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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



May, 1952 



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I LiIjINOIS 



qVLTURAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 

 and to develop agriculture. 



George Thiem, Editor 

 Max Harrelson, Assistant Editor 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 

 Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

 IIL Application for transfer of second class entry from Marshall, IlL, to 

 Spencer, Ind., pending. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage 

 provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1925. 

 Address all conununications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association Record, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The 

 individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five 

 dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription 

 to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Postmaster: In returning 

 an uncalled for missent copy please indicate key number on address as is 

 required by law. 



OFFICERS 



_.. . Detroit 



Varna 



..Chicago 



President, Earl C. Smith 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright- 

 Secretary, Geo. E. Metiger... — 

 Treasurer, R. A. Cowles 



-Bloomington 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th. H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



I2th G. F, TuUock, Rockford 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



15th Charles Bates, Browning 



16th Geo. B. Muller, Washington 



1 7th A. B. Schofield, Paxton 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th C. J. Gross, Atwood 



20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



21st _ Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd _ Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 



23rd „ W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th. _ Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th. Fred Dietz, De Soto 



Comptroller _ 



Dairy Marketing- 

 Finance 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



. — J. H. Kelker 



J. B. CouniiBS 



....R A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing Harry W. Day 



Grain Marketing Harrison Pahrnkopf 



Information George Thiem 



Insurance Service _ V. Vaniman 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing _ F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics. J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co _ L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Chas. P. Cummings, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Mark. Ass'n. Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grieser, Sales 



Illinois Produce Marketing Ass'n _ F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 



Soybean Marketing Ass'n W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 



The Fittest Will Survive 



TN the long run the slush funds, speech-making, 

 printer's ink, publicity, and propaganda against 

 co-operative marketing will not greatly affect the 

 future of this system of selling farm products; 

 the price received, savings effected, and service 

 rendered are all that count and the producer is 

 and will be the court of last resort. That's a 

 safe bet. Nothing the opposition can do or say 

 will stop farmers from patronizing their own 

 co-operative institutions if they do the job bet- 

 ter than the private enterprisers. If they fail farm- 

 ers will discard them eventually. Truth will pre- 

 vail. Darwin's theory of the "survival of the 

 fittest" is the law of business as well as the law 

 of the jungle. 



Where the Money Goes 



TOURING the last fiscal year the federal gov- 

 ernment spent nearly five billion dollars. 

 Where did it go? Read the Chicago Tribune and 

 you'll get the impression it was all spent by the 

 Farm Board and U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 

 Read the chart on page 4 that sets forth the facts, 

 and you'll learn that more than 80 per cent went 

 to pay disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans, 

 war debts, national defense, roads, and to deliver 

 the mail. Incidentally the government loses a 

 good deal of money every year delivering news- 

 papers and periodicals. Without this government 

 subsidy metropolitan newspapers might not boast 

 of their extensive country circulation. 



A very small part of the five billion went for 

 agricultural research, extension, and service con- 

 fined to farmers as pointed out on page 5 by 

 Secretary Hyde. And the Farm Board's loans to 

 co-operatives are small compared with the gov- 

 ernment-owned Reconstruction Finance Corpora- 

 tion's loans to railroads, banks, and insurance 

 companies. 



Farmers applaud all sincere efforts to reduce 

 taxes; in fact, the I. A. A. and Farm Bureau 

 have been working on this problem for several 

 years with creditable results. Tax reduction must 

 come, but let it be applied impartially to all 

 groups without discrimination against agriculture. 



The Income Tax 



TLLINOIS farmers will await with interest the 

 decision of the State Supreme Court on the 

 constitutionality of the state income tax. Judge 

 Jesse Brown's decision, given in the Sangamon 

 county circuit court, that a tax upon income 

 is a tax upon property, hence is unconstitutional 

 because not uniform, clashes with State Supreme 

 Court decisions in Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mis- 

 sissippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Caro- 

 lina, and Wisconsin. All these courts have held 

 that a tax upon income is not a tax upon property. 



On Co'Operation 



T^HE early pioneers in co-operative marketing 

 who fought to establish farmer-owned and 

 farmer- controlled country grain elevators would 

 turn over in their graves if they could witness 

 how those principles of co-operation are being 

 dragged in the mire by traitors to the cause with- 

 in their own ranks today. 



The fact that more than 1,500 farmers eleva- 

 tors in the United States are co-operating in the 

 national co-operative grain marketing program 

 is proof that the majority of elevators are still in 

 good hands. 





