The Illinois Agriculturol Association Record 



Th« niinois Agricultural Association BECORD is 

 pubUshod monthly excopi August by tho lUinoia 

 Agricultural Association at 1501 W. Washington 

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Director of Information, C. L. Mast, Jr.; Editor, 

 Merrill C. Gregory, on leave of absence with the 

 United States Army; Assistant editor, Creston 

 Foster; Director of Advertising, C. M. Seagraves, 

 on leave of absence writh the U. S. Navy. 



Illinois Agricnltnral 

 Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization 

 in America 



0"=^CEHS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmccge Deirees Smithboro 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathios. Hinsdale 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst. Treas.. A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, R. G. Ely Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick 



Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to nth Harvey W. Adair. Chicago Hts. 



12th R. E. Peddicord. Marseilles (deceased) 



13th Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto Ste&ey, Stronghurst 



ISth Ronald A. Holt, Galva 



16th Albert Hayes. Chillicothe 



17th Charles Lauritzen, Reddick 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20th E. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dwight Hart, Taylorville 



22nd Alvin O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, EUery 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



' Dairy Matkatinft - Willred Shaw 



Fruit and VeyalobU Mariicting X. L. Coin* 



Grain Marketing G«org« H. lftn«r 



Liv* Slock Marketiag S. F. Buuall 



OUic* _ C. E. Johnston 



Organization. „ O. D. Brissondon 



Produco MarkoUng F. A. Gougler 



Publicity C. L. Mait. Ir. 



R«s«arcn and Taxation. X. H. Sim«rl 



Rural School Rotations lohn K. Cox 



Saioty C. M. Soagiovos (on laor*. U.S.N.) 



Sales Sanies W. P. Sandiord 



Soil ImproTsrasnt lohn R. Spencer 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young Poopls's Actintiss ....Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Liie Ins. Co Dare Mieher, Mgr. 



Formers' Mutual Reinsur. Co I. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Auditing Assa C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



III. Agr. Mutual Ins. Co... ..A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



III. Agr. Serrico Co. Earl C. Smith. Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, Sec. 



ni. Co-op Locker Sorvico Dana Cryder, Pres. 



m. Farm Supply Co C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



ni. Fruit Growers' Exchange. ..L. L. Colvis. Mgr. 



ni. Grain Corporation Trank Haines, Mgr. 



ni. Livestock Mktg. Assn._H. W. Trautmann, Mgr. 



ni. Milk Producers' Assn ..Wilired Shaw. Mgr. 



ni. Producers' Creameries.. ..I. B. Countiss. Mgr. 

 ni. Wool Mktg. Assn S. F. RusseU, Sec.-Mgr. 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop agriculture. 



OCTOBER. 1944 



VOLUME 22 • NUMBEB 9 



By Earl C. Smith 



rH"^ I fpRAHY or Thi: 

 OCTl 312^4 



EVERY person 

 knows that our 

 nation faced many 

 gigantic f^oblems in 

 meeting the require- 

 ments of war. All 

 thoughtful p e o p le 

 now recognize that 

 many tremendously 

 difficult p r o b 1 ems 

 must be faced in the 



readjustment necessary for a successful 



peace. 



Possibly the greatest responsibility will 

 rest with the representatives of the peo- 

 ple who are elected to the national (lon- 

 gress, and the administrators of govern- 

 ment p)olicies. The Congress to be elected 

 in November will undoubtedly have to 

 make decisions of as great and far reach- 

 ing character as any Congress heretofore 

 serving the people of the United States, 

 and the administrators of government 

 to be selected will have as great if not 

 greater responsibility in the re-establish- 

 ment of peacetime conditions as ever con- 

 fronted the leaders of government. That 

 statesmanship of a high order will be 

 required no reasonable person can doubt. 

 Therefore, the election on Nov. 7 will be 

 possibly the most important election in 

 the history of the United States. 



Every eligible voter carries the respon- 

 sibility of carefully considering the im- 

 portant questions before the people, the 

 pronouncements of candidates seeking 

 positions of public trust, and according 

 to his or her best judgment casting a 

 ballot on Nov. 7. 



If I were asked to state in one sentence 

 the cause for which millions of American 

 boys are fighting and hundreds of thou- 

 sands are giving their lives I would state. 



"It is that the people of the respective 

 nations of the world might have the op- 

 portunity to determine their own destiny 

 through selecting the type of govern- 

 ment under which they would choose to 

 live." I do not believe that any eligible 

 voter who is able to get to the polls, but 

 who fails to vote and express his best 

 judgment on the questions before the 

 people Nov. 7, is worthy of the great 

 sacrifice American boys are making on the 

 battlefields of the world. 



Certainly there can be no excuse for a 

 repetition of the poor showing made by- 

 American voters in 1940, when only 62 

 per cent of the eligible voters participated 

 in the general election. 



It is not my purpose, nor is it my re- 

 sponsibility to suggest or to advise how 

 any person votes, but it is my responsibil- 

 ity as a citizen and as a leader of an or- 

 ganization to urge every American citizen 

 to vote, and to be guided when making 

 decisions only by calm, deliberate, and 

 unprejudiced appraisal of issues and 

 candidates. 



Never forget that citizens with selfish 

 interests invariably go to the polls and 

 vote, while too many who have no selfish 

 interests say to themselves, "One vote 

 won't mean much so I won't bother to 

 vote today." 



I firmly believe in the impartial and 

 sound judgment of a majority of the 

 American people and therefore my only 

 purpose in making this appeal is to do 

 everything possible to assure that all 

 eligible voters make it a matter of first 

 importance on Nov. 7 to go to the p>olls 

 and vote, and thus make their contribu- 

 tion to the future of America and a free, 

 representative government. 



OCTOBER. 1944 



