Mrs. Charles W. Sewell. administrative 

 director of the Associated Women of the 

 AFBF. tries out her new silver service, a 

 gift presented at the annual meeting in 

 recognition of her years of work in the 

 Farm Bureau movement. President O'Neal 

 made the presentation. At right is lim 

 Howard, Iowa, first AFBF president. 



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lip to tlie front litu ot battle. SimiLtr 

 exploits were told by the other two Navy 

 representatives. 



Donald Kirkpatrkk. lAA and AFBl-' 

 le;,'al lounsel, presided at the services hon- 

 oring the sons and daughters of I'arm 

 Bureau families in the services. As he 

 eave his brief but stirring message of 

 tribute, the lights of the convention hall 

 were dimmed and a spotlight illuminated 

 the .service flag. 



The American Farm Bureau I'eder.i 

 tion's 1943 av^'ards for distuiguished ser\ 

 ice to American agriculture were made to 

 Dr. R. K. Bliss, director of extension 

 service. Iowa State (ollege. and post 

 humously to the late C ongressman Henry 

 B. Steagall, of Alab.ima. Congressman 

 Ste.igall's daughter, Mrs .\iyra -Ste.igall 

 Law, accepted the award. Congressman 

 Steagall, chairman of the House banking 

 and lurrency committee, died Nov. 2:!!, 

 191?, only a short time after he had 

 made a speech on the floor of the House 

 opposing tooil subsidies 



In resolutions adopted al the closing 

 sessions, the ATBF pledgeil Our all-out 

 war effort in sustaining our sons and 

 daughters in the armed forces, and In 

 doing our utmost to .ichieve new high 

 records of farm prcnluction ;" favored 

 U. S. responsibility for helping hold 

 .iggressor nations in check after the war ; 

 favored relief of human suffering to w ar 

 ravaged nations: full production and 



employment based on an economy of 

 abundance after the war; -i^si.sted on 

 mamtenance of constitutional government 

 with checks and balances between pres- 

 ident, legislature and judiciary. 



Authorized directors to help avoid a 

 land and real estate boom such as oc- 

 curred after World War I; recommended 

 that control of the farm credit system be 

 \ested in' farmer owners: asked for an 

 MHTease in feed supplies and a higher 

 percentage of protein concentr^^tes from 

 mills direct to farmers and for more im- 

 ports of teed grains from (Itnada; rec- 

 ommended removal of freight rate dis- 

 crimination against the South and certain 

 commodities and demanded removal of 

 interstate barriers to trucks: condemned 

 forced imionization and allied undemo- 

 cratic procedures, but upheld the right of 

 workers to organize and seek improve- 

 ment of their lot through legitim.ite 

 means: urged self-rule and a free agri- 

 culture for Puerto Rico, and disapproved 

 the use of U. S. tax money for building 

 highways and transportation systems in 

 other countries, except where necessary 

 for war purposes. 



The resolutions also reaffirmed the 

 Al'BI- position in favor of a strong and 

 aggressixe program to control inflation by 

 taxation and control clear across the 

 board on wages, industrial prices and 

 farm prices, and approved of price ceil- 

 ings, where necessary .md workable, on 

 agricultural and other products. Op- 

 position was voiced to subsidies in lieu 

 of fair prices in the market pl.ice. 



Another resolution declared. Failure 

 of the Food Administration to use every 

 reasonable means .it its command to 

 support hog prices in line with an- 

 nounced guarantees and later steps t.aken 

 bv the War Food Administr.ition to 

 lower such announced support prices in 

 certain markets of the country constitute 

 a bre.ich of faith, and unless immediately 

 corrected, will result in a break-down of 

 the confidences of farmers in all gov- 



ernment guarantees and assurances. 

 Farmers bitterly resent such breach of 

 contract." 



The resolution added that "the adju.st- 

 ment involved in the transition from war 

 production to peace production can best 

 be achieved through the AAA and as- 

 sociated laws." 



Earl C. Smith, lAA president and 

 AFBF vice-president, served as chair- 

 man of the resolutions committee which 

 spent many hours during the convention 

 on the drafting of the statements. 



President O'Neal and "Vice-President 

 Smith were re-elected unanimously at 

 the final sessions for two year terms 

 along with the following board members: 

 northeastern region: George M. Putnam, 

 Concord, New Hampshire, and >X'arren 

 W. Hawley, Ulster Park, New York: 

 midwest region: Perry L. Green. Colum- 

 bus, O. ; Hassil E. Schenck, Lebanon, 

 Ind., and Dr. O. O. Wolf, Ottawa. 

 Kans. : western region: George H. Wil- 

 son, Clarksburg, Calif.: southern region. 

 R. E. Short, Brinkley, Ark., Ransom 

 Aldrich. Michigan Citv. Miss., and H. 

 L. Wincate. Pelham, Ga. 



Randolph County Starts 



Woodland Co-op Project 



Guy W. Hawkins, former field man 

 for the Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association, has started work in his 

 new job as manager of the Randolph 

 Farm Bureau Cooperative and will give 

 most of his time to the improvement 

 and marketing of woodland products. 



Hawkins, a graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota in forestry, has 

 worked some time in Illinois in forest- 

 ry extension, was director of organiza- 

 tion of the Ogle County Farm Bureau, 

 and more recently was employed with 

 the Illinois Livestock Marketing Asso- 

 ciation with his headc]uarters in Jack- 

 sonville. 



Randolph county has launched a 

 woodland products project and °>^ 

 farmers have signed woodland agree- 

 ments covering 2.381 acres. The project 

 is organized with the idea of marketing 

 only those trees which are ready to 

 market and at the same time improv- 

 ing the remaining stand so that there 

 will be profitable future marketings. 



The project is open to all woodland 

 owners of Randolph county and in- 

 formation may be secured at the Farm 

 Bureau office. 



Congressman Everett M. Dirksen 



Pr(i<)uceis Creamery of Galesbur^ reports 

 a number of fc)rmer Creamery employees 

 have recently paid the creamery a visit 

 while they were home on furlou,i>h. They 

 .ire as follows: Floyd Becker, plant em- 

 ployee; Dean Nelson, former plant superin- 

 tendent; Paul Olson, and Harold Winters, 

 route drivers. 



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