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J. H. Kelkcr 



... .J. B. CountiM 

 . . . . R. A. Cowle« 



H. W. Day 



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V. Vaniman 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



Ray E. MlUer 



. . .C. E. Johnnton 



> ILLINOIS 



AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



RECORD 



To advance the puriiose for which the Farm Bureau 

 wnu organized namely, to promote, protect and rep- 

 resent the businens, economic, political and educa- 

 tional Interests of the farmers of Illinois and the 

 nation, utid to develop hki Iculturt'. 



(;K()R<;K THIKM, Editor 



Published monthly by the Illinoln Atriicullural Aaaociallon at 

 166 So. Main St., Sixncrr, liid. Emtnrial Officer), (508 S. Dear- 

 born St., Chlcaeo, III. Rntorrd ai* second dans mutter at post 

 office, Sprnccr, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of 

 pootare provided In S^vtlon 412. Act of Feb. 28.. 1925, author- 

 Iced Oct. 27, 1!>25, Address all eomniunie^ttions for publication 

 to Editorial Offices, Illltiuis Airricultural Assooialion Record, 

 808 So. Dearborn St.. Chii'ago. The individual membeiship fee 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Aasoeiation it five dollars a year. 

 rhe fee includes payment of flfly cenia for subserlptlon t4) the 

 (lUnols Arrieulturnl Assoriation Record. Postmaster: In retum- 

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OFFICERS 



Preaidnnt. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



VleePresldent, A. R. Wri;{ht .....Varna 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metfter . . • ,,Chica(ro 



Treasurer, R. M Covrles . . BloomlnKton 



BOARD OF DlUECTORft 



1st to llth Rhb Harris, (irayslake 



12th O. F. Tulloek, Rockford 



, ,.,,C. B. Bambnniuch. Polo 



...M. G. Lambert. Ferris 



, ....M. R.iy Ihrlir. tJoiilen 



Oeo. n. Mullor. W8sliint.'t()n 



E, D. Lawrrnee. Blonmiiiston 



,...., W. A. Dennis, Paris 



K. (i. rurtlH, riiamiiaik'ii 



Chailes S. Black. Jacksonville 



. . . , Samuel Snrrells, Raymond 



Talniakrc DeFreee. Smlthboro 



W. L, Cope. Salem 



. . . . ^. CharlCK Marshall. Belknap 



.R. B. Endlcott, Villa Rldpe 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller ' 



Dairy Marketinf. , .'. 



Finance 



Fnilt and Veifjiable Marketing 



I'ubheily 



iMHuraiico Service 



Iv^iral r )iinsel .- 



Live Stock Marketinr 



Office 



Orraniisatlon G. E. Metrsrer 



?rodncc Marketins- F. A. Gougler 



Taxatinn and StatiBlIca J. C. Watson 



Transportation Guy Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Tountry Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgrr. 



Farmers Mutual Roinsuraneo Co ....J. H. KelUer, Her. 



nilnoia ABTicultural Audltine; Assn F. E. RlnKham. M«r. 



llllnoia Arricultural Mutual Insurance Co 



A. E. Richardson. Mtrr. 



Illinois Farm SupWy Co L. R. Marchant, Mfr. 



tlllnols Fruit Growers Exchange H. W. Day, Mer. 



Illinois Grain Corp 



Chas. P. Cumming^g, Vice-Pres. and Sales Mjr, 



niinois Livestock Market Ass'n 



Ray Miller, M»r„ R. W. Grieser. Sales Mgr. 



niinois Producers Creameries F. A. Ooupler, Mrr. 



ioybcan Markctinir Asa'n J. W. Armstrong, Prcs. 



THE SPECIAL SESSION 



A special session of the Illinois legislature was 

 called by Governor Horner to convene on Oct. 3. 

 The chief pwpose, as expres-sed In the call Is "To 

 enact laws to provide^funds for the Illinois Emer- 

 gency Relief Commission to be used for the relief 

 of persons who are destitute and In necessitous cir- 

 cumstances." These funds are needed principally 

 for Chicago and Cook county. 



At a special session the legislature may con- 

 alder only those aubjccts designated in the gov- 

 ernor's call for the session. Again Governor Horner 

 seems to have been persuaded or to have decided 

 to perpetuate the present scheme for relief under 

 which the county board of Cook county appropri- 

 ated and levied but $1'53.000 for the year 1933, 

 slightly more than $20,000 per month, for relief 

 purposes while the Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 

 mission was spending more than five million dol- 

 lars per month in Cook county for relief. 



