Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



June, 1932 



Insurance, 





J. B. McCann is the new head 

 of the Farm Bureau insurance 

 service in Clark county. C. W. 

 Espy is the new general agent in 

 Hancock county. He has recently 

 been with Ruhm Phosphate, but 

 prior to that he was a successful 

 special agent in White county. 



Marion Stiles of Winnebago 

 county is one of the most success- 

 ful women agents of Country 

 Life, according to L. A. Williams, 

 manager. During April she won 

 an electric clock for her high 

 standing in business written. 



Hail Insurance Coming 



In, Several Storms Reporfed 



W. T. Martindale Dies 



Following Auto Accident 



The leading counties for busi- 

 ness during the first four months 

 of 1932 are as follows: Cook $251,- 

 000; Livingston $179,500; Henry 

 $160,500; Winnebago $151,000; 

 Bond $148,000; Lake $121,500; Mc- 

 Donough $116,000; Champaign 

 $115,000; DeKalb $106,500; and 

 Effingham $98,500. 



Country Life has written an av- 

 erage of $1,000,000 a month in in- 

 surance for the first four months 

 of 1932. Its assets have increased 

 more than 25 per cent since the 

 first of the year; its surplus is in- 

 creasing every month; and its 

 mortality rate is lower than in 

 1931. 



A number of policies have al- 

 ready been issued by the Farmers 

 Mutual Reinsurance Company in- 

 suring growing crops against hail, 

 according to J. H. Kelker, man- 

 ager. 



Several hail storms have been 

 reported in Illinois within the past 

 few weeks, and farmers are being 

 urged to take out hail insurance 

 early. 



"There is nothing to be gained 

 by waiting until later in the sum- 

 mer to get this protection," he 

 said. "Crops are getting up to the 

 stage where hail can do serious 

 damage. Now is the best time to 

 insure, for delay only means an 

 unnecessary risk. This insurance 

 costs the same amount in the 

 middle of the summer as it costs 

 now. The farmer might as well 

 get the benefit of the entire sea- 

 son's protection." 



These policies are in effect from 

 the time the crop gets two joints 

 out of the ground until September 

 20 or until the crop Is harvested 

 in case this occurs before Septem- 

 ber 20. 



H. O. Henry, president of the 

 General Agents' Club, is on the 

 verge of going over the top for 

 his fourth consecutive quota, ac- 

 cording to Larry Williams. He has 

 made several times his yearly 

 quota each year since he started 

 in Effingham county in 1929. 



Know A Good Slogan? 



• Members of the 95 county Farm 

 Bureaus in Illinois are invited to 

 take part in the search being 

 conducted by Bureau Farmer this 

 month for a national Farm Bureau 

 membership slogan. 



A cash prize of $10 is offered for 

 the best slogan, $5 for the second, 

 and $1 each for the next five. 



Slogans must be original and 

 must not exceed 20 words. They 

 will be judged on originality, 

 cleverness, thought content, word- 

 ing, legibility, and neatness. They 

 must be mailed by midnight, June 

 15, to the Farm Bureau Member- 

 ship Slogan Contest. 58 East 

 Washington street, Chicago. 



Directed Organization Work For 



American Farm Bureau 



Federation 



Lawrence Farm Bureau 

 ^"^ Buys a House and Lot 



The Lawrence County Farm Bu- 

 reau office was moved from the 

 court house at Lawrenceville 

 May 11 to its new home at 1320 W. 

 Dubois street, which was pur- 

 chased recently. The house has 

 been repaired and remodeled and 

 a small warehouse placed on the 

 lot. One room of the new office 

 will be used by the Rich-Law 

 Service Company and one by the 

 insurance service department of 

 the Farm Bureau. 



The house and lot cost $1,000, 

 and the repairs and remodeling 

 about $500 or $600, according to 

 Farm Adviser H. C. Wheeler. "You 

 can see by these figures that it is 

 not very elaborate," he said, "but 

 it will serve until such a time as 

 we can afford further changes." 



The Farm Bureau office has 

 been located in the court house 

 since 1920 when the Lawrence 

 County Farm Bureau first began 



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Uncle Ab says ideas are^ikeJ^ 

 plants: once planted they rkust f' 

 be cultivated and nourished if 

 they are to hear their best fruits. 



Injuries incurred in an auto- 

 mobile accident while attending 

 to Farm Bureau business proved 

 fatal to W. T. Martindale, A. F. 

 B. F. field service director, Friday, 

 May 20. Funeral services were 

 held at Indianapolis Monday, 

 May 23. 



The accident occurred May 2, 

 while Mr. Martindale, in company 

 with Harold Nevins, Indiana Farm 

 Bureau insurance director, was 

 driving to Bloomington, 111. 



One mile west of Brownsburg, 

 Ind., a car coming towards them 

 skidded on a wet pavement as it 

 rounded a curve, directly in front 

 of the car carrying the two Farm 

 Bureau officials. 



Mr. Martindale was hurled 

 through the windshield of his car, 

 suffering a broken knee, broken 

 ribs, a broken nose, sprained 

 wrists, severe lacerations and in- 

 ternal injuries. He was removed 

 to his home in Indianapolis and 

 later taken to the Methodist hos- 

 pital in that city where death 

 occurred. 



Mr. Martindale entered the 

 employ of the A. F. B. F. April 1, 

 1931, after several years of active 

 service as organization director of 

 the Indiana Farm Bureau Feder- 

 ation. Within a month after 

 assuming his new duties, he or- 

 ganized the Arkansas Farm Bu- 

 reau and gave it the necessary 

 initial inspiration which has 

 developed it into a going concern. 

 Since then he had actively prose- 

 cuted a carefully mapped out 

 campaign for organization de- 

 velopment in other states in the 

 Middle West, the South, and the 

 East. When death called him he 

 was preparing to participate in a 

 membership drive in Vermont. 



Mr. Martindale spoke at a num- 

 ber of County Farm Bureau an- 

 nual meetings in Illinois during 

 the past year. He also addressed 

 the Organization-Publicity con- 

 ference during the last I. A. A. 

 onvention in Rockford. His en- 

 ergy, and devotion to the cause of 

 farm organization were outstand- 

 ing. His loss will be felt keenly by 

 many friends and associates. 



