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I. A. A. RECORD— October, 1933 



If the people of Illinois need it more 

 desperately for some other purpose, it 

 is the prerogative of the people to 

 give up the building of new roads for 

 a time. We have now a very satisfac- 

 tory network of improved roads in this 

 state. 



It is true that use of gasoline tax 

 funds in relief would necessitate 

 spending some money paid by farmers 

 in city relief. The amount of farm 

 money carried into the city in this 

 way would be microscopic, in compari- 

 son with the amount of gasoline tax 

 paid by city motorists for the improve- 

 ment of highways in the country. 

 After years and years during which 

 money has flowed out from cities in 

 hundreds of millions for road build- 

 ing, who has a right to kick if possi- 

 bly as much as one million collected 

 in country filling stations goes to 

 meet an emergency in the cities in 

 the next year? 



There remains the contention that 

 rural areas take care of their own 

 poor; the cities should do likewise. 

 This assertion has been heard in the 

 legislature a thousand times in the 

 past; it will be repeated over and over 

 again in the session just to come. The 

 only thing the matter with it is, it 

 isn't so. , -■ 



Rural areas are not taking care of 

 their own. There isn't a township in 

 Illinois that is taking care of its own. 

 One and all are demanding heavy sub- 

 sidies in order to live. The subsidies 

 come mainly from the cities, for un- 

 fortunately there are few income tax 

 payers on farms. Half a billion dol- 

 lars was appropriated during the Hoo- 

 ver administration for the relief of 

 farmers. The Roosevelt administra- 

 tion has only begun, with appropria- 

 tions to buy four million pigs, with 

 heavy taxes upon the consumers of 

 cotton, of bread and of meat and of 

 milk, all for the benefit of farmers. 



People in cities have not raised a 

 voice in opposition to these taxes laid 

 upon them for the relief of the people 

 in rural areas. The need of the farmer 

 is recognized, and everybody will be 

 happy if only the schemes will work 

 to restore prosperity on the farms. 



But a little of the spirit of reciproc- 

 ity is in order. Unemployment is a 

 disaster peculiar to cities. At the 

 moment cities are tormented by mis- 

 fortunes they can not meet alone. De- 

 catur has not been able to support its 

 unemployed; Chicago naturally is less 

 able to. In the long run they w'ill be 

 able to pay back all that they receive 

 but in this moment of crisis they must 

 have the help of national and state 

 credit. 



If the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion undertakes to say that cities shall 



not have this help in their time of 

 emergency, that their people shall be 

 left to go hungry first, the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association is not only 

 selfishly ungracious. In the long run 

 it will find the policy expensively 

 short-sighted too. — Decatur Herald. 



Iowa Governor Favors 



Minimum Farm Prices 



Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa re- 

 cently telegraphed President Roose- 

 velt urging that the federal govern- 

 ment immediately fix minimum prices 

 for farm products. 



Governor Herring said the NRA 

 program already has raised the gen- 

 eral wage level of workers and the 

 retail price of manufactured products, 

 and that farmers are at a distinct 

 disadvantage because the price of farm 

 products is lagging behind. 



The price on farm products should 

 be pegged. Herring said, at a level 

 high enough to cover cost of produc- 

 tion and show a fair profit. 



Set Up Farm Credit 



Unit At Champaign 



The first Crop Credit Association to 

 be organized under the new Agricul- 

 tural Credit Act was set up at Cham- 

 paign, Illinois on September 20. C. R. 

 Arnold, of the Farm Credit Adminis- 

 tration, assisted in starting operations. 

 Farm Adviser C. C. Burns was active 

 in getting the new Association under- 

 way. According to Mr. Bums, local 

 farmers have been hard pressed to ob- 

 tain adequate financing, particularly 

 loans for longer than 70 to 90 days. A 

 number of rural banks in Champaign 

 county, he said, are still closed and 

 farmers are unable to secure needed 

 credit. 



Country Life Makes 



New Gains In 1933 



Company Employs New Actuary, 

 Agents Hold Picnics at 

 > Pontiac and Pana 



Seek To Get World 



Reduction Of Wheat 



At the end of August, 1933, Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company had 

 gained more in insurance in force 

 than it did the entire twelve months' 

 period of 1932 according to Manager 

 L. A. Williams. Country Life's total 

 in force is approximately $53,000,000 

 at the present time. 



The Company wrote $1,211,000 of 

 new business in the month of August 

 alone. 



The agents of Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company dedicated September as 

 "Manager's Month" and pledged $2,- 

 500,000 for that occasion. Mr. Wil- 

 liams completed just five years of 

 service with the Company at the end 

 of September, 1933. 



The International Wheat Advisory 

 Committee organized to help bring 

 about reduced world surpluses and 

 raise prices, held its first meeting in 

 London beginning September 18. An 

 attempt is being made to work out 

 export quotas for each major wheat 

 growing country. 



United States representatives are 

 Robert W. Bingham of Kentucky, am- 

 bassador to Great Britain; John Van 

 Antwerp MacMurray, recently ap- 

 pointed American minister to the Bal- 

 kan states, and Frederick E. Murphy, 

 publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. 



Agents of Country Life Insurance 

 Company and their wives attended 

 picnics at Pontiac and Pana on Sep- 

 tember 5 and 6. Approximately 700 

 people were present for the two gath- 

 erings. The object of the picnics was 

 to celebrate the part that the agents 

 played in putting Fifty Million of 

 business on the books, and having 'it 

 in force at the time the Company was 

 50 months old. 



The outstanding agent for produc- 

 tion in the month of August was R. R. 

 Barr of LaSalle County. 



Country Life Insurance Company 

 has a new addition to its official fam- 

 ily in Howard Reeder, who has been 

 appointed the Company's actuary. He 

 comes from the Royal Union Life of 

 Des Moines, Iowa. 



Every county in the state has pro- ' 

 duced some business in 1933. The 

 pledges for Manager's Month included 

 pledges from all but five counties, and 

 it is believed that three of those will 

 have pledges in within the next few 

 days. 



Du Page county signed 85 new mem- 

 bers since Jan. 1 according to Clare 

 Bradford, district organization man- 

 ager. This county had secured ap- 

 proximately 75 '~^ of its quota by Sept. 

 15. 



The AAA recently increased the 

 maximum number of pigs to be bought 

 by the government from 4,000,000 to 

 5,922,000. The marketing period ends 

 September 29. Permits are granted 

 only to original owners by telegram 

 oz' letter which must accompany ship- 

 ment. 



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