PACE SIX 



THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTUl 



COUNTY CAPTIS 

 DIRECT SICN-UP 

 imANTS AID 



State Campaign Director Sees 

 Job As Fundamental To 

 Bring Economic Betterment. 



Tbe men who will direct the 

 state-wide mobilization campalsn 

 In their respective counties are 

 listed bolow. These men hAve 

 been designated ns "captains" and 

 each will be assisttul l)y a squad 

 i>f lieutenants sufficient In num- 

 ber to canvass every prospoclivo 

 member in the county. Delinfiutnt 

 meniborH also will \>o seen rc^ard- 

 Intf payment of back duos. 



In a letter to County Captains. 

 I^ucius K. AVilson, state director of 

 the Fall Mobilization Campaign 

 said: 



"In accepting the captaincy of 

 the county for the mobilization 

 campaign, you are doing the one 

 fundamental thing within your 

 power to bring actual economic 

 betterment to yourself and your 

 farm neighbors. 



"With the Federal government 

 appropriating millions of dollars 

 for agricultural adjustment and 

 manifesting a willingness to go as 

 far as representative farm opinion 

 desires, no farmer can justify his 

 failure to participate now in shap- 

 ing the course of legislation this 

 fall and winter. 



. "Don't forget that every farm 

 home with children should stand 

 ready to make whatever present 

 sacrifices are necessary and not 

 let the New Deal for agriculture 

 fail — else there is no future for 

 boys and girls." 



County 

 \dnni3 

 Bond 

 Boone 

 Brown 

 Bureau' ■ 

 Carroll : ■ ' 

 Ca.ss ^ 

 Champaign 

 Christian 

 Clark 

 Clay 



Captain 



Toy L. Sharrow 

 Chas. P. Boggess 

 F. A. Lobdell 

 Roy McCaskill 

 Justis.S. Reeve 

 Miles Rogers 

 Geo. Dirreen 

 Eugene Cin-tis 

 John W. Kohl 

 John Hoecker 

 Fred McCollum, 



Sr. 



Clinton 

 Coles ■ 

 Cook 



Crawford 

 Cumberland 

 De Kalb 

 De Witt 



gouglas 

 u Page 

 Edgar 

 Edwarda 

 Effingham 

 Ford 

 Franklin 

 Fulton 

 Gallatin 

 3reene 

 Irundy 

 Hancock 

 Henderson ~ 

 Henry > 



Iroquois 

 J.ickson 

 Jefferson 



Jersey 



J6. DavlesS"" 

 Johnson 

 Kane 

 Kankakee 

 Kendall 



Knox .';■; 



Lake ',". ■ 

 Ial Salle 

 Lawrence 

 Lee 

 Livingston 



Logan 

 McDonough 

 McHenry 

 McLean 

 Macon 

 Macoupin 

 Madison 

 Marion 

 Marshall- 

 Putnam 

 Mason 

 Massac 

 Menard 

 Mercer 

 Monroe 

 Montgomery 



Morgan 

 Moultrie 

 Ogle 

 Peoria 



Piatt 



Pike 



Pope 



Palaskl 



Randolph 



Richland 



Rock Island 



Saline 



Sangamon 



Sch'uyler 



Scott 



Shelby 



St. Clair 



Stark 



Stephenson 



Tazewt?ll 



rnion 



Vermilion 



Wabash 



Warren 



Washington 



Wavne 



White 



Weedle 

 . Cooper 

 . Mills and 

 .M<-Claughry 

 Kverlngham 



Fred 



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 .11. C 



>:zra 



A. C. 



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E. K. Houghty 

 Sam Cobb 

 L. D. Hendricks 

 Leo Pauling 

 H. A. Bramlet 

 Kent Crome 

 R. H. Kelly 

 A. B. Schofleld 

 Albert Weljb 

 Harry Lee per 

 Geo. Gable 

 Norman Davis 

 H. L. Hough 

 M. G. Lrfimbert 

 Otto Steffey 

 Ebon Coll 

 H. K. Johnson 

 Wm. Zlegler 

 Clarence McCau- 



ley 

 Wm. E. Williams 



Whiteside 



Will 



Williamson 



Winnfljago 



Woodford 



'Captain h 

 at time of !.v>lng to press. 



