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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



January, 1933 



At The Livingston County Farm Bureau Jubilee In Pontine, Dec. 10 



Beauty Contests Attract Large 

 - S § V Numbers To County Jubilees 



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NEARLY 50,000 people turned out 

 for the Farm Bureau-Country 

 Life Jubilee meetings in at least 55 

 counties on Saturday night, Dec. 10 

 when winners of local beauty con- 

 tests were chosen. It is estimated 

 that approximately 850 girls, all 

 daughters of Farm Bureau members 

 or Country Life policyholders, took 

 part in the contest. 



The Jubilee meetings climaxed a 

 10-day drive for new business by 

 Country Life agents. More than a 

 million and three-fourths dollars of 

 insurance for the month was re- 

 ported over the radio that night by 

 Manager L. A. Williams in the half- 

 hour broadcast from WLS. By Dec. 

 19 this total had climbed to $2,100,- 

 000. 



The beauty contest winners will 

 compete in the state contest to be 

 held either at the Illinois State Fair 

 next summer or at the Century of 

 Progress Exposition in Chicago. 



■ ' Radio Program 



. During the half-hour radio pro- 

 gram talks were made by President 

 Earl C. Smith, Manager L. A. Wil- 

 liams, and V. Vaniman, director of 

 insurance service. Mr. Williams who 

 acted as announcer, discussed the 

 value of life insurance, told about 

 recent progress of the company, 

 and read telegrams and announce- 

 ments. 



President Smith reviewed the rec- 

 ord of the company in which he 

 paid tribute to the farmers of Illi- 

 nois who by their wholehearted 

 support made possible its progress 

 and achievements. 



The object of the beauty contest 

 as explained by Mr. Vaniman is to 

 arouse interest in the development 

 of personality, health, culture, 

 gracefulness, naturalness, charm, 

 modesty, poise, etc., in the young 

 women of rural Illinois. To be eli- 

 gible girls must be between the 

 ages of 16 and 30 and unmarried. 

 , "Although recognizing the many 

 opportunities for improving and in- 



creasing the social features of the 

 I. A. A.'s program," said Mr. Smith, 

 "the very force of conditions ad- 

 versely affecting the welfare of 

 farm people and rural interests 

 generally, have caused the program 

 to become somewhat overbalanced 

 in efforts to meet and solve our eco- 

 nomic problems. 



"We have continued throughout 

 the years, however, to actively spon- 

 sor and support 4-H club activities 

 for both boys and girls, vocational 

 training for older boys and young 

 men, and in recent years have en- 

 couraged the setting apart of at 

 least one evening each year to rec- 

 ognize and pay tribute to the fine 

 young womanhood of rural Illinois. 



"The first essential to grace and 

 attractiveness is good health. Health 

 is necessary to long life. If for no 

 other reason, this fact would justify 

 giving special emphasis and support 

 to this evening program in the 

 many counties." 



County Winners 



County winners of the beauty 

 contest are as follows: Bond, Clar- 

 ice Brewer; Bureau, Althea Mink- 

 ler; Carroll, Alma Williamson; Cass, 

 Alta Jokisch; Christian, Irene Em- 

 merson; Coles, Martha June White; 

 Cook, Alice Ettema; DeKalb, Hazel 

 Jandt; DeWitt, Margaret Hoge; Ed- 

 gar, Pauline Beatty; Edwards, Mary 

 Ann Shepherd; Ford, Mildred No- 

 land; Gallatin, Thelma Rodgers; 

 Greene, Mary Strang; Henderson, 

 Wilda McKeown; Henry, Maxine 

 Radue; Iroquois, Edjrthe Baylor; 

 Jackson, Bonnie Mae Allen; Jef- 

 ferson, Catherine Simmons; Jo- 

 Daviess, Doris Rife; Knox, Mary 

 Catherine Davis; LaSalle, Ruth 

 Anderson; Lake, Eleanor Van 

 Zandt; Livingston, Lucille Holla- 

 way; Lawrence, Martha Cunning- 

 ham; McDonough, Bernice Arnold; 

 McLean, Lucille Burnett; Madison, 

 Marie Schafer; Marion, Gladys Jar- 

 ren; Massac, Ruth Moller; Menard, 

 Mildred Grosboll; Mercer, Elizabeth 



Rathbun; Montgomery, Ruby Mind- 

 rup; Morgan, Marjorie Saunders; 

 Peoria, Dorothy Heinz; Pike, Gen- 

 evieve Lewis; Richland, Erma Roby; 

 Rock Island, Grace BoUman; St. 

 Clair, Elsie Schaller; Stark, Mable 

 Irene Oertley; Stephenson, Edith 

 Bear; Tazewell, Mary Louise 

 Wertsch; Washington, Erna Heg- 

 gemeier; Wayne, Juliana Crippin; 

 White, Lena Burger; Whiteside, 

 Beth Clark; Williamson, Marie 

 Wagley; Woodford, Ruth Haas. 



Country Life Insurance Co. is ex- 

 pected to finish the year with more 

 than $10,000,000 of new business 

 written with total life insurance in 

 force of more than $47,000,000 and 

 with a net gain of at least $3,000,000 

 of insurance in force since last 

 January. 



On November 30 the company had 

 a total of 28,943 policyholders who 

 carried a little more than $46,000,- 

 000 of insurance. The average policy 

 in the company is less than $2,000. 

 Premium income for 1932 was close 

 to $1,000,000, mortality under 25 

 per cent of expected, interest earn- 

 ings on investments approximately 

 four per cent without a single in- 

 vestment in default in interest or 

 principal, and a lapse ratio of un- 

 der 15 per cent. 



Assets of the company as of No- 

 vember 1, 1932 were $1,731,458.54 or 

 approximately 50 per cent greater 

 than a year ago with an increase 

 ii. surplus of $139,315.99 or about 75 

 per cent greater than that of Janu- 

 ary 1, 1932. 



Missouri Supreme Court „ 

 Upholds Income Tax 



The Missouri Supreme Court re- 

 cently upheld the constitutionality 

 of a state income tax law including 

 a 1931 amendment which substituted 

 an increased, graduated schedule of 

 individual tax rates varying from 

 one to four per cent of net income, 

 for the former flat tax rate of one 

 per cent.^ 



This rulmg was the first by the 

 Supreme Court on the new Missouri 

 income tax law which became ef- 

 fective September 14, 1931. Missouri 

 has a revenue clause in its state 

 constitution very similar to that in 

 Illinois. 



Judge Ragland stated that the 

 legislature was empowered to clas- 

 sify the subjects of income taxation 

 and that a tax which was uniform 

 upon all subjects in the same class, 

 even though not uniform as be- 

 tween the different classes, did not 

 violate the uniformity provisions of 

 the constitution, if the classifica- 

 tions were reasonable. 



The basic principle underlying all 

 such classificaltions is the ability of 

 the taxpaye/ to pay. He held the 

 classifications provided by the 

 amendment were not discrimi- 

 natory. : -u:-^ ■ ...• .,:... ,/-.- , ; ■..;-.--.■-. : 



