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I. A. A. Record— August, 193$ 



I li li I N OlS 



COL.TUBAL ASSOCIA 



RECORD 



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 



PiibllBbed monthly by the Illinois Agricultural AsMX-lntlon at 165 So. 

 Main St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offlcea, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

 III. Entered as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. Accept- 

 ance for malllDi; at special rate of postage provided In Section 412, 

 Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorised Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications 

 for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 

 WS So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The Individual membership fee of the 

 Illlnolfii Agricultural Association Is fire dollars a year. The fee includes 

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

 tion Record. Postmaster: In returning an uncalled for mlssent copy please 

 indicate key number on address as Is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo. B. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomlngton 



. . V ?;: BOARD OF DIRECTORS ;; - :;; 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th Ebb Harris, Grayslake 



12th G. F. Tullock, Roekford 



18th C. B. Bamborough, Polo 



J4th M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



16th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Geo. B. Muller, Washington 



17th E. D. I^twrence, Bloomlngton 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th E. G. Curtis, Champaign 



20th Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



2l8t Snmnel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Talmage DePrees, Smlthboro 



28i-d W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th R. B. Endlcott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



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 Counsel Donald Klrkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation L. J. Quasey 



ASSOCIATED OBOANIZATIONS 



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



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



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn P. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



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



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



Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange H. W. Day, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Chas. P. Cummings, A'ice-Pres. and Sales Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Market. Ass'n. .Ray Miller, SIgr., R. W. Orieser, Sales 



Illinois Producers Creameries F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 



Soybean Marketing Ass'n J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 



Study Their Records 



THE I. A. A. has endeavored since its organiza- 

 tion to represent and protect the best inter- 

 ests of farmers in legislation. At the same time 

 it has tried to be constructive, non-partisan, fair, 

 and helpful to successive administrations in work- 

 ing for good government and the welfare of the 

 state as a whole. 



This policy was adhered to in the 58th General 

 Assembly just closed. In bringing to the member- 

 ship a report of that session in the article begin- 

 ning on Page 3, an effort has been made to pre- 

 sent the issues of greatest consequence to agri- 

 culture, and to show how the downstate senators 

 and representatives conducted themselves when 

 put to test. 



If some voting records look bad the legislators 

 so classified have no one to blame but themselves. 

 We urge that each member study carefully the 



record of his senator and representatives and 

 retain this issue of the RECORD as a guide for 

 future use. 



To place the welfare of constituents above 

 everything else is the obvious duty of members 

 elected to the General Assembly. Farmers have 

 a right to expect that of the men and women they 

 send to Springfield. 



Railroad Stupidity 



THE Illinois Central railroad has refused to 

 spot cars for loading grain with portable 

 blowers along its right-of-way in Douglas county. 

 It will furnish cars if farmers will resort to the 

 back-breaking scoop shovel to load them. But the 

 mechanical device seems to be obnoxious. 



The railroad contends that it has leased space 

 to certain private elevator companies along its 

 lines and that farmers should load and ship their 

 grain through these elevators. This regardless of 

 the toll the elevator wishes to extract from the 

 producer for the service. The railroad hints that 

 the portable blower, likewise, should lease space 

 if it wishes to operate, which raises the question 1 

 as to whether a railroad is primarily in the busi- 

 ness of transportation or real estate. 



We might be inclined to dismiss the matter as 

 just another case of railroad stupidity, an illus- 

 tration of the lack of business enterprise and 

 progressiveness largely responsible for declining 

 income. This is the more charitable view. 



But we are also informed that the same railroad 

 permits an old-line grain company to install a_ 

 grain blower at Thawville in Iroquois county, al- 

 though the farmers' elevator there has ample fa- 

 cilities for loading grain. Thus, the situation has 

 the aspect of collusion between the railroad and 

 the private grain trade to head off the "fast-grow- 

 ing co-operative grain marketing movement in 

 Illinois. 



The Douglas County Co-operative Grain As- 

 sociation which has been grossly and unfairly 

 discriminated against is preparing to file a pro- 

 test with the Illinois Commerce Commission. While 

 the law is taking its course, the farmers are scoop- 

 ing grain and telling the railroad officials that un- 

 less they withdraw their stupid regulation trucks 

 will be employed to haul their grain to the ter- 

 minals. :.■ ;*:••■'. -■,;:,■■,.;'. :K/' .:'■ '.:- ■.'■.-■: 



One would think that the railroads had learned 

 a lesson from their vast loss of freight to the 

 trucks. Apparently not. But this much is cer- 

 tain. The organized farmers of Illinois will not be 

 stopped in their efforts to market their own grain. 

 They will not be cowed by collusion between the 

 grain trade and the railroads to deprive them 

 illegally of transportation service. The railroads 

 may force farmers temporarily to use the scoop 

 shovel when they prefer the blower as a method 

 of loading grain, but by so doing they are build- 

 ing nothing but ill will. And they may expect to 

 reap the consequences of their folly. ;^; ; /;; 