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W. W. Hampton 

 Chas. Keslinger 



3d win South- 

 worth 

 I'iirl N. Swanson 

 A. E. Head 



J. H. iient 



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Eddie Mau 

 Reid R. Tom- 



baugh 

 James Cowan 



Marlon E. Herzog 



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A. J. Hagar 

 Emory I'arks 

 Frank Ricble 

 John E. Miller 

 H. O. Hlnkley 



Guy II. French 



Leonard H. Keith 



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E. J. Rosendohl 

 J. O. Carlson 

 Albert C. Kolmer 

 Emory KlUpat- 



rick 

 Frank Klinn 



Chas. B. Sbuman 



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Harvoy S. Mc- 



N'nughtnn 

 Ellis Perkins 

 John McTucker 

 Geo. Clark 

 R. B. Endlcott 

 Wm. Harmson 

 Lloyd Combs 

 Edgar Wnlther 

 n. I>. Gates 

 J. Frank Thorn- 

 ton 



F. M. Hare 

 Walter Scott 

 R. C. McKlnley 

 Oscar Grossman 

 LIr.yd Hewitt 

 Ed. Stukenberg 

 (Seo. Deppert 

 Chas. Eddie man 

 Ore Ross 



Lew Stlllman 



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Paul Meyer 

 C. R. RIchlson 

 Lawrence Um- 

 frled 



Lowell Johnson 



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Jake Bowyer 

 Clarence Wlshap 

 J. E. Roche 

 not been approved 



APPROVAL BOND , 

 ISSUE CUT FARM \t 



r...s.^^ fACESSMTEST 



Puss the emergency relief bond 

 issue and take |2S,nOO,000 In added 

 taxes from property. 



Remove at least 15,000,000 In ex- 

 tra taxes from farm lands and 

 property alone. 



This was the task Illinois farm- 

 ers and other tax payers were faced 

 with a little more than a year ago. 



The state legislature had reluct- 

 mtly voted to impose an additional 

 state property tax in 1933. if neces- 

 sary, to pay back expenditures of 

 nearly $19,000,000 by the Illinois 

 Emergency Relief Commission 

 around 90 per cent of which went 

 Into Cook county. A Iqvy of ap- 

 proximately $25,000,000 would have 

 to be made to assure enough col- 

 lections to take care of the debt. 



However, the property tax would 

 not need to he levied if the voters 

 would approve a bond Issue In the 

 general election of November 1932 

 tbe iirocecds to go for emergency 

 relipf «ind the bonds to be retired 

 from the proceeds of the state gas 

 tax. 



When this proposal was fjlls- 

 cussed in the General Assembly it 

 was freely predicted that the peo- 

 ple would never approve it. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 was made chairman tof the state- 

 wide campaign to pass the bond 

 issue. Fred W. Sargc«nt. president 

 of the Chicago Northwestern rail- 

 road, was placed In charge of the 

 campaign in t^ook county with 

 Douglas Sutherland of the Chi- 

 cago Civic Federation acting as 

 secretary. ■ 



Downstate, the I. A. A. and 

 County Farm Bureaus assumed 

 leadership in the campaign. Farm 

 Bureaus vied with each other for 

 the honor of delivering the most 

 votes for the proposal. Dally and 

 weekly newspapers, Prairie Farm- 

 er, WLS and other radio stations 

 gave It wholehearted support. 



This constructive effor.t led by 

 organized farmers resulted in so- 

 curing approval of the measure 

 l>oth in Chicago and downstate. 



Every owner of a quarter sec- 

 tion of land was spared on the 

 average between |25 and $30 in 

 added taxes. 



Does it pay for farmers to have 

 a strong organization? Is It worth 

 while to contribute a modest mem- 

 bership fee which comes back to 

 you many times over? 



