will Organize Skilled 



Auto Drivers Club 



: Due to the 41 per cent increase in 



auto accidents to drivers under 20 



■years of age, especially in rural areas, 



the Safety Division of the Illinois 



, Agricultural Association directed by 



ftfV. Vaniman and A. E. Richardson 

 J plans to form a Skilled Drivers Club 

 composed of sons and daughters of 

 Farm Bureau members. All members 

 of the club will be under 20 years of 

 age. The purpose of the club is to 

 unite in one group those younger 

 drivers who can pass a stiff ex- 

 amination. '^ 



The committee has divulged a few 



; of the rules and rewards of member- 



V ship. The Skilled Drivers Club will 

 be further augmented by a Junior 

 Skilled Drivers Club for youngsters 

 from 9 to 14 years old. A series of 

 examinations will be worked out, to 

 be given by the County Farm Bureau 



. and its Accident Prevention Com- 

 mittee. Upon completion and passing 

 the tests, the applicant will be ad- 



, mitted to membership and given an 

 active members badge. Membership 

 will be limited, and thus the badge 

 will be a mark of distinction. It is 

 further planned to hold lectures and 

 ' gatherings of many kinds for mem- 



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V The National Safety Council recent- 

 ly /disclosed that one in every 25 

 drivers under 20 years of age have a 

 fatal accident. This is a 41 per cent 

 increase over the 1921 figures for all 

 . drivers. In marked contrast to the 

 youthful fatalities were the figures 

 for drivers between 30 and 39 years 

 of age, who had one fatal accident for 

 every 37 operators of automobiles. 

 The need for education of the younger 

 drivers is very apparent, and the 

 Safety Division has great hopes that 

 the Skilled Drivers Club will be a 

 factor in reducing the number of 

 accidents now on the increase in rural 



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The County Farm Bureaus and the 

 county accident prevention c o m- 

 mittees will be supplied with com- 

 plete information, registration blanks, 

 etc. . ■• ,-. 



I. A. A. Annual Meeting 



To Be Held in Quincy 



Quincy gets the next annual meet- 

 ing of the I. A. A. This decision was 

 reached at the June meeting of the 

 LA. A. Board after a report by 

 Secretary George E. Metzger and 

 Treasurer Robert A. Cowles to the 

 effect that the three cities receiving 

 the most votes at the May meeting 

 were qualified to take care of the con- 



vention. The meeting will be held 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 January 29, 30 and 31, 1935. 



The motorists association of Quincy 

 has agreed to provide free transporta- 

 tion from the hotels to the various 

 meeting places located several blocks 

 away or more where the general ses- 

 sions and annual banquet will be held. 



The Quincy Co-operative Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association will supply all 

 dairy products, and roast beef for the 

 banquet will be provided by 4-H Club 

 baby beef calves in Adams county. 



Investigate Illinois 



^^^f '^^^^^ Ennergency Relief 



Senator Louis O. Williams of Clin- 

 ton, chairman of the committee of 

 legislators investigating the Illinois 

 Emergency Relief Commission, re- 

 cently disclosed, according to press re- 

 ports, that the Commission had 

 doubled its payroll from 4,161 em- 

 ployees to 8,971 since January, 1933. 

 Most of this money is being spent in 

 Cook county. - 



Senator Williams was extremely 

 critical of the manner in which the 

 Commission is spending vast sums of 

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"It is difficult for the people of the 

 state to understand why it costs 10 

 per cent to distribute public funds in 

 relief work," said Mr. Williams. 



"Knowing something of the tem- 

 perament of the Illinois legislature I 

 am satisfied it will be impossible to 

 get the legislature to pass a third 

 state emergency relief bond issue 

 next January. - : 



"We are spending vast sums of 

 money for relief. But we have just 

 about reached the limit in raising 

 funds by taxation in Illinois." • 



Hunters Must Buy Stamps 



Hunters of wild ducks, geese, and 

 other migratory waterfowl are now 

 required to buy a federal hunting 

 stamp costing $1.00 annually. The 

 stamps (good in any state) can be 

 purchased at any post office in the 

 county seat and are usually attached 

 to the state hunting license. The 

 stamp tax will be used to increase the 

 supply of waterfowl. . 



Federal game wardens report that drought has 

 starved and limited normal reproduction of 

 millions of waterfowl. 



Wild rice, common food of wild ducks and 

 geese, failed to grow when northern swamps 

 and lakes dried up in this country and Canada. 



Corn Loans Exfended By ' 

 Government To Sept. 1st 



Illinois farmers' $30,000,000 of corn 

 loans which were to mature August 1 

 have been extended to September 1. 

 When he sells his com, the owner 

 gets the benefit of any excess money 

 received over and above the loan, the 

 interest due, insurance and other in- 

 cidental charges. Prompt settlement 

 after August 1 will be asked on loans 

 secured by corn that is in poor con- 

 dition or which is stored in poor cribs 

 offering inadequate protection. 



Administration officials state that 

 on July 1 nearly 383,000,000 bushels 

 of corn were in storage on farms in 

 states where loans were made. This 

 includes all the major corn states. 

 Approximately 256,532,000 bushels, or 

 around two-thirds, is pledged under 

 government loan agreement. Un- 

 pledged corn decreased 64 per cent 

 between April 1 and July 1 while 

 pledged stocks decreased only about 

 four per cent. i 



'If the market price of corn on 

 September 1 is less per bushel than 

 the loan amount per bushel, the bor- 

 rower may dismiss his obligation by 

 turning over to the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation the number of bushels of 

 corn originally stored, provided the 

 loan agreement has been fulfilled and 

 no misrepresentations were made in 

 getting the loan;:; " , ? 



V. 



Cut in Rate On Pears 



Benefits Fruit Growers 



Farm real estate taxes in 1932 

 throughout the United States averaged 

 89 per cent higher than they did in 

 1913. Farm taxes reached their peak 

 in 1929 when they were at 241 com- 

 pared with 100 in 1913. 



A reduction in freight rates on 

 pears from Southern Illinois to Wis- 

 consin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri 

 has been secured by the I. A. A. 

 transportation division. :r • 



Prior to this adjustment, pears took 

 fifth class while apples took 25% of 

 first class. The same adjustment was 

 asked on pears. Based on a shipment 

 from Centralia to Minneapolis, the 

 reduction is 18c per cwt. which, on a 

 24,000 pound car, amounts to a sav- 

 ing of $43.20, reports G. W. Baxter. 



The average movement into this 

 territory during normal times is 

 around 500 cars and the average re- 

 duction will amount to a little more 

 than $30 a car, a savings of $15,000 

 a year. These rates become effective 

 August 1, in time for this year's 

 movement. 



Note: Over a period of 15 years the 

 I. A. A. transportation department has removed 

 innumerable rate discriminations, gained con* 

 cessions, collected claims which have saved nU- 

 nois farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars.— 

 Editor. 



AUGUST, 1934 



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