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AGRICULTURE'S FIGHT FOR YOU 



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Three Point Program Can 

 Be Achieved With United 

 Support Of Farmers 



Agriculture Faces Crisis As Farm Prices Lag While Others 



Go Up — Minimum Prices For Farm Commodities 



Seen As Solution To Immediate Problem. 



With a challenge to all Illinois farmers to organize 

 more effectively to speed the arrival of higher farm prices, 

 lower property taxes, and immediate federal credit relief, 

 the Fall Mobilization Campaign sponsored by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and County farm Bureaus will 

 swing into action in every county on Monday, October 9. 



"With more powerful organization of agricultural 

 forces all three of these things should be vigorously in- 

 sisted upon," said E^rl C. Smith, president of the I. A. A. 

 and chairman of the state campaign committee. 



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COMPOSITION AND EXTEN- 

 SION," which was approved March 

 3rd by the President. 



No agreement, however, was 

 reached by this Congress in regard 

 to providing the source of funds 

 needed In funding such obligations, 

 and for new finance. 



Honorable Tom D. McKeown, 

 member of the Committee on Ju- 

 diciary, i^ouse of Representatives, 

 has prepared an excellent digest of 

 Section 75 of the Amendment men- 

 tioned, which appeared in, and is 

 here reproduced by courtesy of the 

 United States News. 



How Seen re Relief. 



"How can the farmer burdened 

 with debts secure relief from the 

 Government without going into 

 bankruptcy? 



"Under a law enacted March 3. 

 Congrea.H created a sy.stem of debt 

 relief for the individual, ni:il<ing 

 special provision for the farmer. 



"Section 75 of the banlcruptcy 

 law now provides that 15 or more 

 farmers in any county may get to- 

 gether and. petition the Federal 

 District Court to appoint a referee 

 or conciliation commissioner to 

 handle their debt problem. 



"How can the farmer obtain re- 

 lief, when a conciliation commis- 

 sionef has been named by the 

 court? 



"At any time within five years, 

 (he law provides, the farmer may 



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file a petition with the court, stat- 

 ing that he is Insolvent or unable 

 to meet his debts as they mature, 

 and that he desires a settlement or 

 an extension of time to pay his 

 debts. The fee charged in filing 

 the petition is $10. The petition 

 must show a list of debts owed by 

 the farmer. It must be in dupli- 

 cate, and one copy will be sub- 

 mitted o the conciliation commis- 

 .''loner by the court, if the petition 

 is approved. 



"Within ten days the farmer 

 must file a list of his assets with 

 the commissioner, who then is re- 

 quired to call the first meeting of 

 creditors. 



"They will be notified that the 

 farmer proposes to offer terms for 

 a settlement or for additional time 

 and will receive a statement of the 

 farmer's debts and the names of 

 creditors. 



"If the creditors wish, they may 

 examine the farmer at the first 

 meeting, and they may name a 

 rommittee to submit to the com- 

 missioner a supplementary inven- 

 tory of the debtor's estate. The 

 oommissloner will determine the 

 final inventory of the debtor's 

 estiite. 



Farmers May Apply. 



"If an aj;ieeinent i.s reached 

 with a majority in number of all 

 creditors whose claims are a ma- 

 jority in amount of all claims that 

 have been allowed, the farmer may 

 apply to the commissioner for con- 

 firmation. The commissioner will 

 .♦end the order to the court, with 

 the following facts: 



"1. — Acceptances of creditors. 



"2. — Proofs of claims which 

 have been allowed and those which 

 have been disallowed; 



"3. — List of d-btg having pri- 

 ority; 



"4. — List of secured debts, with 

 a description of the security of 

 each; 



"5. — Final Inventory, with list of 

 exemptions; 



6. — Certificate showing that de- 

 posit Ms been paid; 



"7. — Report of the commissioner 

 recommending or oppo^tlng confir- 

 mation and, In the case of an ex- 

 tension, stating to what extent. If 

 any. It would be desirable for the 

 rourt, after confirmation, to retain 

 control over the farmer and his 

 property. 



"The Judge will fix a date and 



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Must First Revise The State 



Constitution To Secure Fair 



Tax Laws. 



ganlzed labor and industry aided 

 by the NRA are reducing hours 

 of labor, setting minimum wage 

 scales and boosting retail prices 

 along tho line, is cause for 



By JOHN C. WATSON 

 Director of Taxation. 



Cut present property taxes 50 

 per cent! 



Broaden the tax base and dis- 

 tribute the cost of government 

 among all the people of Illinois 

 having ability to pay. 



Remove from property, both 

 rural and urban, at least half the 

 burden It now bears and has un- 

 justly born for so many year.s. 



This is the Job Organized 

 Farmers through the I. A. A. and 

 Farm Bureau.s have set out to ac- 

 complish, a Job which requires 

 and deserves the support of every 

 farmer and landowner if it is to 

 succeed. 



To this end the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association submitted gen- 

 eral provisions for a proposed con- 

 .stitutional amendment, to nearly 

 2,000 county farm bureau leaders 

 who met at Decatur on Tuesday, 

 Sept. 18. 



