WHAT CO-OPS ARE DOING
Calkins, Gilman
What Co-ops Are Doing Timely Events in the Co-operative Move-menl By GI I.MAN CALKINS COLl'MBUS. O.—The co-operative movement has established a new yardstick, this time on insurance rates for...
...Delaware, Dlst...
...Sponsors of the Farm Bureau insurance companies outside of Ohio are the Eastern Co-operative Wholesale, New York City: Di.it...
...for Adult Education, and Asst...
...to include industrial (monthly plan) insurance at considerable savings under present, prevailing rates for such insurance, health and hospitalization insurance, and development of an auto financing: service to provide new savings in this field for policy holders of the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co...
...While most of the conference will be devoted to educational problems, persons in affiliated fields are invited to attend...
...The Second Annual Southeastern Conference on Adult Education and Co-operation will convene at the Piedmont hotel, Atlanta, to discuss a program of co-operative and adult education devoled to the ideal of "educating people to help themselves...
...The Co-operative League of the U.S.A...
...N. C: Maryland Farm Bureau, Baltimore...
...of Columbia...
...Out of accumulated reserves, members set up the Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Co...
...It was founded in 1926 by a small group of Ohio farmers, for which they used $10,000 of their Farm Bureau membership funds...
...They must spend or the nation will Rink In the bog of unemployment, yet they must stop spending or be thrown out ot power...
...Anthony Lehner, education director, Penna...
...A regional conference on consumer education will be held on the campus of George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville...
...Shewing what co-operation can do, Mr...
...Policy holders who are at the same time owners of the Farm Bureau auto, fire and life insurance companies now number more than 348.000...
...Farm Bureau cooperatives: E. R. Bowen, general secretary...
...residing in nine states and the District of Columbia...
...Farm Bureau Co-op Ass'n . Hnrrisburg...
...Assets at the close of the last year for the three companies totaled $10,-391.142...
...now has 294,000 policyholders and is the fifth largest company of its kind in the nation...
...Representatives from 10 southern states are expected to attend...
...Lincoln said that farmers are now getting an index of 101 for the things they sell...
...O.—The co-operative movement has established a new yardstick, this time on insurance rates for school buses, executives of the Farm Bureau cooperative insurance services reported to more than a thousand policy holders and service agents of the insurance co-operatives who met here for the annual meetings of the insurance co-operatives...
...Flynn declared...
...Among the speakers will be Director Will Alexander of the Farm Security administration, James Creese of the American Assn...
...Burlington...
...The Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co...
...A special dinner meeting will be addressed by Donald Montgomery, consumers' counsel of the AAA...
...John T. Flynn...
...A dictatorship," he declared, "is a country where people had democracy but didn't use it...
...announced...
...Wallace J. Campbell o the Co-operative League...
...Penna...
...The failure lo do (his can have only One result...
...Among the other speakers on the program were Louis H. Pink, superintendent of insurance for the state of New York...
...Those who are in power face a dilemma, Mr...
...Farm Bureau Co-op Ass'n, Harrisburg: and the Vermont State Farm Bureau...
...He cited the shackles which Indus-has put on Ifelf by monopolistic practices and declared: "What we have got to do Is In free enterprise from enterprise llielf . . The sooner we start, the better off we are going to be...
...an advance of 18 per cent over the total for 1938...
...Yet if they could buy everything they use at the same relative price as insurance, fertilizer, feed, gasoline and interest rates—fields of action in which the co-operatives are already strong enough to act as a price yard stick—there would be no farm problem...
...of Columbia Cooperative League: Farmers Co-op Exchange...
...We have got to do more and do it fast if we as a nation are to avert some terrible social, political and economic catastrophes which I know are on the way...
...Farm Bureau Co-operative Auto and Life Insurance are now provided for both farm and city policyholders in Vermont, New York, Maryland...
...Arrangements have been completed to extend co-operative fire insurance on property to West Virginia and Pennsylvania...
...and bought the life insurance company which is now known as the Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co...
...Penna., West Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio...
...The insurance co-cps led the entire nation with a reduction of 30 per cent on insurance rates for school buses...
...Flynn said...
...They are building K munitions industry because they do not, know any other easy way to solve our economic problem...
...Raleigh...
...noted economist and columnist asked more than a thousand members of the Farm Bureau co-operative insurance services, meting here for their annual mer'mq...
...and numerous officers and staff members of the co-operatives...
...and the Vermont State Farm Bureau...
...Burlington...
...CO-OPERATIVE MEET IN SOUTH NEW YORK CITY — Educators, churchmen, labor, civic and co-operative leaders will meet at Atlanta May 8-11 and at Nashville May 17-18 far south-wide conferences on adult education and co-operatives, the Co-operative League of the U.S.A...
...At the end of 10'.4 years we still have 10'4 million people out of work and If we slop spending government money, lfl or 20 million people will be out of work," Mr...
...Plans are also under consideration for expansion of group insurance service by the Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co...
...The Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Co., one of the co-operative services, previously provided property fire coverages only in Ohio...
...Murray D. Lincoln, president of the Farm Bureau Life Insurance co-operative told delegates that "Democracy in business has never had the full opportunity to show what it can do...
...It will act upon the minds of the people and will make it possible for us to get into the war which is always the last stage in the cycle...
...Total earned preminms for 1939 were $6,732,400: the corresponding figure for 1938 was $5,845,300 and for 1937 It was $4,972,-500...
...But the new yardstick in insurance was only one of the accomplishments reported at the annual mcetinc...
...Virginia...
...FI.YNN ADDRESSES CO-OPS COIXMBL'S, O.—"We have had a depression for 101 i years and what have we done about It...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
