attention of leaders at the Training 

 School by Allan B. Kline, president of 

 the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and 

 vice-president of the AFBF. 



Kline recently returned from Lon- 

 don where he and other AFBF repre- 

 sentatives met with farm organization 

 leaders from 13 nations. At this meet- 

 ing, farm organization leaders voted to 

 set up an International Federation of 

 Agricultural Producers. Constitution 

 of this new organization will be recom- 

 mended to the farm organizations of 

 the various countries for approval or 

 amendment this year. 



Must Avert Disaster 



Farmers the world over are ready to 

 accept the challenge of expanded pro- 

 duction to meet food needs, Kline said, 

 but he also warned that some plans 

 have to be made for the time when 

 economic demands are outrun by sup- 

 plies. 



We must find the answer to this 

 problem, Kline declared, or we will be 

 faced with the same conditions that 

 spelled disaster after the first World 

 War. 



We must decide what we can do as 

 a community of nations to bring about 

 stability of commodity prices, he 

 added. This is one of the main rea- 

 sons, Kline said, for the formation of 

 a world organization of agricultural 

 producers. 



"The condition that will arise from 

 doing nothing will not be to your lik- 

 ing," Kline advised. "It will be worse 

 than World War I because the mal- 

 adjustments were greater in World 

 War II." 



Have World by Tail 



Kline vividly described the picture 

 of starvation in Europe and emphasized 

 how difficult it was for non-Europeans 

 to visualize the plight of starving peo- 

 pie. 



He said that his impression of the 

 United States upon his return was that 

 we lived in a country that "had the 

 world by the tail, if we could only 

 appreciate it." He stressed the fact 

 that the United States occupies a 

 unique position in which it can dem- 

 onstrate its ability as a world leader. 



One of the entertaining and educa- 

 tional features of the Training School 

 was the "Supreme Court" set up dur- 

 ing one of the sessions to hear 

 "charges" against state Farm Bureaus. 

 Among those seated on the august 

 bench as a judge was lAA Field Sec- 

 retary George E. Metzger, while lAA 

 Organization Director O. D. Brissen- 

 den served as defense attorney. 



The lAA was charged with "failure 

 to make membership the most impor- 

 tant Farm Bureau project." Brissen- 

 den ably defended the lAA by citing 



Illinois Agricultural Association stands on 

 trial "charged" with failure to make mem- 

 bership the most important Farm Bureau 

 project. At left lAA Organization Director 

 O. D. Brissenden, defense attorney, ponders 

 his arguments as T. C. Peterson, Wisconsin 

 Farm Bureau organization director, makes 

 a statement as prosecuting attorney. 

 Seated at the right in the defendant's chair 

 is lAA Vice-President F. E. Morris. 



the low cancellation of membership of 

 5.92 per cent over the past five years, 

 and the membership of 128,220 on 

 June 1, 19-46. 



Brissenden also appeared as one of 

 the main speakers at the concluding 

 session. He declared that our greatest 

 reconversion problem is that of main- 

 tenance and restoration of the soil. 

 Four steps are needed to meet the 

 problem, he added. First, through or- 

 ganization, education and understand- 

 ing, farmers must be instilled with the 

 love of the land and the determination 

 to rebuild and maintain the soil. Sec- 

 ond, they must have the "know how." 

 Third, they must be in a position to 

 buy plant food at a fair and reasonable 

 figure. Fourth, they must have a fair 

 price for their products. Those who 

 talk of a cheap food policy for Amer- 

 ica talk and advocate the future ruina- 

 tion and starvation of America. 



FIRST COMPANY EMPLOYES 

 MOVE INTO lAA's NEW 

 1 2-STORY BUILDING ; 



Saturday, August 3, is moving day 

 for the first office personnel to occupy 

 the lAA's new 12-story home at the 

 corner of East Ohio street and Wabash 

 avenue. They will move from the or- 

 ganization's present headquarters at 

 608 South Dearborn street. 



By Monday, August 5, Manager C. E. 

 Strand and his staff of 11 from the 

 Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association 

 will be on the job in the new quarters on 

 the third floor of the former American 

 Bankers Building. 



The Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 

 sociation, one of the first of the lAA's 

 associated commercial companies, has oc- 

 cupied quarters at 608 South Dearborn 

 street since its organization in 1924. 



The new lAA home has 82,000 square 

 feet of rentable floor space and will be 

 occupied gradually by other organization 

 departments and associated companies as 

 leases of the present tenants expire and 

 the office space becomes available. 



The Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 

 sociation is one of the smaller of the 

 lAA's 14 associated companies in Chi- 

 cago office personnel. It has 456 mem- 

 ber clients. 



In addition, the lAA has 16 depart- 

 ments, which with the remaining 13 asso- 

 ciated companies, comprise personnel to- 

 taling more than 400 remaining to be 

 shifted to the new location. The shift 

 of all employes is expected to be com- 

 pleted in a year or less. 



The business of farming in the United 



States employs 25 million men, women and 

 children. ■ 



A "Supreme Court" sits in judgment at the Midwest Farm Bureau cenfarenc* to h e o r 

 "charges" brought against state Farm Bureaus. Left to right are Charles Marshall, presi- 

 dent, Nebraska Farm Bureau; Larry Brandon, Secretary, Indiana Farm Bureau, chief justice; 

 H. W. Culbreth, Ohio Farm Bureau organization director; Jack Yaeger, ass't. executive 

 secretary, Michigan Farm Bureau; J. S. Jones, secretary, Minnesota Farm Bureou, and 

 George E. Metzger, lAA field secretary. 



JULY- AUGUST. 1946 



