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no doubt, but by moving forward to- 

 gether in the real spirit that has made 

 America the greatest nation of all time, 

 we can look forward, not only with hope, 

 but with confidence. 



It will take the spirit of a Washing- 

 ton, the intelligence of a Jefferson, and 

 the humility, the diplomacy and the hon- 

 esty of a Lincoln to meet and to solve 

 our gigantic present-day problems, but it 

 can and it must be done. 



Unity of Purpose 



(Conlinut:d jrum pJge 4) 



that he was confident of the future be- 

 cause of the unity of agriculture, and 

 because of the sound program which 

 the AFBF had established over the 

 years. 



Referring to the AFBF's position on 

 national policies, President O'Neal 

 said, "I quote the record and challenge 

 any group in the nation to show a 

 better record." 



R. B. Corbett, AFBF secretary, discuss- 

 i n g "Organization Responsibilities," 

 listed three major ones: 



1. Responsibility to represent farmers 

 in public affairs to see that their side 

 of all questions are defended in public 

 debate. 



2. Service to farm people when they 

 cannot obtain that service from estab- 

 lished business or where they can greatly 

 improve on the practices of established 

 business. 



3. Development of the individual who 

 participates in farm organization. 



Corbett asserted that 25 years ago it 

 was common for persons to state that 

 agriculture could never be organized be- 

 cause farmers lived so far apart and were 

 so accustomed to working alone and com- 

 peting not only with themselves, but with 

 the forces of nature. The record, he add- 

 ed, has proved this to be wrong. 



Delegates adopted strong resolutions 

 condemning "ill-conceived regulations" 

 on the part of governmental agencies 

 regarding the hog market, and de- 

 clared, "Failure on the part of these 

 agencies to properly interpret, admin- 

 ister and enforce the act of Congress 

 providing for price supports and con- 

 trols has afforded meat packers and 

 others the opportunity to circumvent 

 the intent and purpose of the law, re- 

 sulting in millions of dollars of loss 

 to hog producers." 



The lAA delegates proposed that if 

 ceiling prices on hogs are continued 

 they should be adjusted for increases 

 in the cost of production and made to 

 apply equally to all weights and classes 

 of hogs. Thev reiterated the organiza- 

 tion's stand against subsidies, and de- 



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manded that any reduction below the 

 ceiling in prices paid producers be 

 accompanied by a proportionate reduc- 

 tion in the subsidy paid to packers. 



Other resolutions called for continu- 

 ation of the Agricultural Adjustment 

 act, existing commodity loan bases, and 

 marketing agreement provisions, with 

 an expansion of the latter. Increased 

 direction and control by farmers of 

 farm credit agencies were called for, 

 together with continuation of income 

 tax exemption tor farmer cooperatives 

 doing business only with producer 

 members. Another resolution pointed 

 out that farmers cannot meet produc- 

 tion goals if new machinery, parts and 

 repairs are not made available. 



Resolutions on state issues called for 

 enactment of the proposed Gateway 

 Amendment to the constitution; equal- 

 ization of tax assessments to improve 

 state aid for schools ; an extended sys- 

 tem of farm-to-market roads; stricter 

 regulation of fertilizer and feed stuffs 

 formulas; stricter oil production con- 

 trols including drilling offset wells and 

 prevention of waste of natural gas; 

 levelling of land after strip mining; 

 establishment of veterinary college at 

 the University of Illinois; removal of 

 limitations on materials to be used in 

 extending rural electrification. Report 

 of the special state school committee 

 sponsored by the lAA was endorsed. 



Mutual understanding between labor, 

 industry and agriculture, and proper 

 relationships between industrial and 

 farm prices, were called for. Com- 

 mendation of Farm Bureau organiza- 

 tion workers for bringing membership 

 in the state to a total of 105,057 as of 

 September 30, and for the current aim 

 of 117,000 in 1945, was voiced. 



Two new members were elected to 

 the association's board of directors. 

 They are Floyd Morris, Springfield, 

 who replaces Dwight Hart, Taylorville, 

 as representative of the 21st district; 

 and C. J. Elliott, Streator, elected to 

 serve the unexpired term of Rex Ped- 

 dicord, Marseilles, deceased, from the 

 12th district. 



Directors from odd-numbered dis- 

 tricts who were re-elected at Friday's 

 closing sessions were: Harvev W. 

 Adair, Chicago Heights, 11th district; 

 Homer Curtiss, Stockton, 13th; Ron- 

 ald A. Holt, Galva, 15th; Charles Laur- 

 itzen, Reddick, 17; Charles B. Shuman, 

 Sullivan, 19th; Chester McCord, New- 

 ton, 23rd, and August G. Eggerding, 

 Red Bud, 25th. 



Earl C. Smith was re-elected presi- 

 dent of the lAA, and Talmage Defrees 

 was re-elected to the position of vice- 

 president. 



Dr. |. Boymond Schutz 



lA Anditing Speaker 



Lists "Unfinished Jobs" 



THOSE who believe that they can sit 

 back in ease and comfort after the war 

 is won, are in for a surprise. Dr. J. Ray- 

 mond Schutz, chairman of the board. 

 Standard Life Insurance Company of In- 

 diana, declared before the anual meeting 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 

 sociation held in conjunction with the 

 lAA 30th annual meeting in Chicago. 



"When the war is won we will have 

 every problem we had at the time the 

 war started, plus a number of others," 

 he said. 



Our biggest unfinished job, he con- 

 tinued, is to finish the war. Then we will 

 have some other unfinished jobs. First of 

 these is the rehabilitation of the men and 

 women returning from service. "We 

 will have to fit jobs to men, which is a 

 harder job than fitting men to jobs." 



Among the ser\'ice men and women 

 who will have to be rehabilitated are a 

 number who never saw action, the speak- 

 er asserted. 



Listed as the second big job to be 

 finished is the reconversion from war to 

 peace. "Whether we have a depression 

 depends on whether or not we do a 

 good job of reconversion," Schutz said. 



Third on the list of unfinshed jobs is 

 the proper guidance of the youths who 

 will be tomorrow's citizens, the speaker 

 f>ointed out. 



Listed as fourth in the category of un- 

 finished jobs by the sp>eaker was the race 

 problem. "Hitler may be dead, but Hit- 

 lerism. may live on in our country if we 

 do not recognize the race problem and 

 do something about it." 



Finally, the fifth unfinished job cited 

 by Dr. Schutz was that of winning a 

 total peace. A total war, he said, is one 

 in which no one escaf>es responsibilities 

 or consequences. A total peace means 

 the same thing. "We cannot have a 

 total peace unless it is a people's peace." 



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