department directors on duty in the Gen- 

 eral Service division, the committee rec- 

 ommends that County Public Relations 

 Committees consist of five men. Each 

 department director would closely cooper- 

 ate with a different member of the county 

 committee. Each of the five men would 

 represent one of the following activities: 

 1. Taxation, 2. Schools, 3. Roads, 4. 

 Safety and Health, and 5. Animal Disease 

 Control. 



D. Business Service — A committee of 

 three men, appointed from the County 

 Farm Bureau board of directors, should 

 be given the responsibility of reviewing 

 contractual relations between subsidiaries 

 and affiliated companies. Matters in- 

 volving auditing service, insurance, and 

 feed distributorship are typical examples 

 of problems which this committee might 

 logically consider. 



Committee chairmen are expected to: 

 1. Attend Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion district meetings. 2. Attend Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association Annual 

 Meeting and be present at committee 

 conference. 3. Attend Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association State Leader con- 

 ferences, when requested. 



4. Make a report of the activities of 

 his committee to the County Farm Bu- 

 reau board of directors who in turn may 

 order the report presented at the Annua! 

 Meeting of the County Farm Bureau. 

 5. Submit any resolutions his committee 

 would like to see adopted at the lAA 

 Annual Meeting to his Farm Bureau 

 secretary for presentation to the board 

 of directors. 



6. Contact lAA directors for help in 

 local situations which his committee can- 

 not solve if his local county Farm Bu- 

 reau board approves such action. 7. 

 Cooperate with his committee in their 

 interviews with government officials. 



8. Fill out and return annual report 

 forms sent out by lAA. They are in- 

 tended to show the scope of activity of 

 each county committee. 9. Call his com- 

 mittee together at least four times each 

 year to discu.ss problems existing at 

 township, county, state, or national level. 

 Any problems requiring lAA action or 

 consideration should be reported to the 

 lAA as promptly as possible. 



The lAA will cooperate with county 

 committees as follows: 1. Department 

 directors will meet with committees when 

 requested to do so by county Farm Bu- 

 reau boards of directors through county 

 committee chairmen. Farm Bureau presi- 

 dents, or other delegated persons. He 

 will work with the committee in the 

 solution of a local problem. 2. Under 

 similar circumstances, department direc- 

 tors will attend and speak at mass meet- 

 ings in the county or district. 



3. When County Farm Bureaus em- 

 ploy people to work on local projects. 



the lAA will, upon request of the County 

 Farm Bureau and to the extent personnel 

 is available, assist in directing their ac- 

 tivities. 4. Publicity and news stories 

 will be mailed to respective chairmen and 

 to Farm Advisers for use in Farm Bu- 

 reau publications. 



5. Timely information will be carried 

 in letters from the lAA department di- 

 rector direct to his county chairman. 

 Farm Advisers will receive copies of the 

 letters. 6. Meetings of an area nature 

 may also be called by lAA directors for 

 the purpose of informing chairmen. 



7. lAA directors may arrange pro- 

 grams at District Meetings for the best 

 interest of the county committee plan. 

 A certain district may elect to have one 

 section on tax and another on marketing. 

 This can be accomplished by department 

 directors working with chairmen in sep- 

 arate groups at the same hour. 8. Sec- 

 tional conferences held in connection with 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Annual Meeting will feature programs 

 for county committeemen. Proper rec- 

 ognition will be given county committees. 



9. Illinois Agricultural Association 

 State Leader Conferences will offer many 

 legislative facts of current interest to 

 county committees. 10. Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association will mail chairmen and 

 Farm Advisers forms for listing com- 

 mitteemen by name, address, designation 

 and telephone number; and annual forms 

 intended to show the scope of activity 

 of each county committee. 



{Continued from page 6) 



President Shuman urged sanity in 

 school reorganization moves and ex- 

 pressed the hope that county School 

 Survey Committees would finish their 

 reports as soon as possible. 



"Land grabbing," he said should be 

 defeated by opposing all consolidation 

 not approved by the county school com- 

 mittee. Think of your children first. 

 And insist on farmer representation on 

 your boards of education. 



Turning to the problem of taxation of 

 cooperatives, Donald Kirkpatrick, lAA 

 counsel, said Congress intended to en- 

 courage farmer co-ops but developments 

 "seem to point to the fact that some 

 have gone further than intended." The 

 lAA, Kirkpatrick said, would gladly join 

 a move to avoid tax abuses in coopera- 

 tives. 



"The position of your organization," 

 Kirkpatrick continued, "can be defended 

 anj'where." 



The real intention of the "tax co- 

 operatives" people. President Shuman 

 added is to destroy cooperatives. The 

 taxation they speak of is merely a smoke 

 screen. 



Practically all statewide cooperatives 

 affiliated with the lAA are not income 

 tax exempt, Shuman reiterated. 



"Co-ops like these pay practically the 

 same taxes as any other business. Patron- 

 age refunds are taxed when received by 

 members," Shuman said. "Any other 

 business could make the same arrange- 

 ment with its customers and receive the 

 same exemption." 



T 



HE Rutledge and Camron Saw and Grist 

 Mill on the Sangamon river at New Sal- 

 em State Park is the ninth of our series 

 of cover pictures illustrating pictureseque 

 and historic scenes. Lincoln lived at 

 New Salem from 1831 to 1837. 



In the fall of 1828 John M. Camron and 

 his uncle. James Rutledge, settled on the ridge 

 which later became the town of New Salem. 

 Rutledge and Camron were millwrights by 

 trade. They built houses for their families in 

 the fall and the following spring began the 

 construction of the dam and the mill. Pens 

 were built of logs and weighted with rock 

 and sunk in the river and then filled to the top 

 with "1000 wagon loads of stone". The site 

 was thoroughly excavated and the restoration 

 is on the exact spot of the original. 



All posts and timbers are in the identical ' 

 location. Denton Offut leased the mill in : 

 1831 and Lincoln aided in its operation for a 

 few months. Camron sold the mill in 1832 or 

 1833 and the second mill was built in approx- 

 imately the same location several years later. 



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NOVEMBER. 1947 



