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Number 11 



NOVEMBER, 1932 



Volume 10 



Vote Yes^^ On Bond Issue 



All Organizations Unite In Drive To Pass Measure In Nov. 8 Election 



WITH the slogan "Vote YES on 

 the Bond Issue," the state-wide 

 Emergency Rehef Bond Issue Com- 

 mittee representing all important 

 civic groups and trade organizations 

 in Illinois swung into action last 

 week in a united drive to insure vic- 

 tory for this important measure in 

 the election on Nov. 8. 



President Earl C. Smith, chairman 

 of the state committee representing 

 agriculture, labor, bank- 

 ing, business, women's 

 clubs, real estate, manu- 

 facturing, newspapers, 

 motorists, and others, fol- 

 lowing a series of con- 

 ferences, announced that 

 all groups are actively 

 working in the campaign 

 to get a majority vote. 



The Illinois Agricultural 

 Association and County 

 Farm Bureaus are assum- 

 ing responsibility for se- 

 curing an overwhelming 

 favorable vote throughout 

 downstate rural districts. 

 In addition many County 

 Farm Bureaus have called 

 or will call county-wide 

 meetings representing all 

 local interests to co-ordi- 

 nate efforts in behalf of 

 the measure. 



While there is no organ- 

 ized opposition to the 

 measure, indifference and 

 misunderstanding loom as 

 the chief obstacles threat- 

 ening its passage. 



If enough "YES" votes 

 are secured it means that 

 the $18,750,000 spent by 

 the State Emergency Re- 

 lief Committee for unem- 

 ployment relief will be re- 

 paid out of each county's 

 share of gas tax funds in 

 proportion as state relief 

 funds have been expend- 

 ed in such counties. 



If enough "YES" votes 

 are obtained it means 

 that only counties which 

 have used state relief 



funds will contribute from their 

 share of state gas tax funds toward 

 repayment of the loan. 



No increase in the gas tax will 

 follow. 



But if the bond issue fails to carry 

 it means that at least 35 to 40 cents 

 per $100 assessed valuation will be 

 added next year to the usual tax 

 rate for state purposes on real and 

 personal property throughout lUi- 



i ! ^^ What a "Yes" Vote Means 



The Illinois Agricultural Association and the 

 County Farm Bureaus are charged with the re- 

 sponsibility for securing an overwhelming "YES" 

 vote in downstate counties on the bond issue No- 

 vember 8. The passage of this proposal is of tre- 

 mendous importance to farmers because they are 

 all property owners and taxpayers. 



A "YES" vote on this measure will be a vote to throw 

 off $5,000,000 on the farmers' 1932 tax bill payable in 

 1933. 



A "YES" vote is a vote to throw off at least $25 in 

 taxes on the average quarter section Illinois farm. 



A "YES" vote will be a vote to transfer the burden 

 of unemployment relief from property to each county's 

 share of the Kas tax in proportion as relief funds have 

 been expended therein — without any increase in the 

 gas tax. 



A "YES" vote means that Cook county must pay its 

 own unemployment relief bill of more than $17,000,000, 

 or 91.4 per cent of the whole. 



A "YES" vote and passage of the bond issue insures 

 that counties which received no part of the $18,750,000 

 spent for unemployment relief will pay no part of this 

 loan. 



Finally a "YES" vote is a vote for lower taxes — a 

 vote for reducing the levy on all property next year 

 $25,000,000. 



A "NO" vote or a failure to vote is, in effect, a vote 

 to force this levy on property. 



A "YES" vote is urged by the following state- 

 wide organizations: Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, Illinois Association of Real Estate Boards, Illi- 

 nois Bankers Association, Illinois Chamber of Com- 

 merce, Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, Illi- 

 nois Federation of Labor, Illinois Federation of 

 Women's Clubs, Illinois League of Women Voters, 

 Illinois Manufacturers Association, Illinois Press As- 

 sociation, Chicago Motor Club, and many other 

 groups both state and local. 



nois. This extra tax will approxi- 

 mately double the 1931 state tax rate 

 of 39 cents. 



Failure of this proposal to carry 

 will result in an extra tax on the 

 average quarter section farm in Dli- 

 nois next year estimated at $25. 



Failure of the measure will mean 

 that Illinois farmers in 1933 will be 

 required to pay approximately $5,- 

 000,000 additional state taxes. Fail- 

 ure means that an extra 

 $25,000,000 will be levied 

 against property in Illi- 

 nois to insure the pay- 

 ment of the $18,750,000 

 spent by the Emergency 

 Relief Committee, most of 

 which went to Cook coun- 

 ty. 



To insure a favorable 

 vote a uniform plan has 

 been developed by the 1. 

 A. A. and the County 

 Farm Bureaus to: 



1. Provide speakers' bu- 

 reau in each county 

 with a group of men 

 and women thorough- 

 ly Informed on the 

 measure who can 

 explain it in a few 

 minutes before all 

 meetings held before 

 Nov, 8. 



2. Prepare a statement 

 signed by the head of 

 every organization in 

 each county and give 

 it publicity calling 

 upon their members 

 and the public at 

 large to vote "YES" 

 on this measure. 



3. Man the polls in 

 every rural precinct, 

 with the Farm Bu- 

 reau using its town- 

 ship and road dis- 

 trict tax committees 

 as workers at polling 

 places. 



4. Create a county pub- 

 licity committee to 

 contact all newspa- 



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