June, 1932 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



Six Cities Invite I. A. A. 

 For '33 Annual Convention 



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Competition Narrowed After Vote 

 to Peoria, Decatur, Danville 



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IX Illinois cities including 

 __ Peoria, Danville, Decatur, 

 Springfield, Moline, and Joliet 

 asked for the next annual con- 

 vention of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association to be held January 

 25, 26, 27, 1933. The invitations 

 were extended at the May meet- 

 ing of the I. A. A. board of di- 

 rectors by representatives of 

 County Farm Bureaus and cham- 

 bers of commerce from Peoria, 

 j; Vermilion, Macon, Sangamon, 

 Rock Island, and Will counties. 



Delegations from the various 

 counties were led by Albert Hayes, 

 president, Peoria County Farm 

 Bureau; Mike Finn, Peoria As- 

 sociation of Commerce; Farm Ad- 

 viser Otis Kercher of Vermilion 

 county and Assistant Secretary 

 Gage of the Danville Chamber of 

 Commerce; M. C. Hamilton, secre- 

 tary and E. H. Walworth, farm ad- 

 viser of the Macon County Farm 



-; Bureau; C. C. KoUer, Springfield 



"Chamber of Commerce; B. H. 



Bollman, president. Farm Adviser 



' John Spencer, Edgar Walther, di- 

 rector, Wm. H. Moody of the Rock 

 Island County Farm Bureau and 



^^ Secretary Darland of the Moline 

 Chamber of Commerce; and 

 James Bell, manager convention 

 bureau, Joliet Chamber of Com- 

 merce. 



Mr. Finn stated that hotel rates 

 at Peoria have come down and 150 

 rooms have been added to the 

 principal hotel; that facilities are 

 available for handling a banquet 

 for 2,000 people. 



Decatur offered its armory, the 

 new Masonic Temple, and plenty 

 of hotel facilities. Danville has an 

 armory with improved acoustics 

 to seat 1,800 people at the dinner 



■ 'i table with a balcony for 1,500 

 . spectators. 



Moline offered its mammoth 



V Field House to seat 2,000 people 



;■; with room for 1,200 to 1,400 on the 



' sides. Joliet called attention to 



: its new hotel and offered the 



; mammoth high school auditorium 



and gymnasium for the larger 



convention. Springfield based its 



claim for recognition on the serv- 



. ice rendered at previous annual 



:)'■, meetings. 



The board of directors narrowed 

 the competition to Peoria, Dan- 

 ville, and Decatur and appointed 

 a committee to investigate facil- 



UNEMPLOYED MEN TURN TO GARDENING 



The International Harvester Co. seeking to aid 4,500 former em- 

 ployees of their factories in Chicago leased over 1,000 acres of land on the 

 outskirts of the City, and furnished it with modern gardening machinery. 

 Each man was given one -fourth of an acre with seeds and instructions 

 for raising and storing vegetables. 



The men will be forbidden to sell their crops. Transportation in 

 busses will be furnished to and from the plots and the gardens will be 

 constantly guarded against thieves. 



ities in each city and report at the 

 June meeting of the board. 



Expect Decision Soon 



On Chicago Milk Price 



DR. Clyde L. King of the Whar- 

 ton School of Commerce, 

 Philadelphia, serving as milk price 

 arbitrator at Chicago, is expected 

 to make a decision shortly as to 

 whether the present distribution 

 of the 11 cents per quart price be- 

 between the producers and distrib- 

 utors shall stand. 



The 11 cent price went into 

 effect on May 10 following a de- 

 cision by Dr. King when he took 

 under advisement the question of 

 the price of milk to the farmers. 

 He asked for time to study the 

 effect on the market of the one 

 cent change on quarts. 



Said Dr. King, "I have grave 

 doubts whether the dealers can 

 live under the small margin left 

 them. Market factors must also 

 be considered. This change from 

 12 to 11 cent milk passes on to the 

 consumer under present farm 

 prices more than the dealers saved 

 under the recent wage agree- 

 ment." 



The present base price at Chi- 

 cago is $2'.01 per cwt. for 3.5 per 

 cent milk f. o. b. country. Farmers 

 already have taken two cuts 

 amounting to more than 30 per 

 cent, the Pure Milk Association 

 pointed out, whereas organized 

 labor took a cut of only 10 per 

 cent. 



An effort to get milk wagon 

 drivers to take a cut of $50 mini- 

 mum per week to $40 per week was 

 rejected. The milk wagon drivers' 

 union compromised by taking $45 

 per week. The dealers did not 

 press the point apparently but 

 asked farmers to take an ad- 

 ditional cut to $1.75 per cwt. The 

 organized producers refused and 

 so Dr. King was called in to arbi- 

 trate the matter. 



Seek To Protect People 

 Going Back To The Land 



A REQUEST that Congress di- 

 rect the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to provide the services of 

 his department in guiding and 

 safeguarding both public and pri- 

 vate movements to put the un- 

 employed back on the land, was 

 made by the National Advisory 

 and Legislative Committee on 

 Land Use during a recent meet- 

 ing at Washington. President Earl 

 C. Smith sat as a member of the 

 committee during its deliber- 

 ations. 



Because of the personal trag- 

 edies and the group distress that 

 have resulted from wholesale, in- 

 discriminate back - to - the - land 

 movements in the past, the com- 

 mittee reported, the guidance of 

 some well-equipped national 

 agency is necessary. Business, 

 civic, and relief agencies have 

 been active recently in advancing 

 plans by which the unemployed 

 can be put on the land. 



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