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tORD 



ANNIVERSARY 



MEETING IS HELD; MILLION MEMBERS, GOAL 



rigorous action, but may our action be 

 guided by uncompromising love of justice 

 and hatred of tyranny in all its forms. 

 Surely we have the spiritual strength to 

 put aside malice and suspicion and self- 

 ishness, and to labor faithfully toward 

 the Christian ideal of a world made up 

 of sovereign states living together in 

 peace and cooperating together to guaran- 

 tee to all individuals the freedoms and 

 rights that are their heritages as children 

 of God." 



That unity and harmony of interests 

 was evident in the deliberations of the 

 delegates at AFBF annual meeting was 

 indicated by lAA President and AFBF 

 Vice-President Earl C. Smith, who served 

 as chairman of the resolutions commit- 

 tee, when he said, "During all of the 

 deliberations of the resolutions committee 

 there wasn't a time when a voice was 

 raised in anger." 



Eric Johnston, president of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of the United States, 

 one of the main speakers at the conven- 

 tion, declared that "Agriculture must 

 maintain a high level of purchasing in 

 America to enable people to buy food 

 produced under a program of expanded 

 economy instead of curtailing produc- 

 tion." He also declared that the prin- 

 cipal solution to our postwar economic 

 problems lies in an expanding economy. 



and the peace and security of the world 

 depend upon it. 



Grover B. Hill, under-secretary of 

 agriculture, and assistant administrator 

 of the WFA, praised farmers for their 

 outstanding job in food production and 

 declared that "no farmer would want to 

 cut his production now on the chance that 

 the war in Europe might be over in a 

 few weeks or a few months. We can't 

 run that risk with the lives of our fight- 

 ing men." Hill also declared that dur- 

 ing the postwar period farmers will need 

 their organizations more than ever, and 

 he said it was up to farmers "to help 

 get sound agricultural programs and the 

 kind of understanding of those programs 

 that will give them the backing of sound 

 public opinion." 



I. W. Duggan, governor, Farm Credit 

 Administration, declared that farmers 

 are now in the best financial position in 

 the history of American agriculture, but 

 face difficult postwar conversion prob- 

 lems. 



"Our agricultural income," he said, 

 "will be greatly influenced by the amount 

 of employment and our national income. 

 However, even with full employment we 

 may not have a prosf>erQus agriculture. 

 Also, full employment in industry is 

 going to depend upon the purchasing 

 {Continued on page 19) 



lAA President and AFBF Vice-Pre*id«it 

 Earl C. Smith, chairman of the resolutions 

 committee, directs the reading oi the res- 

 olutions to the delegates at the AFBF an- 

 nual meeting. 



Eric lohnston, president ol the Chamber of 



Commerce of the United States, addresses 



the Farm Bureau convention. 



Gold and blue service stars tell the story 

 oi Farm Bureau members' sons and daugh- 

 ters who are fighting and dying for their 

 country. In the center picture is the me- 

 morial roll of honor of Farm Bureau lead- 



JANUARY, 1945 



ers who died during the year. The names 

 of George W. Peek and Rex Peddicord of 

 Illinois appear on the roll. At right O. D. 

 Brissenden, lAA organizotion director, 

 reads the list of Illinois counties attaining 



the "Million Member" goal. In the back- 

 ground is R. B. Corbett, AFBF secretary- 

 treasurer, who presided at the session 

 recognizing counties attaining goals in 

 each of the states. 



