effective work for the whole nation 

 through his duties as member of the 

 legislative committee of our national 

 Board of Directors." 



Membership Counts 



Membership is what counts in making 

 the work of any farm organization 

 effective, Mr. O'Neal continued, and he 

 added that few states offer more con- 

 vincing proof of this than docs Illinois. 



"If that be true," he continued, "then 

 how important it is that Illinois farmers 

 continue their efforts to build a num- 

 erically great organization to serve 

 themselves. At our national convention 

 in Chicago earlv last month our voting 

 delegates voiced the conviction that in 

 this period of economic distress mem- 

 bership growth is of primary Impor- 

 tance. 



"But if membership increases .come» 

 they will come chiefly through the^ ef- 

 forts of the individual^ volunteer^ solici- 

 tor. That thought _^_cannQt Irapres?, 

 upon you too deeply ._ Somg^^^qf .pur 

 County Farm Bureaus have made rec- 

 ords in voluntary -membership drives 

 that we of the national organization are 

 holding UP. as models for the entiite'na- 

 tion to follow. If every county unit in 

 the state would submir a record like 

 that of McLean county and LaSalle 

 countv and some of vour other coun- 

 ties, what a power the Illinois Agrlcul- 

 tur-'l Asso'^iatton could truly become.^* 



Mr. O'Neal devoted some time to 

 rcountinp the steps which led to a 

 coalition between the JPatiti Bureau, 

 the National G'-ange an^'tKe t^ationiil 

 Farmers Union, to secu»*e congressional 

 attention to the demands of the organ- 

 ized farmers for agri'-ultural legislation. 



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Six-Point Program 



The program behind which the. "big 

 three" are standing «olidlv. he explained, 

 cove'-s six matters. Fir<!t of all, he said, 

 the three fo'-m grouns hive pooled their 

 stren'^rh and are exerting their influence 

 to Push le^isNtinn th''t will make the 

 wo-k of th" Federal Farm Board more 

 effective. This, he sild,. means amend- 

 ment of the A<»rirultural Marketing 

 Act, to in'^lud" the equalization fee and 

 the exno''t d^b^nture plan for control 



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*>rabilizttion of the .monetary^yst«tt 

 •'nd improvement of the rural- credit 

 m' h'nery of. the nation, is the second 

 pro'fct barked unanimously by the three 

 "rouPS.. he stated, while tariff equality 

 for agriculture, adjustments in the 

 mtlonal tax program, control of specu- 

 lation in fatim products and Philippine 

 independence are the other subjects on 

 which the united power of the organ- 

 ized farmers will be brought to bear. 



The Tax Question 



Touching on taxation, ' Mr. O'Neal 

 declared a whole day would be required 

 for Its adequate consideration. Mount- 

 ing costs of government, through waste- 

 ful, extravagant expenditure of public 

 funds, he pointed out, have resulted in 

 running the nation's tax bills up to un- 

 believable proportions and the time is 

 ripe for action. 



The Farm Bureau, he said, has been 

 In the forefront of the battle to bring 

 about a recognition of the disaster to- 

 wards which all branches of the govern- 

 ment, federal, state, county and local, 

 are drifting, and to halt the trend be- 

 fore It is too late. 



On the income tax, he declared, the 

 organization pins Its faith as the only 

 fair and just remedy for the intolerable 

 burden of taxes now borne by real 

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The farm radio program of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association is broad- 

 cast daily except Saturday and Sunday 

 over station WJJD, Chicago (1,130 

 kilocycles), between 12:30 and 12:45 

 noon. , . "I 



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The nex;t national Farm Bureau chain] 

 broadcast will be on Saturday, Febru*^ 

 ary 13, according to the American Farrn; 

 Bureau Federation. This program is 

 broadcast on the second Saturday of 

 every month between 11:30 and 12:30! 

 a. m. central standard time over the' 

 NBC chain. Stations in and near Illinbij'; 

 on the hook-up are KYW, Chicagoj- 

 KWK, St. Louis; WIBA, Madison; 

 WHAS, Louisville, and WHO-WOC, 

 Des Moines-Davenport. 



Approximately 400 requests for copies 

 of a recent radio address on the pro- 

 posed state income tax by President 

 Earl Cj. Smith from station WLS were 

 received. Mr. Smith explained the main . 

 features of the bill, gave examples of 

 its application to various amounts of 

 income, and answered criticisms made 

 by opponents. Copies may be had by 

 writing the Department of Information, 

 I. A. A., 608 So. Dearborn St., Chi- 

 cago. 



The' Paris Shipping Association in Ed- 

 gar county at the time of its annual 

 meeting, January 19, had 287 market- 

 ing agreements signed toward forming 

 a concentration point as a unit of the 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Associa- 

 tion, according to Fred L. Gumm, man- 

 ager. During the past year the Paris 

 association served 1,157 shippers, mar- 

 keting 754 head of cattle, 624 calves, 

 3,950 hogs, and 1,192 sheep. The total 

 value of livestock marketed was more 

 than $100,000. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation reports that 

 1,954 carloads of grain were shipped from HO 

 shipping points from September 1 to Decem- 

 ber 31, 1931. 



The leading counties in carload shipments 

 were McLean, LaSalle, Mason, Champaign, and 

 Iroquois. September led the other months with 

 541 carloads. 



The eighth annual meeting of the American 

 Institute of Co-operation will be held in 1932 

 at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, 

 N. H. > y~-^. 



The open sessions of the Institute begin Aug- 

 ust 1. The Institute is an educational enter- 

 prise supported by the general farm organiza- 

 tions, farm co-operatives, and a number of 

 branches of federal and state governments. 



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