Avril, 1933 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nineteen 



HERE ARE NEWLY ELECTED I. A. A. DIRECTORS 



E. HARRIS 



Lake county 

 11th DlMt. 



M. R. IHRIG 



Adams county 

 15th Dlat. 



E. D. LAWRENCE: 



McLean county 

 17th DlMt. 



EUGENE CURTIS 



CbampaiKn county 

 10th Dist. 



R. B. ENDICOTT 



Pulaski county 

 25th Dist. 



I. A. A. Board Hears 

 Review of Ass'n. Program 



Officers And Staff Report On 



Activities In Two Day 



Session 



A GENERAL review of all the 

 activities of the I. A. A. and 

 the associated companies by of- 

 ficers and staff members featured 

 the two day meeting of the I. A. A. 

 board of directors on Thursday and 

 Friday, March 23 and 24. Each de- 

 partment and company was as- 

 signed 20 minutes or more to dis- 

 cuss current activities and future 

 program. 



President Smith reviewed in de- 

 tail recent developments at Wash- 

 ington having to do with the fram- 

 ing of the new Roosevelt adminis- 

 tration farm bill. He expressed the 

 belief that the measure, which at 

 this writing has passed the House, 

 would pass the Senate without 

 serious amendment. , , .;. 



D«8eryee Sapport 



"The emergency agricultural 

 measure pending in Congress is the 

 most feasible, practical farm meas- 

 ure presented to Congress in recent 

 years," he said. "This bill is deserv- 

 ing of the united support of 

 farmers and also those indirectly 

 dependent on agriculture in other 

 lines of business and industry. 



"Under its provisions, it is pos- 

 sible to apply different principles 

 of surplus control to each of the 

 several commodities as the peculiar- 

 ities of the commodity might best 

 justify, thereby removing the out- 

 standing weakness of previous 

 measures." 



John C. Watson, Donald Kirk- 

 patrick, and Charles Black reported 

 on state legislation at Springfield. 

 Mr. Watson outlined a proposed tax 

 reduction program with cuts in 

 state appropriations, salaries of 

 state and county officials, and ex- 

 penditures all along the line. He 

 also discussed the reallocation of 



the gas tax among counties, town- 

 ships, and municipalities so as to 

 relieve property from all or nearly 

 all of road and bridge levies. 



Review Bills 



Mr. Kirkpatrick commented 

 briefly on a large number of bills 

 indicating the progress of measures 

 in which the I. A. A. is most directly 

 interested. These include a chattel 

 mortgage bill, a measure providing 

 for a moratorium on farm loans, 

 tax reduction measures, ice cream 

 and oleo bills, possibilities of a flat 

 rate income tax, and the sales tax. 



On Thursday night the board 

 approved the report of the Organ- 

 ization-Publicity advisory commit- 

 tee providing for: 



1. A publicity contest among the 

 County Farm Bureaus supervised by 

 the Director of Information. 



2. Continuation of collection plan 

 used successfully in past months. 



3. Maintenance of seven district 

 organization men who will devote 

 time to collections as well as to or- 

 ganization. 



4. Approval of organization cam- 

 paign in 1933 under which each 

 county, township, and solicitor will 

 be assigned quotas with suitable 

 recognition to reward those achiev- 

 ing the goal. 



5. Approval of plan to try out 

 full time man in charge of organ- 

 ization and collection in one or 

 more counties. 



6. Approval of experiment of or- 

 ganization plan in one or more 

 counties involving credit to member 

 on his dues for signing new mem- 

 bers. 



It was unanimously agreed that 

 the volunteer system of solicitation 

 should be maintained but that it 

 might be supplemented with ad- 

 ditional effort on a paid basis. 



The directors voted unanimously 

 to send a message to the two 

 United States senators from Illi- 

 nois expressing unanimous approv- 

 al of the new farm bill and urging 

 their co-operation in securing its 

 enactment. ■';■,-• ';'■■'? 



Seek To Improve Farm 



Bureau News Service 



A County Farm Bureau Publicity 

 Contest sponsored by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association for the bal- 

 ance of the calendar year beginning 

 April 1 was approved by the I. A. A. 

 board on March 23. Entries are to 

 be made on or before June 1, 1933 

 and exhibits to be submitted on or 

 before January 10, 1934. 



Three cash prizes totaling $150 

 will be offered to the winning en- 

 tries, the money to go to the County 

 Farm Bureaus in furtherance of 

 more effective informational service. 



The plan calls for the appoint- 

 ment of county committees of three 

 members to work out details of a 

 more effective news service. It is 

 suggested that township or com- 

 munity reporters be appointed to 

 get local Farm Bureau news to the 

 papers and to the Farm Bureau of- 

 fice for publication in the county 



bulletin. 



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Exhibits will be judged on the 

 quality and effectiveness of the 

 news service to the local papers, at- 

 tractiveness, make-up and news 

 content of the official Farm Bu- 

 reau paper, exhibits, pamphlets, 

 direct by mail literature, etc., and 

 stories in other than local publica- 

 tions. The effect of the publicity 

 program on membership acquisi- 

 tion and maintenance also will be 

 taken into consideration. 



The contest is designed to stimu- 

 late a more varied and aggressive 

 program of Farm Bureau service 

 and the establishment of an infor- 

 mational service through the local 

 newspapers. 



Winners will be recognized and 

 prizes awarded at the annual meet- 

 ing of the 1 A. A. next January, 



HorHCN anil muleM are the only proil- 

 uetn of the farm that are brlnKinir 

 better iiriceit than a year bko. In 

 February horMen averaKed 9«2 anti 

 muleN $«7 compared with 9.'N.<(r> a year 

 aKO. The price of homeH declined from 

 1018 to 1832. 



