Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-21
FARMERS WARNED
Of new sW|MDLE
MAN 10 ADVERTISING THAT Hs
WILL ORGANIZE FARM LOAN
AssoclATiohs FOR $500.
SMALL TOWNS MAKE RECORD
Ahead Of Cities In Buying the Smile.
age Bosks-Amsrican Soldiers Lost
On Tuseania' Protected by Govern.
laent Insurance..

age Bosks-Amsriean Soldiers Lost
On Tuseania Protected by Govern.
nssnt Insurance.
Washington. - Another scheme fol
swindlinE the farmers Of the United
States has been discovered by the fed.
sHA farm loan board. A man adver
Using himself as an authorized organ.
ixer of national farm-loan associations
IL sending out advertising matter EN-.
blazonsd with the national flag, stat-
iag that he will organize such associa.
tions at $500 each. and will teach 9TH
ers the trick for certain sum Of
money. His advertisements have
reached farmers and business men
over large part of the United States.
He claims to be so busy organizing
national farn-loan associations that
he needs help, but will take time to
teach others for monetary considera.
tion.
All such representations are fraudu-
lent. In order to borrow under the
AaA AAA~hV0M dSLt IL Ia uCCCSSuly 1OE
farmers to organize cooperative ma.
t1Onal farm-loan associations in their
local communities. It is violation Of
Z ruling Of the federal farm loan
board, published more than year ago,
for national farm-loan association
or joint-stock land bank to spend
any money for promotion purposes,
Associations thus organized VIII not
be chartered by the federal farm loan
board. Farmers are warned therefore
against anyone asking a fee for his
pro6ered services in connection with
apDlytns for & loan under the federal
1acm-loan act.
Results Of the smileage campaign
which put books Of theater admis.
siOn coupons on sale in nearly every
tewa and city In the country, show the
small towns and villages far ahead OF
the cities Ia overselling their proper
tioaats quotas Of books.
Pil0t Rock, Ore, was the first town
II the country to send In check. Lau
rsas. Iswa, town Of 900 population
took in 500 before the first smileage
book was received. Titouka. Iowa
with 200 population. bought $63 worth
c6 books. the largest sale in proportion
70 population yet returned.
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 t.
Is cents, or from two to five smileage
coupons.
| Any American soldiers lost on the
torpedoed transport were protected b,
United States government insurance
and government compensation. Those
who hac not applied for insurance
were covered by automatic insurance
which is payable to a wife, child o.
widowed mother. The automatic in
surance Aggregates about $4,000, net
| ting &25 month for 24O months. In
{ surance that had been applied for l!
i payable to much larger class Of ben
! enciaries and can go as high us $40,
COO, netting $3.50 month for 24
months.
The compensation in case of death
given BY the government withou
charge and regardless of rank or pay
ranges from $50 to $15 month, buset
| on the number of dependents. Pay
lnents under the compensation featur,
of the military and naval insurance nc
| In case Of death are payable to /,
widow. children. or dependent wild
owed mstAas
- ayHaatic insurance ceased OF
Fsbruary II, but the compensation
feature of the act is separate pro
vision. The scale of compensation il
case of death follows:
(a) For u widow alone. SO.
(b) For IL widow and one child. S35
(c) For widow and two children
\ $3.50, with IS for each additiona
child up TO two.
| one child. $40.
(e) For two children. $40.
(f) For three children. $40 With s.
A for each addilisnal child up to two.
fg) For widowed mother $40. Tn
amount payable under this subdivision
shall not he greater than u sum whicl
when added to the total amount pay
able to the widow and children, doe
not exceed $75.
I To meet the shortage OF small silve
change in Norway large issue of one
crown notes Cat normal exchange tn
Norwegian crown is worth 26.S cent
United States currency has been pu
in circula00n.
The UAted States publis healt
3,,service is carrying on campaig
along sanitary lines in areas adjacen
to 20 military camps. Complete SAN
tsry organizations work to proven
the spread of disease from the civilian
population to military forces, and t
Dg0tect civilians from communicate
diseases where they have occurre
ameng troops.
The organiza ttons include phys
clans, sanitary engineers, nurses, al
tendants and laborers. Methods VI
! lertakeA aDelude Inspection Of all e,
1abttsAuShtS handling food supplies.
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