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.L ASSOCIATION RECORD 



iHURSDAY, FEB. 15. 1934 



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[s Agricultural Association 

 I feel that I am address- 

 ^ays been one of the main- 

 (ture. It is encouraging to 

 )urces that the American 

 future with new hope. We 

 le relentlessly to face facts 

 f t e r the obstacles in our 

 (y out of the economic sham- 

 land calls for COLLECTIVE 

 Irica has seldom k n o w n in 

 m be done." - 



;LIN D. ROOSEVELT, 



K'dntlon, Illinois Agricultural Association, • 



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"It is particularly fitting 

 that strong farm organiza- 

 tions are in a position to help 

 carry out the program of ad- 

 justment under the Farm 

 Act, This is to follow through 

 to a logical conclusion a c:'.m- 

 paign for raising agiiculture 

 to an e(}uality with other 

 groups, begun by farm lead- 

 ers more than ten years ago." 

 — In statemen t.Sept. 29, 

 1933. 



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has never been more appar- 

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 ber, as well as a charter mem- 

 ber of your organization.' 

 Statement Sept. 29, 1933. 



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—Abraham Lincoln 



FR.\.\K O. LO\VI>E\ 



^^I AM more convinced than ever that organiza- 

 ^ tion is the greatest need of the farmers of this 

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• *Tf history teaches anything, it teaches that 

 permanent prosperity cannot come without farm 

 prosperity. We cannot have a balanced agriculture, 

 nor get agriculture back to a state of balance with 

 other industries, without organization. This is a 

 business man's problem as much as the farmer's. 

 No nation has long survived the decay of its agri- 

 culture." * 



' . ^'^^^^^^^ FRANK 6. LOWDEN, '" 



l\ Before « meetlmc of lUinols bankers in 1927, 



emment is offering fully to 

 farmers its own centralizing 

 powers 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. . . ' 



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ARTHUR M. HYDE 



Wy ARTHUR M. HYDE, 



Former Secrelary of 

 Agr "culture. 

 "One general answer to 

 farm problems is organiza- 

 tion. Organization to control 

 market ing, to standardize 

 output, to eliminate waste 



and duplication of a mar-,' 

 keting and distributing sys-^ 

 tem, which generally speak- 

 ing, absorbs two dollars for 

 every one dollar it returns to 

 the farmer. Thus the farmer 

 can approximate the position 

 of industry, or of other 

 groups. 



"By the long arm of his 

 own organization, the farmer 

 can make himself felt beyond 

 his line fences and in tb^ 

 markets of the world. 

 Through his organization, 

 the farmer can get informa- 

 tion as to commodity sup- 

 plies, can bring his produc- 

 tion within the limits of de- 

 mand, can control the sur- 

 plus problem by preventing 

 it. By organization the farm- 

 er can take control of his 

 own industry ; rp-establi«h 

 the independence of his caH- 

 injf ; win his own place in 

 the sun of economic equality, 

 and having won it, hold it 

 against all the changing vi- 

 cissitudes of the future." 



By CHESTER C. DAVIS. 



Chief, Agricultural Adjust- 

 ment Administration. 



"Few worthwhile goals 

 have been won by individual 

 action; only when men stand 

 together in a common effort 

 can they succeed in the long 

 run; as uncoordinated indi- 

 viduals, they fail. 



"The need for common ac- 

 tion is emphasized by the Ag- 

 ricultural Adjustment Act. 

 strong farm organizations 

 are ready-made to furnish 

 this action. Farmers can 

 achieve the goal of parity 

 prices under the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Act much soon- 

 er when they are already 

 mobilized as a group. 



"After a decade of disor- 

 der, it is clear that going-it 

 alone does not pay; we must 

 solve our problems as h 

 group, acting together, we 



CHESTER C. DAVIDS 



can enter a brighter era than 

 any of us have ever known." 

 statement Sept. 29, 1933. 



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