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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



August, 1932 



Ford County Goes Over 

 Top With Big Celebration 



Nearly 5,000 people from all parts 

 of the county gathered at Paxton 

 July 4th to help in the celebration 

 and demonstration. The parade 

 consisted of 400 cars, at least 2,000 

 people, numerous floats, and three 

 bands. Not more than a third of 

 those in attendance could find room 

 in the capacious pavilion during the 

 program, and the park itself was 

 filled to overflowing all afternoon. 

 The success of this celebration 

 was due not only to the efforts of 

 Farm Bureau members, but also to 

 support given by civic organizations 

 of both Gibson City and Paxton, 

 and by the American Legion of 

 Ford county. Prairie Post, Ameri- 

 can Legion, of Paxton, furnished a 

 color guard to head the parade. 



Bands from Paxton, Roberts and 

 Gibson City supplied music. The 

 parade required 50 minutes to pass. 



, Floats and trucks carried slogans 

 such as "Taxes Must Come Down," 

 "Keep the Dinner Bell Ringing in 

 America," "You Can't Have Pros- 



• perity Without Prosperous Farm- 

 ers," "Restore the Farmer's Buying 

 Power and the Factories Will Hum," 

 "Give us a Price and We Will Buy 

 the Nation Back to Prosperity." 

 A. B. Schofield, president of the 



"1, Farm Bureau, who gave a most in- 

 spiring address, introduced the 

 speaker of the day, Phil Evans of 

 the Chicago Producers. 



- W. F. Purnell, . f,^rm adviser, re- 

 ported that a quota of 90 new mem- 



■'„■: bers had been assigned to Ford 

 county, that 88 new members had 



; been reported by the "Minute Men" 

 . of the county, and that it was ex- 

 pected that the full quota would be 

 obtained. The previous member- 

 ship in the Ford County Farm Bu- 



' reau was 670. The addition of the 

 quota will bring the membership up 

 to 760. 



Prayer Offered At 



Dedication Progranns 



This prayer, written by the 

 famous minister, Dr. John Holland 

 of St. Paul, was given from most of 

 the platforms throughout Illinois at 

 the beginning of Dedication Day 

 Programs. 



"Our Father in Heaven and upon 

 Earth; we come before Thee with 

 strangely conflicting emotions. Our 

 human wisdom seems to have failed 

 us. Our dreams of justice and fair 

 play seem to be broken in our 

 hearts. Wars, greed, duplicity, and 

 selfishness have broken our eco- 

 nomic balance and upset our men- 

 tal and spiritual poise. 



"Hunger co-exists with plenty, 

 men tramp our country for work, 

 and women and children cry for 



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bread. We are not sufficient for 

 these things, and we turn with our 

 whole hearts to Thee. 



"We pray for our President that 

 he may be divinely led to think both 

 of the lowly and the mighty. May 

 those servants of the people elected 

 to positions of public trust, legis- 

 late for the welfare of the whole 

 people. 



"We pray that our government 

 may be so guided in equity that 

 bloody revolution may not march 

 down our streets. Bless, we pray 

 Thee the millions of farmers, and 

 the toilers whose labor brings them 

 an inadequate livelihood, but bless 

 especially those, who, in this land 

 of plenty are denied the chance to 

 work. 



"Help us as a people facing dis- 

 couragement, uncertainty, and lead 

 us to think, pray, and act as one 

 people that justice may be guar- 

 anteed to farmer and laborer alike. 



"We pray in the name of the 

 Carpenter of Nazareth that workers 

 may not, through our blundering 

 states-craft be reduced to slaves. 

 We pray in the name of Him whose 

 feet walked through the fields of 

 wheat that growers of grain and 

 food may not be forced into serv- 

 itude to those who control the 

 affairs of state. In Christ's name we 

 pray for a spiritual sense of the 

 economic values of life which shall 

 make us a people think and act in 

 the fraternity of true brotherhood. 



