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I. A. A. RECORD— October, 1933 



II" 



Approximately $25,000,000 of 

 the counties' portion of the gaso- 

 line tax funds are already pledged 

 for retirement of the principal and 

 interest of the $20,000,000 state 

 bond issue voted in 1932. Several 

 million dollars more of county gaso- 

 line tax moneys have been used by 

 the counties to provide direct re- 

 lief. In addition more than $43,000,- 

 000 have been advanced to Illinois 

 by the Federal Reconstruction Fi- 

 nance Corporation, which amount is 

 to be deducted from future allot- 

 ments of Federal aid road funds to 

 this State. Competent engineers 

 state that more than 90% of all 

 moneys used in road building ulti- 

 mately go directly or indirectly as 

 compensation for labor. Reports of 

 the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 

 mission indicate that approximately 

 8% of its moneys are used for ad- 

 ministrative expenses and approxi- 

 mately 92% are used for direct re- 

 lief. It appears that road building 

 provides practically the same 

 amount of money for employment 

 as direct relief provides for the re- 

 lief of unemployment. 



Downstate townships and counties 

 have raised, by property taxation, 

 large sums of money to provide re- 

 lief for their residents while in Cook 

 county the townships have no power 

 to make any levy for this purpose 

 and but a very small portion of the 

 total county levy has been used for 

 relief purposes. 



Therefore, it is the sense and rec- 

 ommendation of this State Confer- 

 ence of Farm Bureau leaders: 



1. That any further diversion of 

 gasoline tax funds from the mainte- 

 nance and construction of roads 

 should be opposed. 



2. That until all local communities 

 have drawn reasonably upon their 

 own resources, any further extension 

 of the principle of state support for 

 the unemployed should be opposed. 



3. The General Assembly should 

 be urged to enact the legislation 

 necessary to enable the appropriate 

 taxing districts in Cook County and 

 other commission-governed counties 

 to care for the unemployed and 

 destitute residing therein. 



II 



In view of the grossly unjust 

 burden laid upon owners of tangible 

 property for support of State, Coun- 

 ty and local government, the ad- 

 verse effect of such burden upon the 

 values of property, and the rapidly 

 increasing delinquency in the pay- 

 ment of taxes, this Conference of 

 Farm Bureau leaders earnestly urge 

 the officers and Board of Directors 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 



Soybean Growers To 



Meet Decatur 29th 



LUCIUS E. WILSON 



Mr. 'WilHon viho viill direct the Mo- 

 blllzntion Campaign durins the next 60 

 dayd han had Avide experience through- 

 out the United States as an orKanlzer 

 and buMincMH executive. Born on a farm 

 in Livinetiton county, Michigan In 

 1878, he tauBht country Mchool and 

 later graduated from the Detroit Col- 

 ieRe of L.a\v. Who's Who says of him: 

 "He orgranized the movement for new 

 city governments or chambers of com- 

 merce in more than lOO cities up to 

 1921; executive secretary Greater Des 

 Moines Committee 1006-1010; director 

 Dayton. Ohio Citizens Committee 101.3 

 during: ivhich time government by city 

 managrer was adopted; executive direc- 

 tor Detroit Board of Commerce 1911- 

 1012; founder 1014 and managring: direc- 

 tor American City Bureau Summer 

 Schools for Commercial Secretaries; 

 managrer American City Bureau 1014- 

 1021; president General Orgranizatlon 

 Co. from 1021 to 1029. 



tion to take such action as they may 

 deem advisable or necessary to se- 

 cure the calling of a special session 

 of the Fifty-Eighth General Assem- 

 bly and the submission, by that 

 body, of an amendment to the Rev- 

 enue Article of the State Constitu- 

 tion, to be voted on in November, 

 1934, embodying the following prin- 

 ciples: , '. 



1. Removal of all restrictions 

 which prevent a broadening of the 

 base of taxation and the establish- 

 ment of an equitable system of taxa- 

 tion. 



2. The imposition of restrictions 

 upon the taxation of property which 

 •will relieve tangible property, both 

 rural and urban, of at least one-half 

 of the burden now laid upon it. 



Dairy products since 1925 have 

 constituted an ever increasing por- 

 tion of total farm income. In 1925 

 14.51 per cent of farm income came 

 from dairy products, whereas in 1931, 

 23.36 per cent of farm income came 

 from the dairy cow. \- , 



The Annual Meeting of the Soy- 

 bean Marketing Association will be 

 held at Decatur, on Friday, September 

 29th, where complete reports of offi- 

 cials of the organization will be made 

 to the members. 



As previously announced, the poo! 

 plan will be abandoned this year and 

 all sales will be handled on a daily 

 bid basis with the grower making his 

 own arrangements with his local 

 elevator to ship to the organization. 



The fact that the crop is short this 

 year and the trend of grain prices 

 higher indicates a substantial improve- 

 ment in soybean prices compared with 

 going prices at this time last year. 



Charles P. Cummings, manager of 

 the Illinois Grain Corporation, will 

 give his personal attention to the soy- 

 bean marketing program throughout 

 the marketing period. 



Daily prices will be posted with the 

 elevators by the Soybean Association, 

 these bids to be the best prevailing 

 legitimate bids in the state. 



A series of meetings has been held 

 in the soybean region to explain the 

 marketing plan and solicit the support 

 of members in delivering their crop. 



At the county meetings, the Coun- 

 cils named delegates to the Annual 

 Meeting on September 29th. . 



The Association contemplates buy- 

 ing non-member beans also. It hopes 

 to secure a large enough volume to 

 justify the payment of patronage 

 dividends at the close of the market- 

 ing season. 



linois Farm Supply 

 Annual Meeting Decatur 



The seventh annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company will be 

 held in the Orlando Hotel, Decatur 

 Tuesday, October 17. 



Earl C. Smith, and I. A. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy, president of the Globe Oil and 

 Refining Co., Minneapolis will be the 

 principal speakers. • .. "./ '■■•". 



In addition to reports of officers and 

 the manager, nine directors from the 

 various districts will be elected. Pres- 

 ent directors whose terms will expire 

 with the coming meeting are Grant 

 Broster, J. M. Eyman, Frank J. Flynn, 

 Fred E. Herndon, president, H. A. 

 Keele, H. R. Neal, Thos. J. Penman, 

 E. E. Stevenson, secy., and Geo. F. 

 Tullock, vice president. 



The manager's report will show that 

 the company had the best year in its 

 history in 1933. 



