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V 'Contrary to all the talk and news- 

 paper propaganda about "liberty," and 

 ''regimentation," we have yet to hear a 

 complaint from any farmer that he is 

 being regimented against his will or de- 

 prived of his liberty. 



: The present farm program is being car- 

 ried out under the authority of legisla- 

 tion enacted at the request of organ- 

 ized farmers. Politicians please note. It 

 was not forced on us. Farmers fought 

 12 years to get it. The initial crop ad- 

 justment plan was and is quite compli- 

 cated. The corn-hog program has been 

 difficult to administer so as to give 100 

 per cent satisfaction. But the Adjust- 

 ment Act is our program and we shall 

 stand by it and try to improve and sim- 

 plify its administration. The gains we 

 have made and the results obtained since 

 1932 speak for themselves. They prove 

 conclusively that farmers perhaps knew 

 more about their own business and what 

 was needed to control surpluses and 

 raise prices than did Mr. Hoover who 

 now views with alarm. 



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Presumably there was "liberty" back 

 In 1932 and earlier. Where did it get us? 

 We could plant our crops, reap bountiful 

 harvests, sell at a loss, buy industrial 

 goods at high prices from protected in- 

 dustries if there was anything left after 

 paying taxes — and finally surrender the 

 farm (ns many;,did) to thie bank or insur- 

 ance company. 



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''ReginxGntation" is ^ word come into 

 new and widespread use. It means es- 

 sentially organization. So under the 

 wheat, cotton, tobacco, andcorn-hog ad- 

 justment plans farmers haye voluntarily 

 organized with the friendly aid of gov- 

 ernment. And for what purpose? To 

 put their house in order. To reduce the 

 surpluses recognized as the crux o% the 

 farm problem by Arthur Hyde, Alexander 

 Legge, Jim Stone, and ' others, all good 

 friends of agriculture, who never had a 

 chance to solve it because they lacked 

 the needed legislative authority. 



"Regimentation" we now hear so much 

 about has been practiced by intelligent 

 manufacturers, business men, and labor, 

 for many years. They have profited by 

 it. A regimented industrial price struc- 

 ture has been maintained behind a high 

 tariff wall for 50 years or more. Manu- 

 facturers have always regimented their 

 production and marketing to sustain 

 profitable price levels. Organization on 

 the scale practiced in the past year is 

 new to farmers. Spread out and divided 



up into small units, farmers, apparently, 

 couldn't get together and regulate pro- 

 duction and marketing as successful in- 

 dustry has done. The Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act gave us our chance. And 

 it worked much faster of course, than 

 anyone expected, because of the drouth. 



The real test of our intelligence is still 

 to come. Farm prices are up. Are we 

 smart enough to fight for this act and 

 use it to keep them there ? Or will greed, 

 and the hope of producing unlimitedly to 

 sell at present or higher price levels, 

 prove our undoing. We can't have our 

 cake and eat it too. God help us to act 

 with wisdom. — E. G. T. ; , 



Quincy Co-op. Has 50 



Per Cent of Retail Business 



Adams county milk producers who 

 own and control the Quincy Co-ojperative 

 Dairy are demonstrating that they can 

 run their own business in a business-like 

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Last year this co-operative handled 

 nearly five million pounds of milk. It 

 manufactures a full line of products in- 

 cluding butter and cheese, ice cream and 

 two chocolate milk drinks. In spite of 

 keen competition and extremely low re- 

 tail prices it has been able to hold more 

 than 50 per cent of the business in 



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ose Gas Tax Cut" 



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weight, but suggested further study to 

 enable wise recommendations for revis- 

 ing such fees so as to still yield a suf- 

 ficient return to pay off highway bonds 

 and interest. v: • . , : \ 



From information now available it ap- 

 pears that if the gas tax is reduced to 

 2c and present allocations to counties and 

 cities are not changed, the state will be 

 unable to engage in any new construc- 

 tion and will be compelled to practically 

 abandon the maintenance of existing 

 roads. Furthermore the state will not be 

 able to match allocations made to Illi- 

 nois by the federal government. 



Until such time as provision is made 

 for the retirement of state highway 

 bonds and interest thereon and for main- 

 taining and improving local roads and 

 streets from funds derived from sources 

 other than increased taxes upon farm 

 lands and other tangible property, the 

 I. A. A. is opposed to reduction of the 

 state gasoline tax. A final report on the 

 two proposals will be made to the board 

 at a later date. 



George E. Hunt is the new farm ad- 

 viser in Greene county. Norman L. 

 Davis is county organization director. 



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 '' >>% of Processing T«x 



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The Agricultural Adjustment Act is 

 the first piece of farm legislation of 

 basic importance ever enacted and put in 

 operation in this country that was 

 drafted by farmers and administered in 

 the interest of farmers, Edward A." 



O'Neal, president of 

 the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation, 

 said in addressing 

 the annual picnic of 

 the Adams County 

 Farm Bureau, 

 Quincy, 

 15. 



"This 

 gave us the neces- 

 sary machinery for 

 effective collective action to plan in- 

 telligent production and marketing for 

 our crops,'' he said. "We have made 

 wonderful progress. Prices of seven 

 basic commodities have already riseh 

 above parity^ Farm income this yearj 

 it is estimated, will be around $3,00(),-*'' 

 000,000 more than it was in 1932." '■ '"'^ 



;>;-^y>-:-': The Processing Tax ;X-'/-;i:i-Si •> 



September 

 legislation 



£DW. A. O'NEAL 



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Appealing ta Illinois farmers to stand 

 solidly back of the Farm Bureau in its 

 effort to restore agriculture and the na^ 

 tion to permanent prosperity, he said; 

 "Let's not forget that other groups have 

 been given similar opportunities. . '. , 

 We must fight for the retention of the 

 processing tax i-n the AAA in order to 

 finance adjustment in production control 

 and ill* disposing of surplus. It is the 

 heart of the Adjustment Act; take**it 

 out and you destroy th6 effectiveness of 

 the ActJ''-:\-:r:'^,^ :-i\-'.Jh- ■• .-r-. •:•:•.. ■^•• ••••••••■■•■- v. 



]Vfr. 0*Neal stressed the importance of 

 simplifitatibnbf the program for pro- 

 duction control. "We are urging the 

 President and Congress to give us a 

 stable dollar, thus carrying out the 

 promise of the President when he said: 

 *We must establish and maintain a dollair 

 which will not change its purchasing and 

 debt-paying power during the succeeding 

 generations.' 



"We must fight for fair tariffs, for 

 protection of our home market for farm- 

 ers, and against too high industrial 

 tariffs. The Farm Bureau stands squarely 

 on the proposition that agriculture must 

 be given equal benefits with industry in 

 future tariff policies. 



"We should see to it that in our great 

 agricultural states our representatives 

 pledge themselves to our program that 

 they will fight day and night for our 

 cause. Let's all get busy and see that 

 this is done before the fall elections." 



study the legislative report on pages 4-5-6-7. 

 Watch the November KECORD for further details. 



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