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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



January, 1933 



Mk 1 I^IjINOIS JKk 



A^ PCCL TURAL ASSOCIA'^PN 



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To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was or- 

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the busi- 

 ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



George Thiem, Editor 



Published monthly by the niinoU Agricultural Association at 165 So. 

 Kain St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

 III. Entered as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. Accept- 

 anca for mailingr at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, 

 Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1926. Address all communications 

 for publication to Editorial Oi&oes, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 

 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The individual membership fee of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association is Ave dollars a year. The fee includes 

 payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion Record. Postmaster: In returning an uncalled for missent copy please 

 indicate key number on address as ia required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo. S. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



.. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 : ' (By Congressional District) 



Ist to 11th H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



12th O. F. Tullock, Rookford 



18th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. O. Lambert, Ferris 



15th Charles Bates, Browning 



16th Geo. B. MuUer, Washington 



17th A. B. Sohofleld, Paxton 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th 5 C. J. Gross, Atwood 



20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



Slst Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Talmage DeFrees, Smithboro 



28rd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DEPARTUENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller 3, H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Countiss 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Publicity George Thiem 



Insurance Service V. Vaniman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office ; C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E, Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Oougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Qnasey 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Oountry Life Insurance Co L, A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn. F. E. Ringham, Mgr, 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. £. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marohant, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp ChsM. P. Cummings, Vioe-Pres. and Sales Mgr, 



Illinois Livestock Market. Ast'n...Ray Miller, Mgr.; R. W. Grleser, Sales 



Illinois Produce Marketing Asa'n F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 



Soybean Marketing Ass'n W. H. Coultas, Mgr. 



^, Unemployment Relief 



TEIROUGHOUT the third special session of the 

 General Assembly ending last April and the 

 more recent 4th special session, the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association opposed the enactment of any 

 bills creating a system of additional state-wide 

 taxes for unemployment relief. 



The Association will continue to oppose the en- 

 actment of a state-wide sales tax for this purpose 

 or of any tax which would relieve counties, town- 

 ships, or other municipalities from the necessity, 

 at least to the extent of their ability, of caring for 

 their own. 



The I. A. A. is convinced that sufficient provision 

 has been made in statutes now in existence to take 

 care of destitute people in most counties. In ad- 

 dition to general property taxes for relief, which 

 are subject to limitations and restrictions in coun- 

 ties, but not in townships, counties may, until 

 July 1, 1933, divert to unemployment relief their 

 gasoline tax allotments not otherwise obligated. 



Until January 1, 1934, any county may issue 

 bonds without referendum by a two-thirds vote of 

 its county board, the total of such bonds not to 

 exceed six times such county's share of gasoline 



tax receipts in the preceding calendar year. Such 

 bonds and interest thereon must be guaranteed 

 by general property taxes, but can be and no doubt 

 will be paid out of future gasoline tax allotments 

 to such county. 



In addition counties may enforce a retail sales 

 tax of not more than one per cent which may be 

 levied by a two-thirds vote of the county board 

 to be effective to July 1, 1933. 



The theory of providing relief through a state- 

 wide tax and from a state-wide fund is wrong in 

 principle because it places counties in competition 

 with each other in securing their share of such 

 funds. Such a plan is wrong because it takes away 

 responsibility from local units of government in 

 caring for their unemployed; it definitely leads to 

 waste and extravagance in the administration of 

 such funds. 



This whole question, affecting as it does, the 

 farm tax burden, will be discussed in detail at the 

 public relations conference to be held during the 

 coming annual meeting in Peoria. This problem 

 and many others involving the levying and collect- 

 ing of taxes reveals the need for vigilant and effec- 

 tive organization to protect farmers' interests at 

 Springfield. 



Growing Liberalism 



THE NEW liberalism displayed by business and 

 political leadership throughout America toward 

 solutions of farm problems may be set down as 

 one of the gains produced by the current hard times. 



The cocksureness of their own position, and the in- 

 tolerance toward organized farm effort once prevalent 

 in financial and industrial circles has been largely sup- 

 planted by a new and commendable attitude of co- 

 operation. 



No writer is doing more to promote liberal and con- 

 structive thought on national economic and political 

 problems than Walter Lippman of the New York Her- 

 ald Tribune whose articles are syndicated and pub- 

 lished in daily newspapers throughout the country. 



Commenting on the domestic allotment plan for 

 raising farm prices now being considered at Washing- 

 ton, Mr. Lippman recently wrote: — "Because of its po- 

 tential abuses and actual difficulties many persons, 

 especially in the larger cities, will be disposed to reject 

 the scheme out of hand. This would, I think, be a 

 serious mistake. The plight of the American farmer is 

 so serious that an experiment, provided it is based on 

 a reasonable principle, is justified. The basic principle 

 of the allotment plan is reasonable; if the farmers 

 wish to try it, I do not see how the rest of us can re- 

 fuse to let them. 



"For American agriculture is now producing under 

 conditions of unrestricted individualism in a world 

 where virtually all other production, including agricul- 

 ture in almost all countries, is either protected or con- 

 trolled. The American farmer should not be denied 

 the right to set up his own collective defenses against 

 the efforts of free competition until the time arrives 

 when other producers accept free trade. 



"The allotment plan has all he faults of protection 

 and all the complexities of state socialism. There is no 

 use pretending that this is not the most daring eco- 

 nomic experiment ever seriously proposed in the United 

 States. But what other remedy is proposed for the 

 plight of agriculture that might be substituted for this 

 one? Until such a remedy is brought forward, and 

 some assurance given that it can be put into opera- 

 tion, an attitude of open-minded co-operation with the 

 men who are trying to work out this plan, an attitude 

 at once sympathetic and critical, would seem to be in 

 order." 



