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Volume 37 



Number 9 



September, 1949 



The Record 



OrriCtAL PUBLICATION 

 THC ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



To mdrance the purpose jor uoich the Farm Bureau uas organized, namely, 

 to promote, protect and represent the business, iconomic, social and educa- 

 tional interests of the farm^^i of Illinois and the nation, and to develot 



agriculture. 



OFFICCRS 



CHARLE> B. SHUMAN. Sullivan, President 



FLOYD E. MORRIS 

 Vice-President 



PAUL E. MATHIAS 



Secretary 



ARTHUR F. SCHUCK 

 Treasurer 



GEORGE E. METZGER 

 Field Secretary 



CLARENCE C. CHAPELLE 



Comptroller 



DONALD KIRKPATRICK 

 General Counsel 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



Lyman Bunting. Ellery ; Thomas H. Lloyd, Girard ; Lester S. Davisoa. 

 Minoiik ; Homer Curtiss, Stockton; J. King Eaton, Edwardsville; C. J. 

 Elliott, Strcator; John T. Evans. Hoopeston ; Edwin Gumm, GaUsburg: 

 Earl M. Hughes. Woodstock ; Chester McCord. Newton ; Russell V. 

 McKec, Varna ; K. T. Smith, Greenfield ; Otto Steffcy. Stronghurst ; 

 Frank L. Simpson, Farmer City ; and Albert Webb, Ewing. 



DIVISION HEADS 



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

 ing ; I. E. Parett, General Services; Paul E. Mathias, Building, Records, 

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

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



DEPARTMENT HEADS 



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

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

 C. J. Foster. Publicity; R. E. Gish, Soil Conservation Activities; Roy P. 

 Johnson, Special Services & Office of the Building ; C. E. Johnston. Gen- 

 eral Office; Donald Kirkpatrick, Legal; Ellsworth D. Lyon, Young Peo- 

 ple's Activities; Judsoh P. Mason, Dairy Marketing; Cullen B. Sweet. 

 Rural Road Improvement; S. F. Russell, Livestock Marketing; W. E. 

 Scheer, Personnel; John A. Lake, Safety and Public Health; and Bert 

 Vandervlict, Property Taxation. 



ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGERS 



Darrell L. Achenbach. Country Mutual Fire Company; C. H. Becker. Il- 

 linois Farm Supply Company; L. R. Downs, Producers" Seed Company; 

 Forrest C. Fairchild, Prairie Farms Creameries; Sam L. Hassell. Il- 

 linois Grain Terminals Company; Judson P. Mason, 111. Milk Producers' 

 Assn. ; R. S. McBride, Illinois rniit Growers Exchange ; Howard McWard, 

 HI. Grain Corporation ; C. F. Musser, 111. Farm Bureau Serum Assn. ; 

 J. L. Pidcock, III. Co-op Locker Service; A. E. Richardson, Country 

 Life Insurance Company; Dale Rouse, Illinois Wool Marketing Assn.; 

 C. £. Strand, Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn. ; H. W. Trautmann, 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Assn. ; and F. V, Wilcox, Country Mutual 

 Casualty Company. 



EDITORIAL STAFF 



Creston J. Foster 

 Editor 



James C. Thomson 

 Ass't. Editor 



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 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, 

 Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27. 1935. Address all com- 

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THE 



STATE 



FARM lUREAU 



PUBLICATION 



Our World 



ON A RECENT motor trip covering two-third the 

 length of our own wonderfully fertile state of 

 Illinois, we were once again impressed with the 

 size and wealth of the great Midwest. Yet this 

 route which required the greater part of a day by car 

 can be traversed by a modern plane 

 in less than an hour. Breakfast in 

 New York and supper in Los An- 

 geles is a practical reality. Atomic 

 bombs manufactured in America 

 could be carried non-stop to be 

 dumped on Moscow — and vice 

 versa! The childish description "as 

 big as the world" is no longer very 

 impressive. Our world which most 

 of us grew up to consider so huge 

 has been dwarfed by modern trans- 

 portation. 



Cfcarlaa 1. Shornan 



WHAT DOES this startling change in size and dis- 

 tance mean to us in the corn belt? Can we con- 

 tinue to isolate ourselves and our thinking from 

 even the most remote corners of the globe? The easy 

 method of ignoring the problems of the rest of the 

 world can no longer succeed if we are realistic. 



ILLINOIS farmers are proud of the standard of 

 living which they and their neighbors have attained. 

 Nowhere in the world do the opportunities and 

 living conditions in agriculture compare so favorably 

 with other groups in the nation as they do in .America. 

 Some of us were vividly reminded of this fact recently 

 when we acted as host to a group of visiting agricul- 

 tural leaders from 24 foreign nations. A farmer from 

 central Europe made this brief but vital comparison in 

 explaining the differences in agricultural progress: 

 "You have built a strong farm organization dedicated 

 to equality for agriculture and based upon the prin- 

 ciple of self help while we in Europe have placed our 

 sole .dependence upon government political charity." 



NOTHER significant comment of our foreign visi- 

 tors was that if we in America desire peace rather 

 m than war, and if we expect to maintain this high 

 standard of living, then we must help the other peoples 

 of the world to improve their conditions. Not pri- 

 marily by gifts of money and material things, but by 

 assistance in educational programs, improvement in 

 government, the development of independent organi- 

 zations, and by the sharing of technical knowledge. 



OUR WORLD is too small for us to pin our hopes' 

 for peace entirely upon isolation. It is essential 

 that we as Midwestern farmers learn to think of 

 foreign nations as neighbors somewhat as our ancestor? 

 welcomed a new family to the community, .\fter all. 

 the community of nations is today no farther apart, as 

 measured by traveling time, than were the scattered 

 settlers of a pioneer Illinois community 100 years ago. 



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President, Illinois Agricultural Association 



SEPTEMBER, 1949 



