I. A. A. RECORD— January, 1934 



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TALXAOE SEraSES 



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Farm Bureau Services 



- , Not Fully Appreciated 



Talmage DeFrees Discusses 



Achievements of Organization 



In Bond County Address 



THE real service of the Farm 

 Bureau movement is frequent- 

 ly not recognized by the aver- 

 age member President Talmage De- 

 Frees of the Bond County Farm Bu- 

 reau said recently in addressing the 

 annual meeting in Bond county. "This 

 major service comes by reason of the 

 great numerical strength of the state 

 and national organizations which are 

 today the largest and most influential 



organized group 

 of farmers in the 

 world. It would 

 seem that every 

 farmer thinking 

 of his interests 

 would desire to be 

 affiliated with 

 such a group. I 

 have no doubt 

 that if farmers 

 were all properly 

 informed such a 

 result would come 

 about almost automatically. 



**The work of the tax department of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 in the passage of legislation, and the 

 prevention of the passage of bills 

 inimical to the farmer's interest has 

 been the means of saving the farmers 

 of Illinois millions of dollars. The 

 only group at Springfield during the 

 sessions of the General Assembly, that 

 is actively engaged in safeguarding 

 the interests of the farmer, and I will 

 add the interests of the small home 

 owner in the small towns and villages 

 as well, is the able committee com- 

 posed of President Earl C. Smith, 

 Lfegal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick, 

 Tax Expert John C. Watson, Chas. 

 Black and others representing the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. Your 

 membership in the Farm Bureau 

 makes possible this kind of work. Had 

 there been no Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation it is difficult to estimate 

 what the burden of taxation on the 

 Illinois farms would be today. 



"The influence of this great -body 

 does not stop at the boundaries of 

 our state, but by reason of its 

 strength coupled with the fact that 

 its President, Earl C. Smith, is prob- 

 ably the most influential and outstand- 

 ing man in the whole field of agricul- 

 txrre today, its influence is felt in the 

 halls of congress at Washington. The 

 other night in a radio address which 

 doubtless many of you heard, Clifford 

 Gregory, editor of Prairie Farmer, 



spoke of the fact that a number of 

 the governors of the mid-western 

 states were in Washington seeking 

 some sort of relief for agriculture, and 

 Mr. Gregory said that it was his be- 

 lief that Earl Smith single-handed 

 could accomplish more in Washingfton 

 than this entire group. The other day 

 8,000 farmers assembled in Peoria 

 on a two-days' notice of Presi- 

 dent Smith. Among those who ad- 

 dressed this gathering was Henry T. 

 Rainey, Speaker of the House. Mr. 

 Rainey spoke of the fact that at the 

 present time when his office and the 

 office of the President of the United 

 States desired information on farm 

 problems they called into conference 

 Earl Smith, and I happen to know that 

 Mr. Smith is in Washington a great 

 deal at this time. 



"Friends, this whole gigantic pro- 

 gram for agricultural rehabilitation 

 has come about as a result of the ef- 

 forts of organized agriculture. Most 

 of the things advocated and being 

 tried out by the present administra- 

 tion are the things that our organiza- 

 tion has been preaching for the last 

 12 years. We have gone a long ways, 

 we have accomplished much, but we 

 are constantly forced to think what we 

 might accomplish if we had the sup- 

 port of all the farmers of this great 

 state." 



Alex. Legge Endows 



Research Foundation 



Sudden Death Brings To Light 

 Legacy For Improvement 



of Farm Life « 



A BEQUEST of 1500,000 was left 

 by Alexander Legge, president 

 of the International Harvester 

 Company and former chairman of the 

 Federal Farm Board, who died recent- 

 ly, to endow the "Farm Foundation." 

 Prior to his death Mr. Legge had al- 

 ready contributed |400,000 to the 

 foundation which is to be a philan- 

 thropic organiza- 

 tion to carry on 

 research and ex- 

 perimental work 

 for the improve- 

 ment of farm life. 

 Frank O. Low- 

 den of Oregon, 111. 

 is chairman of the 

 board of trustees 

 of the foundation. 

 Other members 

 are as follows: 

 Bernard M. 

 Baruch, George McDonald, Clarence 

 Poe, Mary Harriman Rumsey, John 

 Stuart, Clifford V. Gregory, Charles 

 C. Teague, Roy Johnson, W. E. Riegel, 

 R. E. Lambert, Melvin A. Traylor, 



ALEX. LEOOE 



SEAK mrm'OBi) 



Upholds "New Deal" 



In 4-H Club Address 



I. A. A. And Associated Com- 

 panies Entertain Illinois Club 

 Champions In Chicago 



Dean H. W. Mumford of the College 

 of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 

 upheld the underlying principle of the 

 "new deal" to "restore to the common 

 people an equal opportunity," in ad- 

 dressing the annual dinner given by 



the Illinois Agri-- 

 cultural Associa- 

 tion and asso- 

 ciated companies 

 to Illinois 4-H 

 Club champions 

 at the Great 

 Northern Hotel, 

 Chicago, the 

 night of Dec. 6. 

 More than 200 

 club members, 

 club leaders, county advisers, I. A. A. 

 officials and their guests attended. 



Speaking specifically to the 160 club 

 members Dean Mumford said: "You 

 should concern yourselves with what 

 you can contribute to the new deal, not 

 alone with what the government can 

 do for you. No government can do for 

 you what you can and must do for 

 yourself. You will not have every- 

 thing to your liking. In a sense you 

 can raise yourself by your own boot- 

 straps." ;■/■..'■::',".,■ 



Earl C. Smith, president of the 

 I. A. A., congratulated the club mem- 

 bers on their achievements and voiced 

 the interest in and support of the As- 

 sociation to 4-H Club activities. In 

 introducing Dean Mumford he com- 

 mented on the friendly relationship 

 and co-operation which has existed for 

 many years between the State College 

 of Agriculture Extension Service and 

 the Farm Bureau movement in Illinois. 



Owen D. Young, Robert E. Wood, 

 Ralph Budd, Dan A. Wallace, Frank 

 E. Mullen, Chris L. Christensen, A. R. 

 Mann, and F. D. Farrell. 



The trust agreement by which the 

 trustees agreed to establish the founda- 

 dation, according to newspaper state- 

 ment sets forth the following purposes : 



1. To encourage and develop co-op- 

 erative effort and community organ- 

 ization and consciousness as means of 

 improving the social, economic, edu- 

 cational, and cultural conditions of 

 rural life. 



2. To stimulate and conduct research 

 and experimental work for the study 

 of any economic, social, educational or 

 scientific problem of importance to 

 any substantial portion of the rural 

 population of the country, including 

 problems of production, marketing, 



