Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 22 Sep 1927, p. 24

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* To OQccupy Largest Building In â€" _ IN WORLD, CHICAGO Coburn Whitmore, for many years a leader of the good roads moveâ€" ment, inventor of improvements on farm tractors and a writer of interâ€" national authority on agricultural subjects, has been elected president; H. J. McClurg of Chicago, secretary, and William R. Herriott of Chicago, treasurer. The board of governors and advisory committee include naâ€" tionally known agricultural ,readers, manufacturers of farm implements and business men whose work is in the agricultural field. Among these are Dean Charles F. Curtis of Towa State college, at Ames; Charles A. Mills, national commander of the Soâ€" ciety of 40 & 8 of the American Legion; Charles V. Truax, director of the Ohio Department of Agricultural; W. R. Beall of the extension division of Purdue university; O. G. Barrett, Cook county farm adviser, and repreâ€" sentative men of 15 other states. Five Great Purposes Five great purposes underâ€"lie this project: first, to centralize and make possible a closer coâ€"operation between all existing farm organizations on matters of national or groupâ€"interâ€" est; second, to aid them by providing them a permanent home; third, to create a fund of millions of dollars with which farmers may finance great projects that will help them to meet their needs; fourth, to enable such business men as implement makâ€" ers, bankers and others dealing with farmers to understand the farmâ€"sitâ€" Organization of the largest club in the world, the Agricultural Club of America. destined to own and occupy the largest building on earth, and inâ€" tended to have a total membership of 510,500 representative farmers, was announced recently. AGRICULTURAL _ SOCIETY Box 142, Highland Park Td HP.%7% ||_â€" »iÂ¥tst0H or ® It‘s lime to RKetire _ We have built up our business with indlmpinnicamint incatininndateintatintibitst M â€" smiabiinl lul’ we apply these principles of harmony to your garden? The style of landscaping, which fits one garden will be entirely wrong for another. A scientific gardener understands this â€" and through his knowledge makes the most of every garden. May JOHN ZENGELER It‘s Time to Retire and Will Have Two Auditoriums Steffen‘s Auto Supply 522 Central Avenue, Highland Park Telephone Highland Park 350 25 North Sheridan Road _ â€" We Operate Our Own Plant in Highland Park Harmony in Gardening You can build your mileage and reduce your tire expense by using them. Cleaner and Dyer Fisk Tires Telephone H. P. 16 9 Among those whom the board of governors has decided to invite to membership are 510,000 chosen from among 2,000,000 ranch owners, farmâ€" ers, fruit growers and dairymen; 27,â€" 000 manufacturers of articles that farmers â€" use; 11,000 _ progressive stockâ€" breeders; 6,000 federal, state and local officials, and 13,000 owners of estates. The folks who claim to be the backâ€" bone of the country, are frequently only the headbone. Plan Huge Structure Architectural plans have been apâ€" proved, and financial plans are unâ€" der way, for a $35,000,000 building to house this organization. It will be owned by the clubâ€"members. It will be located within a few minutes‘ walk of the Chicago "loop." It will have a larger floorâ€"area than any other structure in the world. ‘Two of its 21 stories will be devoted to the largest stock ring and the largest auditorium in existence, where the meetings of arm organizations will be given prefâ€" erence, and other gatherings will reâ€" ceive second choice. Many Exhibits Fifteen floors will be filled with permanent exhibits of farm machinâ€" ery, dairy equipment, silos, sawmilis, canned foods and & multitude of other products of the land and products inâ€" tended for farmâ€"use. _ Breeders‘, grainâ€"growers,‘ horticultural â€" and other agricultural publications are to have offices there. One floor is to be devoted to a garage, and another to stables, for members. The structure will carry an eightâ€"story tower devotâ€" ed to the Agricultural Club of Amerâ€" Members of the board of goverâ€" nors estimate that rentals in this building will show an income of $4,â€" 000,000 a year above expenses of the club. This surplus will be put into an â€" Agricultural Foundation fund. This will be in charge of trustees elected by members of the club, and it will be used for the advancement and aid of agriculture. ica, where farmerâ€"members and their families may make their headquarters while in Chicago. uation better from diréct centact with actual farmers; finally, to make Chiâ€" cago, as its location and shipping faâ€" cilities ought to make it, the agriâ€" cultural capital of America. $ We o Nes w se s P ctrade s q . P0, 3 £, se S o e eCP o . \*W:‘irm _ Contended labor, economics of proâ€" duction, increasing credit facilities, are important factors in the continuâ€" uance of American business prosperâ€" ity, according to Alexander Dans Noyes, economist. Mr. Noyes, in his monthly article in the July Scribner‘s Magazine, states the case for prosperâ€" ity as follows: QUOTES. REASONS NOTED Contentment of Labor, Economy of Production, etc., Make for Continuance of There‘s a HYDROX agent near your home SPECIAL THIS WEEK RED RASPBE RRY HYDROX Agents pay the price of quality and purity in order to protect you. Certainly when a dealer is protecting you he is worthy of the reward of your patronage. HOW long would you patronâ€" ize a druggist who shopped for a bargain price on drugs with which to fill a prescription for your health? Yet many dealers in ice creamâ€"one of the greatest health foods knownâ€"brag about the fact that they can sell any grade of ice cream that they care to buy. | | j H city to buy, the lower prices have inâ€" creased the willingness to purchase, md_thg-rfhmdmh . "To the suggestion of an overstrain on credit, the familiar answer is that none of the nreli'fi-ry indications of a condition of kind h&.u any time come into view during the period of high prosperity. But it is further pointed out, first that the absence in general industry both of rising prices primarily from wellâ€" Nfl.ndm“.fihu. self a consequence of large and highly organized production. Economies in the production process have made mfibh“fio‘:‘nnmm ments mhm and sustained industrial profits. The hichcr\ncn‘h!l-hu_ultpu!.. maintained. "In the field of manufacture the £10NaL » and of sperviative : Accumulstitn | of z Gold Reserve ~ _ © _ m.m..wwa.un‘fmal ties for credit have been inâ€"| credit institutions by paying out gold creasing faster than the aggregate|certificates from its own reserve on e P ket;â€" yet the ::.:-u- vailable of capital $â€" reserve m?n!:rohe&:‘b.:brhd:"“flhuu’* s the potential lendâ€" dustrial activity; foreign capital in | li#ations measures mmhmm”"""’*ww"z‘g into the United Stutes. The gold basis | res°rv? onlY slightly under of the country‘s eredit structure is their history and double the far greater than is necessary to sup. *BO9Nt required by law to be held Mmmm_hmwmmub Import of fonipl-ldh-hb.-- posits. scale this year exceeded or two corresponding )lflo:‘,l: Jumpy Like the war; the estimated total stock of| "I simply can‘t stand the toot of a gold in the United States reached in | motorâ€"horn." April the latgest recorded figure; it] "Why not?!" had increased $212,000,000 in a year,| "Some guy ran away with my wife $618,000,000 since the same date in|in a car and everytime I hear a horn 1923, and $1,620,000,000 since 1921. I think he‘s bringing her hack." Full Quart Brick ing power, reported very a est in their history and double the amount required by law to be held against their note circulation and deâ€"

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