April, 1932 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



While We Are Going Thru 

 the Depression 



hy A. L. Goodenough, President, 



Whiteside County Farm Bureau 



I suppose you have noticed that our 



clothes have not been pressed, 

 And you couldn't help but notice that 



our hats don't look the best. 

 And did you ever know the reason 



why our wives look so distressed, 

 It's just because we're going through 

 the depression. 



Hurrah, hurrah, let's wipe away 



the tears. 

 Hurrah, hurrah, let's stand and 



give three cheers, 

 We'll never know the difference 

 In half a hundred years 

 If any of us live through the 

 depression. ;;;:;- 



I know that we farmers were stepping 



high and wide, 

 We thought we had all kinds of dough 



so buyed and buyed and buyed. 

 But the goose that laid the golden egg 



worked overtime and died. 

 And that's why we're going through 

 the depression. 



Hurrah, hurrah, O yes, we're all 

 in debt, '■%■']: ^ '':.'^^ r-^-'---.^'.\-i-^'-'\ 

 Hurrah, hurrah, but we're hang- 

 ing on, you bet. 

 If your banker says you're 

 busted, V ■>. ■ ^ 

 ""^^T" Aw, just tell him he's all wet. 

 It's just because we're going 

 through the depression. 



Of course there were city men who 



were hit just as hard. 

 Their autos and their golf clubs they 

 almost had to discard. ;-:'!; 



And instead of eating butter, spread 



their bread with yellow lard. 

 While they were going through the de- 

 pression, -i- "'•^'■■v ■'.;■,', 



Hurrah, Hurrah, I'm glad I'm 



on the farm. 

 Hurrah, hurrah, these times may 



do no harm, 

 They'll teach the public how to 



live 

 And our nation to disarm. 

 While we are going through the 

 - . 'depression. ' - ;; 



If you don't you may as well go 



^V;': .'- :'■ ■ • home, :.:.:-"k'-- • ■b^'^-v.-:-:..;v. <! 



Crawl in your hole and whine, 



;.i ;;■: While we are going through the 



depression. 



Note: Mr. Goodenough, accompanied on the 



piano by bis daughter, Florence, sang this song 



to the tune "Marching Through Georgia" at 



the Farm Bureau presidents' dinner, Kockford, 



January 27, 1932. 



Farnn Bureaus May 



Use I. A. A. Emblem 



I. A. A. Board Votes to Permit Use 



Of Trade Mark, But Only for 



Legitimate Purposes 



O yes, there are union men who can't 



quite see the joke. 

 They think we ought to pull the load, 



we're all so blamed well broke, 

 It's time we got together and slipped 



off that gosh-darned yoke. 

 While we are going through the de- 

 ; pression. > . ,^ - 



Hurrah, hurrah, now's the' time 



to sign. 

 Hurrah, hurrah, right on the 

 ; ■ dotted line, •' .: 



Extension of the use of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association official emblem 

 to County Farm Bureaus desiring to use 

 it was approved by the board of direc- 

 tors of the I. A. A. in Chicago March 

 18. The action was recommended to 

 the board by the organization-informa- 

 tion advisory committee at the request 

 of several counties. 



The Farm Bureaus, however, must 

 apply to the board for this permission 

 giving each specific use to which the 

 emblem is to be put and the emblem 

 must not be used in any other way than 

 specified in the request. It was also 

 stipulated that cuts be ordered by the 

 I. A. A. at the expense of the County 

 Farm Bureau. 



The board further decided that no 

 changes be made in the emblem except 

 possibly where a state-wide organization 

 serving a particular interest might re- 

 quest some change of copy in the map 

 of Illinois and that such a change must 

 have the approval of the I. A. A. board. 



The use of the emblem will also be 

 granted to the subsidiary companies of 

 the I. A. A. and of the County Farm 

 Bureaus upon approval of each specific 

 case by the board. 



The board reserves the right to re- 

 call the use of the emblem upon 60 

 days' notice with or without cause. 



It is the opinion of the organization- 

 information committee that a wider 

 use should be made of the emblem by 

 the County Farm Bureaus and the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association in publici- 

 ty and advertising material. 



It was further recommended that the 

 officers of the association make a study 

 of the possibilities and costs of develop- 

 ing a Farm Bureau membership sign 

 embodying the official emblem. 



The department of information was 

 authorized to canvass the Farm Bureaus 

 and subsidiary organizations to find out 

 whether or not these organizations 

 would be willing to proceed on the 

 same basis in publishing a 1933 Farm 

 Bureau calendar as they followed in 

 the distribution of the 1932 calendar. 



H. H. Parke 



Chicago Producers Sell 

 $18.500 .000 o f Livestock 



Handle 4,145 Cars of Stock from 

 Co-Op. Shipping Associations 



DURING 1931 the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers handled 15,072 cars of 

 livestock, including 3,377 cars received 

 by truck, it was reported at the annual 

 meeting in Chicago March 8. 



Receipts included 113,420 head of 

 cattle, 44,878 head of calves, J79,132 

 hogs, and 402,911 

 sheep, having a total 

 sales value of more 

 than $18,500,000, 

 The Producers han- 

 dled 4,145 cars of 

 Illinois livestock 

 originating in co- 

 operative shipping 

 associations, or 32.8 

 per cent of the Illi- 

 n o i s co-operative 

 shipments arriving 

 on the Chicago mar- 

 ket. 

 A total of 6,827 cars of livestock 

 coming from local shipping associations 

 in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 

 and other states went through the Pro- 

 ducers Association. This amounted to 

 17.32 per cent of the co-operative re- 

 ceipts at Chicago. 



Truck shipments to the Chicago 

 Producers in 1931 were 22,086 head of 

 cattle, 12,132 calves, 141,402 hogs, and 

 36,3 57 sheep, Mgr. Swanson said. 



The Producers last year did business 

 as far west as Washington and Oregon, 

 as far south as Texas, and as far east 

 as New York and Pennsylvania. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, empha- 

 sized the need for co-ordinating the 

 operations of all marketing agencies so 

 as to avoid competition among them- 

 selves, Ray E. Miller explained that the 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 

 is organized to co-ordinate and supple- 

 ment the agencies on the market, and 

 not to compete with them. 



Other speakers were President H. H. 

 Parke, Genoa, 111,; Henry Wieland, Be- 

 loit, Wis.; Charles Hearst, president, 

 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; C. A. 

 Ewing, president, National Livestock 

 Marketing Association; "Farmer" 

 Brown, Federal Farm Board; and R. F. 

 O'Donnell, manager, Iowa Livestock 

 Marketing Corporation. 



Five hundred and ninety-five cars of 

 grain were handled through the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation during February. 

 During the month the Hamel Co-Oper- 

 ative Grain Company of Worden, Madi- 

 son county, was added as a member, 

 making a total of 83. 



