The sMawalh Is lammed at the close of the 

 annual fall farm Bureau Leaden' Conference 

 at the Knights of Columbus building In Spring- 

 field. 





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lAA Opposes 1-Cent Gas Tax 



FARM BUREAU LEADERS MEETING IN SPRINGFIELD EXPRESS OPPOSITION TO MOVING AFBF CHICAGO OFFICE 



There's nothing in the proposed 

 one-cent gasoline tax boost for 

 Illinois that can benefit rural 

 roads. Farm Bureau men attend- 

 ing the recent annual fall Farm 

 Bureau leaders' conference in Spring- 

 field were advised by officers of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. The 

 proposed one-cent gasoline tax collec- 

 tions would go entirely to finance the 

 primary or hard road system. 



lAA Secretary Paul Mathias pointed 

 out that if a one-cent increase in the 

 Illinois gasoline tax proposed by a 

 Chicago group is passed, there will be 

 no further increase in the tax for a 

 long time and thus no gas tax funds for 

 rural roads. 



Mathias said that the people who 

 are backing the one-cent gas tax in- 

 crease are principally the same people 

 who have opposed spending any gas tax 

 revenue on rural roads. 



"\^'e may as well face the facts." lAA 

 President Charles B. Shuman said. 

 "None of the organizations pushing the 





By JIM THOMSON 



Asst. Editor, lAA Record 



one-cent gasoline tax increase recognize 

 that rural roads are part of the state 

 road system. We had better be careful 

 or we will be traded out of our shirts 

 on this road deal." 



Mathias suggested that farmers let 

 their state legislators know how they 

 feel on the road question. He urged 

 them to back the administration's efforts 

 to curb the overloading of trucks. 



A review of the lAA Road Study 

 Committee report on the Illinois road 

 situation was presented by I. E. Parett. 

 lAA secretary of general services. 

 Parett suggested that Farm Bureau peo- 

 ple study the report carefully, parti- 

 cularly if they are voting delegates to 

 the lAA annual meeting in Chicago in 

 No\ember. He also urged voting dele- 

 gales, after reading the report, to dis- 

 cuss it with as many of their neighbors 

 as po.<sible. Thi.s. Parett said, would 



Homer C u r 1 1 s s 

 (tenter), lAA di- 

 rector for the dis- 

 trict In the north- 

 western corner of 

 Illinois discusses a 

 date for a district 

 farm Bureau meet- 

 ing with men from 

 his district. 



enable the voting delegate to bring a 

 more representative attitude of the 

 Farm Bureau people in his area to the 

 lAA annual meeting. 



Speaking on the proposed plan to 

 move the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration office from Chicago to Washing- 

 ton, President Shuman said: "Histori- 

 cally the AFBF office has been in Chi- 

 cago, in the Midwest area where more 

 than half of the membership is located. 

 Convenience of the AFBF office to the 

 lAA offices is entirely beside the point. 

 If we moved the Chicago office to 

 Washington we would lose much of our 

 prestige. 



"There is good reason for locating 

 the American Farm Bureau office in 

 the Midwest even though not necessarily 

 in Chicago." President Shuman called 

 for a show of hands favoring the pro- 

 posal to move the AFBF offices to 

 Washington. No hands went up. 



L. L. Colvis. lAA secretary of market- 

 ing, and George E. Metzger, lAA secre- 

 tary of organization and information, 

 reported on the progress of stock-selling 

 campaigns to raise money for Pro- 

 di^cers' Seed Company, the new Prairie 

 Farms Creamery at Carlyle, besides 

 other Prairie Farms Creameries, and 

 eight to 10 locker companies affiliated 

 with the Illinois Cooperative Locker 

 Service Company. 



Colvis reported that Jasper. William- 

 son, and Will counties were first to 

 oversubscribe their stock quotas in the 

 money raising campaign for the small- 

 seeds program of Producers' Seed Com- 

 pany. 



lAA Director Homer Curtiss. Jo Da- 

 viess county, president of Illinois Grain 



up. 



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