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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



February, 1933 



I. A. A. Sponsors Sales 



Tax Amendments 



LEGISLATIVE representatives of 

 the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation were in Springfield on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, January 

 31st and February 1st watching 

 measures pending before the Gen- 

 eral Assembly. They secured intro- 

 duction, in the Senate, of amend- 

 ments to the sales tax bill to pro- 

 vide as follows: 



1. — Exemption from the sales tax 

 of all food for human consumption. 



2. — To make the sales tax pri- 

 marily a replacement tax for edu- 

 cational purposes in the elementary 

 schools instead of being primarily 

 an unemployment relief tax. 



3. — To remove from the State 

 Emergency Relief Commission the 

 power to decide for what purpose 

 any county's share of the sales tax 

 fund is to be expended. 



4. — To permit diversion of the 

 sales tax fund from educational 

 purposes to unemployment relief 

 purposes in any county only when 

 the county board by two-thirds vote 

 adopts a resolution requesting such 

 diversion and files the same with 

 the State Department of Finance. 



5. — To distribute the sales tax fund 

 not on the basis of collection, but 



(a) — on the basis of assessed 

 valuations of property as between 

 Cook county and the other counties 

 of the State. - ;. r ; " y 



(b) — On the basis of average ex- 

 penditures for educational purposes 

 in the elementary schools in all 

 downstate counties. 



These and other amendments of- 

 fered to the sales tax bill were to 

 be considered by the Senate Tues- 

 day, February 7th. ■;•.>.- •' 



O'Neal 



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He paid tribute to the leadership 

 furnished by Illinois for the farm- 

 er's cause, mentioning Sam Thomp- 

 son, Earl Smith, Geo. Peek, and 

 Clifford Gregory. He gave much 

 credit to Mr. Smith for his good 

 work in securing a more favorable 

 provision for hog producers in the 

 domestic allotment bill. 



"Weaker states in the Farm Bu- 

 reau family are counting on Illinois 

 to carry on as you have so ably done 

 in the past," he said. "You mem- 

 bers and leaders of the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association have an- 

 swered the call for leadership. You 

 have fought a great fight in your 

 state. You have shown great cour- 

 age. Faith and courage and great 

 leadership will give us a new day 

 for agriculture." :■;. ^.j-.:^:::.-:- ..r':-.-::^'i 



NOTICE] 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that In 

 connection with the annual meet- 

 ings of all county Farm Bureaus 

 to be held during the months of 

 February and March, 1933, at the 

 hour and place to be determined 

 by the Board of Directors of each 

 respective county Farm Bureau, 

 the members in good standing 

 of such county Farm Bureau and 

 who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural 

 Association shall elect a dele- 

 gate or delegates to represent 

 such members of Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and vote on 

 all matters before the next an- 

 nual meeting or any special 

 meeting of the Association, in- 

 cluding the election of officers 

 and directors as provided for in 

 the by-laws of the Association. 



During February an annual 

 meeting will be held in Will 

 county. 



During March annual meetings 

 will be held in Kanlcakee, Mc- 

 Donough, and Boone counties. 

 Signed, 

 G. E. Metzger, Secretary 

 Feb. 1, 1933 



Farmers' Institute, Joliet 



"Raising the Farmers' Price 

 Level," will be the subject of an ad- 

 dress by President Earl Smith on 

 Thursday morning Feb. 23 at the 

 annual Illinois Farmers Institute, 

 Joliet. Henry Wallace, C. V. Greg- 

 ory, Dr. C. L. Holmes and others 

 will address the three -day session 

 beginning Feb. 22. 



Smith To Washington v v 

 On Legislative Work 



President Earl C. Smith left Chi- 

 cago for Washington on Feb. 1 to 

 work for the early passage of legis- 

 lation to raise farm prices and re- 

 lieve the farm debt situation. 



John C. Watson, Donald Kirk- 

 patrlck, Robt. A. Cowles, and Chas. 

 Black, chairman of the Public Re- 

 lations advisory committee are 

 representing the Association alter- 

 nately at Springfield to protect the 

 interests of Illinois farmers in leg- 

 islation pending before the General 

 Assembly. 



Mrs. Meis Doing Well 



Mrs. Henry J. Meis, president of 

 the Illinois Home Bureau Federa- 

 tion, who was seriously injured in 

 an automobile accident at a rail- 

 road crossing near Jacksonville in 

 Morgan county, is making satis- 

 factory progress toward recovery at 

 her home in Pontiac. One leg was 

 broken in several places and two 

 ribs were fractured, in addition to 

 other injuries. 



Mr. Meis was fatally injured in 

 the same accident. He passed away 

 in the local hospital at Jacksonville. 



Mrs. Meis was out on a speaking 

 tour addressing Farm and Home 

 Bureau annual meetings when the 

 accident occurred. . • ' .;'\v— ,, "> 



Quality Milk Ass'n. 



Seeks New Agreement 



As we go to press, efforts are be- 

 ing made by directors of the Quality 

 Milk Association at Rock Island, 

 Moline, E. Moline, and Davenport 

 to work out a new agreement with 

 milk distributors at the quad cities. 

 The contract entered into last fall 

 expired Feb. 1 when several dealers 

 served notice that they would buy 

 their requirements from unorgan- 

 ized farmers. 



Possibilities of a milk price war 

 loomed between dealers who dis- 

 agree over co-operating with the 

 Association. The fact that Quality 

 Milk has members both in Iowa and 

 Illinois is complicating matters. 

 Davenport dealers are attempting 

 to divide the Association and re- 

 move I. A. A.-Farm Bureau in- 

 fluence, thinking that by so doing 

 they can have a freeer hand in 

 dictating the basis of dealer-farm- 

 er co-operation, if any. 



In the meantime, members of the 

 Association have a market through 

 their plant in Davenport which is 

 manufacturing 93 score sweet cream 

 butter commanding a premium 

 price. 



New Farm Bloc In "^ • ^ 

 Congress Announced 



Formation of a farm bloc in Con- 

 gress composed of approximately 

 150 members representing all 

 parties and determined to secure 

 legislation at the present session 

 for the relief of agriculture and the 

 entire nation was announced by the 

 A. F. B. F. 



Four such committees were ap- 

 pointed, according to the announce- 

 ment as follows: Farm Mortgage 

 Foreclosures — Congressman John N. 

 Sandlin, Louisiana; Farm Relief— 

 Congressman Wm, W. Arnold, Illi- 

 nois; Currency Reform — Congress- 

 man Jeff Busby, Mississippi; City 

 Co-operation — Congressman James 

 M. Mead, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Edward A. O'Neal, president, 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 was invited by the first three of 

 these sub-committees to sit in and 

 counsel with them in behalf of or- 

 ganized agriculture. The sub-com- 

 mittees are meeting and working 

 with all possible haste to whip leg- 

 islation into concrete form and 

 drive it through Congress regardless 

 of whether either major political 

 party formulates a legislative pro- 

 gram. 



The committees contemplate leg- 

 islation to lower the price of the 

 dollar, stop wherever possible farm 

 mortgage foreclosures, and bring 

 about equality for agriculture and 

 . labor. ■■-: •■.■•- ■■".-■- • ;•--■■: ■, - -■> ■■■ ;:•'^- 



