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 Jim 

 Howard. Iowa, first AFBF president. 



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up to the front line of battle. Similar 

 exploits were told by the other two Navy 

 representatives. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, lAA and AFBF 

 legal counsel, presided at the services hon- 

 oring the sons and daughters of Farm 

 Bureau families in the ser\'ices. As he 

 gave 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 Federa- 

 tion's 1943 awards for distinguished ser\- 

 ice to American agriculture were made to 

 Dr. R. K. Bliss, director of extension 

 service, Iowa State College, and post- 

 humously to -the late Congressman Henry 

 B. Steagall, of Alabama. Congressman 

 Steagall's daughter, Mrs. Myra Steagall 

 Law, accepted the award. Congressman 

 Steagall, chairman of the House banking 

 and currency committee, died Nov. 22, 

 1943, only a short time after he had 

 made a speech on the floor of the House 

 opposing food subsidies. 



In resolutions adopted at the closing 

 sessions, the AFBF pledged "our all-out 

 war effort in sustaining our sons and 

 daughters in the armed forces, and in 

 doing our utmost to achieve new high 

 records of farm production;" favored 

 U. S. resfKjnsibility for helping hold 

 aggressor nations in check after the war; 

 favored relief of human suffering to war- 

 ravaged nations; full production and 



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employment based on an economy of 

 abundance 'after the war; insisted on 

 maintenance 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 

 vested in farmer owners ; asked for an 

 increase in feed supplies and a higher 

 percentage of protein concentrates from 

 mills direct to farmers and for more im- 

 ports of feed grains from Canada; rec- 

 ommended removal of freight rate dis- 

 crimination against the South and certain 

 commodities and demanded removal of 

 interstate barriers to trucks; condemned 

 forced unionization and allied undemo- 

 cratic procedures, but upheld the right of 

 workers to organize and seek improve- 

 ment of their lot through legitimate 

 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 

 AFBF position in favor of a strong and 

 aggressive 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 and workable, on 

 agricultural and other products. Op- 

 position was voiced to subsidies in lieu 

 of fair prices in the market place. 



Another resolution declared, "Failure 

 of the Food Administration to use every 

 reasonable means at its command to 

 support hog prices in line with an- 

 nounced guarantees and later steps taken 

 by the War Food Administration to 

 lower such announced support prices in 

 certain markets of the country constitute 

 a breach 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 adjust- 

 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 (he 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 Warren 

 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 City, Miss., and H. 

 L. Wingate, Pelham, Ga. 



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Congressman Everett M. Dirksen 



Randolph Connty 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 headquarters in Jack- 

 sonville. 



Randolph county has launched a 

 woodland products project and 53 

 farmers have signed woodland agree- 

 ments covering 2384 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. . : j T 



Producers Creamery of Galesburx reports 

 a number of former Creamery employees 

 have recently paid the creamery a visit 

 while they were home on furloui;h. They 

 are as follows: Floyd Becker, plant em- 

 ployee; Dean Nelson, former plant superin- 

 tendent; Paul Olson, and Harold Winters, 

 route drivers. 



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