"Bless these troubled but undis- 

 couraged and unsurrendering hosts 

 who march this day in the hope of 

 a better day to come. Endow them 

 with patience, guide them in true 

 charity, and strengthen their hearts 

 to persist until they prevail in their 

 faith for the righting of their eco- 

 nomic wrongs. 



"We ask these things in the Name 

 of the Savior of Men. Amen." 



Two Mile Parade Features 

 Jo Daviess Celebration 



"The Farmers Dinner Bell is the 

 Liberty Bell of 1932, Keep it Ring- 

 ing" was the slogan uppermost in 

 the minds of 5,000 farmers and 

 townspeople who gathered in Eliza- 

 beth on July 4th to impress on all 

 people that the return to prosperity 

 can be brought about by restoring 

 the farmer's buying power. 



The most impressive feature of 

 Dedication Day was the two-mile 

 parade, including 400 cars and 

 floats. Some of the more elaborately 

 decorated floats represented "The 

 Farmers Dinner Bell," "Co-opera- 

 tion Will Win," "4-H Clubs," "Unit 

 Organization," "48 States," etc. 



An old horse-drawn hearse carry- 

 ing the effigy of "Old Man Depres- 

 sion" drew many comments from 

 the crowd. Old Man Depression was 

 later buried with due ceremony on 

 the park grounds. "Dick" Tapley as 



Rock Island County Crowd 

 Estimated at 10,000-15.000 



Moline, July 4:— Between 10,000 

 and 15,000 farmers, members of their 

 families and residents of the quad- 

 cities and nearby communities 

 joined in a celebration July 4 at 

 Prospect Park here today. 



The celebration was part of a 

 state-wide campaign to help restore 

 the economic independence of ag- 

 riculture and at the same time to 

 start the ball rolling for the return 

 of prosperity in the nation. 



The parade which began at 11:15 

 A. M. from Fifteenth street and 

 Sixteenth avenue, Moline, to Pros- 

 pect Park, included three elaborate 

 floats entered by the Farm Bureau 

 under the direction of C. V. Golden 

 of Coe township, chairman of the 

 parade committee. One, a 4-H club 

 float, was prepared by Rural town- 

 ship members, a taxation float was 

 entered by Bowling and Edgington 

 township residents, while the din-, 

 ner bell float was the Coe town- 

 ship entry. 



More than 200 automobiles were 

 in the parade, the Tri-City brass 

 band, seven horses. Sons of Union 

 Veterans, members of 4-H clubs, Mo- 

 line Eagles drum and bugle corps, 

 prize wagon, decorated cars, Sal- 

 vation Army band and floats of 

 Rock Island and Moline stores and 

 business concerns. 



The highlight of the afternoon 

 program was an address by Rev. 

 Loyal M. Thompson, pastor of the 

 First Methodist church of Mon- 

 mouth. He made a stirring plea 

 for agricultural relief. Ben H. Boll- 

 man, Farm Bureau president, pre- 

 sided, and Mayor John F. Huey of 

 Moline welcomed the visitors with 

 a brief talk. Others who gave short 

 talks were John R. Spencer, W. H. 

 Moody, and Robert Quick. Rev. Wil- 

 liams, pastor of the Broadway Pres- 

 byterian church. Rock Island, gave 

 the opening prayer. 



Shortly after the talks were con- 

 cluded the crowd witnessed the 

 burning in effigy of "Old Man In- 

 difference," and "Unfaithful Pub- 

 lic Servants." 



The Farm Bureau prizes were 

 awarded as follows: farm wagon, 

 R. W. Wilson, Bowling township; 

 chest of silver, Raymond Reed, Buf- 

 falo Prairie township; bicycle, 

 Ralph Keller, Drury township, and 

 set of eight goblets, William G. 

 Mueller, Prairie township. 



Eight acts of vaudeville were 

 presented in the evening. G. L. 

 Smith signed ten new members to 

 win a radio for his car. Sixty new 

 members were reported on July 6. 



George Washington headed the pa- 

 rade, followed by Elizabeth band 

 and a squad of soldiers from the 

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