JLTUML ASSOCIATION RECORD 



FRIDAY, OCT. 6. 1933 



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h^Hd to write tho "New Deal" 

 fu^Hgrlculture In tho form of the 

 on^Hbuu furin bill sit^ned by i'rcni- 

 deH^ Roosevelt, May Vi. 1933. rc- 

 gaHjod us the most far-roaehing 

 anlVswecping legislation ever un- 

 actBl by Congre.sH. 



Save »t,O0O,OO«,O0O. 

 Iher Farm Bureau accomplish- 

 ments niftde possible by tho com- 

 blnld action of national, state and 

 cotVity organisations arc: 



jcured passage In 1922 Of 

 th^ Capper-Volstead Act legaliz- 

 ing cooperative marketing. 



"Ill 1920 secured a reduction 



in ■railroad valuation used in de- 



tcAilning freight rates that has 



|ually saved American farmers 



J. 000. 000;. defeated a proposed 



■i per cent rate increase that 



lild have added an additional 



(o.OOO.OOO freight bill to Amerl- 



agriculture. This one ac- 



lipllshmcnt In 10 years (1920- 



lo) saved American agriculture 



ko. 000, 000. 



)i\ May*9, 1921 the first farm 

 was organized in tho Wash- 

 Iton offices of the Farm Bu- 

 lii, resulting in more legislation 

 I benefit to aKrlciilture being 

 llandlcd hundreds of freight 

 ■(• adjustments resulting In sav- 

 |H from $$3.00 to $50.00 a oar, 

 lilling an annual saving of $5u,- 

 VoOO. Has repeatedly blocked 

 pmpts at freight Increases af- 

 hng millions of dollars in an- 

 il savings for farmers. 

 IVided in lifting the $30,- 

 ,000 annual phantom freight 

 , caused by Pittsburgh-Plus 

 Item, from agriculttirc. 

 In 1920. 1924. 1929 and 193:: 

 represented organized farmers a: 

 lubllcan and Democratic na- 

 Inal conventions and wrote re|- 

 nimcndatlons into party plat- 

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Pres. Roosevelt On 

 Higher Prices And 

 Honest Dollar 



Higher farm prices and the 

 commodity dollar, both fought for 

 by the Farm Bureau and provided 

 In the Agricultural Adjustment 

 Act, were supported by ffresidont 

 Roosevelt In recent public state- 

 ments. 



On higher prices, tho president 

 said: 



"It la not sufficient to es- 

 cape from present evils, but 

 it is our duty to consider to- 

 gether how to avoid a recur- 

 rence in tho future. 



"The first task Is to restore 

 prices to a level at which in- 

 dustry, and above all. agri- 

 culture can function profit- 

 ably and efficiently. 



"The second task is to pre- 

 serve the stability of this ad- 

 justment once achieved." 

 And on the subject of the com- 

 modity dollar, ho said:. 



"Old fetishes of so-called 

 International bankers are 

 being replaced by efforts to 

 plan national currencies with 

 the objective of giving to 

 those currencies a continuing 

 purchasing power which does 

 not greatly vary in terms of 

 the commodities and^needs of 

 modern civilization. . . The 

 United States seeks the kind 

 of dollar which n generation 

 hence will have the same pur- 

 chasing power and debt-pay- 

 ing power as the dollar value 

 we hope to attain in the near 

 future." 



What Prominent 

 Leaders Say Of 

 The Farm Bureau 



President Roosevelt, speaking at 

 the eleventh annual convention of 

 the A. F. B. F. in 1929 said^ "With- 

 out tho cooperation of the farm 

 organizations Iq New York we 

 could have gotten nowhere. The 

 Farm Bureau is to be congratu- 

 lated on the perfectly magnificent 

 work you have carried on. The in- 

 fluence of the Farm Bureau can 

 be found anywhere. More power 

 to you." 



At the thirteenth annual con- 

 vention of the A. F. B. F. In 1931. 

 Frank O. Lowdcn, former gov- 

 ernor of Illinois, said: "Cooper- 

 ative marketing seems to be the 

 remedy for this unbalanced condl 

 tio'n. Wherever cooperative mar- 

 keting Is furthest advanced, 

 whether In the United States or 

 abroad, there you find agriculture 

 In the best estate; violent fluctua- 

 tions In the market lessened; bet- 

 ter prices to the producers with- 

 out increase in cost and some- 

 times with an actual decrea.se to 

 the con.sumer; an approach to 

 standardization of products; a 

 more intelligent effort to adjust 

 production to probable dcmanB; 

 a finer and more satisfying com- 

 munity life." 



Gen. John J. Pershing, at the 

 ninth annual meeting of the A. F. 

 B. F. In Chicago In 1927 stated: 

 "Nothing about the activities of 

 the Farm Bureau has impre.ssed 

 me more than the work of train- 

 ing the youth of the farm, through 

 your boys' and girls' club work, 

 for the places they are to fill in 



Tune In KYW 



(CHICAGO. Oct. 4— (Spe- 

 cial) — Direct contact between 

 American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration hejidquarters here and 

 members of tho lillnols Agri- 

 cultural Association la provided 

 on the second Saturday of each 

 month through the chain radio 

 facilities of the National 

 Broadcasting Company. 



Special news of the Farm 

 Bureau in Illinois l.s alw.iys 

 included In the news fla.'shes 

 which are featured on the pro- 

 gram. 



Illinois listeners hear the 

 American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration's NBC program over 

 radio station KYW at 11:30 

 a. m. Central Standard Time 

 on the second Saturday of 

 each month. 



their country's future. Thes* 

 young men and women are th« 

 most Important products of th« 

 American farm." 



The late Calvin Coolldge. at th» 

 national convention of the Farm 

 Bureau In ISliS said: "The mo.st 

 important development of lat© 

 years has been the cooperativ* 

 movement. With a production in- 

 fluenced by Information from th« 

 United States department of agri- 

 culture, with adequate storage, 

 supplied Avith necessary credit and 

 the orderly marketing effected 

 through cooperatives, agriculture 

 could be placed on a sound and 

 independent basis." 



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The Fanner's Mutual Reinsurance Company 

 was sponsored by the I. A. A. and the Farm Bu- 

 reau because legal limitations on local farm 

 mutual companies madeitimpossibleforfarm. 

 ' ers to get sufficient protection against dan^age 

 by the elements to their crops and buildings at 

 a mutual rate. Because they were forced to 

 turn to the oldJine companies for the protec- 

 tion they heeded, farm insurance was costing 

 too much. 



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This Company was founded in 1925. 

 Today, in spite of organized opposi- 

 tion it has 24,250 policies in force, 



mounting to $54400:000 of insur- 



nce, ON A COST BASIS. 



F armer's Mutual Reinsurance Com- 



pany demonstrates the effectiveness 

 of ORGANIZATION. It is one more 

 reason why every Illinois farmer 

 should co-operate with his neighbor 

 to his own and his neighbor's advan- 

 tage through membership in the 

 Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. 



Farmer's Mutual 

 Reinsurance Company 



608 SOUTH DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. 



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