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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



May, 1932 



Kirkpatrick Cheered af 



Mass Meeting in Ponfiac 



"pONTIAC, APRIL 22.— Approxi- 

 •*■ mately 1,000 farmers and business 

 men from Livingston, Ford, Iroquois, 

 Woodford and adjoining counties gath- 

 ered here tonight at the Farm Bureau 

 mass meeting to hear Donald Kirk- 

 patrick, general counsel for the I. A. 

 A., discuss legislative and marketing 

 policies of the Association, and disclose 

 the source of opposition to farmers' or- 

 ganized efforts to help themselves. 



Mr. Kirkpatrick charged that grain 

 and livestock commission men, specu- 

 lators, and other 

 handlers of farm 

 products organized 

 as the Federation of 

 American Business ,^^^Vfl|| 

 were seeking to de- |^^H ^^ |i 

 stroy co-operative 

 marketing under the 

 guise of "getting 

 the government out 

 of business." 



Commenting on a 

 meeting at Jersey- Mr. Kirkpatrick 

 ville April IS spon- 

 sored by the Federation of American 

 Business and the Farmers Grain Dealers 

 Association of Illinois, Mr. Kirkpatrick 

 disclosed that one Millard R. Myers, 

 now repdi-ted to be in the employ of 

 the grain trade, had written a fabri- 

 cated story of the Jerseyville meeting 

 in which he misrepresented what had 

 happened; quoted Tom Cain of Jack- 

 sonville as having attacked the Farm 

 Bureau when Cain was in Washington 

 at the time; quoted Lawrence Farlow 

 as presenting resolutions against co- 

 operative grain marketing which were 

 unanimously adopted when no such 

 resolutions were even offered; and mis- 

 quoted what other speakers had said. 



Myers Confesses 



"Our report on that meeting," said 

 Kirkpatrick, "shows that it was largely 

 attended by Farm Bureau members, that 

 when the commission men (W. A. 

 Moody, president St. Louis Livestock 

 Exchange, and R. I. Mansfield, grain 

 commission man) saw the temper of the 

 audience they spoke in generalities for 

 a short time and adjourned the meeting 

 early. 



"I challenge Lawrence Farlow, Robt. 

 Orndorff, Millard Myers, or any of their 

 associates to deny these facts," contin- 

 ued Kirkpatrick. Myers, who was in 

 the audience, came forward and at 

 first sought to deny the allegations, un- 

 til Kirkpatrick reached in his brief case 

 and pulled out a copy of Myers' story. 

 When confronted with the evidence the 

 latter admitted that he wrote the article 

 and attempted to get it published in 



the local paper at Jerseyville. 



Thunderous applause greeted the ex- 

 posure of Myers and the middlemen in 

 the Pontiac meeting. Farm Adviser S. 

 G. Turner of Livingston county said 

 it was the largest farm meeting held 

 there in years. 



:^ ^ 500 at Olney 



Piney, lU., April 21. — Agriculture, 

 the basic industry, is being viciously 

 attacked by middlemen's organizations 

 and certain metropolitan newspapers 

 which are poisoning the minds of thou- 

 sands of citizens by their misleading 

 propaganda, declared Donald Kirk- 

 patrick, legal counsel for the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, speaking be- 

 fore 500 farmers and business men at 

 the Central High school gymnasium 

 here tonight. 



Kirkpatrick revealed that sources of 

 opposition to co-operative marketing 

 are the same today as they have been 

 ever since the movement began. Middle- 

 men are increasing their attacks because 

 they see co-operatives growing. They 

 realize that the farmer can handle his 

 own marketing efficiently. 



The Olney High School band pro- 

 vided entertainment. B. L. Hornbeek, 

 district organization manager, presided. 

 800 at Carbondale 



Carbondale, 111., April 22. — ^Ap- 

 proximately 800 farmers and business 

 men attended a mass meeting here to- 

 night to hear George E. Metzger, sec- 

 retary of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, outline the policies of the asso- 

 ciation with regard to the Federal Farm 

 Board, co-operative marketing, taxation, 

 legislation, and economic problems now 

 facing the farmer. 



Metzger disclosed that the opposition 

 to co-operative marketing was coming 

 chiefly from middlemen and from un- 

 informed or misinformed persons. He 

 pointed out that some of the business 

 groups which supported the co-oper- 

 ative marketing act were now fighting 

 to repeal it because they could see that 

 the co-operative movement was suc- 

 ceeding. 



Fred Dietz of DeSoto, director of the 

 I. A. A. from the 2 5 th district, intro- 

 duced Metzger and later turned the 

 meeting over to L. F. Brissenden, dis- 

 trict organization manager. 



I. A. A. Radio Period 



Moved Up to 12:15 P.M. 



The daily farm program of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association over sta- 

 tion WJJD (1130 kilocycles), Chicago, 

 has been changed to 12:15 p. m. cen- 

 tral standard time. This change was 

 made necessary by adjustments in the 

 station schedule following the shift to 

 daylight saving time in Chicago. 



Geo. E. Metzger 



Metzger Addresses 400 



At Meeting in Carmi 



Carmi, IlL, April 21. — George E. 

 Metzger, secretary of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, explained here to- 

 night to an audience of between 300 

 and 400 farmers and business men 

 where the attacks on co-operative mar- 

 keting were coming from. 



Metzger was the principal speaker at 

 the meeting sponsored by the White 

 County Farm Bu- 

 reau in co-operation 

 with Farm Bureaus 

 in adjoining coun- 

 ties to enable farm- 

 ers in this part of 

 the state to get first- 

 hand information on 

 some of the ques- 

 tions now before 

 them. This was one 

 of the series of eleven 

 meetings in the state. 

 Charles Marshall of 

 Belknap, director of the I. A. A. from 

 the 24th district presided. 



Tracing the development of the 

 state organization and of co-operative 

 marketing from the beginning, he laid 

 bare the source of opposition which the 

 farmer has had to overcome. He pointed 

 out that the present attacks being made 

 against the Farm Board were coming 

 from the same source, the middlemen, 

 whose slogan is "get the government 

 out of business," but who in reality are 

 fighting to put farmers out of business. 



St. Jacob, IlL, April 20. — ^Legisla- 

 tive and economic questions of fore- 

 most interest to farmers were discussed 

 here tonight before an audience of 800 

 by Donald Kirkpatrick of the I. A, A. 



The meeting, sponsored by th^ Madi- 

 son County Farm Bureau, was attended 

 by Farm Bureau members and non- 

 members from Jersey, Macoupin, Bond, 

 Montgomery, St. Clair, Clinton, Marion, 

 Monroe, Randolph, Washington and 

 Jefferson counties. John Miller, presi- 

 dent of the Madison County Farm Bu- 

 reau, presided. 



Kirkpatrick disclosed the source of 

 opposition to co-operativ6 marketing 

 and denounced it as coming from 

 middlemen and speculators. He also 

 explained the policies of the I. A. A. 

 with regard to legislation now being 

 considered. ■-■«- •. 



Music was furnished by a Farm Bu- 

 reau women's quartette and a Farm Bu- 

 reau men's quartette. 



The Illinois Grain Corporation 

 handled 666 cars of grain during 

 March. This the largest volume of 

 any month since August, 1931. 

 These shipments came from 191 

 shipping points in 38 countri«;s. 



