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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Sevtember, 1932 



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Big Crowd Attends 14th 

 Dist. Picnic, Monmouth 



Between 6,000 and 7,000 people 

 gathered at Monmouth Park in 

 Warren county for the annual I. 

 A. A. Farm Bureau district picnic 

 on August 16. President Earl C. 

 Smith and Mrs H. J. Meis, presi- 

 dent of the Home Bureau Federa- 

 tion, were the principal speakers. 

 The I. A. A. public address system 

 carried the speeches far beyond the 

 fringes of the audience. 



A full program of contests, races, 

 and events was run off in the 

 morning and early afternoon. Hen- 

 derson County's Baseball team de- 

 feated the McDonough County 

 Farm Bureau nine in an unofficial 

 game, McDonough having pre- 

 viously won the district champion- 

 ship. 



Mr. Smith reviewed the economic 

 history of American agriculture 

 since 1920 and told of the long con- 

 tinued effort made by farm repre- 

 sentatives to gain the attention of 

 political and business leaders to the 

 plight of the farm industry. 



With all other groups prosperous, 

 the farmer was given scant atten- 

 tion although industry was warned 

 that it could not continue on a high 

 place of prosperity for long with 

 agriculture out of balance. 



Today there is general recogni- 

 tion among business and industrial 

 leaders that the farmer's buying 

 power must be restored before nor- 

 mal employment and income can 

 return to the cities. This is the one 

 bright spot in the picture. 



Mr. Smith later reviewed the tax 

 reduction program of the Associa- 

 tion over a period of years stating 

 that the I. A. A. was one organiza- 

 tion that had been working on the 

 tax problem long before the de- 

 pression intensified the burden. 



Running Water In Movies 



A one-act play "Running Water" 

 written by Dorothea Barton, Jo- 

 Daviess county, is being produced 

 as a two-reel motion picture. This 

 play was one of 12 awarded a prize 

 in the play- writing contest spon- 

 sored in 1929 by the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation. 



E. W. (Farmer) Rusk, former ag- 

 ricultural adviser in Macoupin 

 county, will play the part of the 

 county agent in the screen version 

 of the play. 



Advance applications for book- 

 ings should be addressed to the 

 Motion Picture Division, American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, 58 E. 

 Washington Street, Chicago. 



Uncle Ab says it is a good plan al- 

 ways to have the courage to appear as 

 good as you really are. 



FIGHT THE FARM BOARD AND THE CO-OPS 



Left to right at the banquet table are Peter Carey, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, 

 and Congressman Shannon of Kansas' City. The latter is chairman of the congressional committee 

 investigating so-called "government-iii-business." While 90 per cent of the government's services 

 are in fields other than agriculture approximately 98 per cent of the testimony encouraged and 

 offered by witnesses was against the Farm Board and government aid' to co-operatives. The de- 

 mand for the "investigation" is understood to have come from the grain exchanges. 



"Whispering Campaign" 

 Aims To Hurt Co-ops 



Co-operative Marketing Groups 

 Handled $2,400,000,000 Busi- 

 ness Last Year 



M. S. Winder, executive secretary 

 of the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration, sounded a new note in the 

 struggle between the old line 

 traders and the farm co-operative 

 associations, when in an address at 

 Ionia, Michigan, in August, he 

 lilcened the attacks on the co-opera- 

 tive organizations to the "whisper- 

 ing campaigns" conducted by the 

 "reds" to undermine the stability 

 of American financial institutions. 



Although handicapped by this 

 unscrupulous "whispering c a m- 

 paign" the co-operative movement 

 is making rapid progress through- 

 out the nation, Mr. Winder de- 

 clared. The co-operatives have been 

 in the "big business" class for a 

 number of years, he stated, point- 

 ing out that in 1930-31 the total 

 business transacted by approxi- 

 mately 12,000 co-ops. was $2,400,- 

 000,000. • 



"In a period which will go down 

 in history as the world's worst ex- 

 perience with hard times," he said, 

 "certainly these figures are some- 

 thing of which farm business 

 leaders can be proud. 



"And yet, such organizations as 

 the boards of trade and produce ex- 

 changes in Chicago and other large 

 cities, some of the live stock ex- 

 changes, private commission houses, 

 and others have thought it wise to 

 conduct against these gigantic 

 farmers' business enterprises a 

 campaign of 'poison pen' propa- 

 ganda the like of which no com- 

 mercial institution, certainly none 



doing $2,400,000,000 worth of busi- 

 ness a year, has ever encountered. 



"The vicious, unprincipled at- 

 tacks of these hostile agencies have 

 but one aim. Their purpose is to 

 destroy the gigantic co-operative 

 business built up by the farmers 

 on the principle that the middle- 

 men alone have the right to con- 

 trol the marketing of the things 

 they grow. 'i^- '■■':'':■ y-:^.''-''-' ';y^-:i'{i:^y 



"The banks have some protec- 

 tion in law against the 'whisperers' 

 who have been undermining public 

 confidence in our financial insti- 

 tutions. Thus far, however, farmers 

 have had to take the attacks of 

 their enemies squarely on the chin, 

 while they carry on trusting to the 

 intelligence of farm people to 

 recognize the source of the mali- 

 cious propaganda." 



A 75 Cent Breakfast 



C. T. Croften, Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber of Savanna, Carroll county, who 

 was in Chicago recently computed 

 the value of a 75 cent breakfast on 

 a railroad diner in terms of farm 

 commodities. t. c 



He figured that 75 cents at coun- 

 try prices would buy approximately 

 three bushels of corn, or two and 

 one -half bushels of wheat, four to 

 five bushels of oats, five pounds of 

 butterfat, 17 pounds of pork, seven 

 and one-half dozen eggs, two four- 

 pound hens, or a 10 gallon can of 

 milk. 



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 change your address so you will 

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 Record and Bureau Farmer. Drop a 

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 Illinois Agricultural Association, 608 

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