Volume 36 



Number 11 



November, 1948 



TiiK Record 



omciAi rauicATioN 

 THE lUINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



To advanct the purpose for which the farm Bureau was organized, 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois ana the Nation, and 

 to develop agriculture. 



OFTICERS 



CHARLES B. SHUMAN. SulUvan, President 



FLOYD E. MORRIS GEORGE E. METZGER 



Vice-President Field Secretary 



PAUL E. MATHIAS CLARENCE C. CHAPELLE 



Secretary Comptroller 



ARTHUR F. SCHUCK DONALD KIRKPATRICK 



Treasurer General Counsel 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



Lyman Bunting, EUery; Dan L. Clarke, New Berlin; E. T. Culiun, 

 Lincoln; Homer Curciss, Stockton; J. Ring Eaton, Edwardsville ; John 

 T. Evans, Hoopestoo ; Edwin Gumm, Galesburg; Earl M. Hughes, 

 Woodstock; Chester McCord Newton; Russell V. McKee, Varna; K. T. 

 Smith, Greenfield; Otto Steffey, Strongburst; Milton W. Warren, 

 Mansfield; and Albert Webb, Ewing. 



DIVISION HEADS 



George E. Metzger Organization & Information: L. L. Colvis, Market- 

 ing; I. E. Parctt, General Services; Paul E. MatQias, Building, Records, 

 and Personnel; Arthur F. Schuck Treasurer's office; C. C. Cbapelle, 

 Comptroller's office; and Donald Kirkpatrick, General Counsel. 



DEPARTMENf HEADS 



Frank M. Atchley, Research; O. D. Brissenden, Organization; G. W. 

 Baxter, Transportation-Claims; John K. Cox, Rural School Relations; 

 C. I. Foster^ Publicity; R. E. Gish, Soil Conservation Activities; George 

 H. Iftner, Grain Marketing: Roy P. Johnson, Special Services & Office 

 of the Building; C. E. Johnston, General Office, Donald Kirkpatrick, 

 Le^l; Ellsworth D. L^n, Young People's Aaiviiies; Judsoo P. Mason, 

 Dairy Marketing; C. S. Mayficld, Rural Road Improvement; S. F. Rus- 

 sell, Livestock Marketing ; W. E. Scheer, Personnel ; Bert Vandervliet. 

 Property Taxation; and Dr. C. D. Van Houweling, Veterinary Medical 

 Relations. 



ASSOCIAUD COMPANY MANAGERS 



C. H. Becker, Illinois Farm Supply Companv; Sam L. Hasselt, Illinoi* 

 Grain Terminals Company: Forrest C. Faircnilo, Prairie Farms Creameries; 

 J. H. Kelker, Country Mutual Fire Company; Judson P. Mason, 111. Milk 

 Producers' Assn.: R. S. McBride, Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange; How- 

 ard McWard, III. Grain Corporation; C. F. Musser, III. Farm Bureau 

 Senun Assn.; J. L. Pidcock, 111. Co-op Locker Service; A. E. Richardson, 

 Country Life Insurance Company ; Dale Rouse. Illinois Wool Marketins 

 Assn.; J. L. Baker, (aning) Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn.; H. W. 

 Trautmann, Illinois Livestock Marketing Assn.; and F. V. Wilcox, Coun- 

 try Muttul Casualty Company. 



EDITORIAL STArr 



Creston J. Foster 

 Editor 



James C. Thomson 

 Ass't. Editor 



Lewis A. Reisner 

 Field Editor 



Editorial Office 



43 East Ohio, Chicago 11 



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THE STATE FARM BUREAU PUtLICATION 



For These Things 

 We ire Thankful 



WE WHO are privileged to live and work in Gods 

 own workshop — the open field — are, I'm sure, 

 more conscious than any other group of His con- 

 stant presence. We appreciate the importance of the 

 harvest season and welcome the op- 

 portunity of giving thanks to the 

 Giver of all good. 



We are thankful for America 

 where the individual citizen is still 

 the most important unit in the na- 

 tion and where the power of the 

 state protects rather than destroys 

 his property and freedom. We 

 are thankful that we have made 

 some recovery from the destruction 

 Charles B. Shumon of ^^r. We are thankful that we 

 have been able to help those less fortunate than our- 

 selves. 



AS FARMERS, we are thankful for a bountiful har- 

 vest even in the face of its almost certain reduction 

 in financial reward. We appreciate the more nearly 

 equitable balance between farm and city income dur- 

 ing recent months. We are thankful for debts that 

 are paid, for more modern homes, for new farm 

 machines, for money in the bank, for government 

 bond reserves for future security. We value highly 

 our new scientific knowledge. We are thankful for 

 county farm and home advisers who help us use this 

 knowledge; for research workers and teachers; for all 

 who serve our many needs. 



IS HOME loving men and women we are thankful 

 that farming is a family occupation. We are proud 

 of and thankful for the wonderful stream of rural 

 youth that means so much to our nation and to agri- 

 culture. We are confident in the future for agricul- 

 ture as more and more of our best young people stay 

 on the land. We are thankful for our Farm Bureau 

 organization and our affiliated cooperatives that have 

 helped bring agriculture to its proper place in our 

 society. We pay tribute to the wisdom of the early 

 leadership; to the present membership; to all who 

 serve the farmers of Illinois and the nation. 



II OR ALL of these and many more we are deeply 

 ' grateful. Let us each in our own way give thanks 

 and pray that the blessings that have come to us 

 may be multiplied throughout the world. 



President, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 



NOVEMBER, 1948 



