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TTO STEFFEY of Stronghurst, 

 Henderson county, the new 

 director from the 15th district, 

 operates a 220 acre grain and live- 

 stock farm. He has been a leader for 

 many years in the Henderson Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau and all of the co- 

 operative enterprises of the organiza- 

 tion. Mr. Steffey served as captain in 

 the recent Henderson county mobiliza- 

 tion campaign and it was largely 

 his efforts combined with the 

 work of Bill Stevenson, general agent, 

 that put Henderson county to the 

 front in percentage of niembership 

 gain. '■'■r'-:'''-r'^yl'''^-t''^' 



Mr. Steffey has been on the board 

 of directors of the Farm Bureau for 

 several years, is a director in the Tri- 

 County Oil Company, also in the 

 Stronghurst Shipping Association, and 

 recently was chosen a member of the 

 board of the Monmouth Production 

 Credit Association. He is now serving 

 as chairman of the county corn-hog 

 control association. ^^^ V 



Mr. Steffey is 35 years old and has 

 a wife and one child, a girl. 



Farm Income Better 



Some Prices Lag Behind 



; Gross farm income in 1933 is esti- 

 mated at $6,383,000,000 which includes 

 $289,000,000 in benefit payments from 

 the A. A. A. This is more than 24 

 per cent in excess of the gross income 

 for 1932 estimated at $5,143,000,000. 



Grain shows the largest increase in 

 returns from 1932 to 1933 at 86 per 

 cent. The figure for tobacco was 62 

 per cent, cotton 56 per cent, hogs 10 

 per cent, cattle and calves one per 

 cent, poultry and eggs minus four per 

 cent, dairy products minus one per 

 cent, fruits and nuts 18 per cent, and 

 vegetables 32 per cent. 



Want Tariff Barriers 



Leveled To Sell Autos 



American automobile manufacturers 

 could sell more cars abroad if the 

 United States and foreign countries 

 would level tariff barriers, according 

 to the National Automobile Chamber 

 of Commerce. . 



Last year about 240,000 American 

 cars were sold abroad; in 1929 nearly 

 a million. The 59 cent dollar, exporters 

 declare, has reduced the price of an 

 American car as much as one-half. In 

 Spain, for example, an auto which cost 

 2,000 pesos last year would cost 1,000 

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CANDIDATE WITH 

 BAO FAPvM RECOf^O 



Election Day Is Comin* 



When election day is coming and it's 

 { drawin very near . ^ ^^^^. ^:^ . v : : 

 And candidates upon all corners round 

 v about us now appear --^ 

 When depression hard has hit us 

 :/: and we're tryin to get out 

 When men who've been in office 

 have never yet put it to rout. ■ v; 

 Oh! Then it's time we fellers who've 



been feeling mighty blue ^ ' 

 Get to lookin up their records just to 

 V see what they will do 

 Get to listenin to their speeches 

 / they're wantin us to hear ^V • 

 For election day is comin and it's 

 drawin very near. i: 'r 



Their talk sounds kinder pleasant as 

 they talk to me and you 



But the worth of every feller is the 

 good that he can do 

 And 'a listenin t© their speeches 



which they broadcast on the air 

 They are just empty promises un- 

 less they have a record fair. S 

 So we'd better look up their records 



for time's goin very fast 

 The proof of every candidate is the 

 record of his past 

 And prosperity of the future de- 



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pends on how we their records 

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For election day is comin and we 

 must get out and vote. 



When farmers by low prices for years 



have been oppressed 

 Been in deepest of depression till it's 

 spread to all the rest. 

 Oh! Then it's time we fellers who 



are tillers of the soil 

 Get het up to the boiling point till 

 we will over-boil. 

 It's time that we assert our rights, de- 

 clare for liberty 

 Go to the polls, the ballots use, and 

 vote for equality. 

 Oh! Then they'll surely listen; of 



the farmer they'll take note 

 For election day is comin when we'll 

 "all get out and vote; ^^^^; 3^^ 



I. A. A. Record— March, 1934 



Geo. N. Peek Hammers > 

 Away On Plans Toward 

 Increasing Farm Exports 



George N. Peek of Moline, 111., who 

 has been working with President 

 Roosevelt recently in efforts to de- 

 velop foreign outlets for agricultural 

 products, reports state, has been of- 

 fered the job of directing the Export- 

 Import Bank of Washington recently 

 created to finance foreign trade. 



Mr. Peek in a recent report to the 

 President proposed a co-ordination of 

 all federal foreign trade agencies un- 

 der a government export corporation 

 with authority to negotiate directly 

 with foreign countries. - . 



Mr. Peek believes the solution of the 

 farm surplus problem lies in the de- 

 velopment of foreign outlets for 

 American farm products. He resigned 

 his job as administrator of the AAA 

 to devote his full energy to this pro- 

 , gram. '• '•' "'^ ^- ■■■■^' '■'■ ■ ■- "■■' ■ ■ '■■■-■■ '-; 



He points out that only about five 

 per cent of total national income from 

 industrial products in the period from 

 1910 to 1932 came from industrial ex- 

 ports, whereas during this period 18 

 per cent of the American farmers' in- 

 come came from exports. 

 ; He believes that every effort should 

 be made toward working out reciprocal 

 trade agreements with foreign coun- 

 tries, that intei lational trade should 

 be restored, and that adjoistment of 

 production to domestic demand, if car- 

 ried to its logical conclusion, will be 

 disastrous to agriculture and to in- 

 dustrial activities now dependent for 

 existence upon agricultural production. 



The annual meeting of the Chicago 

 Producers Commission Ass'n. will be 

 held March 13 in the Bal Tabarin 

 room of the Sherman Hotel, Chicago. 

 Earl C. Smith, president of the I. A. 

 A., will speak. 



Yes, election day is comin and the 



time it isn't long 

 When we must use the ballot against 

 those in the wrong. 

 Farmers have long been treated 

 wrong and not had equal rights 

 Ballots are better'n bullets to help 

 them win their fights. 

 Those who've been in office brought 



no help within our range 

 Perhaps upo election day we'd better 

 make a change, 

 But if we are indifferent and don't 



get out and vote 

 Then they'll just leave us drift 

 ^ ^ along and forever be the goat. • 



— Leverett Compton, Shelby 

 Co., 111., written Oct. 1932. 



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