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RECOGNIZING that the American 

 farm woman has much at stake in 

 this year'?,..election, Mrs. Elsie W. Mies, 

 president of the Associated Women of 

 the AFBF, has issued an appeal to all 

 members of the organization to exercise 

 their right of suffrage at the polls on 

 Nov. 7. 



"Today the American farm woman is 

 challenged as never before," Mrs. Mies 

 said. "At its ninth annual meeting in 

 1943, the Associated Women adopted 

 the following resolution: 



" 'We believe that the foundations of 

 good citizenship are laid in the home. 

 We accept our responsibilities as citizens 

 by becoming familiar with and concerned 

 about the offices and duties of the var- 

 ious government units — local, count)', 

 state and national. 



'" 'We believe that the right to vote 

 carries with it the obligation to exercise 

 that right to the end that we secure com- 

 petent and conscientious officials to ad- 

 minister the affairs of state. We rec- 

 ognize that the future world must be a 

 community of good citizens if we are to 

 have a peaceful world.' 



"As your president, let me urge you to 

 make every effort ,to accomplish the pur- 

 pose of this important resolution." 



Tazewell Connty Reports 

 on Membership Program 



Organization of four new Home 

 Bureau units in Tazewell county since 

 the 1943 annual meeting has focused 

 attention on the county's successful plan 

 to enroll new cooperators. 



Started last August at an organization 

 training school the plan has progressed 

 well with each unit woman in the county 

 having a part in the organization work. 

 According to Home Adviser Marian 

 Sympson, county women expressed their 

 enthusiasm for the plan which took 

 about two months to get under way. 



Unit officers were unanimous in ac- 

 cepting the plan setting up a committee 

 with the unit vice president as chairman. 

 She appointed, with the unit's executive 

 committee's approval, a maintenance 

 chairman whose duties are: 1 — to assist 

 hostess with hospitality; 2 — to address 

 post cards to absent members at each 

 unit meeting and give them to next 

 month's hostess for mailing as a special 

 invitation to the next unit meeting, and 

 3 — to collect lesson sheets for absent 

 members and see that they get them. 



Duties of the new campaign chairman 



included preparing a record sheet which 

 each unit woman uses in her calls on 

 prospective cooperators. This sheet was 

 explained at the September meeting and 

 signatures were obtained from each co- 

 operator who recorded the month or 

 months she wished to make calls and 

 when she wished to report them. All 

 such signatures were to be received be- 

 fore the October meeting. At each 

 monthly meeting each cooperator made 

 her individual report on her calls. 



At the 1944 annual meeting the plan 

 called for each woman who has made 

 her two calls to be given a blue ribbon 

 to wear. Women of units where calls 

 were made 100 per cent were to wear 

 red, white and blue ribbons. 



It was stressed that this plan called 

 for a minimum of work from every co- 

 operator, that it was accepted by unit 

 officers at the training school and that 

 it will work only in proportion to the 

 support given it by the entire roll of 

 cooperators. 



The work should be well started a 

 month after the training school — in this 

 case September — with the unit coopera- 

 tor chairmen presenting their plans, the 

 minor leaders giving the lesson, "Know 

 Your Organization," and the county 

 chairman visiting the units and en- 

 couraging organization work. 



REPORT OF MRS. ELMER NEUON, CORDOVA 

 UNIT, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY ANNUAL 

 MEETING 1944 

 This is a twelve ntBnths' tale you know 

 01 the worthwhile doings of Home Bureau; 

 Now my dear fiends, I'd like you to meet 

 Mrs. Susan Glum — and Sally Sweet. 

 Now Mrs. Glum, as you alt well know, 

 Would never belong to a Home Bureau; 

 'Twos a waste of money and time and such. 

 And besides she was sure she wouldn't learn much. 

 She works from dawn until set of sun. 

 Yet never seems to get her work done. 

 She fusses and frets and fumes around. 

 When night does come, she can't sleep sound. 

