Unity of Pnipose 



IT IS WINNING THE WAR 



THE SAME SINGLE-MINDEDNESS WILL ESTABLISH THE PEACE, 

 IS THEME OF 30TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



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THE same unity of pur|>ose that is 

 helping America win the war will 

 be required in winning the peace. 



Such was the major theme of the 

 messages brought to Illinois Farm 

 Bureau members at the 30th annual 

 meeting of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



Illinois farm families, along with 

 other groups of the nation, are making 

 and have made a great contribution in 

 order that this war may be brought to 

 an early and successful end. The serv- 

 ice flags under which members and 

 delegates met for their annual session 

 told better than any words the sacri- 

 fices that have been made in the name 

 of freedom. These flags showed that 

 398 sons and daughters of Illinois 

 Farm Bureau families and eight Farm 

 Bureau employees had made the su- 

 preme sacrifice. The flags also showed 

 that 26,054 members of Farm Bureau 

 families and 650 employees were in 

 the service of their country. 



Ever conscious of these gold and 

 blue stars, members and delegates were 

 filled with a quiet and calm delibera- 

 tion as they met to determine ways 

 and means of discharging their full 

 responsibility in continuing a full pros- 

 ecution of the war effort and in pre- 

 paring to meet the equally great prob- 

 lems of the peace. 



President Earl C. Smith reflected 

 this sentiment when he declared in his 

 annual address. "Regardless of obsta- 

 cles already confronted or others yet 

 to be met, farmers will neither slow up 

 nor let down in their support of the 

 gallant American men and women in 

 uniform until their glorious achieve- 

 ments have been climaxed by the un- 

 conditional surrender of the enemy 

 both in Europe and Asia. But wc must 

 not let our zeal for the defeat of the 

 enemy becloud the responsibility of 

 those of us on the home front in pre- 

 paring for a successful peace." 



President Smith stressed the inter- 

 dependence of all groups of the nation 

 in achieving a stable economy, and de- 

 clared that national postwar prosperity 



By CRESTON FOSTER 



will depend in a large measure on a 

 sustained and prosperous agriculture. 

 He asserted that in spite of general 

 recognition that agriculture is basic in 

 the national economy, it has not been 

 treated as such. "Throughout the years 

 every recognition given agriculture, 

 and every advancement made by agri- 

 culture, has been secured as a result of 

 organized argument and pressure," he 

 said. "Never has the problem been 

 met squarely from the standpoint of 

 the importance of a prosperous agri- 

 culture to the welfare of every man, 

 woman and child in the United States." 



Dean H. P. Rusk of the U. of I. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, in his address to 

 the convention Friday morning empha- 

 sized that true national income and our 

 standard of living depend not upon 

 dollars but uj>on the production and 

 use of consumer and capital goods and 

 services. "These," he said, "are the 

 strategic points in the battle for na- 

 tional prosperity and the well-being of 

 all the people." 



"Maybe what we need," he said, "is 

 a Bretton Woods type of conference 

 for agriculture industry and labor. . . 

 If industry expects a continuous and 

 adequate supply of agricultural prod- 

 ucts, then agriculture has a right to 

 expect industry to furnish a continuous 

 and adequate supply of its products 

 on a fair basis of exchange — some- 

 thing after the Bretton Woods ideal. 

 But industry has not always been able 

 or willing to do that. . . Fortunately 

 there is a growing realization of the 

 fact that agriculture and industry are 

 complementary — that neither can 

 function at full efficiency unless the 

 other is doing its part, and that only 

 to a minor extent can one compensate 

 for the failure of the other." 



The note of interdependence of 

 groups was echoed by Paul G. Hoff- 

 man, chairman of the committee for 

 economic development, and president 



of the Studebaker Corporation, in his 

 address at the Thursday night session. 

 He declared that planning now for a 

 high level of productive activity in in- 

 dustry and agriculture is essential, and 

 stated that a total production of 150 to 

 170 billion dollars annually will be 

 necessary if seven to 10 million new 

 jobs are to be provided. Government, 

 he said, cannot provide more than two 

 million additional jobs, and thus pri- 

 vate enterprise must meet the problem 

 of full employment. 



"We can accomplish this", he said, 

 "if all groups of employers plan now 

 for an expanding activity and if the 

 economic climate is favorable, and rid 

 of the notion that America is through." 

 "War production," he continued, "has 

 revived business confidence in the abil- 

 ity of the nation to solve its economic 

 problems." 



Governor Dwight H. Green, bring- 

 ing the greetings of the state govern- 

 ment to the association, stressed the 

 need of an adequate farm income at a 

 parity level. He also stressed the im- 

 portance of farm-to-market roads, soil 

 conservation, flood control and drain- 

 age. He endorsed the establishment of 

 a college of veterinary medicine at the 

 U. of I. College of Agriculture, and 

 reviewed the animal disease control 

 program of the state department of 

 agriculture under Director Howard 

 Leonard. 



Governor Greeh also called attention 

 to the state's program for veterans, in- 

 cluding rehabilitation and medical care 

 for the disabled and job-finding serv- 

 ice for the able-bodied. County serv- 

 ice representatives, to make available 

 full information to veterans of the 

 aids set up, have been appointed, he 

 said, and farm advisers have been asked 

 to assist in this connection with vet- 

 erans from farm families. 



Edward A. O'Neal, president of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 who brought greetings from the na- 

 tional organization to delegates and 

 members at the Friday session, declared 

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