The leaders unanimously en- 

 dorsed the resolution favorable 

 to such an amendment and 

 also authorized the circulation 

 of a petition among Illinois farm- 

 ers asking the governor to call a 

 special session of the general as- 

 sembly to approve and submit 

 such an amendment for vote In 

 thts next general election. 

 The Resolution. 



The resolution adopted at the 

 Decatur conference is as follows: 

 "In view of the grossly unjust 

 burden laid upon owners of tangi- 

 ble property for support of State, 

 County and local government, the 

 adverse effect of such burden upon 

 the values of property, and the 

 rapidly Increasing delinquency In 

 the payment of taxes, this Confer- 

 ence of Farm Bureau leaders 

 earnestly urge the officers and 

 Board of Directors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to take 

 such action a.s they may deem ad- 

 visable or necessary to secure tho 

 calling of a special session of the 

 Fifty-Ii:ighth General Assembly 

 and the submission, by that 'body, 

 of an amendment to the Revenue 

 Article of the State Constitution, 

 to bo voted on In November, 1934, 

 embodying the following princi- 

 ples: 



1. "Removal of all restrictions 

 which prevent a broadening of the 

 ha.sc of taxation and the estab- 

 lishment of an equitable sy.stem 

 of taxation. 



2. "The imposition of restric- 

 tions upon the taxation of prop- 

 erty which will relieve tangible 

 property, both rural and urban, of 

 at least one-half of tho burden 

 now laid unon It." 



RIllionM Untaxed. 

 "No equitable nystem of taxa- 

 tion can be Initiated In Illinois 

 until the legislature Is given full 

 authority to revise our revenue 

 laws so as to bring into the tax- 

 paying class those who arc now 



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a further disadvantage Ili ex- 

 changing theli; products for fin- 

 ished commodities, but the whole 

 recovery program Is threatened 

 unless farmers unite to demand 

 quicker action in boosting farm 

 prices,' and then co-operate In re- 

 ducing surpluses. 



Farmers as a group constitute 

 thft largest con.suming claSs in the 

 t;ountry. Their buying power 

 must be raised or the whole re- 

 covery program will by>ak down. 

 By failing to lend their influence 

 and support unorganized farmere 

 are holding back the realization 

 of parity prices for farm prod- 

 ucts, prices that would give them 

 buying power equal to that en- 

 joyed in the 1909-1914 period. 

 Immediate Relief Asked. 



The situation first may call for 

 fixing of minimum prices for cer- 

 tain farm products to provide im- 

 mediate relief. This is nothing 

 more nor less than organized labor 

 and industn.' are doing with or 

 without government aid. 



.Secondly, it calls for whole- 

 hearted support by farmers of the 

 acreage and crop reduction pro- 

 gram. This will provide perma- 

 nent relief whe"n followed up with 

 intelligent production in line with 

 market needs In future years. 



Here Is a Job for organization. 

 Here is reason for powerful 

 mobilization of agricultural forces 

 in Illinois. Farmers are being so 

 hedged about by codes in Indus- 

 try and labor that they will be 

 lost unless they demand equal 

 privileges In fixing fhelr own 

 prices. 



Plait I'ndcr Fire. 



The .same old opposition that 

 fought the . McNary Haugen bill, 

 that opposed all past efforts 

 of farmers to control surpluses 

 and raise prices is working again, 

 this time largely under cover. The 

 hog control plan is under fire. 

 Enemies of agriculture are cen- 

 tering their attack on the whole 

 agricultural adjustment program 

 because nearly 6,000.000 pigs were 

 removed from market channels. 



They forget, or perhaps are 

 not interested in the fact that 

 our foreign markets which once 

 took one hog out of six i>roduced 

 in thi.s cou-ntry have nearly van- 

 ished: that it is suicide for farm- 

 ers to go on jtroducing for a mar- 

 ket that no longer exists. 



City consumers are Interested 

 primarily In cheap food. Com- 

 mls.sion men. proce.s.sors, and spec- 

 ulators are chiefly Interested In 

 volume and margins. Thty pre- 

 lect their margins regardless of 

 what the farmer gets for his pro- 

 duce. 



Agriculture Is facing a crisis. 

 Will farmers ri.se up as a unit, 

 will farmers mobilize to, protect 

 what has been g.iined. to sup- 

 port .sound measures of acreage 

 and crop reduction for their own 

 good? Will tho.se who have been 

 withholding their support now 

 Join and back the Illinois Ai;ri- 

 cultural Association and Farm 

 Uureau in their dettrmination to 

 protect the farm Industry? 



Everywhere, even in Illinois, a 

 minority of farmers are carrying 

 the load. The unorganized ma- 

 jority, apparently indifferent to 

 their opportunities, nre holding 

 linck while labor and Indiistry. 

 lietter organized, f<irge ahead »m- 

 der the NllA minimum wage and 

 price-boosting program. 



Farmers are not a unit — not 



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