The money appropriated by the county board 

 has merely been levied, none of It has been collect- 

 ed, as tax collections are more than a year behind 

 In Cook county. Chicago and the townships in Cook 

 county do not raise any money for relief purposes. 



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the scheme adopted in 1932, and to submit a 

 state-wide bond issue for 30 million dollars to the 

 voters In 1934, the principal and Interest on these 

 bonds. If the bond Issue Is approved, to be paid 

 from the cities' and counties' portion of the gasoline 

 tax, each county to pay in proportion to the amount 

 of relief received from this source. 



Pending approval of this bond Issue, In order 

 to provide funds immediately, the general assembi} 

 would levy a state-wide property tax for possibly 

 40 million dollars and would issue state anticipation 

 notes against this tax levy, these anticipation noteu 

 to be retired from the pcoceeds of the bond issue 

 after it is approved in November, 1934. If the bond 

 Issue is not approved, the state-wide property tax 

 would be collected in 1935. 



Governor Horner has said again and again that 

 local communities should be empowered to care for 

 their poor but this call does not contemplate such 

 legislation, in fact It attempts to forestall it. At the 

 rate of $5,000,000 per month, the $30,000,000 will 

 provide relief for six months. No provision is made 

 t>eyond that time. 



The state conference of Farm Bureau leaders 

 which met In Decatur in September adopted a reso- 

 lution opposing any further extension of state cred- 

 it for the benefit of Cook county or any other com- 

 munity until that community had drawn reasonably 

 upon its own resources. Chicago and Cook county 

 have not done this. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association has always 

 recognized that all citizens of Illinois should be 

 properly fed and housed. It has Insisted and will 

 continue to insist that the initial responsibility rest 

 with the local communities or counties to take care 

 of its own destitute or unemployed. It still believes 

 that this Is the most economical and effective way 

 to accomplish these ends. 



The Association has attempted to secure the 

 enactment of laws, first, to make it possible for each 

 county to assume this responsibility; and secondly., 

 to force each county If necessary, to accept this re- 

 spo|;i!iibility before any attempts arc made to place 

 upon all citizens and property of the State an In- 

 crea«iB In the property tax burden for unemploy- 

 ment relief. 



VVe also have Insisted that the known billions of 

 hidden wealth (Intangible property) should be taxe** 

 on an e<tultable basis with real property before an 

 added tax for any purpose Is placed upon property. 



During the special session and possibly in suc- 

 ceeding sessions, the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 win continue to use every reasonable and proper 

 effort and Influence to protect the property tax- 

 payers of Illinois against any further Inroads of tax- 

 ation, since it is well 'known that a very large por- 

 tion of revenue from such added taxes would be 

 spent in one county which has assessed and collected 

 loss taxes for this purpose, population considered, 

 than possibly any other county In the State of Illi- 

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It provides for farm credit relief, for lowtr 

 rates of Interest. 



It authorizes the president to establish an hon- 

 est dollar, for currency inflation by requiring* the 

 federal reserve banks to purchase federal securities 

 In the open market; devaluate the dolljir up to 50 

 per cent; Issue U. S. notes (greenbacks) ■ up to $3,- 

 000,000,000; accept up to $200,000,000 in sliver on 

 allied war debts; coin silver in unlimited quantities. 



It authorizes trade agreements with processors 

 and distributors to raise prices; it embodies the do- 

 mestic allotment plan of surplus farm crop control. 



All these and more are provided in this meas- 

 ure, the enactment of which was made possible by 

 Organized Farm Effort. 



Largely as a result of this legislation certain 

 farm prices are up 60 to 100 per cent over extreme 

 low levels of last year. 



Organized agrl|ulture can Justly take credit 

 for much of this^gain. Friends of agriculture for 

 the most part have been placed in control of ad- 

 ministering the Farm Adjustment act. 



Bi^t parity prices have not yet been realized. 

 There Is work ahead and much of that work must 

 be done by farmers themselves. 



Price depressing surpluses must be removed. 

 Acreage and tonnage of wheat, corn, hogs, milk and 

 other products must be reduced until foreign out- 

 lets are regained. Temporarily the situation may 

 call for the fixing of minimum farm prices to keep 

 agriculture In line with other price levels. There la 

 nothing Impossible abou t this situation. Parity 

 £Jaa»-l|(H^!iWp»'1^^^^^tfrganTiailoli "rfnd e'nvc- 

 tlve .cooperation is the only answer. 



