Page Four 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



March, 1933 



Take Further Steps In 



Alcohol Dilution Plan 



Chester Davis Retained By Com- 

 mittee of Farm Organiza- 

 tion Leaders To As- 

 semble Facts 



FURTHER steps toward co-or- 

 dinating all facts and informa- 

 tion and promoting early consider- 

 ation by congress of the alcohol- 

 gasoline dilution plan were taken 

 recently when Chester C. Davis, 

 former grain marketing director of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, was re- 

 tained tem- 

 porarily by the 

 committee of 

 farm leaders re- 

 cently set up to 

 investigate and 

 promote the 

 plan. 



Mr. Davis who 

 during recent 

 years has been 

 associated with 

 Malzewood Prod- 

 CHEBTBB DAVIS ^^^g Company 



which manufactures building board 

 from cornstalks in their Dubuque 

 plant, is well known to Illinois farm 

 people. The Malzewood plant has 

 been closed temporarily because of 

 business stagnation in the building 

 field. For many years Mr. Davis 

 was associated with Geo. N. Peek 

 of Moline at Washington in efforts 

 to secure enactment of surplus con- 

 trol legislation. He will delve into 

 the pile of information already as- 

 sembled and seek further facts 

 bearing on the feasibility of the 

 plan. 



The Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany is considering a road test, in 

 a limited territory, of gasoline 

 diluted with 10 per cent ethyl alco- 

 hol. Permission must first be sc- 

 oured from the Federal Prohibition 

 Department which supervises the 

 distribution and use of industrial 

 alcohol. For diluting purposes only 

 anhydrous alcohol can be used, 

 containing less than one -half of 

 one per cent water, and dilution 

 may be made only under the super- 

 vision of a federal officer. At this 

 writing an early conference has 

 been scheduled to secure permis- 

 sion and arrange details of the pro- 

 posed test. 



Gasoline diluted with 10 per cent 

 alcohol will sell for a premium of 

 three cents per gallon above the 

 ordinary price of gasoline. Even at 

 this price all profit will be stripped 

 from the handling of the alcohol. 



The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion hopes to sponsor legislation 

 containing the alcohol dilution plan 

 as offering a new outlet for the dis- 

 posal of surplus grain. The plan is 

 in no sense an emergency measure 

 sinet several years will be required 



Henry A. Wallace New 

 Secretary of Agriculture 



THE appointment of Henry A. 

 Wallace, of Iowa, editor of Wal- 

 lace's Farmer, as the new Secretary 

 of Agriculture assures American 

 agriculture of an outstanding 

 champion in President Roosevelt's 

 cabinet. Mr. Wallace, age 44, will 

 be the youngest Secretary of Agri- 

 culture appointed since the posi- 

 tion was created. He follows in the 

 footsteps of his father, Henry C. 

 Wallace who was Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture in the cabinets of both 

 Presidents Harding and Coolidge. 

 Mr. Wallace long has been recog- 

 nized as an outstanding writer and 

 thinker on farm economic and 

 social questions. He and his father 

 both have vigorously opposed gov- 

 ernment policies tending to pro- 

 mote industrial development at the 

 expense of agriculture. This atti- 

 tude on the part of Henry C. Wal- 

 lace brought him into sharp con- 

 flict with Herbert Hoover when both 

 were in President Harding's cabi- 

 net. 



The selection of Henry Wallace 

 will meet with general satisfaction 

 among farmers throughout the 

 country because of his unquestioned 

 devotion to the best interests of 

 agriculture. 



to erect plants for making alcohol 

 from grain. 



In the meantime the I. A. A. and 

 Farm Bureau will continue their 

 support of surplus control legisla- 

 tion of an emergency nature con- 

 sideration of which is expected in 

 the proposed special session of con- 

 gress to meet soon after March 4. 



Sales Tax, Mortgage Legislation 

 Before General Assembly 



(Continued from page 3) 

 continue such proceedings until 

 July 1, 1935, although reserving the 

 right to set it aside later. 



Operation of Property 



Under the bill the court is author- 

 ized to make provision for the con- 

 trol and operation of the property 

 so as to give due consideration to 

 the mortgagor, shall determine and 

 fix a fair rental or consideration to 

 be paid by the party in possession, 

 and shall make provision for the 

 distribution of rents, income, and 

 profits from the real estate and for 

 care and preservation of the prop- 

 erty. 



The bill would further preclude 

 obtaining deficiency judgments in 

 similar cases where good cause is 

 shown and the debtor is worthy of 

 consideration. 



The order of the court shall pro- 

 vide that taxes, including special 

 assessments in the case of real es- 

 tate, costs, insurance, maintenance 

 and upkeep shall be paid in the 

 priority named from the rents, in- 

 come, and profits, and any balance 

 distributed in such manner as the 

 court may direct. 



If the mortgagor violates any 

 order of the court, the latter may 

 set aside its stay of execution and 

 permit a final determination of the 

 proceedings or may order the sheriff 

 to levy upon and sell the property 

 subject to execution. 



The court also is authorized to 

 recommend conciliation and may 

 enter orders acceptable to the in- 

 terested parties not covered in the 

 provisions of the Act. The Act if 

 passed will expire July 1, 1935 and 

 will take effect on passage. 



Changes In Farm Advisers 



F. A. Fisher, formerly county ad- 

 viser in Wabash and Morgan coun- 

 ties and more recently director of 

 Farm Bureau farm management 

 service in northwestern Illinois, was 

 recently employed as county ad- 

 viser in Macon county. 



L. J. Fultz, formerly farm adviser 

 in Johnson county, was employed to 

 succeed the late J. E. Whitchurch 

 as county adviser in Saline county. 



Reorganization of the Soil and 

 Crop Improvement Association in 

 Kankakee county as the Kankakee 

 County Farm Bureau and employ- 

 ment of a farm adviser to succeed 

 the late John H. Collier are being 

 considered in that county. 



Wm. E. Reigel, Tolono, manager 

 of the Meharry Farms, was recently 

 elected president of the Illinois 

 Farm Managers Association. E. D. 

 Lawrence, Bloomington, was elected 

 vice-president; and Carl Olson, Sib- 

 ley, secretary-treasurer. 



Fred Campbell, formerly assistant 

 farm adviser in Knox county, has 

 accepted a position as farm man- 

 ager in northwestern Illinois for the 

 John Hancock Life Insurance Com- 

 pany. This company, like many 

 others, has large sums of money In- 

 vested in farm mortgages. 



