Aldrich warned against the dangers 

 of allowing power over farm credit to 

 fall into the hands of a few who can 

 "control and destroy the farmer." 



Turning to the international position 

 of the United States, Aldrich pointed 

 out the dependence of Southern agri- 

 culture on foreign trade and said: 

 "One of the greatest dangers in Ameri- 

 ca today is that we fail to appreciate the 

 meaning of what is going on in other 

 countries of the world. Communism 

 and unrest" he said "run hand in hand 

 where agriculture production is lowest." 

 In his address, Dr. Smith jarred his 

 listeners with a list of eight world shat- 

 tering events which all happened in 

 1945 and the like of which, he said, 

 none of us probably ever will experi- 

 ence again in our lifetime. He listed 

 them as (1) the disappearance of Ger- 

 many as a world power, (2) the emer- 

 gence of Russia as a great power, (3) 

 the collapse of Japan, (4) the decline 

 of Britain and France (5) the center 

 of power moving from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, (6) the world wide turn to 

 the left, (7) the charting of a world 

 government, and (8) the first manifes- 

 tation of atomic power in the atomic 

 bomb. 



Dr. Smith said that in his travels 

 throughout the world he found evi- 

 dence of American industrial power 

 everywhere. All the world, he said, 

 is turning to us for guidance. 



"In this hour," he said, "when Amer- 

 ica has come of age I join with you in 

 pledging to this world that waits upon 

 us ... . that I will try to act like an 

 adult, like a grown man, a man made in 

 the image of God, upon whom his- 

 tory and destiny and God and all the 

 days to come have laid an unprece- 

 dented responsibility for clear think- 

 ing in muddy waters." 



Three new members were elected 

 to the lAA board of directors. They 

 are: Lester S. Davison, Woodford 

 county, replacing Edward T. Culnan, 

 Logan; Thomas H. Lloyd, Macoupin, 

 replacing Dan L. Clarke, Sangamon; 

 and Frank L. Simpson, DeWitt, replac- 

 ing Milton W. Warren, Piatt. Direc- 

 tors Homer Curtiss, Jo Daviess; Earl 

 M. Hughes, McHenry; Albert W. 

 Webb, Franklin; Edwin Gumm, Knox; 

 and Chester McCord, Jasper, were re- 

 elected. Like the new directors they 

 will serve two-year terms. 



President Shuman and Vice Presi- 

 dent Floyd E. Morris were unanimously 

 reelected for one-year terms. 



Other highlights of the lAA annual 

 meeting included an evening of enter- 

 tainment before a crowd that over- 

 flowed the main ballroom of the hotel, 

 a safe-driving contest, the annual Rural 

 Youth Talk Fest, the visit of a number 

 of Canadian farm youth to the con- 

 vention, broadcasts on WLS and 



ADDRESS FARMERS DURING lAA CONVENTION PROGRAM 



Presiding 

 b Board P 

 right) are 

 Naffzlger, 



Paul I. Mathlat 

 lAA Secretory 



George f. Mefzger 

 lAA Field Secretary 



Donald KIrkpafrltk 

 lAA Generol Counsel 



WBBM, besides conferences on many 

 phases of farm life — animal disease, 

 marketing, soil conservation, rural ed- 



ucation, road improvement, taxation, 

 national and state legislation, and or- 

 ganization and information. 



ATTACKS REPORT 



Dean Rusk Denies Extension Service-Farm Bureau 

 Relationship is 'Detrimental to Public Interest' 



1 REPORT of vital interest to li- 

 ft linois farmers touching on the 

 /I relationship between the county 

 Im. Farm Bureaus and the Extension 

 Service was reviewed by Dean 

 H. P. Rusk of the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture during the 

 lAA convention. 



Dean Rusk, a 

 member of the com- 

 mittee which issued 

 the report, spoke 

 before a special 

 meeting of Farm 

 Bureau presidents 

 and farm advisers. 



He said he "took 

 sharp issue" with 

 the committee re- 

 port on the follow- 

 ing statement: "Though close coopera- 

 tion (by the extension service) with 

 general farm organizations is highly 



Oeon Ruik 



Duke Regnler, Unlvertlty of IIHnoU, leadt 

 tinging during convention. 



desirable, formal operating relation- 

 ships with such organizations are con- 

 sidered detrimental to the public inter- 

 est." 



To this recommendation Dean Rusk 

 took issue and prepared a formal 

 "statement of exception" which was 

 included in the report. 



The report was prepared by a joint 

 committee representing the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture and the Asso- 

 ciation of Land Grant Colleges and 

 Universities appointed to recommend 

 a future course for the Extension Serv- 

 ice in agriculture and home economics. 



"Where," Dean Rusk said, "but in 

 Illinois will you find such a wonderful 

 rural youth program.' Where will you 

 find farmers doing so much to publicize 

 the extension program? Where will 

 you find so many farm people turn 

 out for an event like our Sports Fes- 

 tival.' I wouldn't want to run the Ex- 

 tension Service without the support of 

 the county Farm Bureaus in Illinois." 



Speaking further, Dean Rusk said: 

 "Very obviously I am especially con- 

 cerned about the committee's recom- 

 mendation that extension relationships 

 with farm organizations be discon- 

 tinued. I cannot speak for other states, 

 but so far as our relationships in Illi- 

 nois are concerned, it is my sincere be- 

 lief that they have been on a sound 

 basis and in the public interest. 



"I do anticipate," he said, "that an 

 attempt will be made to persuade Con- 

 gress to dissolve this relationship 

 through some form of legislation. I 

 feel, however, that Congress would not 

 approve such legislation and the at- 

 tempt would fail." 



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