lAA Opposes 1-Cent Gas Tax 



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



THtI{L"s notluii;: in tin- propoMii 

 one-ceiit uasolinc lax lioo^t lor 

 Illinois that ran i'mcfit rural 

 roads. Farm IJiinau men attt^iul- 

 ini; llic recent annual tall Farm 

 iinri'au leaders' conference in S|>rinj.'- 

 field wfic ad\ ised liv olficers of tiic 

 lllinoi'- \t:rieultura! \-sociation. I'lic 

 |iro[io>ed one-cent tiasidirie |a\ collec- 

 lioii~ \»()uld j;o enlirelv to tinanee tlie 

 (iriniary or hard road sv-leni. 



I \ \ Secretary I'aul Malhia- (xiiiited 

 out thai ii a one-cent increase in the 

 Illinois j:asoline tax |)ro|)o-ed hv a 

 (JiicaL'o jiroup is passed, there will In' 

 no further increase in the tax for a 

 Ion;; lime and ihu- no tias lax fiuifl- for 

 rural roaits. 



Mathias said thai the |peo|de who 

 are lia<kinL' the one-cent L!a> tax in- 

 c(ia>e arc prin<i|)all\ the ~arne people 

 who lia\c o|)pose(l -peiidin'j aii\ i;a< lax 

 re\enue oti rural roads. 



"We may as well laci' the facts." IA\ 



President ♦.harle- M. >liutnati said 



None ol till- or;;ani/aliori. pn~hinL' the 



By JIM THOMSON 



Asst. Editor, lAA Record 



orie-eent uasoliiu- tax mirea.-e recognize 

 that rural roads are part of the stale 

 road svslem. We had hetter he careful 

 or we will he traded out of our shirts 

 on this road deal. 



Mathias sn.L'ae-ted that farmers let 

 their <tale leui^lators know how they 

 feel on the road ipicstion. He urged 

 llicni to hack the admiiiislration's eliorls 

 to eurh the oM-rloadins of trucks. 



A review of the lAA Hoad Stud\ 

 (.onnnitlei- report on the Illinois road 

 -iluatioti was presented hy I. K. I'arett. 

 I\A secretary of L't'iieral s'erviee.s. 

 I'arett suuueslcd that larin ISureau peo- 

 |il( slucK the report carefully, parti- 

 cularK if thev are \otin;: dele^'ates to 

 the l\\ annual nieeliuu in (ihieago in 

 \o\eiidier. lie al-o nrued xoliuL' deli'- 

 i^ales. after reading the report, to dis- 

 cuss it with a~ many of their nei<;hhor> 

 a- po-~ilde. riii-. Parett said, would 



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Homer C u r f I s s 

 (tenter), lAA di- 

 rector for the dis- 

 trict in the north- 

 western corner of 

 Illinois discusses a 

 dale for a district 

 farm Bureau meet- 

 ing vifith men from 

 his district. 



enable the voting delegate to bring a 

 more re|iresentalive altitude of the 

 Farm liureau people in his area to the 

 lAA annual meeting. 



Speaking on the proposed plan lo 

 move the American Farm liureau Fed 

 eration ofTiee from Chicago lo W asliing- 

 ton. Pre.-ident Shiiman said: "Histori- 

 cally the AFBF office has been in ("hi- 

 cago. in the .Midwest area where more 

 than halt of ihr- membership is located 

 Coinenierue of the .AFIJF olTice to the 

 F\A otTices is entirely beside the point. 

 If we moved the (ihicago office to 

 W asliington we Wduld lose much of oui 

 prestige. 



"There is good reason for locating 

 the .\merican Farm Hiircau ofTicc in 

 the Midwest even though not necessarilv 

 in CJiicago." President Shuman called 

 lor a show ot hands tavoring the [iro 

 posal to move the AFKF otTice* to 

 Washington. \o hands went up. 



I.. L. Colvis. lAA secretary of market 

 inir. and George F. Melzger. lAA secre- 

 tary of organization and information, 

 reported on ihe progress of stock-selling 

 campaigns to raise money for Pro- 

 ducers" Seed Company, the new Prairie 

 Farms Oeamerv at Carlyle. besides 

 other Prairie Farms Creameries, and 

 eight to 10 locker companies afTilialed 

 with the Illinois Cooperative Locker 

 .SiTvice ("ompany. 



(Colvis reported that Jasper. William- 

 son, and Will countic'^ were lirst to 

 oversubscribe iheir sfocl^ (piotas in th«- 

 monev raising cam[)aigtf for the small- 

 seeds jiroLTam of Producers" .Seed (,'om- 

 pany. 



lAA Director Homer Curtiss. Jo Da 

 yiess county, president of Hlinois Grain 



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