Top picture sftowu group that appaaratl on Srtt of two VttS 

 Oinnerbell Hour broadcasts during lAA conventieii In Chicago. 

 loft to right: KuMfH Park; WIS} Ata B. Cutp, Mclean tourty 

 organization director; Judson P. iMoson, lAA diratter of dairy 

 marketing; iMrs. Charles B. Shuman, Mewltrie county; lAA 

 Pretldent Charles B. Shumon; WIS Announcer Ari Page; fro- 

 mond Settlet, McDonough; Ruth Hutar, Tazewell; Rom BeoMle 

 of the Junior farmer* Association of Ontario, Canada; and 

 John Irwin, Sangamon. Setond picture shews Sam Thompton, 

 Adam* county, former pretldent of the lAA and the American 

 farm Bureau federation, talking over new hlttory of AfBf 

 with (left to right) C. J. Schmitt, logon; Oeorge Thiem, farm 

 editor, the Chicago Dally New*; and Harry L. Hough, Orundy. 

 Girl telling the book, "farm Bureau Through Three Decades," 

 Third picture I* of llllnol* Senator-elect Paul Dougia* and Pretl- 

 dent Shuman. Dougia* spoke briefly before a general session. 

 Boltomi A group regltlera from St, CMr county. 



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question until next year. 



During this meeting President Shuman urged Farm 

 Bureau leaders to get their cooperatives in good fi- 

 nancial shape to withstand the shock of deflation when 

 it comes. 



A review of the lAA's new grain marketing opera- 

 tions was presented by Field Secretary George E. Met2- 

 ger. He explained that a half million dollars would 

 have to be raised for the operations alone and that 

 more capital would be needed if Illinois Grain Termin- 

 als decides to build terminal elevators at Chicago and 

 St. Louis. 



L. L. Colvis, lAA secretary of marketing, outlined 

 and reported steady progress during the year on the 

 lAA plan for statewide cooperative livestock market- 

 ing. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, lAA general counsel, spoke on 

 what can be expected in farm legislation under the 81st 

 congress. He said the federal oleomargarine tax prob- 

 ably would be removed and that the National Tax 

 Equality League would have anti farm co-op legislation 

 introduced in the next session. 



Dean H. P. Rusk of the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture appeared before the Farm Bureau 

 presidents-farm advisers meeting and explained his 

 position on a national committee report to recommend 

 the future course for the Extension Service in agri- 

 culture and home economics. The report was made by 

 a joint committee representing the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture and the Association of Land Grant Col- 

 leges and Universities. Dean Rusk took sharp issue 

 with the committee on the charge that "formal work- 

 ing agreements between state extension services and 

 farm organizations are not in the best interests of the 

 people." (See full story in this issue). 



Principal speakers on the convention program be- 

 sides Sen. Aiken included Ransom Aldrich, president 

 of the Mississippi Farm Bureau, and Dr. Roy L. Smith, 

 Editor of The Christian Advocate. 



Aldrich presented a Southern viewpoint on agricul- 

 ture. Conservation is Mississippi agriculture's greatest 

 problem, Aldrich said. We in the South have had 

 controls; you have had diversion. And controls are 

 what the South wants least. 



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