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Virginia Johnson 



Talkfesters and Drivers 



EARLY 200 talkfcstLi-. and 

 •'.. skilled drivers took part in the 

 district activities — Oct. 1S-2.S. 

 V Not to be overlooked are tlie 

 loyal supporters who accom- 

 panied the participants and who cheered 

 them un. Tliere 

 were 1 20 talkiesiers 

 from ^3 lountie^. 

 Most encouraiciii',' 

 was tlie hii;li c]ualitv 

 ot I h e ^p^.Lxh^.^ 

 t;iveii by the taik- 

 ,^» f testers irom all o\ cr 



^^ the state. 



The wel I- pre - 

 ]iared talks indi- 

 lated much previ- 

 ous preparation 

 throut;h stiuiv and 

 practice. Both tat- 

 tors are necessary 

 tor clear thinking 

 and i;ood speaking, and both result in 

 cood leadership tor agriculture. Vir- 

 ginia Johnson, Adams, stands as a good 

 example of one who spoke with great 

 emphasis upon her topic, "An Ounce 

 ot Insurance Protection Prevents a Ton 

 of Grief." 



The skilled drivers' program on the 

 distriit level was supported by 75 

 drivers from -lO counties. This year 

 around 2, 500 Rural 'S'outhers took the 

 wtitten test in skilled driving and many 

 of these engaged in actual pcrfornianLC 

 and skill tests in the local countie^. 

 These figures are an increase over last 

 vear when there were "2 drivers se- 

 lected tor district contc-ts trom a field 

 ox l.^ixi young people uho encaged in 

 ., ountv -ontests. 



In liriving tlieir .mloniobiles. as was 

 true in speech activities, praaice helped 

 the participants. It w.iv cv iileiit lh.it 

 coiinlies whiili had cngaL'cd in .utii.tl 

 drivuit: ..ontests h.id received practiiC 

 in various driving tests and tiiade better 

 scores in the districts than participants 

 from counties which did not 

 countv contests. 



By ELLSWORTH D. LYON, Director 



Young Peoples Activities 



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Programs for county meetings are 

 alwavs a timely topic for consideration. 

 Now that corn picking is being com- 

 pleted manv Rural "\'outh members will 

 have more time for preparation for 



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Richard Belsley, high point driver, Taze- 

 well, shows how difficult it was to make a 

 perfect score in serpentine driving at the 

 Petersburg contest by not touching or 

 knocking over any stondards which were 

 set in a line 24 feet apart. 



solid but niteresting educational fea- 

 tures for future county meetings. A 

 source of help heretofore not available 

 is the newly formed county Public 

 Relations Committees which have been 

 org.inized under Tarm Bureau in nearU 

 all counties of the state. These public 

 relations committees are made up of 

 "minutemcn " who are wide awake and 

 alert upon issues elfecting agricultural 

 life within the county, state, and the 

 nation. 



These five-man committees are made 

 up of farmers who can discuss with 

 groups- or individuals preparing to lead 

 discussions upon such specific topics 

 as ro.id iniprovemenr. taxation, safety, 

 animal he.dih. rural schools, legisl.'tion. 

 and Tarm Bureau cooperatives, as well as 

 topics of central interest to .igriLiiirure. 

 Bv amtaaing voiir I'arm Bureau pres- 

 ident or r.irm office. Rural Youthers 

 mav find (uit who are the members of 

 the public relations committees. Re- 

 member, they are there to help you as 

 vount: farm people upon the problems 

 which effect your living. 



He also presented a movie showing 

 how serum and virus are prepared. 



Brown heard Nelson Workman, gen- 

 eral agent of lAA insurance, in an 

 interesting talk on lite insurance. 



Stephenson is rolling along at a good 

 rate. In a recent meeting with a number 

 of guests present, 15 new members 

 were received into the group. F.lwood 

 T. Baker of Farm Bureau-Farm Man 

 aucment, showed slides relative to his 

 work. Also Miss Joyce Baltzer ot 

 Dakota spoke on the United Nations. 



"The Whiteside of Rural ^'outh," 

 newsletter of Whiteside, carried a time- 

 ly full-page article just bet'ore Nov. 2 

 upon voting procedure, and a challenge 

 for every eligible voter to fulfill his 

 duty and exercise the democratic priv- 

 ilege of voting. Commendable work ! 

 Keep it up I 



The county Rural ^■outh newsletters 

 are always welcome (and read) in the 

 office of ^'oung People's Activities. 

 Special recognition goes to Montgomery 

 for their new "Chit Chat" and to 

 Sangamon's and Will's new, hut as yet 

 unnamed, newsletters. 



There are now 12 stales m the Na- 

 tional Rural '^'outh Organization under 

 the American Farm Bureau F'edcration. 

 They arc: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. New 



Hampshire, 'Fennessee. Ohio. Michigan, 



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Nebraska, Minnesota, Oklahoma. Cali- 

 fornia, and Wisconsin. Minnesota and 

 Oklahoma are the new members re- 

 icived in 19 i!s. 



It is proposed by the agricultural 

 agent of the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio 

 Railroad that his ujmpany be permitted 

 to give some form of recognition to 

 some of the Rural '\'outh county groujrs 

 in the 29 counties which the railroad 

 serves. Ba.ses of evaluating the activi- 

 ties of counties have been suggested to 

 be upon aiiministration. (constitution, 

 bv-laws, minutes, parliamentary pro- 

 cedure), community service, and recrea- 

 tion. It is suggested by the G. M. an<l 

 O. that the project be carried through 

 the Rural "^'oulh department of the 1,'ni- 

 versitv of Illinois College of Agriculture. 



The MarenL-o Club of McHenry had , Illinois is a lonp state, extendin.n from .^7 



„ ... '",,„ I, -r _~„ I;,-,. -- lifCrecs f.ititiule in the south to approxi- 



Farm Adviser W. H. Tammeus di.scuss ,,^ ;,^.,^, ,, j^.^^^.^,^ ^^^ .^ ^^^,^„j^ j„ ',*^ ^^.. 



Ban^'s disease at their October meeting. ,rt.me north. 



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