AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



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

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

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

 agriculture. 



TNI STATE r**M 

 MMEAU PUHJCAnON 



OPPORTUNITIES 



^u f-^reAident Charles uIj. ^h 



uman 



DURING recent months I have received many interest- 

 ing letters, but there were two which fit together to 

 tell a story. Both letters were from young men of 

 ability and ambition and both were farm boys and college 



graduates. The first wanted to find a 



job in the city. He painted a picture 

 that has been all too familiar in the 

 . past. His parents had denied them- 

 selves many of the comforts of life tg 

 give their son an education during a 

 period when agricultural income was 

 at such a disparity with that of other 

 groups that few farmers had a decent 

 standard of living. They had con- 

 stantly encouraged him to go on to 

 school so that he could ""get a job in 

 the city away from the old farm." 



After graduation this boy went back home still pre- 

 ferring farming and rural life. However, his parents won 

 out. They insisted that they had given him the oppor- 

 tunity to get away from the farm community and they did 

 not propose to see him waste his life there. Besides they 

 were not ready to retire and they were not interested in a 

 partnership involving new methods and ideas. Their boy 

 now reports daily to a great corporation and struggles to 

 adapt his life and thinking to the depressing artificiality 

 and selfish cruelty of the great city. 



My second letter came from a man who had first 

 tested the glamour and "opportunity" of a great urban 

 center and had later, from dioice, returned to his home 

 rural community. A graduate in electrical engineering, 

 he was happy in the knowledge that he was now serving 

 where he was best adapted to live and where the need 

 was greatest. In effect he said, "Not as many dollars in 

 the bank perhaps, but more happiness for myself and my 

 family." 



It is time for the fathers and mothers, the boys and 

 girls of rural America to awaken to their real opportunities. 

 Today, the best place for rural youth to look for a full 

 life of happy service is in their own home community. 

 Opportunity depends upon need. Nowhere in America 

 is there such an unfilled need for the services of trained 

 specialists as in the rural communities. The mechaniza- 

 tion of agriculture and modernization of the farm home, 

 accelerated by the attainment of a parity price position for 

 farm products, has opened the door. We need and will 

 have new electrical and mechanical tools and conveniences, 

 better roads, better schools, more rural hospitals and health 

 centers, better land use and engineering practices, more 

 decentralized and modern processing plants and a great 

 increase in air travel and transportation. Farm people 

 will not be denied these modern needs. That is why they 

 have built the great organization that is ours today. They 



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FEBRUARY, 1947 



VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 



aUNOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 OFFICERS 



Preaidsnl, Chorlei B. Shuman. Sullivan 



Vice-Prnident, Floyd E. Morris BuHalo 



Secretory. Paul E. Mathias Ummdalm 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metiger Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. Cowles Bioomington 



Assl. Treas., A. R. Wright _ _.. Varna 



Comptroller. C. C. Chapelle _.. Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatriclc Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



1st to 11th Earl M. Hughes, Woodstock 



\Wl _ _ _ C. I. Elliott, Strealor 



Wth. Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



Mlh Otto Steffoy, Stronghurst 



ISth „Edwrin Gumm, Galesburg 



ISth Russell V. McEee. Varna 



17th _ E. T. Culnan, Lincoln 



18th. John T. Evans, Hoopeston 



I9lh ,. MUton W. Warren, Mansfield 



20th.. 



21st . 



22nd 



23rd 



24th 



25th 



.K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



...Don L. Clarke, New Berlin 

 ..J. King Eaton, Edwardsville 



Chester McCord. Newton 



— Lyman Bunting, Ellery 



. Albert Webb, Ewing 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Country Mutual Fire Co. I. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Casualty Co Frank V. Wilcox 



Mgr. 



III. Agr. Auditing Assn C. E. Strond. Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Sec. 



111. Co-op Locker Service C. F. Musser, Mgr. 



III. F. Bur. Serum Assn S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



III. Farm Supply Co C. H. Becker. Mgr. 



ni. Fruit Growers' Exchange Ted Davis, Mgr. 



111. Grain Corporation Howard McWard, Mgr. 



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



III. Milk Producers' Assn. Edwin Gumm, Pres. 



Prairie Farms Creameries. .Dave Henry, Sales Mgr. 



ni. Wool Mktg. Assn S. F. RusseU, Sec.-Mgr. 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Fruit and Vegetable MarketiBg L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing George H. Btner 



Legal ~ - - Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing S. F. Russell 



General Office _ C. E. Tohnston 



Orgonization. _ - O. D. Brissenden 



Personnel _ ... W. E. Scheei 



Publicity , Creston Foster 



Research ™ _ L. H. Simerl 



Road Improvement _ Charles Mayfield 



Rural School Relations )ohn K. Cox 



Safe'y and Public Health W. W. Whitlock 



Special Services Roy P. lohnsoo 



Property Taxation Bert Vandervliel 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Veterinary Medical Relations ^ 



_ _C. D. Von Houweling 



Young People's Activities £Ilssreith W. Lyon 



Editor, Creston Foster. Ass't, Editor, James C. Thomson. Field Editor, Lewis A. Reisner. 



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