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The Illinois Agricultural Associotion Record 



The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD is 

 published monthly except August by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association at ISOl W. Washington 

 Road, Mendota, 111. Editorial Offices. 608 So. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as second 

 class matter at post office. Mendota, 111.. Sept. 11. 

 1336. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of 

 postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 

 1925, authorized Oct. 27. 1935. Address all com- 

 munications for publication to Editorial Offices. 

 Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD, 608 So. 

 Dearborn St.. Chicago. The individual member- 

 ship fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is 

 live dollars a year. The foe includes payment of 

 fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association RECORD. Postmaster: Send 

 notices on Form 3578 and undelivcrable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices, 608 

 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 



Director of Information, Creston Foster; Editor. 

 Merrill C. Gregory, on leave of absence with the 

 United States Army. 



Illinois Agricultural 

 Association 



reates! State Farm Organiza'ior 

 in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-Prosident, Talmage Defrees Greenville 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 

 Field Sec Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst. Treas.. A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, R. G. Ely Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick 



Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



Isf to 11th Harvey W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



•2lh CI. Elliott, Streator 



13lh Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th Ronald A. Holt, Galva 



16lh Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th Charles Louritzen, Reddick 



18lh W. A. Dennis, ParU 



19'h Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st F. E. Morris, Buffalo 



22nd Alvin O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, EUery 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing 



Fruit and Vegetable M 



Grain Marketing 



Legal 



Live Stock Marketing 



Office 



Organization 



Produce Marketing . 



Publicity 



Research and Taxation 



Rural School Relations 



Sales Service 



Soil Improvement 



Transportation-Claims 



Young People's Activiti 



Wilfred Shaw 



arketing L. L. Colvis 



George H. Iftner 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



S. F. Russell 



C. E. Johnston 



O. D. Brissenden 



F. A. Gougler 



Creston Foster 



L. H. Simerl 



John K. Cox 



W. P. Sandford 



John R. Spencer 



G. W. Baxter 



Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co. Dave Mieher, Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsur. Co. J. H. Kelker. Mgr. 

 III. Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



III. Agr. Mutual Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 

 111. Agr. Service Co. Earl C. Smith. Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 

 111. Co-op Locker Service Dano Cryder. Pres. 



lU. F. Bur. Serum Assn. S. F. Russell, Sec.-Mgr. 

 111. Form Supply Co. C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



111. Fruit Growers' Exchange L. L. Colvis. Mgr. 

 111. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



111. Livestock Mktg. Assn. H. W. Trautmann. Mgr. 

 111. Milk Producers' Assn. Wilfred Shaw. Mgr. 

 111. Producers' Creameries J. B. Countiss. Mgr. 

 111. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop agriculture. 



JUNE. 1945 



VOLUME 23 NUMBER 6 



By Eail C. Smith 



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\\ \. Ci .1 t L \^ ,1 y 

 ,-\in(.-iKlmcnt t o 

 till.- (.oiistitution ol 

 Illinois, wimh w.is 

 sponsored by tlii.- Il- 

 linois A^riiultural 

 .A s s o u a t ion. ii.is 

 bi.cn jpproxcii by 

 the- Illinois GcnLT.il 

 Assi-mblv. .ind uill 

 be submittcii to the 

 \ot(.TS ot the st.ite at the next ^cner.il eke- 

 tion in Novcmher, 19 i6. 



This amendnient it approved by I Ik 

 \otcrs will make possible tiic submission 

 to the voters, by the General Assembly, 

 ot amendments to as many as three ar- 

 ticles ot the constitution at one time, in- 

 stead of only one as at present, and pro- 

 vides that amendinents to the constitu- 

 tion, submitted by the General Assembly, 

 will be adopted by the affirmative vote 

 of two-thirds of those voting on suth 

 |-iroix)sition, instead of A i\lA|C)Rn"\' 

 OI- ALL WHO VOrn for c.uid'idates in 

 the election, as is now required. 



The Gateway Amendment is simply 

 M\ amendinent to the amending clause ot 

 the Illinois constitution. Under present 

 constitutional litnitations. proposed 

 amendments to the constitution have 

 been defeated by the lar^e number of 

 voters who voted in the general election, 

 but who did not have sufficient interest 

 in con.stitutional matters to vote on 

 amendinents. In other words, a pro- 

 [X)sed amendment must now have a fa- 

 vorable vote of the MAJORITY OF 

 THOSE who cast ballots in the election, 

 and thus, those who tail to vote on pro- 

 posed amendments are counted against 

 the proposition. In short, tailing to vote 

 on an amendinent amounts to the same 

 thing as voting against it. If is there- 

 tore, apparent, under the present require- 

 ments, that it is practically impossible to 

 amend any article of the constitution. 



.\ re\ lew of amendments submitted to 

 the voters of this state since IH'.*) reveals 

 tli.it onlv two amendments to the con 

 stitution have received a favorable vote 

 by the MAIORIIY or THOSL VO I 

 INCi 111 the election, althoimli in many in 

 stances, sutli proj^osals have received 

 from seventy to eighty percent ol tin 

 votes 1. 1st on such proposals 



T'Ik immediate c|ueslion is how to 



seiiire favorable action by voters m the 

 .uloption of the Gateway Amendnient. 

 .nid avoid the tremendous obstacle ot 

 ■present constitutional requirements, which 

 require a .MAIORIT^' ( )l- AM. VOTI .S 

 ( AST IN IHL 1 I.IX 1 IO.\. regardless 

 of tlie favorable vote of those interesteii 

 eiKHigh to vote on the proposal. 



To overcome this obstacle, the Illinois 

 .■\t,'ri<ultural Assouation is sponsoring the 

 so-called Partv Circle Hills in the present 

 General .Assembly. In effect these bills 

 provide that the Gateway Amendnunt is 

 to be considered by stale conventions ot 

 tile resjxctive political parties, and later 

 when voting, any citizen who votes in 

 the party circle at the top of the ballot 

 will have his vote counted in accord witli 

 the position taken by such |X)!itKal party 

 on the Gateway Amendment. However. 

 if such voter is no! in accord with the 

 position taken by his jX)IiticaI party, he 

 can vote directly on the proposition m 

 such manner as he may clioose an<l Ins 

 vote will be counted accordingly. The 

 Party (jrcle Bills, therefore, cjo not re- 

 strict the individual voter in any way 

 from voting as he may desire on the 

 Gatewav Amendment, hut do prevent 

 that large number of voters who vote 

 straight party tickets and who have ig- 

 nored constitutional questions, from be 

 ing counted as voting in opjsosition to 

 a proposed amendment. 



Manv persons have expressed opposi- 

 tion to tile so-called Party Circle Bills, 



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JUNE, 1945 



