THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Dr. John E. Boland 



KEEPING WELL 



By Dr. John E. Boland, Medical Direc- 

 tor, Country Life Insurance Co. 

 THE purpose of the medical department 

 of insurance companies is to pass on 

 risks. In the past we have been satisfied to 

 limit our activities to this. However, the 

 Country Life Insurance Company, in keep- 

 ing with its first 

 principle of always 

 to be of utmost 

 service to its pol- 

 icyholders, has de- 

 cided to go a step 

 farther. We are 

 planning a series of 

 educational articles 

 to be published 

 periodically. 



Our stories will 

 have to do with 

 the promotion of health and the prevention 

 of disease with an occasional one on life 

 insurance. We hope to present these to 

 our readers in a form that will be readily 

 understood, keeping away from technical 

 medical terms. 



Our aim is to aid our policyholders ja 

 attaining the highest degree of health i>«- 

 sible. This can only be brought about by 

 periodic medical examinations made by de- 

 pendable physicians. . . V^sO^>r' "^ 

 Often Careless 



A tendency of the family physician, who 

 has known his patient for years, is to make 

 light of these periodic examinations. He is 

 very apt to say, "Why, you are in perfect 

 health. I have known you from the date 

 of your birth. Why bother me, my bmi- 

 ness is to care for the sick, not for healthy 

 individuals like you." 



Unless examinations are complete and 

 thorough, they are of no value. Medical 

 experience of the benefits derived from 

 regular examinations of presumably healthy 

 individuals is suflSciently widespread that we 

 have all recognized its great value. 



We know of the material reduction in 

 infant deaths accomplished by the super- 

 vbion of the feeding and hygiene of babies 

 from birth to the age of two years. Dur- 

 ing the years prior to the entry of school 

 life, some form of medical supervision of 

 apparently healthy children is justified by 

 the number of important defects discovered. 

 Therefore, periodic examinations should be- 

 gin at the age of two years. One can not 

 estimate the number of cases of rheuma- 

 tism, heart impairments, etc., that can be 

 avoided by examination of teeth and the 

 removal of diseased tonsils in early life. 



Prevention The Thing 



In the past a person consulted a physician 

 only because of symptoms of disease that 

 demanded diagnosis and treatment. Now 

 we find people coming to physicians in in- 

 creasing numbers for an estimate of their 

 state of health and for guidance in main- 

 taining or improving it. The latter point 

 we are desirous of strongly emphasizing. 



Do not wait for specific illnesses to con- 

 sult your physician. The average adult 

 accepts certain tendencies of departure 

 from normal such as overweight, constipa- 

 tion, shortness of breath, loss of weight, 

 etc., as predetermined and beyond his con- 

 trol and has resigned himself to these con- 

 ditions. The attitude of resignation and 

 acceptance of limitations is entirely out of 

 accord with the present day demand for 

 mechanical efficiencies. ,;; ; ...v*' '. 



Auto Gets More Care 

 The comparison of the human machine 

 to an automobile is an illustration of the 

 importance of periodic examination. To 

 get the highest degree of efficiency out of 

 our automobile it must be in the best me- 

 chanical condition possible. Automobile 

 companies recognizing this fact advise auto- 

 mobile owners to have their cars serviced 

 at regular intervals. Practically all auto- 

 mobile owners co-operate in this respect. 

 Surely if we do this with our automobiles, 

 it seems only plausible that we should do 

 likewise with our bodies. 



One naturally believes that prevention 

 of illness should begin with children, there- 

 fore, in our larger cities this work has been 

 widely developed. While results with adults 

 will not at first be startling, any one who 

 has had his defects pointed out and recom- 

 ^mendations made for mending his ways, 

 readily sees the great value in periodic ex- 

 aminations. See your family physician at 

 least once a year for a complete physical 

 examination. Visit your dentist at least 

 twice a year. ''/ \ 



Our aim is not only to add life to your 

 years, but to add years to your life. 



Endorse Co-op 



The Iroquois County Farm Bureau board 

 of directors in joint session with the Farm 

 Bureau grain marketing committee on Feb. 

 22 unanimously endorsed the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation. 



THE annual spring meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball LeaguKwill be held Friday, March 

 21, 1930 at l.-OX^p. m. in the Jefferson 

 hotel, Peoria. \ 1 



The directors abd rep<ysentatives of 

 counties interested in baseball were polled 

 regarding the choice for a {meeting place. 

 Ten voted in favor of Pebria, seven for 

 Bloomington, and six for Springfield. 



A third member of the state arbitration 

 committee will be chosen, baseball divisions , 

 will be rearranged for the [convenience of "-v 

 the member teams, rules *nd regulations ■ 

 governing the playing of games in 1950 \\^ 

 will be adopted, games scheduled, and other 

 business transacted. j 



An effort is being made to organize a 

 new division in northern Illinois. Lee 

 county, which played in the League last 

 year with Henry, Knox, and Stark, has in- 

 dicated its unwillingness to icontinue unless I 

 a new division can be foritied to include ', 

 neighboring counties. Jo Daviess and 

 Stephenson counties may have teams, while i 

 farm advisers in Carroll, Whiteside, Winne- ' 

 bago, and DeKalb are being asked to sound | 

 the sentiment for farm baseball in those i 

 counties. { 



LaSalle county has announced its inten- 

 tions of bringing out a team. Farm Adviser •. . ' 

 S. G. Turner of Livingston county had 25 . 

 players and fans at a recent meeting in 

 Pontiac where it was decided to proceed in 

 organizing a Farm Bureau team. 



Iroquois county has joined the League j 

 and work has started toward organizing ] 

 teams in Kankakee, Montgomery, and i 

 Macoupin counties. 



The Agricultural Situation 



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 fellow puts another one over there. That 

 waste has been taken out of the Twin 

 Cities; it has been going on for eight or 

 nine years. It is not an experiment; it 

 has been done long enough so that we know 

 it can be done. 



What are we doing about it? I don't 

 know whether this Farm Board is going to 

 solve this problem, gentlemen. I hope some- 

 body solves che problem because, as I in- 

 timated a moment ago, if this board or 

 some other agency doesn't make real prog- 

 ress towards its solution you are going to 

 face it again and in a more drastic form. 



We are trying to bring together these 

 commodity groups for centralized action; 

 trying to get for farmers a better regula- 

 tion, a more orderly marketing of their 

 product, and cut out this fifty and sixty 

 per cent fluctuation up and down in the 



price, from day to day, fn>m month to 

 month, if we can. We hope that we are 

 going to make some progress along that 

 line. It looks encouraging at the moment. 

 Something is being done. 



There is one thing you can rest assured 

 of — the American farmer is never going to 

 become a peasant or a serf. Don't complain 

 because he has a farm bloc. Don't criticize 

 because he tries to obtain through the ballot 

 that which a few centuries ago people ob- 

 tained with a bullet. Balloting is the bet- 

 ter method. Give him credit for going at 

 it in the right way. Give him your en- 

 couragement, give him your support, your 

 help. You are all interested' — you are in- 

 terested from the standpoint of citizens, 

 you are interested from the standpoint of 

 the future, of the government itself, as to- 

 whether he ii going to survive and continue 

 along sound, economic, sane likes or whether 

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