 Her husband and children upset her no end. 

 She is so disagreeable, she's hardly a friend. 

 But now let's turn to a cherrier scene. 

 Where Sally Sweet works calm and serene. 

 Her wash on the line is as white as pure snow. 

 She is now getting r^eady to attend Home Bureau. 

 She has already learned of her Allied Neighbors. 

 Their modes of living, their likes and behavior. 

 She is interested now in some postwar planning. 

 Since food fights for freedom, she's canning and 



canning. 

 She's anxious to know all the ways to conserve. 

 Take care of all surplus, to freeze and preserve. 

 She's learned how to care for her family's clothes. 

 New methods of remodeling and pressing she knows. 

 She knowt many short cuts in cooking and sewing. 

 New she has more time for weeding and hoeing. 

 She's healthy and happy, having some time to play. 

 She budgets her time the Home Bureau way. 

 Only those who are stupid, or tiresome or dumb. 

 Belong in the class with poor Susan Glum 

 But those who are eager a victory to win. 

 Know how to do this itnd when that to begin. 

 We'll surely take heed to Sally Sweet's call 

 When she urges you to rejoin one and all. 

 We are happy and gay as we work and we play. 

 Won't you visit with us in Cordova some day? 



For easier ironing, rub the sole plate of 



vour iron once a month with paraffin or 

 beeswax, advise Purdue home economists. 

 Wipe off excess on paper or cloth. 



New Home Advisers Begin 

 Duties in Two Counties 



Miss Josephine Giganti, Springfield, 

 was named home adviser of Bond 

 county at a recent meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Bond County Home 

 Bureau. 



Miss Giganti is a graduate of Illinois 

 State Normal University with the class 

 of 1941. She has taught home econo- 

 mics in the Mackinaw High School for 

 three years. She started work in Bond 

 county Sept. 1. 



Miss Christine Schroy, Palestine, be- 

 gan her duties as home adviser in Win- 

 nebago county Sept. 1. She is a gradu- 

 ate of East Carolina Teachers College, 

 Greenville, N. C, and also studied at 

 the University of Illinois, having re- 

 ceived the Farm Bureau scholarship for 

 Crawford county in 1932. She has been 

 home adviser in Washington, N. C. for 

 the past four years. 



Need for Gas Rationing 



is Told by Oil Industry 



Here's what the petroleum industry 

 says about the need for gasoline ration- 

 ing in a series of newspaper advertise- 

 ments. 



"There is not plenty of gasoline in the 

 central states! 



"The reasons are simple: Our mili- 

 tary machine — mightiest in history — 

 gets first call in the nation's gasoline, of 

 course. You wouldn't have it otherwise. 

 The needs are tremendous — and will 

 become increasingly greater. 



"For example, to train a pilot requires 

 enough gasoline to last the average auto- 

 mobile 18 years — 12,500 gallons; it 

 takes three tons of gasoline (approxi- 

 mately 1000 gallons) to deliver a one- 

 ton bomb; tanks of one armored division 

 requires 25,000 gallons to move 100 

 miles." 



The family food budget calls for 60 quarts 



or more of vegetables and 50 quarts of 

 fruit per person for use -during the period 

 from October to June. 



Illinois Farmers Reduce 

 PCA Loans by $11 Million 



During the six months period end- 

 ing June 30, 1944, Illinois farmers paid 

 off a total of $11,130,000 of their loans 

 to Production Credit Associations 

 throughout Illinois, according to W. S. 

 Brock, president of the Production Cre- 

 dit Corporation of St. Louis. 



As of June 30, some 15,610 Illinois 

 farmers owned $1,329,000 worth of 

 capital stock of the 20 Production Cre- 

 dit Associations serving the state. Dur- 

 ing the first six months of the year 

 these associations made 6504 loans for 

 $13,087,744. Consolidated net earnings 

 for the period were $53,459. and total 

 reserves as of June 30 were $973,418. 



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