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Gateway Amendment 



NEW SALES MANAGER 

 NAMED FOR PRAIRIE FARMS 



DAVE HENRY, a former fieldman for 

 Prairie Farms Creameries who has 

 been in the Army 

 since March 19, 

 1941, will become 

 sales manager of the 

 company eflEec- 

 tive Oct. 1. 



ILLINOIS Farm Bureau members have 

 an important job to do on Nov. 5. 

 That responsibility is to vote on the 

 Gateway Amendment to the state consti- 

 tution and to acquaint their city friends 

 with the importance of voting on the 

 proposition. 



Adoption of the Gateway Amendment 

 will be diflficult to secure, not because of 

 any organized opposition to it, but be- 

 cause of lack of^ information. Adoption 

 also will require a favorable vote of a 

 MAJORITY OF ALL THOSE VOTING 

 IN THE ELECTION. This means that 

 if a person casts a ballot in the general 

 elections, but fails to mark his ballot on 

 the Gateway Amendment, the ballot vir- 

 tually counts as a vote against the amend- 

 ment. 



There are at least 10 good reasons for 

 voting "Yes" on the Gateway Amend- 

 ment. Here they are: 



1. To make it possible to improve our 

 State Constitution. Only two amend- 

 ments have been adopted since 1891. 



2. To allow a two-thirds majority of 

 those voting on an amendment to adopt 

 it. The Gateway Amendment proposal 

 submitted in 1932 received an 80% 

 "Yes" vote, but failed to carry because 

 2,110,000 did not vote on the proposal. 



3. To make possible needed changes 

 in our State Constitution in an orderly 

 way, one, two or three at a time, thus 

 avoiding the turmoil, uncertainty and 

 expense of a constitutional convention. 

 Only a few changes are needed. 



4. To require that votes upon any 

 change in our basic law be cast direct- 

 ly upon the proposition and to keep con- 

 stitutional changes out of partisan poli- 

 tics. 



5. To make possible a modernization 

 of our state tax system. 



6. To make possible legislative reap- 

 portionment in Illinois fair to both rural 

 and urban areas. 



7. To make possible greater home rule 

 for metropolitan areas. 



8. To let voters who take the pains 

 to vote upon a proposition decide basic 

 issues. 



9. To bring our state and local gov- 

 ernments up-to-date. 



10. To make amendment of our State 

 constitution possible but not easy. 



Those are the reasons for voting "yes" 

 on the Gateway Amendment. Now what 

 does this amendment do? 



Here's what it does. 



The Gateway Amendment affects only 

 the procedure of amending the State 

 Constitution. It does not change any 

 basic provisions of the Constitution. The 

 Gateway Amendment provides these 

 changes : 



1. Now, constitutional amendments 

 must receive a majority of all votes cast 

 in the election in order to be adopted. 



Under the Gateway Amendment, a 

 proposal would be adopted if it re- 

 ceived the favorable vote of two-thirds 

 of those voting on the proposition. 



Now, an amendment of only one 

 article of the Constitution may be sub- 

 mitted by the same session of the legis- 

 lature. 



Under the Gateway Amendment 

 changes in one, two or three articles 

 might be submitted to the voters at the 

 same session. 



3. Now the party circle method of 

 voting upon constitutional amendments 

 could be authorized. 



The Gateway Amendment would bar 

 the use of the party circle method and 

 require that the votes be cast directly 

 upon the proposition. 



The Gateway Amendment is supported 

 by both major political parties and by 

 many statewide civic organizations. 



The Gateway Amendment vote can 

 easily be the most important civic act 

 of the year, so far as you are concerned. 



Be sure to vote on the Gateway 

 Amendment and urge others to do like- 

 wise. Remember, failure to mark that 

 ballot is the same as a "No" vote. Don't 

 let it lose by default! 



Henry will suc- 

 ceed J. B. Countiss 

 who is resigning to 

 become sales man- 

 ager for Pfister As- 

 sociated Growers, hybrid corn producers 

 and distributors. 



Entering the Army in 1941 as a sec- 

 ond lieutenant, Henry was granted a 

 leave of absence by Prairie Farms cream- 

 eries where he had supervised the butter 

 laboratory in the Chicago cutting plant 

 and directed campaigns to boost butter 

 quality. 



While in the Army Henry was first 

 stationed at the subsistence research lab- 

 oratory of the U. S. Army Quartermaster 

 depot, Chicago, where he instructed other 

 officers in methods of inspecting dairj- 

 products and processing plants. 



In March, 1942, he was assigned duty 

 in Australia and later in New Guinea. 

 He later returned to Australia and then 

 moved on with the U. S. forces in their 

 campaigns to recapture the Philippines 



At the time of his discharge Henry 

 held the rank of lieutenant colonel. Dur- 

 ing a good share of his duty in the Pacific 

 Henry was working with food supplies 



He joined the lAA staff in 1940 and 

 worked as fieldman in quality sup>ervision 

 of butter. 



Henry is a graduate of South Dakota 

 State College and Ohio State University 

 in dairy manufacturing and dairy tech- 

 nology. He has worked in several cream- 

 eries in South Dakota. 



Of the 8,000,000 head of slaugh- 

 ter livestock marketed from Illi- 

 nois farms and feedlots in 1945 

 more than 20 percent were sold 

 through cooperative sales agencies 

 says R. C. Ashby, University of 

 Illinois chief in livestock market- 

 ing. 



James Lager, who has served the Ointon 

 County Farm Bureau as bookkeeper for some 

 time, has taken up the duties of county or- 

 ganization director, effective Sept. 1, 1946 

 He succeeds Herman Bruns. who died in 



July. 



>RD 



OCTOBER. 1946 



