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I. A. A. RECORD— November, 1933 



every city and every county is made 

 to assume responsibility for its worthy 

 poor who are in need there is no hope 

 for an end to the "dole." That is the 

 real danger in the present situation. 

 Many are asking the question: "Are 

 we perpetuating a permanent class of 

 unemployed ? Are we creating a class 

 of people who will always be content 

 to live on charity?" The easier It is 

 to obtain funds and the farther away 

 from home they are raised the more 

 wasteful will be their distribution. 

 And the longer will this problem be 

 with us. ._:^ 



; V . A Few Questions 



• The question for farmers to decide 

 is "Shall Chicago and Cook county 

 be given everything they ask regard- 

 less of who pays the bill? Shall the 

 credit of the state be made available, 

 and our farms and homes jeopardized 

 through additional taxation to provide 

 relief for the metropolitan area when 

 that community does nothing to help 

 itself? What is to prevent Chicago 

 and Cook county going to Springfield 

 again and again for relief? What is 

 to prevent the metropolitan area at- 

 tempting further tax raids for all 

 sorts of things now that this begin- 

 ning has been made?" 



Nothing except the determination 

 of rural people working together 

 through organization. Downstate peo- 

 ple are grateful to those state sen- 

 ators who yesterday opposed and de- 

 feated the attempt to put over the bill 

 authorizing $38,000,000 additional 

 taxes on all Illinois property next 

 year. "'-J-'" - ■ ■■■"■ r'-'Jk 's''';!-M"'' 'l-^'' ;' :•"'■ 



The three-point program established 

 as our goal in this campaign is first, 

 parity prices for farm products; sec- 

 ond, quicker farm credit relief; 

 third, a 50 per cent tax cut on prop- 

 erty. To attain these objectives de- 

 mands and deserves the united support 

 of farmers. 



V Higher farm prices through effec- 

 tive administration of the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment Act is not impos- 

 sible. We must not quit now that we 

 are half way up the hill. 



Immediate farm credit relief as in- 

 tended by the Congress can be ob- 

 tained. We must continue our fight 

 until we get it. 



A 50 per cent cut in property taxes 

 is entirely possible if farmers will or 

 ganize powerfully and effectively 

 enough to do the job. 



There are those who will tell you 

 that these things cannot be done. But 

 organized farmers in Illinois are accus- 

 tomed to doing things that others 

 have said could not be accomplished. 



For 12 long years we fought to ob- 

 tain far-reaching legislation to con- 



NOTICE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL. 



ASSOCIATION 



BLKCTION OF DBLBGATES 



Notice la hereby given that In 

 connection with the annual meet- 

 ings of all county Farm Bureaus 

 to be held during the months 

 of November and December 

 1933, at the hour and place to be 

 determined by the Board of Di- 

 rectors of each respective county 

 Farm Bureau, the members in 

 good standing of such county 

 Farm Bureau and who are also 

 qualified voting members of Illi- 

 n o 1 s Agricultural Association 

 shall elect a delegate or delegates 

 to represent such members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and vote on all matters before 

 the next annual meeting or any 

 special meeting of the Associa- 

 tion, including the election of of- 

 ficers and directors as provided 

 for in the by-laws of the Associa- 

 tion. 



DurinK November annual nieet- 

 InsH vrlll be beld In Boone, Law- 

 rence, Slonree, St. Clair, Clay, 

 Schuyler, Madison, Moultrie, 

 WaahlnBton, Clinton, Marlon, 

 Williamson, Logan, Gallatin, Ma- 

 coupin and Bro^vn counties. 



During: the month of December 

 the followlnK counties ^vlll hold 

 annual meetings: DeWltt, Clark. 

 Taze^veli, Kdwards, I'ope, John- 

 son, Jersey, Randolph, Union, La- 

 Salle, Kendall, Rock Island. Bu- 

 reau, Richland, DuPa^e, KfflnK- 

 ham, Jackson, Kane, Morgan, 

 Iroquois, Vermilion, Coles, Lee, 

 Craiivford-Jasper, Champ a i g n, 

 Massac, Edgar, LlTingston, 

 Grundy, WabaKh, Piatt, Stcphen- 

 ■on. Saline, Henry and Cook. 



Signed, 



G. E. Metzger, Secretary 

 Oct. 23. 1933 



trol crop surpluses. After many re- 

 verses we obtained the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Act which contains nearly 

 all if not all the principles we fought 

 for. 



To pass a state income tax measure 

 in Illinois was considered impossible 

 and yet such legislation finally re- 

 ceived the required votes in the Gen- 

 eral Assembly. 



We were told that farmers could 

 not successfully run an automobile 

 insurance company, yet we have been 

 operating our own for the past six 

 years at half the manual rates saving 

 Illinois Farm Bureau members sev- 

 eral hundred thousand dollars annual- 

 ly. 



We were told that farmers could- 

 n't organize and operate a life insur- 

 ance company, yet we did organize 

 such a company which in 50 months 

 had more than $50,000,000 of life in- 

 surance in force at new low rates with 

 a strong investment position. 



Farmers were told that they could 

 not successfully operate an oil distrib- 

 uting company, yet during the past 

 seven years we have developed such an 

 organization on a co-operative basis 

 supplying high-quality petroleum 

 products and returning to Farm Bu- 

 reau members more than $2,000,000 in 

 patronage dividends. 



Against the opposition and the pre- 



dictions of those who said it couldn't 

 be done tuberculosis has been practi- 

 cally driven out of our herds of 

 livestock in 85 per cent of our coun- 

 ties. Also the state gasoline tax to 

 assure the completion of our splendid 

 primary road system was passed — 

 both sponsored and vigorously sup- 

 ported by the I. A. A. and County 

 Farm Bureaus. 



Through organized action we have 

 lowered the cost of immunizing our 

 pigs against cholera to less than half 

 of the former cost; we have set up a 

 state-wide grain sales agency, the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corp., which has handled 

 35,000,000 bushels of grain for 145 

 elevator stockholder members. r 



All these things have been gained 

 by a minority of farmers working 

 through organization. How much more 

 could have been accomplished with 

 united support. The objectives of the 

 present mobilization campaign in Illi- 

 nois can be realized. Let's all do our 

 part to make them effective. •, '■ ' 



Relief Commission 

 . / Urges Chicago ?lan 



The Illinois Emergency Relief Com- 

 mission, temporarily an arm of the 

 state government, is directing local 

 relief workers and committees in 

 downstate counties to influence state 

 senators and representatives in sup- 

 port of the administration program 

 desired by Chicago political leaders. 



A two-page letter signed by Wilfred 

 S. Reynolds, secretary of the Com- 

 mission, was sent out with a news 

 story for local editors. The letter 

 urged the county committees to play 

 up their relief needs before luncheon 

 clubs, women's and labor organiza- 

 tions. Farm Bureaus, chambers of 

 commerce, ministerial associations, 

 etc. It was directed to counties where 

 legislators opposed the $38,000,000 

 levy on property and continued diver- 

 sion of gas tax funds away from roads. 



Ic Per Pound Tax 



On But+er Coming 



A one cent per lb. processing tax 

 will be levied on butterfat part of 

 which will be used to buy surplus but- 

 ter for unemployment relief and part 

 to pay bonuses to farmers who reduce 

 their dairy production according to an 

 announcement by the AAA. 



There were about 100,000,000 lbs. 

 more butter in storage in September 

 than a year ago. The government has 

 been supporting the butter market for 

 the past several weeks, buying for the 

 account of the Federal Emergency 

 Relief Corporation. 





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