Page Six 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



December, 1932 



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"New Plan of Cream Marketing 

 in Illinois" will be the subject of a 

 radio talk by Frank Gougler, direc- 

 tor of produce marketing on station 

 KMOX, St. Louis Monday noon, Dec. 

 5, 12:45 P. M. 



The following Monday, Dec. 12, 

 W, J. Niergarth, manager of the 

 Farmers National Grain Corpora- 

 tion at St. Louis, will discuss co-op- 

 erative grain marketing. 



"What Farmers can Accomplish 

 Through Organization" was the 

 subject of an address prepared by 

 Secretary Geo. E. Metzger and de- 

 livered over station KMOX, Mon- 

 day, November 21, by A. D. Lynch, 

 manager Sanitary Milk Producers, 

 St. Louis. 



The address emphasized the fact 

 that farmers had been forced to or- 

 ganize in marketing their products 

 and in buying needed supplies co- 

 operatively, told what had been 

 done in Illinois. "The chain prin- 

 ciple of doing business," he said, 

 "has forced farmers, likewise, to 

 adopt chain business methods."., . 



More than a dozen listeners to 

 Station KMOX still use crystal sets. 

 Most of them are within 25 miles of 

 Saint Louis, but one is in use in 

 Oklahoma. 



Visit Fruit And Vegetable 

 Market At Benton Harbor 



H. W. Day, director of fruit and 

 vegetable marketing, visited and 

 inspected the growers truck market 

 at Benton Harbor, Michigan recent- 

 ly. He was accompanied by repre- 

 sentatives of the State Department 

 of Agriculture. 



The purpose of the trip was to 

 secure information about this type 

 of market and determine the possi- 

 bilities of establishing something 

 similar for fruit and vegetable pro- 

 ducers in southern Illinois. 



The Benton Harbor market is be- 

 ing operated by the city for grow- 

 ers within a radius of approximate- 

 ly 50 miles. The question of estab- 

 lishing such a market was discussed 

 at a recent conference of farm ad- 

 visers in Mt. Vernon. 



Pete Clausen, one of the early or- 

 ganizers of the I. A. A. and Farm 

 Bureau who now resides in Aurora, 

 writes that he spent three months 

 last summer in Norway, Sweden, 

 Germany, and Denmark. "I hadn't 

 been 'home' for 42 years," he said. 

 "What a change!" 



Pete is contributing regularly to 

 the Aurora Beacon News, still fight- 

 ing fw agriculture. 



An automobile insurance policy 

 in the I. A. A. company remains in 

 force until it is cancelled by the 

 company or by the policyholder, 

 states A. E. Richardson. The respon- 

 sibility is placed upon the County 

 Farm Bureau for notifying the com- 

 pany if a policyholder is not a Farm 

 Bureau member in good standing. 

 The company will then cancel the 

 policy at the next assessment date 

 after receiving notice of cancella- 

 tion. 



Inconne Tax Anrtendment 

 Fails In Indiana Nov. 8 



The referendum on the income tax 

 amendment to the state constitu- 

 tion, November 8 failed, reports the 

 Indiana Farm Bureau. It was fa- 

 vored by a majority of the citizens 

 who considered the proposal but a 

 majority of all the citizens voting 

 in the state did not endorse it, 

 which is a requirement of the state 

 constitution. Seventy-one of the 92 

 counties in the state gave constitu- 

 tional majorities to the proposal, all 

 usually considered as strictly rural 

 sections. 



The state farm organization was 

 very active on the referendun hav- 

 ing advocated income tax measures 

 in various sessions of the legisla- 

 ture during recent years as a means 

 of securing government revenue to 

 replace or reduce levies on farm 

 and other property. 



With only Steuben county not re- 

 ported and the total vote of Floyd 

 county not in, the count shows that 

 1,574,520 votes were cast in the elec- 

 tion on November 8. To carry, it 

 was necessary that the amendment 

 receive a total favorable vote of 

 787,261. The "yes" vote on the 

 amendment totaled 695,791 failing 

 by 91,470. The "no" vote on the 

 proposal totaled 205,276. 



Industrial centers of large cities 

 were responsible for its defeat. Not 

 that it received a larger "no" vote 

 than a "yes" vote in such centers 

 but because it was entirely ignored 

 evidently because no urban inter- 

 ests were active in its behalf. The 

 lack of interest shown in the result- 

 ant vote in Marion county, seat of 

 Indianapolis, was sufficient to kill 

 it. In other words, eliminating Ma- 

 rion county, the proposal would have 

 been adopted by a constitutional 

 majority of 21,930. Only 35,143 of 

 213,463 persons voting in Marion 

 county voted on the amendment, of 

 which 27,193 were favorable. There- 

 fore 178,320 did not vote either way 

 on it. Other counties with large 

 urban populations which had a 

 similar situation were Allen, Dela- 

 ware, Lake, La Porte, St. Joseph, 

 Tippecanoe and Vanderburgh. 



Announce Speakers For 

 Annual A. F. B. F. Meeting 



Among the speakers scheduled 

 for the annual meeting of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 Chicago, Dec. 5-6-7 are Admiral 

 Richard E. Byrd, chairman, Na- 

 tional Economy League, who will be 

 the featured speaker at the annual 

 banquet Tuesday evening, Dec. 6; 

 Congressman Henry B. Steagall. 

 Alabama; M. L. Wilson, director. 

 Department of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics, Montana State College; 

 Miss Helen Johnston, State Home 

 Demonstration Agent, Alabama; 

 Dr. G. F. Warren, Department of 

 Agricultural Economics, New York 

 State College of Agriculture; Henry 

 I. Harriman, president. United 

 States Chamber of Commerce;- 

 Dean J. H. Skinner, Purdue Uni- 

 versity; Ray Fife, Ohio State Su- 

 pervisor of vocational education, 

 and others. 



President Edward A. O'Neal will 

 entertain the state Farm Bureau 

 presidents and secretaries at a din- 

 ner on Sunday evening, Dec. 4. 



The meeting will be held at the 

 Sherman Hotel as in past years. The 

 A. F. B. F. board of directors will 

 hold its final meeting of the year 

 on Friday, Dec. 2, and on Saturday 

 there will be a special meeting of 

 voting delegates, state Farm Bu- 

 reau officials, and state directors of 

 extension service. 



I. A. A. Annual Meeting 

 Set For Jan. 25-26-27 



(Continued from page 5, col. 3) 



"This idea of collecting dues and 

 tying them up may not be very 

 popular with the members down 

 home, but it is good business. Think 

 it over." 



Basis of Representation 



As in past years the I. A. A. meet- 

 ing scheduled for January 26-27 

 will be preceded by the annual 

 meetings of the associated com- 

 panies and organizations on Wed- 

 nesday, January 25. 



This year the Illinois Produce 

 Marketing Association also will hold 

 its annual meeting at Peoria on 

 January 25. There will be the usual 

 conference for insurance agents, 

 and a conference for managers of 

 county service companies affiliated 

 with Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



The basis of delegate representa- 

 tion in the coming annual meeting 

 will be the paid-up membership on 

 any day during November and De- 

 cember, 1932. Therefore counties 

 are advised to get as many mem- 

 bers on the eligible list as possible 

 before the end of the year. 



The annual banquet will probably 

 be held in the armory. The Pere 

 Marquette Hotel, as at the 1927 

 meeting, will be headquarters of the 

 convention. 



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