Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



November, 19 il 



Country Life Jubilee Saturday Night, Dec. 12 



Farm Bureau Safety ^ 



Club Movement Grows 



MEMBERSHIP of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Safety Club, which to 

 ; date has units in more than 70 coun- 

 ties, is now 5,537, according to V. Van- 

 iman. The total is expected to reach 

 15,000 before the campaign closes Jan- 

 uary 1 . Farm Bureaus are now distrib- 

 uting the 3 5,000 emblems sent out by 

 the I. A. A. and signing up members. 



Cook county has worked out a unique 

 plan for its campaign. Men have been 

 selected in every township and each 

 given 25 emblems and a card on which 

 there is room for 25 names. When the 

 card is filled and sent in, showing that 

 the emblems have been placed on wind- 

 shields, the appointee's job is completed. 



Edwards county worked out a plan 

 in which the insurance men and oil 

 truck drivers engaged in a contest to 

 see who could secure the most members 

 for the club. Mercer county is using the 

 same idea. 



Champaign county showed safety 

 films, conducted poster contests among 

 school children, and has arranged to 

 have local units work out their own 

 plans for signing up members. Pulaski- 

 Alexander counties expect to take up 

 the matter in a ^ series of community 

 meetings the latter part of November. 

 Jersey county has already discussed the 

 campaign in community meetings. 



Hancock county is considering the 

 installation of brake and mechanical 

 testing equipment. Group meetings are 

 also planned to take up the subject. 



Practically every county is putting 

 the idea before Farm Bureau members 

 through the medium of letters and the 

 Farm Bureau publications. 



All that is required to become a mem- 

 ber is that the car owner have the em- 

 blem of the safety club on his car. Only 

 those eligible for auto insurance in the 

 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company are eligible for membership. 

 The I. A. A. will give a silver loving 

 cup to the county conducting the best 

 campaign. 



Vermilion's Record 



To Select County Queens 

 Seek New World Record 



The Martinsville (Clark county) 

 vocational agricultural class made its 

 fifth annual trip to the Indianapolis 

 Stock Yards on October 20 under the 

 leadership of W. G. Baysinger, instruc- 

 tor. 



The 14 boys left Martinsville for a 

 cool ride at 3 A. M. on the top deck of 

 a truck owned by Ralph Jeflfers, mana- 

 ger of the Martinsville Shipping Asso- 

 ciation. 



The boys inspected the stock yards, 

 went through the packing plant of 

 Kingan & Company, and were enter- 

 tained at dinner by the Producers Com- 

 mission Association. 



The Vermilion County Livestock 

 Marketing Association recently closed 

 its first year of business with a record 

 of $400,000 in sales covering 24,000 

 head of livestock weighing 6,000,000 

 pounds. 



Livestock is shipped on Tuesdays and 

 Thursdays. Stock went to six terminal 

 markets and 14 packers. 



New Directors Chosen 



By Farm Supply Co. 



A new plan of district representation 

 on the board of directors of the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company was adopted at 

 the annual meeting in Bloomington on 

 October 14. Under the new plan the 

 state is divided into nine districts as 

 follows: northeast, northwest, east, 

 central, west, west central, southeast, 

 southwest, and south. 



After an amendment to the articles 

 of incorporation approving this change 

 was unanimously adopted by the stock- 

 holders, the directors whose terms of 

 office had not expired tendered their 

 resignations to become effective imme- 

 diately. These were as follows: A. R. 

 Wright, Geo. F. Tullock, Harry C. 

 Gehring, Grant Broster, "W. A. Dennis, 

 and E. E. Stevenson. 



The terms of office of the other two 

 directors, E. D. Lawrence and Samuel 

 Sorrells, had expired. 



This action enabled the delegates in 

 each district to caucus and nominate a 

 director. The directors elected for the 

 ensuing year were: northeast, T. J. 

 Penman; northwest, G. F. Tullock; east, 

 J. M. Iman; central, E. E. Stevenson; 

 west, F. E. Herndon; west central, F. J. 

 Flynn; southeast, H. R. Neal; south- 

 west, Samuel Sorrells; and south, Grant 

 Broster. 



ILLINOIS Farm Bureaus are looking 

 forward to the Dividend Celebra- 

 tion Jubilee on Saturday night, Decem- 

 ber 12, when county- wide receptions 

 and programs will be held all over the 

 state, announces Manager L. A. Wil- 

 liams of Country Life Insurance Co. v 

 In addition to entertainment by lo- 

 cal talent, arrangements have been 

 made for a 30-minute inspirational 

 radio program to be broadcast over sta- 

 tion WMAQ, Chicago, beginning at 

 8:00 p. m. 



One of the features of county pro- 

 grams will be beauty contests to select 

 Country Life Queens for the respective 

 counties. Last year 12 counties selected 

 Country Life Queens in similar meet- 

 ings. 



V. Vaniman, director of insurance 

 service for the I. A. A., expects at least 

 65 counties to hold beauty contests 

 December 12. Winners of county con- 

 tests will be eligible for the state con- 

 test which is expected to be held at the 

 State Fair in 1932. Miss Frances John- 

 ston of Lawrence county is the present 

 Country Life Queen, having been chosen 

 last August in the state contest. 



Judges in these contests will consider 

 poise, grace, dignity, style, intelligence, 

 and personality. Since the selection of 

 the- Country Life Queen of Illinois at 

 the State Fair, a new* meaning of a 

 "beauty contest" has taken hold of 

 Farm Bureau people, Vaniman said. 



The Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany has just announced a campaign 

 to be carried on between now and the 

 end of the year to top the list of com- 

 panies in millions of business gained 

 1931. The company already has 



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several world's records to its credit. 



The state championship boys dairy judging 

 team from JoDaviess county placed seventh 

 among 24 at the National Dairy Show last 

 month. ... 



Farm Land Policy to 



Be Discussed in Chicago 



Agricultural land utilization will be 

 discussed in a three-day conference 

 called by Secretary of Agriculture Ar- 

 thur M. Hyde for November 19 to 21 

 at Chicago. Representatives of agri- 

 cultural organizations and land grant 

 colleges will consider the development 

 of a national poHcy on land utilization. 



Sub-marginal land, tax delinquency, 

 farm abandonment, mortgage indebted- 

 ness, foreclosed farm lands and other 

 immediate problems will be discussed. 

 Secretary Hyde announced. 



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