August, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Thirteen 



Accident Prevention Drive 

 Scheduled for September 



43 Farm Bureaus Already Com- 

 ■■;.,■ mitted to Organize Safety 

 Clubs 



Viinininn 



ILLINOIS Farm Bureaus are again set- 

 ting a precedent by being the. first 

 Farm Bureaus in the United States to 

 put on an automobile accident preven- 

 tion campaign, states 

 V. Vaniman of the 

 insurance dept. 



Forty-three Farm 

 Bureaus have ap- 

 pointed accident pre- 

 vention committees 

 to have charge of 

 county campaigns to 

 be held during the 

 month of September. 

 The lUinois Agricul- 

 tural Association will 

 present a silver lov- 

 ing cup to the county putting on the 

 best campaign. -;/'...,■ 



Although the Illinois Agricultural 

 Mutual Insurance Company has been 

 able to keep its assessments lower than 

 competing companies on account of the 

 low number of accidents among Farm 

 Bureau members, this campaign is ex- 

 pected to reduce the number still more. 

 The company is now saving its mem- 

 bers more than $200,000 per year on 

 the cost of their auto insurance, accord- 

 ing to Vaniman. . "It pays out nearly 

 $200,000 a year for accidents. A little 

 united work on auto accident preven- 

 tion would reduce losses by at least 

 $50,000, saving this much more for the 

 members." 



The Illinois Farm Bureau Safety 

 Club has been organized to sponsor 

 safer driving. Any Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber may join and will receive an em- 

 blem for his windshield and a little 

 folder on auto accident prevention. 

 No fees are required for membership. 



Accidents to Farm 



Employees Reported 



The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

 surance Co. reports that a total of 1,749 

 employers' liability insurance policies 

 have been issued to date. Fifty appli- 

 cations were received in July. 



Recent accidents reported include: 

 Cook County — Hired man plowing 

 corn turned at end of field — reached for 

 lever on plow; lever flew up striking 

 his glasses and causing cut above eye 

 on frontal bone. 



Warren County — Riding horseback 

 rounding up hogs; horse's feet slipped 

 from under him on a slope — horse fell 

 on hired man's leg causing a length 



NOTICE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSN. 



ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



NOTICE is hereby given that in connec- 

 tion with the annual meetings of all 

 County Farm Bureaus to be held during the 

 month of September, 1931, at the hour and 

 place to be determined by the Board of 

 Directors of each respective County Farm 

 Bureau, the members in good standing of 

 such County Farm Bureau and who are also 

 qualified voting members of Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and vote on 

 all matters before the next annual meeting 

 or any special meeting of Association, in- 

 cluding the election of officers and directors 

 as provided for in the by-laws of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



During September annual meetings will be 

 held in Christian, Jefferson and Wayne 

 counties. 



Signed: -■-''■ 



G. E. Metzger, Secretary. 

 Aug. 15, 1931. 



Marshall-Putnam County 

 Hit by Severe Hailstorm 



wise fracture of the large bone between 

 the knee and ankle. 



DuPage County — Was sticking 

 hay fork into a load of hay when the 

 team on rope started; he lost his bal- 

 ance, caught hold of rope and hand 

 went into pulley; fingers bruised and 

 cut. 



DeKalb County — Hired man was 

 endeavoring to pick cherries; limb of 

 tree gave way and he fell to the ground 

 spraining his right wrist. 



McLean County — Hired man was 

 lifting a pig. He lost his balance and 

 fell striking his arm against the tin 

 window of a pig brooder house, cut- 

 ting a gash half way between wrist 

 and elbow. 



A CROP is never safe from destruc- 

 tion by hailstorm until after it is 

 harvested and under a roof, Marshall- 

 Putnam farmers learned recently. 



On July 20, when many farmers felt 

 that the worst hail threats were past, 

 a violent hailstorm swept across White- 

 field township destroying crops in a 

 strip two miles wide. At the farm of 

 Lawrence Turner near Whitefield hall, 

 the hail stones covered the ground four 

 inches deep when the storm ceased. 

 Many of them were as large as golf 

 balls. 



Soybeans in this area paid the heaviest 

 toll, which in some cases was a com- 

 plete loss. Cabbage, beans, beets and 

 rhubarb were beaten into the ground, 

 leaving nothing but the stems. Corn 

 in tassel suffered worse damage than 

 younger corn. 



Three days after the storm one 

 farmer who was not even in the main 

 path of the hail said that his corn was 

 completely ruined. Others were specu- 

 lating on the possibility of the injured 

 corn's recovery. 



More than 2,100 Illinois farmers are 

 protecting themselves against hail losses 

 by insurance with the Farmers Mutual 

 Reinsurance Company, which is owned 

 and operated by farmers. The total 

 amount of protection in force exceeds 

 $2,500,000. ^— „ _ . — 



Country Life Gains in 



'31 Business Over '30 



Lightning Hits Barn, Gets 

 $1,200 Insurance Check 



Lightning struck the cow barn of 

 Grover Sprouls of Georgetown (Ver- 

 milion county) on the afternoon of 

 July 2 resulting in a fire and the com- 

 plete destruction of the building. 

 Luckily Mr. Sprouls was a policyholder 

 in the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 



A check for $1,200 representing the 

 entire amount of the insurance was 

 mailed from the Chicago office the 

 same day proof of loss was received. 

 In a letter to Edward L. Dillon, gen- 

 eral insurance agent for the Farm Bu- 

 reau in Vermilion county, Mr. Sprouls 

 said: 



"I want to express my appreciation 

 for the prompt payment in full of the 

 $1,200 of insurance which I carried on 

 mv barn. This check was received 

 within six days after the barn was 

 burned. I am very pleased to recom- 

 mend this insurance, which I secured 

 through the agency of the Vermilion 

 County Farm Bureau in the Farmers 

 Mutual Reinsurance Company." 



LEGAL reserve life insurance in 

 force in the United States now 

 totals $115,000,000,000, according to 

 L. A. Williams, manager, Country Life 

 Insurance Co. 



This is twice the value of all farm 

 lands in America, three times the value 

 of all the homes, six times the total 

 value of all the automobiles in use, and 

 almost one-third the value of all the 

 tangible property in the United States. 



"It represents nearly $1,000 per per- 

 son, , an average of more than $3,000 per 

 family, including all races and classes. 

 For families of the middle class, which 

 would include most of the policy hold- 

 ers in the Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany, the average is much higher than 

 this," says Mr. Williams. 



Country Life already has $43,000,- 

 000 in life insurance in force. While 

 the total amount of life insurance writ- 

 ten in the United States during the first 

 half of 1931 shows a decline of 12.3 

 per cent as compared with the same 

 period last year, the business of Coun- 

 try Life shows an increase. 



