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Recently elected Kane 

 County Rural Youth 

 officers ore, left to 

 right; Mariam Carl- 

 son, treasurer; Don 

 McClay, president; 

 Wolly Brown, vice 

 pres.; Shirley Theis, 

 secretary; and Dor- 

 o t h y Vanthoumont, 

 editor. 



WHY NOT CONSOLIDATE 

 *SMALL HIGH SCHOOLS? 



(CoKUnntJ >r,,m p.v^t Id) 



higli school: we'll lose our trade. " Tlie 

 answcr is that they will not lose tlieir 

 liit;li school but will ha\e perhaps a tew 

 miles away a stronger high school, better 

 ccjLnppeil and adapted to ser\e the com 

 iminitv. 



|-.irin people ha\e no great stake m the 

 ^mall higii school that tails to pro\ide a 

 tood agricultural or home economics 

 .ouTNe. but vill.ige people are oltcn les^ 

 ucll mformcd and prai.ti>.al. 



.\l.uiy |->atrons. including manv village 

 peo|ile. become ardent basketball tans to 

 the extent that sport to them seems to 

 Ik- the most important function ol the 

 high school. Tliey cannot im.igine be- 

 (.oming a part ot a larger sjiool di^tria 

 includmg the town se\eral miles down 

 the road which they have alwa\s ton 

 sidered an enemy in basketball. The 

 greater etTiciency of the larger distria 

 means little to them And the scaling 

 down ot per capita costs means little be- 

 cause many ot those people pav \erv little 

 property tax. 



Another group has a vested interest m 

 the small high .school. This is the 

 school employee who thinks tirst ol' per- 

 sonal welfare and second of the boys and 

 girls. Many ot these teaihers and prin- 

 cipals are interested enough in the bene- 

 fit to the ]iupils and to the tommunity of 

 the larger school district to be willing to 

 make what sacritkes, it an\. are neces- 

 Narv. These teachers and princijials lia\e 

 little to tear because they know the\ 

 h.i\c re. ognized ability in their jirotession 

 ind will be able to render servi.e th.it 

 uill be in demand b\ ,i l.irccr school 

 district. 



The manv advantages under the ( om- 

 munity I 'nit .\- X passed in the lav! legis- 

 l.iture merit caretul consideration bv 

 •hose who would improve our si hool 

 vvstem. This act makes possible a 

 thorough reorganization job b\ combin- 

 ing the grade school with the high school 

 under one school board, one supervisor, 

 and one tax rate. 



Sitjnificantlv. Ohio that has done con 



New AFBF Head is 

 Long-Time Hog Farmer 



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KI.IN'I . the new presi- 

 .Aiiicncan larm Hureau 

 .s a ^ J -year-old hog 



Mderable ru)rganization ot school dis- 

 tricts in the larger cotnmunity basis rates 

 above Illinois on most educational yard- 

 sticks, particularly in school organiza- 

 tion, yet per capita costs there are 23 

 j-ier cent lovser than per capita costs in 

 Illinois. T'o get our mone\s worth ot 

 education small high .schools as well as 

 small grade schools must j^ool their re- 

 sources in a larger, more effective ad- 

 niinistrati\e and taxini; unit. 



MISSOURIANS VISIT 



To get a look at the I'arm Bureau set- 

 up in Illinois which thev had heard so 

 much .ibout, 13 tanners trom lohnson 

 countv, Missouri visited the Farm Bureau 

 offices in Logan. Sangamon, and Mi I.e.m 

 « ounties in IXc ember. 



Mcdonough assistant 



Karle A. Smith, s.s, is the new assist 

 ant farm a-ivise.'' ind organization di- 

 rector tor McDonough county. Smith 

 oines to Macomb trom Lincoln wliere 

 lie has been a special insurance agent. 



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ckiil .1. lie 

 I cilc r.U ion. 



i.criiicr iroiii near \'inton, Iowa. 



lie has been jTCsident of the Iowa 

 I .irni iiureau federation for the past 

 scccial years and \ice president ot the 

 American I arni Bureau lederation for 

 two u.us Kline helped set up the new 

 International Lederation of AgrieiilturaJ 

 Producers at London in 19)6. He repre- 

 sented the AFRL at the HAP confer- 

 ciue at The Hague, Netherlands. 



Owner and operator with his son of a 

 I K)-atre farm on which his three children 

 were reared. Kline has had considerable 

 experience in lx)th state and national 

 barm Bureau leadership during the past 

 several years. 



Romeo .short, lirinkle}. Ark., the 

 Al Bl 's new vice jHesident, is president 

 ol tlic Arkans.is larm Bureau. He was 

 born in Illinois, reared in Iowa, and has 

 ixen an Arkans.is farmer since l')J(>. 

 Short has been a member of the AI'BI' 

 bo.ird ol directors sun e I')s"^. He is a 

 rice, cotton, .md livestock fanner. 



Short is .in able sj^ciker and is recog- 

 nized as an autliorilv on f.irm credit. He 

 IS a director ol lann ( redit Administra- 

 iions St. Louis district. The Shorts have 

 one son. a student at Oklahoma A cV M 

 ( olle-e. 



ONE THOUSAND MEMBERS 



Sahne f oiintv larm H;i.'"eau wjs sO 

 years old Oct ;^~. \^) \~ . has grown from 

 alx)ut CiO I barter members to more than 

 1 ()()(). 



lAA Director Albert Webb (standing) chots with a group during the AFBF livestock 

 marketing conference at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago. leM to right, seated: Carl O. 

 Johnson, DeKalb county; Charles Hearst, Cedar Falls, la.; and R. K. Bliss, fxtension Servico, 



Iowa State College. 



FEBRUARY, 1948 



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