AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the farm Bureau uas organized, namely, 

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

 tional interests of' the farmers of Illinois and the Sation, and to diielop 

 agriculture. 



THE STATE FARM 

 BUREAU PUBUCATION 



OPPORTUNITIES 



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DURING recent months I have received many interest- 

 ing letters, hut there were tv\o which fit together to 

 tell a story. Both letters were from young men of 



ability and amhition and both were farm boys and college 

 graduates. The first wanted to find a 

 job in the city. He painted a picture 

 lliat has been ail 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 sucii a disparity with that of other 

 groups that few farmers had a decent 

 standard of living. They had con- 

 vtantlv 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 v\on 

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

 tunity to get away from the farm community anti they did 

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

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

 partnership involving new methods and ideas. Their boy 

 now reports daily to a great corporation ami struggles to 

 adapt iiis life and thinking to the depressing artificialiti, 

 and selfish cruelty of the great citv. 



My second letter canK tri>m a man who had first 

 tested the glamour and opportunity " of a great urban 

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

 rural community. A graduate in electrical engmeering. 

 he was happy in tlie know ledge 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 m\ 

 family." 



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

 girls of rural America to awaken to their real opportunities. 

 Today, the best place for rural youtli to kxjk for a full 

 life of happy service is in tlieir own home community 

 Opportunity depends upon need. Nowhere in America 

 is there such an unfilled nc^A for the .servicc-s of trained ■ 

 specialists as in the rural communities. The mechaniza- 

 tion of agriculture and modernization of the farm home, 

 accelerated by tlie attainment ol a parity price position for 

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

 ha\e new electrical and nieclianiuil tools and C(>n\eniences. 

 better roads, better sciiools. more rural hospitals anil health 

 centers, better land use and engineering practices, more 

 decentralized and modern processing plants and a great 

 mcrcase in air travel and transportation. l-"arm people 

 will not be dcnicil these modern needs. That is wfiv thc\ 

 iiave built tlie great organization that is ours today. The\ 



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FEBRUARY, 1 947 



VOLUME 25, NUMBER 2 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 OFFICERS 

 President. Charles B. Shuman Sullivan 



Vice-President, Floyd E. Morris Buffalo 



Secretary, Paul E. Malhias Hinsdale 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metzgcr Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. Cowtes Bloomington 



Asst. Treas.. A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, C. C. Chapelle , ^ ... Chicago 

 General Counsel. Donald Kirkpatrick . Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



11th Earl M. Hughes, Woodstock 



C. J. Elliott, Streator 



Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



Otto Stefley. Stronghurst 



Edwin Gumm, Galesburg 



Russell V. McKee, Varna 



E. T. Culnan. Lincoln 



lohn T. Evans, Hoopeston 



Milton W. Warren, Mansfield 



1st to 



12th 



13lh 



Uth 



ISth 



16th 



17th 



18th 



19th 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfaeld 



21st Dan L. Clarke. New Berlin 



22nd I. King Eaton. Ed wards ville 



23rd Chester McCord. Nowton 



24th Lyman Bunting. Etlery 



25th ■ Albert Webb, Ewing 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



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

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



Country Mutual Casualty Co. , Frank V. Wilcox 



Mgr. 

 111. Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



III. Agr. Service Co, Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



III. Co-op Locker Service C. F. Musser. Mgr. 

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

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



111. Fruit Growers' Exchange Ted Davi.s. Mgr. 



III. Grain Corporation Howard McWard, Mgr. 

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

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

 Prairie Farms Creameries Dave Henry. Sales Mqr. 



III. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Russell. Sec. Mgr, 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Fruit and Vegetable Morkctmg 



Grain Marketing 



Legal 



Live Slock Marketing , 



Gc'Peral Office 



Organization 



Person.iel 



Publicity . 



Research ' 



Road Improvement 



Rural School Relations 



Safe'v and Public Health. 



Special Services 



Pioperty Taxation 



Transportation-Claims 



Veterinary Medical Relations 



C 

 Young People's A'-tivities 



L. L. Colvis 



George H. Iltner 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



, S. F. Russell 



,C. . E. Johnston 



Ct. D. Btissendec 



W. E. Schyer 



Crefeton Foster 



L H. Simerl 



Charles Moybeld 



John K Co* 



w. w. whitiock 



Roy P. Johnson 



Beri Vandervltet 



G. W. Baxter 



D. Van Houweling 

 Ellsworfh W. Lyon 



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



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