"There may be arguments 

 against Farm Biueau member- 

 ship," said one member, "but I 

 don't know any of them." 



Sees Same Opposition At Work 



To Destroy Present Effort For 



Agricultural Betterment. 



FANCY PRAIRIE IN 

 MENARD COUNTY 

 GETS A BREAK 



The Chicago and Alton railroad 



agreed to reinstate Its station 



agent at Fancy Prairie In Menard 



county following a recent hearing 



before the Illinnis Commerce Com- 

 mission at Springfield. 



The eominisHlon previously had 



ordered the station closed when j 



little or no opposition to such 



action appeared. Farm Bureau 



members and local merchants ap- 

 pealed to the I. A. A. for help. 



The commission was petitioned for 



a reopening which was granted. 



About 30 farmers and local mer- rrpnpi-aliv Af 

 ^nhmtf i ttfln . l»d thr hnrii^fhn,!,- sUi M kCl 

 socond tune. 



"This showing made quite an 

 Impression on the C. & A. attor- 

 neys." said G. W. Baxter of the I. 

 A. A. Transportation Department, 

 "and we came to an agreement be- 

 fore the case was heard. 



"This little incident Is an ex- 

 ample of what organization can 

 do. When the whole group came 

 in together with the support of 

 the Farm Bureau and I. A. A. they 

 got results. 



"Those attending the hearing 

 were certainly happy when they 

 went homo last night." 



Sangamon County 

 Wins Farm Bureau 

 Baseball Title 



Pool Buying Of 

 Serum Saves Over 

 Million Dollars 



How the pooling of orders for 

 hog cholera .serum by more than 

 70 County Farm Bureaus through 

 the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 

 A.'sociation brought down the 

 price from $1.2.' to an average of 

 aiiproximately 4.'j cents per 100 

 c. c. throughout the state today. 

 Is one of several striking exam- 

 plo.«5 of the vahie of organizing 

 farm bargaining and buying 

 power. 



The fact that many farmers to- 

 day are immunizing their own 

 l)l«.s with safe, dei>endable serum 

 ol)talned through the Farm Bj- 

 reau is due largely to the fact 

 that they can do It at minimum 

 cost. Many livestock growers are 

 n o w protecting their herds 

 through vaccination who formerly 

 took chances on losing or lost 

 their entire herds. 



Since its organizjition in 1924 

 the Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 

 Association has handled 288.750,- 

 OOO c. c. of serum and virus for 

 Farm Bureau members at a sav- 

 ing conservatively estimated at 

 more than a million dollars. All 

 livestock growers obviously have 

 profited by the reduced costs of 

 serum and Immunization brought 

 about by the Farm Bureau. 



lAA. ORGANIZES 

 MORE THAN 200 

 CO-OPERATIVES 



Sangamon county won the 

 ehampionshlp of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League In the 

 final game of the title scries 

 pl-Ayed at Manhattan SeptemUor 

 23. 



J. C. llonn, Sangamon county's 

 star hurler, allowed only seven 

 scattered hits and scored a shut- 

 out 4 to 0. Will county's four 

 errors aided Sangamon in win- 

 ning the game. 



Fanganion won the first of the 

 series by a score of four to three 

 at Springfield September 16. In 

 this game Honn struck out 15 Will 

 county men and allowed only 

 seven "hits. Will county's errors 

 iigain proved costly. 



Nineteen Farm Bureau teams In 

 five districts played in the lengue 

 during the scison. .More than SOO 

 men and boys took part in the 

 sport. 



The tremendotis growth of co- 

 oi)eratlve marketing and purchas- 

 ing In Illinois during the past ten 

 vears is revealed by the large num- 

 l)er of such associations organized 

 with the aid of the I. A. A. legal 

 department. 



The legal department has pre- 

 pared papers and incorporated 

 more than 200 cooperatives under 

 the 1923 Illinois Cooperative Act 

 during this period. These are in 

 addition to three large state-wide 

 insinance companies organized and 

 operated by the association. 



