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Mambars of tha Rural Youth state committee listen Intently to the discussion at the Farm Bureau Leaders conference In Springfield bi 

 October. Left to right: Ruth Huser, Tazewell; Edna Dew, Ogle; George Matthews, Whiteside; Glenn Niehaus, Montgomery; Youth 



Activities Director Lyon; and Rex Emory, McDonough. 



RURAL YOUTH 



THE State Rural Youth Gjmmittee 

 planned the Rural Youth activities 

 of the lAA annual meeting well in 

 advance this year. The program, 

 from the get-acquainted party at 

 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15 in the Gray 

 room of the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 

 throughout the entire annual meeting, 

 will be of interest to Rural Youth over 

 the state. Last year 72 counties were 

 represented by young people. It is pos- 

 sible that registration will be higher this 

 year. 



Edna Dew, Ogle, will be in charge of 

 registration. Rural Youth Day will be 

 on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Every interested 

 person should take note that the talk 

 fest this year will be in the grand ball- 

 room at the Sherman Hotel at 9 a.m., 

 with Ruth Huser, Tazewell, as chairman. 

 All Rural Youth activities for Tues- 

 day are scheduled for this room. The 

 Rural Youth conference under the direc- 

 tion of Rex Emory will be held there at 

 2 p.m. Throughout the years there has 

 been a growing interest in both the state 

 talk fest and the Rural Youth confer- 

 ence, requiring larger and larger meeting 

 rooms. Can we fill the grand ballroom 

 this year. Rural Youthers? 



Host to Canadians 



Floyd Morris, vice-president of the 

 lAA, will welcome Rural Youth at the 

 talk fest. Another lAA personality on 

 the program will be Bert Vandervliet, di- 

 rector, department of taxation. He will 

 speak at the Rural Youth conference 

 upon the subject "Democracy at the 

 Local Level." Vandervliet is a student 

 of local government and feels strongly 

 that young people should think clearly 

 upon the subject of democracy and that 

 they should bring it down to the local 



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By ELLSWORTH D. LYON, Director 



lAA Young Peoples Activities 



level where people should live demo- 

 cratically. Another highlight of the 

 afternoon conference will be the presen- 

 tation of guests from the Junior Farmers' 

 Association of Ontario, Canada, who will 

 tell Illinois Rural Youth about the Junior 

 Farmer activities of Ontario. Last spring 

 representatives of Illinois Rural Youth 

 attended the annual meeting of the Junior 

 Farmers' Association of Ontario at 

 Guelph and were warmly entertained by 

 the young people of that organization 

 who are of the same age group as our 

 Rural Youth. Now we give to the On- 

 tario Junior Farmers a hearty welcome. 



SIcilled Drivers Contest 



Scheduled for 1:30 p.m. will be the 

 annual skilled drivers' contest under the 

 direction of W. W. Whitlock, depart- 

 ment of safety, Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, with Glenn Niehaus, Mont- 

 gomery, chairman. At Soldier Field the 

 nine contestants will demonstrate their 

 ability in both road performance and skill 

 tests. 



The state committee for 1949 will be 

 elected at 4 p.m. by the young people 

 designated from each county Rural Youth 

 group to represent officially the local 

 county organization. Two voting dele- 

 gates may represent each county. County 

 delegates may make nominations from 

 the floor in addition to the slate pre- 

 sented by the nominating committee. 



The climax of Tuesday's activities will 

 be the annual Rural Youth mixer led by 

 Edna Dew and Rex Emory. In this eve- 

 ning of fun. Rural Youthers from over 

 the state will entertain both adults and 



young people who are in attendance at 

 the annual meeting of the lAA. An or- 

 chestra has been procured for this big 

 event and Rural Youth members trained 

 in recreation will direct the games and 

 dances. 



Breakfast will be ready for Rural 

 Youthers at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 

 17. To balance the lateness of this break- 

 fast, our Rural Youthers will be privi- 

 leged to ask questions of our Canadian 

 guests about young people on Ontario 

 farms. George Matthews, presiding, 

 will lead us through the breakfast activi- 

 ties and then invite all assembled to hear 

 lAA President Charles B. Shuman's ad- 

 dress at 9 a.m. in the grand ballroom. 



This year Rural Youth will participate 

 in the Organization-Information confer- 

 ence held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 

 17, and will take part in presenting a 

 dramatic skit whidi will include the 

 place of Rural Youth in our total farm 

 picture. 



Rural Youthers desiring to attend the 

 annual meeting should contact their 

 county Farm Bureau for reservations. 

 Greet your friends at this, the largest 

 meeting of agricultural leaders in Illi- 

 nois. 



State Conservation School 



The State Conservation School at Lake 

 Villa in Lake county was one of the in- 

 teresting and valuable experiences for 

 a limited number of Rural Youthers in 

 the study of soil and wild life conserva- 

 tion. The young people in attendance 

 were quite enthusiastic about the instruc- 

 tion, the spirit of the school, the well- 

 trained personnel, the good food, and 

 the beautiful surroundings. The dates, 

 Sept. 23-25, possibly were not suited to 

 harvesting schedules for this year. It 



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