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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



February, 1933 



I Li 1j I N OI6 



COLTUBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



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 Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. 

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

 III. Entered as second class matter at i>08t office, Spencer, Ind. Accept- 

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 Act of Feb. 28, 192S, aathoriEed Oct. 27, 1925. Address all commnnications 

 for publication to Editorial Offiices, Illinois Agricultural Association Becord, 

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

 Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee Includes 

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

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OFFICEBS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice--Pre8ldent, A. K. Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo. 8. Metiger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomlngton 



BOABD OF DIBECTOBS 

 (By Congressional District) 



Ist to 11th........ Ebb Harris, Grays I-ake 



12th G. F. TuUock, Rockford 



18th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



16th M. Ray Ihrlg, Golden 



leth Geo. B. Muller, Washington 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomlngton 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th B. G. Curtis, Champaign 



20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonyille 



2l8t Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Talmage DeFrees, Smlthboro 



28rd W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



26th R. B. Bndicott, Villa Ridge 



DEFABTMENT DIBECTOBS 



Comptroller J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Countiss 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing .H. W. Day 



Publicity George Thiem 



Insurance Service V. Vanlman 



Legal Coun^l Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. B. Johnston 



Organization G. B. Metzger 



Produce Marketing P. A. Oougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



ASSOCIATED OBOANIZATIONS 



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



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



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn F. B. Bingham, Mgr. 



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



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



Illinois Grain Corp Chas. P. Cummings. Vice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 



lUino's Livestock Market, AR8'n...Ray Miller, Mgr.; R, W. Grieser, Sales 



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



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



Resolutions Adopted by Board of Delegates, Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, 18th Annual 

 Meeting, Peoria, Jan. 26-27, 1933 



I — Restore Farm Buying Power _ 



Long delay and neglect of the Government in 

 squarely facing the agricultural surplus problem has 

 resulted in a tremendous accumulation of agricultural 

 surpluses greatly aggravating the unfortunate con- 

 dition of agriculture and finally undermining the eco- 

 nomic structure of the Nation. 



We believe a sound and effective solution of the sur- 

 plus problem of agriculture and a resultant increase 

 in farm price levels is a first essential to restore a 

 normal condition in America. 



The purchasing power of farm products has now 

 declined to approximately one-half its pre-war level, 

 many thousands of factories are idle and millions of 

 people are unemployed because the farmers and thoss 

 dependent upon farmers are out of the market as 

 buyers. National welfare demands immediate action 

 to restore farm buying power. 



We recognize the change in international trade that 

 has taken place due to changed debt relations among 

 Nations during the years of neglect and inequitable 

 treatment of agriculture by the Government. We also 

 recognize that rates of exchange by the Governments 



now adversely affect the normal disposal of crop sur- 

 pluses abroad. 



We urge the Oflacers and Directors of the Association 

 to use their full Influence to secure the enactment of 

 such emergency measures as may be necessary to re- 

 store directly to the producer at least the pre-war 

 purchasing power of the domestic requirements of our 

 more important surplus agricultural products. 



We also favor such legislation as is necessary to 

 secure proper and effective control of crop surpluses 

 in such manner as will prevent farm prices from being 

 forced below fair exchange price levels. 



We further authorize and direct the Officers and 

 Directors of the Organization to use their full in- 

 fluence in promoting such industrial uses of farm 

 products as may be found possible as a result of years 

 of research by our Colleges of Agriculture, the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and other agencies. 



We specifically authorize and direct the officers and 

 directors of this organization to immediately investi- 

 gate and, if justified, use their full influence in pro- 

 moting legislation for the use of a blended fuel made 

 by diluting all petroleum products used to develop 

 power in internal combustion engines with Ethyl alco- 

 hol made from agricultural products and by-products 

 thereof grown within the continental United States of 

 America. 



"'"^ II — Support Co-operative Marketing 



In many quarters the Agricultural Marketing Act 

 and the Federal Farm Board have been held re- 

 sponsible not only for the very low price of farm prod- 

 ucts, but for practically all other ills in America. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association has never be- 

 lieved that the Agricultural Marketing Act embodies 

 all the necessary provisions for a sound national agri- 

 cultural policy. Recognizing, however, that many of 

 its functions are very helpful in the building of co- 

 operative marketing organizations, we have given it 

 our wholehearted support. 



We emphatically reaffirm our support to co-operative 

 marketing and urge all units of our organization to 

 emphasize the importance of aggressive support of co- 

 operative associations that are organized on a basis 

 guaranteeing their control and management by pro- 

 ducers and equitable participation by all members in 

 the earnings and savings resulting from collective 

 marketing of a large volume of products. We ask all 

 rightful thinking people to differentiate between true 

 and genuine co-operatives and those operating under 

 the guise of co-operatives, but, in reality, confining 

 their earnings to a given few. 



We resent the continuous attacks upon many suc- 

 cessful co-operative marketing associations by those 

 who have only selfish interests to serve; we insist that 

 any changes in the marketing act, or in its adminis- 

 tration originate from farmers or their known friends 

 rather than from private trading interests who have 

 long controlled the marketing and processing of farm 

 products and have made tremendous profits therefrom. 



Ill — Farm Mortgage Indebtedness 



While Congress and the Nation are engaged in 

 formulating and considering suitable National legis- 

 lation to restore reasonable price parity between basic 

 farm commodities and goods and services required in 

 farm operations, it is important to save the farm 

 home and retain title in its farm owners and operators, 

 pending the restoration of reasonable price parity. The 

 continuing ruinous price levels of basic farm com- 

 modities, sharply depressed to new low levels, since 

 maturing 1932 crops, now directs attention to the im- 

 mediate crisis, in the interest of debtor and creditor 

 and the nation. 



We, therefore, respectfully importune the Congress 

 to enact appropriate legislation and to provide funds 