Tb-s cooperatives Include farm- 

 ers' elevators, County Farm Bu- 

 reau oil companies, cream pools, 

 livestock shipping and marketing 

 associations, fruit and vegetable 

 marketing a.ssociations, milk pro- 

 ducer organizations, cooperative 

 • roamerles. and others. 



The savings and patronage divi- 

 de ids of all these Institutions set 

 lip with the assistance of the I. A. 

 \. end Farm Bureaus run Into mll- 

 llnns of dollars annually. All this 

 was made possible by farmers 

 Winking together through organi- 

 zation. 



• By BILL STAHL 



American farmers today arc 

 facing their most severe test. New 

 and far-reaching governmental 

 policies, designed to Improve agri- 

 cultural incomes and living condi- 

 tions, daily challenge the ability of 

 farmers to maintain a solid front. 

 Those who oppose agricultural 

 organization, legislative and co- 

 operative, already are deriding the 

 farmer and are as.serting that he is 

 too shortsighted and too greedy to 

 cooperate with his neighbor In tlio 

 building of a better and a happier 

 agriculture. 



Some economists are Insisting 

 that the future of agriculture is 

 that of peasantry, because the 

 farmer will refuse to take advan- 

 tage of the opportunities offered 

 him, through organized effort, to 

 build the machinery that will give 

 his industry. 



The same forces that in the past 

 h.avo been exerted to defeat far- 

 mer organization, both general 

 and coojierativc, now are being 

 exerted to defeat the ci-op reduc- 

 tion program being pushed by the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Admini- 

 .straf ion. They arc ' the same 

 forces that for years have persist- 

 ently proclaimed that American 

 farmers would not give their sup- 

 port to programs developed by 

 their own leadership. 



What They Say. .' 



The Chicago Tribune declares 

 that farmers themselves will de- 

 feat their own program. 



"It is significant," says the Trib- 

 une, "that farmers have been 

 swamping the markets with their 

 young pigs, but the receipts of 

 sows have been disappointing. 

 That can only mean that the 

 farmers propose to take advan- 

 tage of the government's offer by 

 raising more pigs than ever. • • ♦ 



"We are on the way to learning 

 that it Is futile to attempt to rai.sc 

 prices by giving bounties for re- 

 duced i)roduction. There is no 

 eorlainty that the production will 

 .utually diminish and every rea- 

 f.on to expect the farmers to exert 

 their brains to defeat the scheme." 



The Chicago Journal of Com- 

 merce Indicates its belief that far- 

 mers are too stupid to see the 

 need of crop reduction, are too 

 selfish to work with other farmers 

 in carrying out the plan, and arc 

 crooked enough to deal dishonest- 

 ly with the government. 



"Those corn belt growers of 

 pork, both on the hoof and the 

 husk," says the Journal of Com- 

 merce, "who were so precious an 

 object of Secretary Wallace's sym- 

 pathy — are not as scrupulous as 

 they might be. • • • When he 

 read Mr. Wallace's noble offer to 

 buy four million pigs, producing 

 a shortage and raising the price 

 Mr. Farmer got a gleam 

 1" n i g g y p. ' * r r6 wurit ' i 

 out to his pig pen, poked around 

 with a clinical thermometer and 

 a blood pressure tester. Those 

 pigs which he found below par. 

 with a slim chance of claiming 

 much mazuma on the open mar- 

 ket, were selected and shipped to 

 the government for a price above 

 the market." 



A Misstatement. 



"Actually." says the current Is- 

 .sue of Wallaces' Farmer, "nmts 

 wore thrown out by federal in- 

 spectors. The misstatement of 

 facts is not so important, howe^■cr, 

 as the frank statement of the be- 

 lief that the farmer will always 

 consiiire to evade a plan drawn up 

 1iy his own representatives for his 

 own benefit. 



"It Is evident that the opposition 

 is attempting to destroy farm 

 solidarity by trying to make every 

 farmer believe that his neighbors 

 arc a set of half-witted scoundrels 

 wh6 will use every chance to cut 

 tlwlr own throat.s — and his own — 

 by wrecking any plan brought for- 

 ward. This Is a libel on the char- 

 acter and the Intelligence of the 

 farmer." 



