...AS FARMERS 

 FORWARD GO" 



ORGANIZATION NOTES 

 By O. D. Brissenden 



THE flood-tide of new Farm Bureau 

 mcmbcrship> (.ontiniits in c\cry 

 lOiinty wlicrc clri\cs arc or have re- 

 cently been lield, in every section of 

 Illinois. Membership which \\as at 

 1 ('9,023 I'cbniary 1. had apparently 

 passed the lid. 000 mark by the muidie 

 of tile month, wiien this was complied, 

 and It was still i^oin^; strong. 



Achievement of the lony-ran^e t;oa!s 

 totalling 117,000 in the state by Sep- 

 tember 30 of this year seems entirely 

 possible if every county will set up a 

 program designed for this purpose. TIk 

 earlier the better ! 



John C. Spencer, right, hands 46 new 

 Farm Bureau membership contracts to 

 White County Farm Bureau Organization 

 Director J. C. Campbell. A total of 142 

 were signed in the recent drive. 



Harry Claar. left, lAA organization &eld 

 man. and John C. Bigelow, Marion Farm 

 Bureau COD. right, pay a wager they lost 

 to C. Glenn Jones. Marion vice-president. 

 in a recent organization drive. Claar and 

 Bigelow agreed to parade around the 

 Marion County Courthouse square in 

 bathrobes if the 20th Century team of 

 organization workers defeated the 19lh 

 Century team. The 20th Century won by 

 a score of 23 in the drive that produced 

 134 new members. 



kjuisition M)^\ espci.iall\ o! iiier.il'ership 

 niainteiianie llirouuii co.;,! slTM e !u 



lr<H|Uiii% iKuntv set a rcitiril tor ni« 



■nienibi.rsliip^ in rliis \<..ii> Jiivis. u iii.n .i 

 ciinlest hetWLcn V'unu .tn.i '>Ki uorku:-. 

 in *tlK- ciiimtv lsrou)i;tit In .i ti't.il nt J I] 

 contLKts. I. S. Dorw.ini .in.i 1.. T. Heru- 

 sir.ini t.ipt. until the le.lnl^ t. I Jnlinstiin 

 IV COD 



IXKalb went into second place in this 



Kspctt when its worki-rs turncii in 1"^ 

 contr.Kts in tluir recent Jrise 



l)i.i;li tiir i|Uitc .1 uMile. is putting on a dc 

 teiiniiuJ ikanup etfort. jnd (.. A. Marlcman. 

 COD. itpnrls. ue .lie now p.ist JOI) .iikI 

 I'leie IS iiioie to Jo, 



Mtnard coimt> brounlii lotal nieinhcr- 



ship to .Si.s, caie siinit (it Its lon>;-i.in.t;e 

 tiv.i], hy sii;nin>; 80 iiKinlscrs in this .ilre.idv 

 lii>;lil\ oi t:.ini/n! coiini\ 



nick t) Dell. ( OD ot Piaii tounn. Ii.is not 



li.ul the- tciiilic iline li^iircs rtpoiictl b> 

 some otiKis, hut in the p.ist thict- months 

 his regular lepoits show n<. Its', th.iii Jlil 

 new nieiiibiTs! 



LaSalle countc workers weiii on a rain- 



p.i.i:e in their clii\e .iiu! siciieJ 1 Ki nev\ ineiii- 

 bc's. ( OD i:.iil H.ives lepoits 



Kenneth Flake. Fulton (X)l), re|>orts the 



jit.inl tot.il ,il 129 for the- iliive tiiire 



John ,'spcnier, a volunteer worker in 



White county, si>;ned wh.it is believed to 

 be the indi\idtial lii>;h tot.il so t.ii, when 

 he broujjht in 16 contr.icts pti>on.illv. Tlie 

 total for the drive w.in .i ihumpmu IIJ. 

 ^X'hitc County ui'V. Ii.is S.so nieinbeis. So be- 

 vond the loni; r,in>;e ,i;o.il set List ye.ii 



.Marion couni\'s drive, eliniaxcd bv Harrc 



Cl.i.ii V par.ide .iiound the couitlunise attireii 

 in diessin^ ,i;own .ind straw h.it, brought 

 in 1 vl new nu-nibeis. . ..i ^re.it .ichic\emciit 

 in .1 ir.onth ot .eie.it .ichicvemeiits. 



Bond county let the contest motif work 



tiiilv in Its drive, which reached the splen- 

 iid tot.il of 100 new contr.icts 



Cieorue Dirreen, CX)1) in Cas> c<'unt\. re- 



;^oits th.it .in intensive drne brou.^ht m si. 



Inmiett Keini, (.'OD of .St. Clair county, 



was pleased when the volunteei workers 

 ant; up a total of S2. 



Henderson county workers believed "it 



c*an be done, .ind proved it when the\ 

 vi^'ncd 6') new members. 



-Sieve Sofranka, new Wavne county ( !()D. 



h.id the eNj-'c I ic lUc- ot hc.irin^ his voluntcciv 

 report .i total of 61 .it the end ot the- In ■! 

 dri»c directed bv hini. 



Membership maintenuiicc meetings 



continue, vyith a total of 3'' meetings, 

 including the employed personnel ot 

 IS county barm Bureaus, reached by 

 tlie end of February, reports W. P. 

 ■Sandford, lAA director of sales serv- 

 ice, who is working in collaboration 

 with H. B. Claar, L. B. Hornbeck. and 

 lolin C Moore on this program. Marcli 

 and a large part of .^iiril are .liready 

 well scheduled. 



Reaffirmation of long-range goals, 

 and, in a few cases, increases in them, 

 have been the order of the day in the 

 ifternoon conferences with directors 

 and executives. Employee attendance 

 at the evening meetings lias surpassed 

 that of last year, when the "M-M" 

 iTieetings were first held. Enthusiasm 

 for Farm Bureau on the part of those 

 vK'ho work for it and its subsidiaries is 

 at a high point, and all realize the pri- 

 mary importance of membership ac- 



Hcircau loiintc, whose mark of 16'i was 



Left to right are Eldon Branch. Carl Loomis 

 and Hershel Campbell, three Marion 

 County Farm Bureau members who 

 worked as a team in a recent campaign 

 and signed 31 new members. They live 

 in Tonti township. 



Id>;ar couru\s best drive, in the opinion 

 ot H. /.els (junim. COD. w.is a d.indv. witli 

 SI new Contracts resultini;. 



Jasper county workers went up and down 



the roads there, ami the haivcst w.is no lev 

 than 81 new members 



On toward the loni;-ranj;e j;oals — now I 



(a)les county reported 120 new members 



si>;ned in a recent drive, and its yoal iv 

 now raised to 1 100. 



Macoupin county reported 80 new mem- 

 bers si>;ned in the drive which terminated 

 Feb. n. 



H. T. Swigart, county organization di- 

 rector for the De^X'itt County Farm Bureau 

 since. 193-, IS retiring from his position be- 

 cause of ill health. Mr Swigart has per- 

 formed an outstandin>; job in his county, 

 and has been very active in community af- 

 fairs, serving as president of the High 

 School board, and c>n many other civic 

 boards. 



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