THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Fire Prevention Week 



Coming Oct. 5-llth 



SAIVGAMON WINS CI P AT STATE FAIR 

 MnnnKer A. E. RIchnrdNon of the IlliiiofK AsTrirulturnl Mutual i>i-eKentK Farm 

 Aflvixer KdtTin Bay with a nilvir trophy awarded the Farm Bureau in the eounty 

 haviuK the larjcest number of meiiiiiers and viNilors rejcixtered at the Farm Bureau 

 tent, SpriUKflpId. duriuK the State Fair. The IMS vixitorN from Sani^amon had a 

 total of 10,440 poiutK, MeI.ean waN llnd with 4,<t20, and ChrlMtian :tnl with 8,.S40. 



Rain Breaks Up 14th 



Dist. Picnic, Monmouth 



Good Crowd Hears Vice-Chairman 

 Stone at Jacksonville 



RAIN broke up the first of the many 

 Farm Bureau district picnics to 

 be held during the last <hree years when 

 a steady downpour sent thousands scur- 

 rying for their cars at the 14th district 

 picnic, Monmouth, on August 29. This 

 fact is particularly striking because of 

 the prolonged drouth this summer. 



While the morning was cloudy, long 

 before noon thousands of Farm Bureau 

 members and visitors from Rock Island, 

 Mercer, Warren, Henderson, Hancock 

 and McDonough counties had gathered 

 at Monmouth Park for the occasion. 

 The crowd promised to equal the record 

 one estimated at more than 10,000 the 

 year before. The light rain persisted 

 through the noon hour, and by 1:15 

 p. m., the time for beginning the pro- 

 gram, it was coming down steadily 

 with no sign of letting up. 



After a hasty consultation. Chairman 

 M. G. Lambert and the local committee 

 announced that the picnic would ad- 

 journ to the Armory uptown for the 

 speeches and presentation of prizes. 



Mrs. Sewell Speaks 



Close to a thousand of the picnic 

 crowd, estimated before the rain at 

 more than 5,000, went to the Armory 

 and heard Vice-Chairman James C. 

 Stone of the Federal Farm Board, and 

 Mrs. Chas. W. Sewell, home and com- 

 munity director of the American Farm 

 Bureau. .../,... . . 



Mrs. Sewell spoke on the subject, 

 "The Wom.-'n in the Case." She quoted 

 a statement by Alexander Legge, chair- 

 man of the Farm Board, to the effect 

 that the old idea was that farmers' co- 

 operatives should be of, by and for men 

 only. Now we are discovering that 

 they must be a family affair, and must 

 be human. The mothers and children 

 must make a definite contribution and 

 get a real value in turn. Co-operatives 

 are as strong and no stronger than farm 

 women help them to be. We need them 

 and call upon them to enlist. 



Among the feature events of the pic- 

 nic was a horseshoe pitching tourna- 

 ment in which Fred Burrus of Hender- 

 son county won the singles contest, 

 while M. Roberts and G. Mabry of 

 Hancock county won the doubles event. 

 Hancock, Henderson, Rock Island, Mc- 

 Donough, Warren and Mercer coun- 

 ties competed in the tournament. 



The baseball game between the War- 

 ren and Henderson county teams was 

 called off on account of rain. 



Good Crowd at Jacksonville 



A crowd estimated at 4,000 to 

 5,000 assembled at Nichols Park, Jack- 

 sonville, on August 30 for the 20th 

 district Farm Bureau picnic. The day 

 was sunshiny but sultry. 



The afternoon speaking program was 

 held in a large Chatauqua tent seating 

 approximately 2,500 to 3,000 people. 



Charles S. Black presided. Congress- 

 man Henry T. Rainey and Sam Sorrells 

 from the 21st district sat on the speak- 

 ers' platform with James C. Stone, vice- 

 chairman of the Farm Board, and Presi- 

 dent Earl C. Smith. 



At the close of Mr. Stone's address, 

 reported elsewhere in this issue, Chair- 



By V. Vaniman, Director Insurance Service 



GOV. LOUIS L. EMMERSON has 

 issued a proclamation setting aside 

 October 5-11 as Fire Prevention Week. 

 In announcing the week set aside for 

 this purpose the Governor said: "To 

 prevent fire is the personal rcsp>onsibility 

 of everyone. It should be taken seri- 

 ously. I appeal for the co-operation of 

 all citizens in the interest of avoiding 

 fires, not only during this week, but 

 at all times. I urge that mayors, fire 

 chiefs, chambers of commerce, civic or- 

 ganizations and schools lend their ef- 

 forts to a practical program of educa- 

 tion in their respective communities in 

 the interest of reducing the causes of 

 fire." 



A Few Facts 



There were 417 deaths by fire in Illi- 

 nois in 1929; projjerty losses reached 

 the huge total of an average of S2,000,- 

 OCO a month. In his seventh annual 

 report, the state fire marshall says, 

 "study of the cause of fire for many 

 years has shown clearly that 75 to 90 

 per cent of all fires are preventable." 



Following are some of the causes of 

 farm fires: Lightning, defective chim- 

 neys and flues, sparks on roof, matches 

 and smoking, spontaneous combustion, 

 gasoline and kerosene, electricity, stoves 

 and furnaces, hot ashes and coals, open 

 fires, rubbish and litter, and incinera- 

 tion. I 



Defective flues and sparks on the roof 

 are responsible for 19 per cent of the 

 farm fire losses. Due to the financial 

 situation many flues have not been re- 

 paired and also many roofs should have 

 been replaced five or ten years ago. 



Fall Fires 



There will be a heavy toll of roof 

 fires when the stoves and furnaces are 

 started this fall unless chimneys are 

 cleaned or burned out while the sh.n- 

 gles are damp. 



Thoughtful consideration of fatalities 

 and the great financial loss caused by 

 fires should cause every thinking jjcrson, 

 owning property, to make a careful 

 inspection looking forward to prevent- 

 ing fires. 



man Black called the members of the 

 Cass and Greene county Farm Bureau 

 baseball teams to the platform and 

 spoke briefly of the progress that had 

 been made in recent years in developing 

 Farm Bureau baseball in Illinois. He 

 stated that the league had grown from 

 22 county teams in 1929 to 31 com- 

 peting teams in 1930. 



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