In many parts of the country 

 the end of the harvest season 

 marks the beginning of the farm 

 organization building season. In 

 ntjiny states and eomnuinlties 

 farmers are prep.iring to strength- 

 en their organizations, both gen- 

 eral and cooperative. The extent 

 to which they increase the mem- 

 bership of their general organiza- 

 tions and develop their bargaining 

 power by Increasing the volume 

 of their commodities marketed 

 through their cooperatives, will be 

 their answer to the challenge 

 hurled in their teeth by those who 

 profit through keeping farmers 

 disorganized, through the dl.srui>- 

 tlon of farm organizations and 

 through the doubt that they can 

 create In the minds of farmers as 

 to the sincerity of their leadership 

 and the integrity of their assocl- 

 atlon.s. 



Throughout the years that 

 farmers have .struggled to build 

 their marketing and general or- 

 ganizations succeeding generations 

 have found themselves confronted 

 by m'ich the s.amc jirobloms. They 

 have been ridiculed, subjected to 

 iioycott and <liscrimination. and 

 branded as the easy prey of those 

 who, for selfish reasons, oppose 

 farm organizations. Their answer, 

 throughout^ these years, has been 

 slow but litt^hdy building. 

 Xo Di.slntrgratlon. 



During the long depression the 

 end of which, we hope, may now 

 be In sight, farmers often have 

 been pinched to meet even the 

 reasonable costs of organization. 

 It has been our privilege to at- 

 tend many conventions of farm 

 organizations in recent years and 

 we have been struck by the vigor- 

 ous actions and enthusiasm that 

 uniformly have attended these 

 meetings. They presaged not the 

 disintegration of farm organiza- 

 tions but their future development 

 on a larger scale th.an ever. 



Hard times have left farmers 

 undaunted, more dctermjned. This 

 determination has found expres- 

 sion not only In the development 

 of the legislation that now gives 

 promise of changing conditions for 

 the better on American farms, but 

 in the building of great national 

 cooperatives and the strengthen- 

 ing of local cooperatives through 

 which the products of those farms 

 may be marketed under producer 

 control. Agricultural legislation, 



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cooperative marketing, equitable 

 farm taxation, wherever they have 

 been brought about, have been the 

 product of farm organization. 



"The future of the American 

 farmer," says one writer, "is the 

 charaoteristic one of all peasants 

 for whom, In our present system 

 of society, there is no hope." He 

 doubts the ability and the willing- 

 ness of farmers to meet today's 

 test, believes that great Industries 

 which want cheap food for their 

 workers, so that low wages may 

 bo paid, will continue to oppose 

 the farmer's plans and that the.sc 

 industries will be able not only to 

 set the consumer against the 

 I'avmer but to poison the mindu of 

 nian.v farmers against their own 

 programs. , ./ 



Fanners Who Joiil. 



What Wallaces* Farmers 

 say about the farmers' crop 

 tion program will apply 

 slight modification to every pro- 

 gram on whiQh the farmer em- 

 barks. , . , , . . • ... 



"in evefj' permfttient f>rogram," 

 says this publication, "farmers 

 wlio join will get more than those 

 who Mtay out. In every case, suc- 

 «ess de|iir*Mls on the willingness of 

 the pa«licipating farmers to trust 

 and work with their neighbors. 



"The farmers who arc working 

 on the reduction programs are like 

 men working against time to build 

 a levee before the flood w.aters 

 roar down the river bed. There 

 are those who cry to them: 'There 

 won't be any more floods!' There 

 are those who whisper: 'Those fel- 

 lows up the Icvce are stealing 

 sandljagsl' There are those who 

 roar: 'Lets not do this hard work! 

 Let's demand that the president 

 Issue ;i proclamation telling the 

 flood water to go back!" 



"Tho.se economists are right who 

 .say this is the hardest test Amer- 

 ican agriculture has ever faced. 

