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I. A. A. Record— August, 1933 



Lee J. Quasey Leaves 



Employ of L A. A. 



Connection Severed After Many 

 Years As Director of Trans- 

 portation 



Arrangements are being made to 

 further reinforce the Legal Depart- 

 ment of the Association. A more de- 

 tailed announcement will be made in 

 the next issue of the RECORD. 



All Counties In 16th 



At District Conference 



L. J. aUASET 



LJ. QUASEY, director of the I. 

 A. A. Transportation Depart- 

 * ment for more than 10 years, 

 left the employ of the Association July 

 1. 



Mr. Quasey 

 came with the 

 Association short- 

 ly after it was or- 

 g a n i z e d on its 

 present basis in 

 1919 to assist in 

 managing the of- 

 fice. Soon after 

 he was given 

 charge of the 

 wool pool until 

 the Livestock 

 M ar k e ting De- 

 partment was organized and took over 

 this work. 



Mr. Quasey then began handling 

 claims of various kinds referred to the 

 Association by members. This work 

 brought him into contact with rail- 

 roads and other public utilities. As a 

 result he with the aid of G. W. Bax- 

 ter developed a valuable service to 

 members which has expanded under 

 his direction. 



With engineering training as a back- 

 ground Quasey studied traffic and 

 public utility law and several years 

 ago completed a night law course at 

 the John Marshall Law School of Chi- 

 cagQ. He was admitted to the bar in 

 1930. 



Hearings before the State and In- 

 terstate Commerce Commissions in 

 which the Association was represented 

 by Mr. Quasey, resulted in a number 

 of rate reductions and substantial sav- 

 ings for farmers. Similarly, more fa- 

 vorable easement contracts and in- 

 creased compensation were secured for 

 many Farm Bureau members in con- 

 nection with pipe lines, telephone and 

 power lines crossing farm lands. 



Representation of Farm Bureau 

 members' interests in these problems 

 will be continued as in the past 

 through the Legal Department under 

 the direction of Mr. Kirkpatrick. The 

 handling of loss and damage and other 

 claims, and freight rate service will 

 be continued in the Transportation 

 Division of the Legal Department un- 

 der the able direction of Guy W. Bax- 

 ter who has been performing this part 

 of the Association's service for many 

 years. 



About Federal Farnn Credit 



Editor: The L A. A. Record. 



In your July "RECORD" you ask 

 "What of the new credit legislation?" 

 As near as I can figure it out and from 

 all paper reports, it is just so much 

 bunk to soothe the farming element. 

 And when he wakes up he will have a 

 worse headache than when he went in- 

 to the coma. In the first place the Fed- 

 eral land bank will have its pound of 

 flesh regardless of where it comes 

 from. You say that some of the prac- 

 tices of county farm loan officers com- 

 pare with the hard-boiled bankers and 

 loan officers. If they were not hard- 

 boiled they would not be in the employ 

 of the Federal land bank very long, for 

 I have met two or three of these birds. 

 They just up and tell you that they 

 are not working on human sympathy. 



The article you printed on page 17 

 of your July "RECORD" in the first 

 column and part of the second, I think, 

 is not so much the attitude of the 

 home loan secretary as it is the atti- 

 tude of the Federal land bank. When 

 you come to the expression "worthy 

 farm debtors" you will find very few 

 in this country, for the vast majority 

 of the 40% of farm indebtedness will 

 have to be foreclosed because none are 

 worthy of any more credit than what 

 they have, and the vast majority of 

 those who could get credit don't need 

 it for they are so conservative that 

 they never venture into any enterprise 

 especially if it would help their neigh- 

 bors. But the trouble is that the whole 

 commodity price from a shoe string 

 to a threshing machine has fallen to 

 % or M of our 1910-14 average, but 

 our farm mortgages and interest have 

 stayed the same with interest slightly 

 higher than before the slump. — A. O. 

 Behnke, Hancock county. 111. 



58th General Assembly 



(Continued from page 10) 



members on the ground that it would 

 interfere with farmers who sell their 

 own and perhaps their neighbors' 

 products to consumers in neighboring 

 cities. The bill lost by a vote of 25 to 



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As a result of the failure of this 

 General Assembly to enact construc- 

 tive revenue legislation, or to submit 

 a revenue amendment to make possible 



MB. MULLER 



Legislative activities of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association at Spring- 

 field, together with latest develop- 

 ments in the administration of the 

 Emergency Farm Act occupied the 

 center of attention at the 16th I. A. A. 

 district con- 

 ference held at 

 the East Peoria 

 recreation camp 

 June 24. All coun- 

 ties in the district 

 were represented. 



Secretary 

 George E. Metz- 

 ger called atten- 

 tion to the ad- 

 vance in farm 

 prices which was 

 largely brought 



about by the inflation amendment and 

 the power vested in the President 

 through the Emergency Farm Act to ; 

 raise prices. Mr. Metzger stated that 

 the Farm Bureau movement more than 

 any other agency, was responsible for 

 the passage of this far-reaching legis- 

 lation. On the subject of state legis- 

 lation he disclosed that the influence 

 of the I. A. A. was used at Spring- 

 field to make the first state sales tax 

 primarily a property tax replacement 

 measure and to divide the receipts 

 therefrom among the counties on an 

 equitable basis according to popula- 

 tion. 



Four-H Club work was discussed by 

 Wayne Gilbert, Stark county farm ad- 

 viser; "Publicity" by J. W. Whisenand, 

 Peoria county; and "Organization" by 

 R. J. Hamilton, district I. A. A. or- 

 ganizatior. manager. George B. 

 Muller, member of the I. A. A. board, 

 opened the meeting and presided. 



taxation based on ability to pay, the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association be- 

 lieves that it will be necessary to call 

 a special session of the legislature 

 later in the year to meet the ever-in- 

 creasing and pressing problems that 

 threaten the very maintenance of gov- 

 ernment. In line with its well known 

 policy the I. A. A. will hold itself in 

 readiness to work with responsible 

 state officials and others to meet these 

 problems in a manner that is fair and 

 equitable to all interests concerned. 



The legislative committee urges that 

 Farm Bureau members make a most 

 careful study of the voting records of 

 their respective senators and repre- 

 sentatives on what the committee be- 

 lieves to be important measures af- 

 fecting farm interests in this state. 



