Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



August. 1932 



Itisurangg 



By L. A. Williams 



Country Life Insurance Company 

 policyholders are delighted with the 

 information recently sent out that 

 the Company's position is perhaps 

 as strong as the strongest in the 

 United States. Country Life could 

 cash its securities overnight and 

 take only approximately an 8% 

 shrink on all of its investments. Its 

 position of strength is one which 

 eliminates worry on the part of the 

 policyholder as to safety of funds 

 invested with the Company. 



Country Life's mortality for the 

 first six months was about four- 

 teen points better than the mor- 

 tality of six months ago. In other 

 words, our mortality for 1931 was 

 35% of the expected, and for the 

 first six months of 1932 was 21.4%. 

 The Company's interest earned for 

 the first six months is 4% com- 

 pared with 4.1% a year ago. Coun- 

 try Life does not have one security 

 in default. Country Life has never 

 had a month that it hasn't made a 

 gain since it began business. 



The Company recently brought 

 out a new policy called the Term to 

 65, to enable those who are in strait- 

 ened circumstances and could not 

 otherwise afford to carry life in- 

 surance, to get under the protect- 

 ing wing of legal reserve life in- 

 surance. This policy sells, at age 

 35, for $13.39 a thousand, and pays 

 annual dividends beginning at the 

 end of the second year. It is sold 

 only to people aged 20 to 50 years. 



Standard lines of life insurance 

 policies sold by the Company pro- 

 vide protection from the time a 

 child is born, and insure people 

 even as old as age 65. The Com- 

 pany has paid its dividends regu- 

 larly to policyholders, and has paid 

 out already more in dividends than 

 the capital stock of the Company, 

 and the Company is still only three 

 and one-half years of age. 



Country Life policyholders do not 

 lapse their policies. They have 

 found that the Company's prompt 

 payment of death claims means 

 more to their beneficiaries than the 

 small amount of satisfaction they 

 would get by having the immediate 

 use of a few dollars at the expense 

 of a lapsed policy. If it is hard for 

 the head of a family to get along 

 now, it certainly wouldn't be any 

 easier for his wife and dependents 

 to get along if he were gone, un- 

 less he provided life insurance. 



American people in general are 

 proud of legal reserve life insurance, 

 and the remarkable way that it has 

 guaranteed security to its policy- 

 holders. Millions of dollars have 

 been loaned to policyholders, mil- 

 lions have been paid out in death 

 claims, millions have been paid out 

 in matured policies. And, so sat- 

 isfied are policyholders all over 

 America that I am sure the 

 next ten years will see a tremen- 

 dous increase in estates created by 

 life insurance over and above even 

 the balmiest days prior to 1928 and 

 1929. 



Ford County Adds 97 



Farm Bureau Members 



The great lesson that has been 

 taught the American people in se- 

 curity and soundness of their in- 

 vestments in life insurance will 

 continue to bear fruit. Mothers will 

 start their children while their age 

 rate is low. Boys and girls will start 

 20 year policies as soon as they have 

 any money to lay aside. Married 

 couples will start housekeeping with 

 $10,000 life insurance contracts in- 

 stead of $1,000 or $2,000 which used 

 to be the vogue. People will rely on 

 $100,000 and $1,000,000 life in- 

 surance estates for posterity rather 

 than lay aside bonds and stocks 

 which fluctuate in value. 



Country Life's low cost puts it in 

 the running as a superior Com- 

 pany, and a preferred Company for 

 the most careful buyer to consider. 

 We insist that price is important. 

 We insist that there are two things 

 for the buyer to consider, quality 

 and price. And we of Country Life 

 are very happy to have applicants 

 investigate and compare quality 

 and price before buying. The tre- 

 mendous records of the Coinpany 

 have been built because of dis- 

 criminating and appreciative pur- 

 chasers. 



The movement of livestock by 

 truck to the Chicago market is con- 

 tinuing to show a sharp increase, 

 reports the Chicago Producers. Dur- 

 ing the month of June the equiv- 

 alent of 2,540 carloads arrived by 

 truck as compared with 1,507 for 

 the same month a year ago. This 

 represents 20 per cent of the cattle, 

 20 per cent of the hogs, 19 per cent 

 of the calves, and 6.7 per cent of 

 the sheep. 



A warning to livestock growers 

 against overproduction of hogs be- 

 cause of the heavy impending corn 

 crop was issued recently by the Na- 

 tional Live Stock Marketing As- 

 sociation. 



A. B. SCHOFIELD 



33 Minute Men Active, Five of 

 Whom Sign 10 Or More 



IN A letter to Farm Bureau Unit 

 Directors, expressing his apprecia- 

 tion of their assistance in the re- 

 cent Fourth of July Celebration and 

 Dedication, A. B. Schofield, Presi- 

 dent of the Ford County Farm Bu- 

 reau, made the 

 following state- 

 ment, "No or- 

 ganization can 

 be stronger than 

 the morale of its 

 member ship. 

 The hard work 

 done by yourself, 

 and your unit 

 committees, has 

 been one of the 

 biggest contri- 

 butions to the 

 success of this 

 drive. I feel that 

 its greatest result will be in local 

 communities like your own where 

 this demonstration of loyalty and 

 sacrifice will raise the prestige of 

 the Farm Bureau." 



The splendid morale and devotion 

 of Farm Bureau members in Ford 

 County was conclusively shown by 

 the efforts of 33 minute men, who 

 added 97 new memberships during 

 the present drive. Five of these 

 men distinguished themselves by 

 adding ten or more members each. 

 They were, R. P. Cothern, A. B. 

 Schofield, Severt Hill, Joe Meis, and 

 Walter Carlson. 



The success of this membership 

 drive follows like successes in three 

 other drives during the past two 

 and one-half years, during each of 

 which substantial increases in 

 membership have been made, giv- 

 ing a total net increase during that 

 period of 307, after deducting losses 

 from death, removal, and other can- 

 cellations. Officials of the organiza- 

 tion point out that each and every 

 month during that period has 

 show a net increase in members. 



"The Farm Bureau Units have 

 been of great assistance in the 

 growth of our organization," said 

 Mr. Schofield. "They have been an 

 ideal means of contact with the 

 membership; they have assisted 

 members to become acquainted 

 with their organization, the Farm 

 Adviser, and with each other; the 

 programs presented have been of 

 great educational value; they have 

 furnished an opportunity for the 

 clearing up of misunderstandings, 

 and for the destruction of effects 

 of insidious propaganda; finally 

 they have contributed socially, 

 young and old deriving much pleas- 

 ure from an evening spent to- 

 gether." 