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THE PRESIDE^IT ON COMMUNITY 



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Speaking before the annual convention of the 

 American Legion in Chicago recently, President 

 Roosevelt in the presence of local public officials 

 again emphasized that it is first the duty of each 

 community to provide for Its destitute people. 



"If he (the individual) has not the wherewith- 

 al! to take care of himself," said the President, "it 

 is FIRST OF ALL the duty of his community to take 

 care of him and next the duty of his state. Only If 

 under these circumstances his own community and 

 his own state are unabhe, after reasonable effort, to 

 care for him, then, and then only, should the fed- 

 eral government offer him hospitalization and care." 



The President's position has been that of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association on the question of 

 unemployment relief, from the beginning. It seems 

 to us that any other stand is indefensible. Easy 

 money is as bad for local governments as it Is for 

 individuals. It promotes extravagance, dependence, 

 and irresponsibility. It leads to moral and financial 

 bankruptcy. Let each community make a reason- 

 able effort to help Itself. Having done this neither 

 the state nor the federal government should or will 

 deny necessary aid. 



FARMERS SHOULD 



. STAND TOGETHER 



Views From The Press 



PARITY PRICES THROUGH ORGANIZATION 



The passage of the Agricultural Adjustment 

 act last spring Is the culmination of 12 years' eftort 

 led by the Farm Bureau to control surpluses and 

 raise farm prices. This Is the most far-reaching 

 piece of legl.slatlon ever secured by fanners. 



It provides for the eslabllshment of parity 

 pMres which means prices that will re.store to farm- 

 ers the i)urchaslng power c<iual to that had in the 

 1909-1914 period. 



FARM ASSOCIATION OBJECTS • 



(From Mollnc DLspatch) 



The Illinois Agricultural Association has gone 

 on record formally against further taxation of the 

 other, counties of Illinois to finance Cook county's 

 distribution of food. 



It sets forth the record of the regular session 

 of the general assembly in which the Lantz bill was 

 passed, authorizing Cook county to levy taxes to 

 support her own unemployed. This bill was backed 

 by the farmers, and the association's bulletins have 

 «aid repeatedly that Governor Horner expressed 

 himself as satisfied with the measure. 



Then the governor exercised his power of veto, 

 giving as his reason therefor that the county board 

 didn't want the power. 



As long as Cook county's paupers can be fed by 

 funds from the state government and from the na- 

 tional government, of course, it does not desire to 

 tax Itself as the rest of the state has to do. 



It probably is right In the present conditions 

 for a city having as many unemployed as Chicago 

 has to receive aid from both/ the state and the na- 

 tional governments. It Is not reasonable, however, 

 that It should escape wllhoui levying a single cent 

 for support of Its own. It should be known that dur- 

 ing the three years in which other localities have 

 been paying rising local taxes to support their un- 

 employed, Chicago has not paid a cent of local 

 taxes for this purpose. 



Chlcagoans first go to Springfield and dangle 

 a red riot before the legislature and then they take 

 their little riot down to Washington and dangle it 

 there. Results have been obtained every time. 



"The association will resist any further efforts 

 to put over the new state taxes which all the peo- 

 ple of the state mu.xt pay» to spare the metropolitan 

 area from assuming its rightful rr.sponsihililien." 

 says the bulletin of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. :• ■ , • - • 



By HENRY A. WALLACE 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 As your membership cam 

 paign approaches, I am 



and extending the strong or- 

 ganizations devoted to the 

 cause of agriculture. / 



This, of all times, is a pe- 

 riod in which farmers should 

 stand together in strong or- 

 ganizations in mutual inter- 

 est. For the first time, gov- 

 ernment is offering fully to 

 farmers its own centralizing 

 po-wers to do what farmers 

 are , unable to do for them- 

 selves, individually. 



One farmer may succeed, 

 relatively, by outsmarting his 

 neighbors, but prosperity for 

 farmers, in general, is not to 

 be achieved simply by indi- 

 vidual shrewdness.' There 

 must be a large effort to 

 raise the whole level on 

 which American farming is 

 conducted. This can be done 

 only through organized ac- 

 tion. 



It is particularly fitting 

 that strong farm organiza- 

 tions are in a position to help 

 carry out the program of ad- 

 justment under the Fai-m 

 Act. This is to follow through 

 to a logical conclusion a cam- 

 paign for raising agriculture 

 to an equality with other 

 groups, begun by farm lead- 

 ers more than ten years ago. 



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By CHESTER C. DAVIS 



Director, Production Division 

 Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 

 ministration. 



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