Right: Mar|orie H • a I y of 

 Kankokaa county responds to 

 lAA welcome for Illinois 4-H 

 Club delegates. Others, left 

 to right, ore: Arnold Benson, 

 Illinois director of agriculture; 

 Bill Smith, F. H. Mynard, and 

 Mrs. Elsie Butler of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois extension serv- 

 ice; Dr. W. C. Carroll of the 

 College of Agriculture, and lAA 

 Field Secretary George E. Metz- 

 ger. 



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Top: Fast, swingy music mode a hit with the young folks attending the 

 lAA's 4-H Club dinner. Bottom: lAA Organization Director O. D. Bris- 

 senden and lAA Safety Director Walter W. Whitlock keep their table 

 lively with their humor. Left to right, facing camera: Howard Meyer, 

 Kankakee county; Athylin Harris, Pulaski; Brissenden; Eugene Novock, 

 KcHikokoe; Whitlock, and Halsey Miles, Crawford county form odvber. 



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TAKE EQUAL parts of good food, 

 good entertainment, and short speeches 

 and then add a dash of youthful exuber- 

 ance and you have the fiesta-like atmos- 

 phere that characterized the revival Dec. 

 2 of the lAA annual party for outstand- 

 ing Illinois 4-H Club members at- 

 tending the annual 4-H Club congress 

 in Chicago. 



The dinner, honoring 4-H Club boys 

 and girls, was held in the Bal Tabarin 

 room of the Hotel Sherman. lAA staff 

 members, guests, leaders and parents of 

 4-H members swelled the attendance 

 to more than 250. The lAA staff mem- 

 bers acted as hosts at each of the dinner 

 tables. 



Field secretary George E. Metzger pre- 

 sided as Toastmaster and made a short 



address of welcome for the lAA. 



Illinois outstanding 4-H Club members 

 were introduced by F. H. Mynard and 

 Mrs. Elsie Butler, both of the University 

 of Illinois. Each member was cited for 

 the most notable achievements in his 4-H 

 career. 



Principle speaker was W. C. Carroll of 

 the University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture. His subject "4-H In 

 Action" challenged the farmers of to- 

 morrow to change "a social system which 

 puts too much power in the hands of a 

 John L. Lewis. It must be changed by 

 you," he said. 



"We won't have any trouble," Pro- 

 fessor Carroll said "with socialism, com- 

 munism, or fascism if we make our 



democracy work as it is capable of woric- 

 ing." 



Carroll declared to the 4-H leaders 

 "the matter of discernment is yours to 

 use to make the coming generation better 

 than the past one". 



Speakers representing 4-H youth were 

 Marjorie Healey of Kanakee county and 

 Harry Kline of McLean county. 



Arnold Benson, Illinois State Director 

 of Agriculture, congratulated the lAA 

 for giving the banquet for the 4-H 

 leaders — Farm Bureau leaders of to- 

 morrow. He termed the meeting "a 

 splendid move for giving 4-H members 

 such encouragement." 



Community singing was led by Bill 

 Smith of the University of Illinois 



JANUARY. 1947 



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