Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



AprU, 1932 



Farm Accidents Reveal 

 Need Liabili-l-y Insurance 



Skinner High Man 



Life and Auto Connpanies 

 Dedicate Policies to 'Van' 



Although the causes of farm acci- 

 dents change with the various seasons 

 of the year, there is not a month when 

 farm employees get by without injuries 

 of some kind. Thus, the employer is 

 never relieved of his liability unless he 

 is protected by insurance. 



During February an employee of a 

 Mercer county farmer was injured while 

 building a fence. He was pulling a 

 small tree with a team of horses when 

 a small branch struck his eye, punctur- 

 ing his eyeball and lid. 



In Boone county an employee was 

 seriously hurt when he was attacked by 

 a bull and badly bruised, causing blad- 

 der hemorrhage. He had just taken 

 hold of a rope fastened to a ring in the 

 bull's nose to lead him away, when the 

 animal charged. 



A St. Clair farmer and his hired man 

 were weighing cattle and in dividing 

 them one ran against the hired man, 

 knocking him down and 

 spraining his wrist. 



A farm employee in Win- 

 nebago county tore the liga- 

 ments on the back of his leg 

 from the knee down while 

 pushing a truck stuck in the 



mud. 



These are typical winter 

 accidents. The ones which 

 will be reported in the next 

 month or so will probably be 

 of a different nature. Spring 

 activities bring a great many 

 new risks. Outside the busy 

 harvest months, April is one 

 of the highest months in ac- 

 cidents. July, August, Sep- 

 tember and October are the 

 peak months. 



More than 1,800 members 

 have availed themselves of 

 employers' liability insurance 

 service offered by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company. 



A. N. Skinner, general insurance 

 agent in Knox county, was high man 

 in the February con- 

 test for reinstating 

 lapsed policies in 

 Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company, re- 

 ceiving as a reward 

 a set of Rogers sil- 

 verware. He rein- 

 stated 20 policies. 



Mr. Skinner was 

 a valued member of 

 the I. A. A. Board 

 of Directors from 

 1927 to 1930, dur- 

 ing which time he served on the finance 

 committee. He has been an active Farm 

 Bureau worker for many years. 



At present he is vice-president of the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 

 and dictator in his district. He has won 

 a number of prizes in Country Life 

 contests during the past year. 



A. N. Skinner 



Five district meetings for 

 Country Life agents will be 

 held during the first two 

 weeks of April, according to 

 L. A. Williams, manager. 



On April 1 a meeting will 

 be held at the Cottage Cup- 

 board, DeKalb; on April 5, 

 Pittinger Hotel, Centralia; 

 on April 6, Farm Bureau of- 

 fice, Bloomington; on April 

 8, Elks' Building, Galesburg; 

 and on April 13, Dunlap Ho- 

 tel, Jacksonville. 



Both Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany and the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 

 tual Insurance Company dedicated all 

 policies that arrived in the home offices 

 on March 31 to V. Vaniman, director 

 of insurance service, who is convalescing 

 from an abdominal operation. 



"Five years ago our old friend, 'Van', 

 was jumping hither and yon, calling on 

 telephone, driving at night, and trying 

 to cover the whole state at once to get 

 things in order so that we might start 

 the auto insurance service to Farm Bu- 

 reau members," said A. E. Richardson, 

 manager of the auto insurance com- 

 pany, in a letter to members of the 

 agency force. ., . , v 



" 'Van' has been constantly in touch 

 with the field and office since that time 

 keeping the pipe line open — as he calls 

 it. He will return to the office in the 

 near future. We want to give him a 

 real thrill by having every man who 

 represents the company, get 

 an application on his desk 

 April 1." V : 



L. A. Williams, manager 

 of Country Life, wrote to his 

 agents on March 23 as fol- 

 lows: "Pin a 'Van' picture 

 on each application that you 

 write from now until March 

 30 and mail them all so 

 they will arrive March 31. 

 If all the agents think of 

 'Van' as I think they do, 

 March 31 will be a great 

 homecoming for him." 



"HOW ABOUT IT, TYKEET" 

 Wlmmttr Herbert Stockley, Mon of Will Stockley. a member 

 •f the LaSalle County Farm Bureau executive committee. 

 Is trytng to convince hla dog "Tykee" he Mhould have a 

 CTountry Life policy. m 



If you have not been able 

 to understand how the I. A. 

 A. -Farm Bureau auto insur- 

 ance company can furnish 

 insurance at lower net cost, 

 the following incident re- 

 veals one reason: 



A Farm Bureau member 

 policyholder ran into a ditch, 

 the result being a minor me- 

 chanical break. The adjuster 

 recommended that the claim 

 be paid as in his opinion the 

 damage was caused by the car 

 going into the ditch. 



After a few days the pol- 

 icyholder returned the check 

 stating that he had talked 

 with the garage man whose 

 opinion was that the car was 

 not damaged by going into 

 the ditch but by getting out. 

 The policyholder did not feel 

 that he was entitled to the 

 check and returned it. .-v , 