 They arc right when they say no 

 group of farmers has ever made a 

 change In national policy without 

 years of suffering. But they arc 

 wrong when they declare that 

 American farmers are not wise 

 enough or unselfish enough to 

 meet the issue. 



100 Per Cent Sign-Up. 



"For the corn l)olt, the test will 

 oome when farmers have the 

 chance to pledge a reduction in 

 corn and hog production for next 

 year. Let's throw a 100 per cent 

 iiign-up in the teeth of those who 

 claim the farmer is too dumb and 

 too greedy to use the new farm act 

 to save himself." 



And let's start with another 100 

 per cent sign-up in our farm or- 

 ganizations, without which the op- 

 portunity now offered to save our- 

 selves never would have knocked 

 at ouf doora. .. " . 



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EFFECTIVE IS NEXT 

 1 SAYS O'NEAL 



Cites Accomplishments Of 

 American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration In Twelve Years. 



Farm Bureau 



members In every section of 

 country this year in a great celt 

 bratlon of victory for organize 

 agriculture, declared Edward 

 O'Neal, president of the Amet 

 can Farm Bureau Federation ini,a 

 special message prepared for the 

 Record. 



"Great progress has marked the 

 development oX the Farm Bureau's 

 program during the past 12 

 months." pointed out Mr. O'Neal. 

 "Agriculture today moves forward 

 on a new plane and occupies a 

 place of economic equality, recog- 

 nized as the nation's source of life 

 and prosperity. This victory is, In 

 a great mea.sure, the fruit of the 

 program developed and spon.sored 

 through the past years of our 

 Farm Bureau org.inlzation. 



"Since 1020, the organized far- 

 mer, through the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, has been care- 

 fully and consistently takinc the 

 leadership and educating the peo- 

 ple of the United States to the 

 understanding of the needs of 

 agriculture. It has been a slow, 

 heart-breaking job but we have 

 continued diligently In our fight 

 .•uul have gained most of the legis- 

 lation asked for. Now we must 

 work together to make it effective. 

 Pri«Ts Higher. 



"Already much progress has 

 V»een made In restoring the farm 

 commodity jirice level. During the 

 pa.st six months, the average 

 wholesale price of all commodi- 

 ties has ri.sen to nearly the aver- 

 age of pre-war level. Certain 

 commodity prices still lag behind 

 and the problem of raising price 

 levels particularly of corn, hogs 

 and wheat can and muj^t be solved. 



Mr. O'Neal explained that the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Act opens 

 the way for a nationally planned 

 agriculture. "It confers upon the 

 .Secretary of Agriculture broad 

 powers whereby the farm pur- 

 chasing power is to be restored to 

 normal, the pre-war period being 

 called .a normal period," he said. 



"I'nder Its far-reaching powers, 

 we can make a public utility of 

 agriculture. It lays the foundation 

 for bringing about a balance be- 

 tween production and consump- 

 tion of farm products under a 

 voluntary national program to be 

 adopted by the farmers — a pro- 

 gram which will reward those who 

 cooperate In the plan. Those who 

 stay out of the plan must boar the 

 economic consequences of their 

 noncoopcration. 



"The AAA gives the farmers an 

 Instrument whereby they can ad- 

 just their production to market 

 demands and obtain a fair price 

 for their products." 



A Xcw Policy. 



The Farm Bureau's cotton- 

 planter-president pointed with 

 pride to the fact that this new i>ro- 

 gram Is the result of the efforts of 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed-, 

 oration. "This Is a broad, far- 

 reaching program — a new policy 

 for our nation," he stated. "It 

 marks a new era In .American life. 

 It is the results of years of effort 

 on the part of the Farm Bureau 

 and other farm groups. It is evi- 

 dent now that the primary Job of 

 farm people is to organize fully 

 and t() cooperate to make this pro- 

 gram a .success." 



Mr. O'.Neal traced brlelfly some 

 of the accomplishments of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion through its legislative and 

 general nation-wide cooperative 

 effort, during the past twelve 

 years. First, he cited the fact that 

 the Farm Bureau had backed and 



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