January, 1933 



THE LA. A. RECORD 



Page Thirteen 





I. A. A. Gives Dinner To 



Illinois 4-H Champs 



Some of Best Lessons to Be 



Learned on Farm, Dean 



Tells Club Members 



Some of the best lessons are to be 

 learned on the farm and in the 

 farm home, Dean H. W. Mumford of 

 the Illinois College of Agriculture 

 told his audience of more than 200 

 Illinois 4-H Club members, leaders, 

 farm advisers, I. A. A. officials, staff 

 members and their guests who at- 

 tended the annual banquet ten- 

 dered the Illinois champions by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 associated companies in the Great 

 Northern Hotel December 1. 



"One of the lessons every boy and 

 girl should learn is to be prompt," 

 said the Dean. "As a boy I worked 

 on the stack with my father. He 

 stacked with a fork and he always 

 wanted 'the bundles where they be- 

 longed, and he wanted them on 

 time. 



"The older you get the more you 

 will realize how much there is to 

 learn and how little you know. You 

 will learn that you must work for 

 what you get. Nothing is handed 

 to you on a silver platter. You per- 

 haps have had more of that sort of 

 thing this week than you will have 

 for some time." 



Dean Mumford called attention to 

 the fact that while attendance in 

 the University of Illinois has 

 dropped off from 10 to 12 per cent 

 registration in the Ag College this 

 fall was only two less than a year 

 ago. Jobs in other lines are scarce 

 now, he said, and many boys are 

 learning that there is no better 

 place than on the farm. 



Interesting talks were made by 

 Lloyd Atwell and Alda Von Ohlen 

 for the Club members. 



President Earl C. Smith presided 

 and introduced I. A. A. directors, 

 members of the staff, and managers 

 of the associated companies who co- 

 operated in sponsoring the dinner. 

 Each responded with a short talk. 



E. I. Pilchard and Miss Mary Mc- 

 Kee, state club leaders, and Homer 

 J. Tice, veteran member of the Illi- 

 nois Legislature and superintendent 

 of the Illinois State Fair, assisted 

 in awarding the medals. 



C. B. Denman, livestock member 

 of the Federal Farm Board, and 

 managers of several Producers' 

 Commission Associations in Illinois 

 were guests. 



The dinner, entertainment, and 

 the program as in past years were 

 arranged by Ray E. Miller, director 

 of livestock marketing. 



The following organizations co- 

 operated in sponsoring the dinner: 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company, Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company, Country Life Insurance 

 Company, Farmers Mutual Reinsur- 



L A. A. WINS SILVER TROPHIES 



For "OutRtanding: Publicity on a State Project," and for the «Be8t Single lasne 

 of A State Farm Bureau Publication," these cups were awarded to the Ililnoia 

 Agrricnlturai Asttociatlon during the recent A. F. B. F. convention in Chicago. 

 The I. A. A entered two of the three publicity contests vrlnningr both In compe- 

 tition with eight other State Farm Bureau Federations. An exhibit and descrip- 

 tion of the publicity campaign used In putting oTer the state-wide Dedication 

 Day Celebration July 4, and the September Issue of the I. A. A. RECORD were 

 submitted. 



Judges were Dean H. F. Harrington of the Medill School of Journalism, North- 

 Mrestern University; Ralph D. McManus, publicity director, Armour & Co , and 

 Ross Bartley, director of publicity. Century of Progress Fxposltion, Chicago. 

 Nevada won the third contest for best publicity on a national project. 



ance Company, Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration, Soybean Marketing Asso- 

 ciation, Illinois Livestock Market- 

 ing Association, Illinois Farm Bu- 

 reau Serum Association, Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Auditing Association, Illi- 

 nois Produce Marketing Associa- 

 tion, and Illinois Fruit Growers' Ex- 

 change. 



"Personality" Can Be 



Developed Says Prof. 



Personality may be partly an in- 

 born quality but much of one's per- 

 sonality is acquired through living, 

 says Prof. Paul J. Kruse of New 

 York State College of Agriculture in 

 advising farm boys to develop "per- 

 sonality." 



Growth of anything, he says, 

 plant, animal, or human depends 

 upon the condition surrounding it. 

 Good seed may fail to make a good 

 plant through improper cultivation; 

 bad handling of a colt may result in 

 a mean disposition horse; likewise a 

 young man of promise may fail to 

 become successful in his work and 

 as a citizen through failure to culti- 

 vate his mind and personality. Man 

 is in some degree master of his own 

 destiny. 



Whiteside County Folks 

 Help Injured Neighbor 



Fifty men and 19 women with 17 

 wagons gathered at the home of 

 Frank Allen near Lyndon in White- 

 side county recently to help him 

 finish picking corn when Mr. Allen 

 lost an arm in a mechanical corn 

 picker. 



The party picked 800 bushels of 

 corn and hauled it to the cribs. 



Frank is a son of Rep. Henry C. 

 Allen who has represented the 35th 

 senatorial district in the state legis- 

 lature for many years. Both have 

 been active in the past in Farm Bu- 

 reau work in that county. 



Mr. Allen recently returned home 

 from the Sterling hospital where for 

 a time his condition was very grave. 



L A. A. Float Wins 



Float No. 1, "The Farmer's Din- 

 ner Bell is the Liberty Bell of 1932" 

 designed for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association during the state- 

 wide 4th of July demonstration was 

 used by the Washoe County Farm 

 Bureau at Reno, Nevada on Sept. 1 

 and was awarded first prize in the 

 parade. 



David C. Shepler of Logan county 

 who for many years was active in 

 soliciting memberships for the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association re- 

 cently passed away following a 

 heart attack at his home in Lincoln. 

 He was 64 years old. 



Mr. Shepler was an active mem- 



ber of the Logan County Farm Bu- 

 reau which he assisted in organizing 

 many years ago. 



An organisation of corn growers is 

 being formed In Nebraska, declnrea a 

 press dispatch of Dec. 18, to get farmers 

 in the corn belt to sign np for ■ 20 to 

 25 per cent reduction In corn acreage 

 in 1»33. 



