THE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose jot which the Farm Bureau was organized, namely, 

 to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social and educa- 

 tional interests of the farmers of lUtnois and the Nation, and to develop 

 agriculture. 



THE STATE FAtM 

 MIREAU niMJCATION 



FOOD AND POLITICS d?^ President CkarL B. Sit 



A HIGH governmental official recently made the 

 statement in referring to the world food crisis that 

 "wheat has no political implications". All farmers 

 would like to believe this ideal but bitter experience con- 

 vinces us that food and world politics 

 are inseparable. Today, as always, 

 food is undoubtedly being used in the 

 ages old game of world politics. 



There never was a period in re- 

 corded history when some people of 

 the world were not undernourished 

 and even starving. Millions of peo- 

 ple are born, exist and die premature- 

 ly without ever having taken a single 

 adequately nourishing meal into their 

 bodies. Even in America with the 

 highest standard of living on earth, undernourishment is the 

 chief single cause of most of our health problems. The 

 farmers of America are today undoubtedly the best paid and 

 most efficient food producers in the world. Operating 

 under almost intolerable handicaps of labor and machinery 

 shortages and discouraged by a multitude of ill-advised 

 governmental orders and regulations, they are neverthe- 

 less bending all efforts toward another great crop for this 

 year of extreme need. Farmers are again making this all- 

 out effort largely because they want to do everything pos- 

 sible to relieve the starving people of other lands. Farmers 

 will do their share and more to feed the children of Europe 

 and Asia. 



However, certain facts must be faced. If the total 

 food production of American farms beyond our own mini- 



uman 



mum national needs were distributed equally among the 

 hungered people of the world it would not save millions 

 from starvation or even materially improve their diet. We 

 were not at any time a large surplus producer of food. In 

 fact, if the total world food production were equally di- 

 vided among the word population it would not be enough 

 to provide an adequate diet for all. 



We need to look for the causes of the world's hunger. 

 Everyone is agreed that the present desperate situation is 

 a direct and to be expected result of the war. Every major 

 war in history has had the same result. However, students 

 of world politics tell us that the struggle for adequate diet 

 is often the basic cause of wars. The world fights for 

 food, then starves because it fought. How can we break 

 this vicious circle before civilization destroys itself.-* The 

 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has 

 made a notable start toward arriving at some fundamentals. 

 They first recognized that with modern methods of trans- 

 portation and communication, no area of the world can 

 long isolate itself. These delegates from most of the 

 nations of the world including both the underfed as well 

 as more favored countries agree that the way to a perma- 

 nent solution of the problem is not by taking away from 

 those who have but rather in raising the standards of those 

 who have not. 



Education, first to create an impelling desire for better 

 standards of living and second to give them the "know 

 how" to attain those standards, is the only sound answer 

 yet advanced. Military and economic struggles have not 

 increased liberty nor abolished suffering and starvation. 

 Perhaps it is time to try the Christian principles of love 

 and peace to raise moral and mental levels. 



MAY, 1946 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 5 



lUINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 OFFICERS 



President. Charles B. Shumcxn SulliTcm 



Vice-President, Floyd E. Morris Buffalo 



Secretary. Paul E. Mathias Jiinsdale 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metzger. Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Assf. Treos., A. H. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, C. C. ChapeU* Chicago 



General Counsel. Donald Kirkpatrick Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



1st to nth. JIoTToy W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



12th. C. I. Elliott, Streator 



13th Homer Curtiss. Stockton 



14th _ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th. „ Ronald A. Holt, Golva 



18th. _ RusseU V. McKea, Varna 



17th Charles Lauritsen, Roddick 



18th John T. Evans, Hoopeston 



19th. MUton W. Warren, Mansfield 



2IMh K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



2Ist Dan L. Clarke, New Berlin 



22nd J. King Eaton. EdwordsTille 



23rd- Chester McCord, Newton 



24th. Lyman Bunting, Ellery 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Morketiag George H. Iftner 



Legal „Donald Kirkpatrick 



LIt* Slock Marketing S. F. Russell 



Office C. E. lohnston 



Organization O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity Creston Foster 



Research and Tcu ca tion L. H. Simerl 



Rural School Relations John K. Cox 



Soles Service W. P. Sandford 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young People's Activities £Usworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co Dave Mieher, Mgr. 



Country Mutual Fire Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Country Mutual Casualty Co A. E. Richardson. 



Mgr. 



ni. Agr. Auditing Assn C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



ni. Co-op Locker Service Dana Cryder, Pros. 



111. F. Bur. Serum Assn S. F. RusseU, Sec.-Mgr. 



m. Farm Supply Co C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



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



111. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



III. Livestock Mktg. Assn. H. W. Trautmann, Mgr. 

 III. Milk Producers' Assn. WiUred Shaw. Mgr. 

 Prairie Farms Creameries . J. B. Counties, Mgr. 

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



Director of Infermatlen, Creston Foster. Asst. Editor, James C. Thomson. 



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