The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-02-28
FARMERS WARNED
OF NEW SN|NDLE
MAN ADVERTISING HE. WILL OR.
CAME FARM LOANS.
SMALL TOWNS MAKE RECORD
Ahead Of Cities in Buying the Smile.
age 5ooks-American Soldiers
Lost on Tuseania Protected
by Govt Insurance.

Washington. Another scheme for
swindling the farmers of the United
States has been discovered by the fed
leral farm loan board. A man adver-
Using himself as an authorized organ.
izer OF national farm-loan associations
is sending out advertising matter EN-
blazoned with the national flag, stat
ing that he will organize such .associa-
tons at $500 each, and will teach 9TH
ers the trick for certain sum of
money. His advertisements have
reached farmers and business mon
over alarge part of the United States.
He claims to be so busy organizing
national farm-loan associations that
he needs help, but will take time to
teach others for monetary considera-
ton.
All such representations are fraudu-
lent. In order to borrow under the
farm-loan act, 1t Is necessary for
farmers to organize cooperative ma
tional farm-loan associations in their
local communities. 1t is violation Of
a ruling of the federal farm loan
board, published more than year ago,
for national farm-loan association
or a joint-stock land bank to spend
any money for promotion purposes.
Associations thus organized will not
he chartered by the federal farm loan
board. Farmers are warned therefore
against anyone asking fee for his
lproffered services in connection with
applying for loan under the federal
.farm-loan act.
Results Of the smileage campaign,
which put books Of thester admis-
sion coupons on sale In nearly every
town and city in the country, show the
small towns and villages far ahead Of
the cities In overseeing their proper
Itionate quotas of books.
Pilot Rock, Ore. was the first town
In the country to send in check I4au-
lrsns, Iowa, town of 900 population
took In $100 before the first smileage
book was received. Titouka. Iowa,
with 400 population, bought $68 worth
of books, the largest sale in proportion
70 pOpulaLlOn YET returned. .s
The coupons In smileage books are
Exchanged by the soldiers for admis-
sion to entertainments In theaters
built in the camps by the commission
on training camp activities. Admis-
sion charges range from 10 cents to
L26 cents, or from two to five smileage
coupons,
b
y Any American soldiers lost on the
itorpedoed transport were protected by
United States government insurance
and government compensation. Those
who had not applied for Insurance
were covered by automatic insurance,
(which IS payable to wife, child or
Widowed mother. The automatic in
surance aggregates about $4,000, net
ting $25 a month for 240 months. In
suran, that had been applied for Is
payable 20 a much larger class Of ben
efciaries nd can go as high as $10.-
600, netting $3.50 a month for 20
mouths, . .
} The compensation in case of death,
given by the government without
Charge and regardless of rank or pay,
ranges from $40 to $75 month, based ?
on the number Of dependents. Pay
ments under the compensation feature
of the military and naval insurance act
In case OF death are payable to a
widow, children, or dependent Wild
pwed mother. .s.
1 The automatic insurance ceased on
February II. but the compensation
feature of the act is a separate pro
vision. The scale of compensation in
case Of death follows:
(a) For a widow alone, S25.
(b) For a widow and one child, s35.
| (c) For a widow and two children,
s47.5O, with So for each additional
child up TO two. =
Cd If there be no widow, then for
one child, $50.
(e) For two children, $50. II
(f) For three children, $40, with IS
for each additional child up to two
+ (g) For widowed mother, $50. The
amount payable under this subdivision
shall not be greater than sam which
when added to the total amount pay
able to the widow and children, does
not exceed $50.
To meet the shortage OF small silver
change in Norway large issue of one
crown notes Cat normal exchange the
Norwegian crown Is, worth 26.S cents,
United States cniTency) has been put
in circulation.
/ The United States publis health |
service is carrying on a campaign
along sanitary lines In areas adjacent !.
to 2S military camps. Complete sani- /
tary organizations work TO prevent
the spread OF disease from the civilian /
population to military forces, and to
protect civilians from communicable |
diseases where they have occurred
among troops.
The organizations include physi-
clans, sanitary engineers, nurses, at- /
PENDANTS and laborels. Methods I'M
dertaken include Inspection of MI ~
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