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By CRESTON FOSTER 



Editor, The lAA RECORD 



FARMERS are fast losing their pa- 

 tience with the snail-like progress 



that has marked the conversion of 

 the country's great resources from war 

 to peace. Perhaps many have long 

 since lost all patience with the fumbl- 

 ing of vital issues and the failure of 

 government leaders to solve the press- 

 ing problems of the day. 



Some confusion and mistakes were 

 expected during the adjustment period. 

 But today, many months after V-J Day, 

 the nation is still groping in a man- 

 made fog. Farmers are still plagued 

 with shortages of machinery, repair 

 parts and labor. Strikes have played 

 havoc with a return to normal business 

 and industrial operations, and conflict- 

 ing pronouncements, statements and 

 orders have thrown agricultural pro- 

 ducers into a dizzy whirl. 



As delegates and members gathered 

 for the 32nd annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 Associated Companies in Chicago Nov. 

 18-21, the general sentiment seemed 

 to be — it's time to go to work and 

 get this mess straightened out. 



One thing is certain: organized ag- 

 riculture, with more than 130,000 Farm 

 Bureau members in Illinois and a mil- 

 lion in the nation, is going to be on 

 the job when the new Congress con- 

 venes in January. 



What kind of a program did the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau propose at the 

 annual meeting? 



First, it's an unselfish program in the 

 interests of all groups in the country. 

 The resolutions adopted by the voting 



lAA Vice President Floyd E. Morris at tho 

 rostrum during a general session. 



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