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next year he was graduated from the 

 Anny Medical School at Washington, D. 

 C; in 1930 from the Medical Field Serv- 

 ice School at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and 

 in 1931 from the School of Aviation 

 Medicine at Randolph Field, Tex., qual- 

 ifying as a flight surgeon. 



Since going overseas. General Maxwell 

 has had charge of a number of hospitals 

 in the fighting zone and base hospitals on 

 the South Pacific Islands. 



According to the Sparta News Plain- 

 dealer, General Maxwell is the first native 

 son to reach the rank of general, although 

 Brig. Gen. Harry J. G)llins, now in 

 charge of the Rainbow Division at Camp 

 Gruber, Okla., gives his home address as 

 Sparta, having lived there for several 

 years before entering the Army at the 

 start of World War I. 



Myers Succeeds Whitman 

 As Adams Connty Adviser 



Sterling Myers, of the Adams Soil 

 Conservation District, and a graduate of 

 the U. of I. College of Agriculture in 

 1931, has been hired as farm adviser in 

 Adams county. He succeeds George 



B. Whitman who is now employed with 

 the Illinois Chain Store Council. 



The new farm adviser is the son of 



C. F. Myers, who lives east of Augusta 

 in Hancock county, and who for a num- 

 ber of years has been active in promoting 

 the Augusta Live Stock Show. 



Myers has long been interested in soil 

 conservation programs supervising CCC 

 forces in such projects and more recently 

 working with the Adams district. 



HONOR AGENTS AT ROUND-UP 



EVERINGHAM HEADS CLIPPER CLUB 



WHEN the agents of the three insur- 

 ance companies of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association met at the Hotel 

 Sherman Feb. 22-23 for their annual 

 Round-Up sales conference, the meeting 

 was unexpectedly turned into a celebra- 

 tion of the outstanding record of Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company. This com- 

 pany is the Farm Bureau's life insurance 

 company and has made life insurance 

 history by attaining $200,000,000 of life 

 insurance in force in less than 15 years. 



The three companies making up the 

 lAA Insurance Service are the Farmers 

 Mutual Reinsurance Company, the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany, and Country Life. 



Recognition was given to G. O. Chen- 

 oweth, Pontiac, Livingston county; D. P. 

 Robinson, Cambridge, Henry county; 

 L. R. Welk, Peoria; and Homer Hitch- 

 cock of Rockford, Winnebago county, 

 for the outstanding service they have 

 given on the agency force of Country 

 Life. Each of these men has represented 

 the company since it started and has at- 

 tained his annual quota of new business. 

 They were presented with rings bearing 

 the company's seal. 



Pins were presented to C. R. Hays, 

 Normal, McLean county, Qifton Stoops, 

 Monmouth, Warren county, and Charles 

 Homann, Paris, Edgar county, in recog- 

 nition of ten successive years of outstand- 

 ing service. 



At the banquet held the evening of 

 Feb. 22, presidents of the two insurance 

 honor clubs, Ray Brown, Joliet, Will 

 county, and A. C. Everingham, Toledo, 

 Cumberland county, were installed. 



A drive for new life insurance business 

 had been staged during the first 21 days 

 of February prior to the meeting and the 



MARCH, 1944 ' . i - 



effort had been dedicated to Manager 

 Dave Mieher. The total production dur- 

 ing the 21-day period of the drive 



Donald Eirkpatrick and Earl C. Smith, 

 legal counsel and president, respectively, 

 oi the lAA, give a hand to A, C. Evering- 

 ham, new president of the niineis Agricul- 

 tural Mutual's Clippers' Club, a» he tries 

 on the new hat presented to him by fellow 

 agents of his district. 



J. E. Stine, Carmi, White county, welcomes 

 Roy Brown, loliet. Will county, new presi- 

 dent of Country Life's General Agents' 

 Club. 



amounted to better than $3,800,000 of 

 new business. A scroll was presented 

 to Mieher bearing the signatures of all 

 the agents participating in the drive. A 

 silver punch bowl was also presented to 

 Mieher by President Earl C. Smith on be- 

 half of the board of directors, in appreci- 

 ation of his leadership. 



Highlight of the Round-Up banquet 

 was the scholarly and thought-provcJcing 

 Washington Day address of Donald 

 Kirkpatrick, legal counsel of the lAA 

 and ABFF. Quoting from the many 

 writings of Washington and particularly 

 Washington's farewell address on leav- 

 ing office, Kirkpatrick declared, "It is 

 time that we become fundamentalists. 

 It is time for us to set our own house 

 in order. It is time to read again the 

 farewell address of Washington, Amer- 

 ica's prophet, America's seer, America's 

 oracle. 



"The question in everyone's mind is 

 what we can do to sp>eed the winning 

 of this terrible war. . . I am wondering 

 as to whether or not the reading and the 

 re-reading of the Farewell Address by 

 our elder statesmen, by the members of 

 Congress, yes, and even the Commander- 

 in-Chief himself, might not be helpful. 

 I am sure that if the advice of the ad- 

 dress were followed it would be help- 

 ful." 



On p)Ost-war adjustment Kirkpatrick 

 also recommended Washington's message. 

 "I am for a cooling off period long 

 enough to allow our elder statesmen to 

 read and follow the advice of the Fare- 

 well message and in this respect I do 

 not want you to think that I am speak- 

 ing facetiously. Some world order will 

 evolve. Some world order must evolve." 



Donald McAllister Leaves 

 To Manage Corporate Farm 



Donald G. McAllister resigned his 

 position as farm adviser at De Kalb 

 county effective March 1 to take a job 

 as farm superintendent for the Sea- 

 brook Corporation of Bridgeton, N. J., 

 who can and process the truck crops 

 from some 30,000 acres. 



McAllister has been employed in 

 De Kalb county for four years as as- 

 sistant farm adviser and farm adviser. 



Carroll Mummert, now assistant farm 

 adviser in De Kalb county, will take 

 over McAllister's work as acting farm 

 adviser. Mummert has been working 

 as assistant since last summer, com- 

 ing from Big Rock, where he taught 

 agriculture for seven years. 



Exterior paint may be slightly poorer 

 in quality after present stocks are ex- 

 hausted. The new paint will use more 

 thinner and linseed, by government 

 specification. 



