I. A. A. RECORD— May, 1933 



W. H. Moody of Port 



Byron Passes Away 



W. H. HOODT 



W. H. Moody of Port Byron, died 

 suddenly the night of April 20, the 

 Rock Island County Farm Bureau 

 announced in a telegram received at 

 I. A. A. headquarters. Mr. Moody was 

 on the I. A. A. board many years 

 where he served as chairman of the 



finance commit- 

 tee, Subsequently 

 he became a di- 

 rector in the Chi- 

 c a g o Producers 

 Commission As- 

 sociation. His was 

 a familiar face at 

 state and district 

 meetings of the I. 

 A. A. and asso- 

 ciated companies. 

 He attended the 

 recent annual 

 meeting of the Chicago Producers at 

 the Sherman Hotel, Chicago and also 

 was a visitor at the district meeting 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 

 Insurance Co. in Galesburg a short 

 time ago. 



Moody was a pioneer in the Farm 

 Bureau movement and held member- 

 ships in both the Rock Island and 

 Whiteside County organizations in 

 past years. He served as general 

 agent for the I. A. A. insurance com- 

 panies in his home county in 1929 and 

 1930 and invariably took a keen in- 

 terest in all the new services and 

 companies set up by the Association. 

 He subscribed for $5000 of insurance 

 in Country Life Insurance Co. soon 

 after it was organized. Mr. Moody's 

 service to agriculture in Illinois is 

 worthy of the highest tribute. His 

 kindly greeting and smile will be 

 missed by a host of friends. 



Chicago Health Board 



Drawing In Milk Shed 



The Chicago Board of Health on 

 March 28 announced that it would in- 

 spect additional dairy herds in north- 

 ern Illinois closest to the Chicago 

 market. This announcement represents 

 a change in policy. For several years 

 the health commissioner has refused 

 inspection to new dairy farms re- 

 gardless of their location. 



Assurance was given milk producers 

 of Boone and McHenry counties who 

 gathered at the city hall in Chicago 

 that the board was proceeding on its 

 policy of gradually drawing in the 

 area from which milk and cream for 

 Chicago would be obtained. . 



Exports At 71 



A further decrease in volume ex- 

 ports of farm products in February 

 brought the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics index of exports down to 

 71 for that moiith as compared with 

 a 1909-14 average of 100. 



The index of exports of wheat and 

 flour dropped to 25 as contrasted with 

 89 in February a year ago. 



Tax Commission Order Is 

 Unconstitutional — Watson 



Representatives of cities desiring 

 the next annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association will ap- 

 pear before the I. A. A. board on 

 May 12. 



United States corn will meet less 

 active competition in world markets 

 this year because of prospective short 

 supplies in the Argentine and South 

 Africa. 



Stocks of old corn have been ma- 

 terially reduced in Roumania and other 

 Danubian countries of Europe. The 

 United States is the only country hav- 

 ing relatively large supplies on hand. 



"Mac" and "Hank" 



w. w. Mclaughlin j. h. lloyd 



Walter W. McLaughlin, state di- 

 rector of agriculture, whose ap- 

 pointment was announced in the 

 April RECORD, recently announced 

 the selection of J. H. "Hank" Lloyd 

 as assistant director. Mr. Lloyd 

 has been managing farms in Kane 

 and adjoining counties for the Frst 

 National Bank of Aurora. He be- 

 gan his new work at Springfield 

 April 10. 



"Hank" graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1911, was in- 

 structor in crops for two years at 

 Purdue University, and was em- 

 ployed for 14 years as farm ad- 

 viser in Hancock county. In 1930 

 he became manager of the Soybean 

 Marketing Association which he 

 served until 1931 when he moved to 

 Aurora. 



Mr. Lloyd will assist in carry- 

 ing out the many regulatory duties 

 connected with the state depart- 

 ment. 



JOHN WATSON 



The reported order of the Illinois 

 Tax Commission that personal prop- 

 erty be assessed at 100 per cent of 

 fair cash value, while real estate is 

 assessed at a lower figure is not in 

 accord with the uniformity provision 

 in the Constitution of Illinois, accord- 

 ing to John C. 

 Watson, director 

 of taxation. 



In a recent 

 statement to the 

 McLean County 

 Farm Bureau, Mr. 

 Watson said that 

 if real estate in 

 that county is as- 

 sessed at approxi- 

 mately 60 per 

 cent of its fair 

 cash value this 



percentage also should be used in the 

 assessment of all personal property. 

 Watson states that this method of as- 

 sessing personal property is the only 

 one that can be defended in the courts. 

 Len Jones, chairman of the Mc- 

 Lean county tax committee, reported 

 that his committee would oppose a 

 100 per cent valuation in that county 

 because such assessment would throw 

 an unfair proportion of taxes on per- 

 sonal property. • - .. 

 The tax committee also went Oil 

 record against diversion of funds de- 

 rived from the state sales tax for 

 relief purposes. The McLean County 

 Farm Bureau believes that sales tax 

 revenue should be used to replace and 

 reduce dollar for dollar taxes now 

 levied against property for educational 

 purposes in that county. , - , . 



Gross Income Tax In c 

 Indiana Fair To All 



The gross income tax adopted by 

 the Indiana legislature of 1933 has 

 brought about an equitable distribu- 

 tion of the tax burden, according to 

 the Indiana Farm Bureau. "No tax 

 battle has been more bitterly fought 

 nor more decisively won than that 

 fought by the 'artful taxdodgers' on 

 the one side and the 'embattled farm- 

 ers' on the other," said Lewis Taylor, 

 director of the tax department. "The 

 tax load is now shifted to all citizens 

 on a parity, and although farmers \' 

 will pay their just share, their load ; 

 will be greatly lightened, which will:, 

 enhance their opportunities to save ." 

 their farms and homes during this 

 critical period." 



