The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-02
TARLE ora RATES.

Members pay council dues, 81 a quarter. j,
The above table refers to insurance of
$500 to $4,000. Membership fee is 81; medical
examination and supervision, 81; relief fund
certlhcate, 81; comparatively small cost
to enjoy all fraternal and social benefits.
Another laudable feature worth emphasis is
that if a member through disease or acct
dent becomes totally and permanently dis
apled ne may receive sum not 10 exceed
one-half the amount his relief fund certifi-
cate calls for. If by reason of old age (gen-
orally never under seventy-five years. dis
ability overtakeS the member one-quarter
OF the amount insured is paid him annually
until the principal has been reached, and the
member still remains an honorary member,
exempt from all dues and assessments and
participates in all the privileges of the or
der.
On Wednesday, jan ~, the Crescent
! Council will give a public meeting of in
stallatlon Of officers, at which time will be
paid to Rev. Thomas Stabler 81 9SS. Rev.
Stabler holds 50 900 certificate in the order,
on which he has paid 1,03S, this by the
terms of the equalization of the. order en-
titles him to $38 more than the face of his
certificate and that amount will be paid him.
The Venus Council, No. z, will pay during
the month of January $10S5 to William
Scott, receiving also. $85 more than the face
of his certificate calls for. Crescent Coun-
Gil, No: 3, Will pay William A. Ennis 50 80
on on % SSOO1 , certih Ate True Friend Coqncl
Charles Richart, who recently died, 81 095,
on a $1,000 certificate Each of these mem
bers having reached the age of seventy-five
years. In this city alone this order has paid
to beneficiaries of members 1919 074.50.
Embracing their entire territory, the Or
der of the Chosen Friends paid out of the
relief fund up to and including Dec. 81, 1897:
On $500 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 49, SAG H. 70
On S33 disabilities ................ Cos, POS. 90
On SO old 1S3, so
Total ......... ................s1 ST. sS7, 459 20
The business of the order amounts to ST.
| 100000 year and for the coming year just
| entered extensive preparations are being
made to make even much better showing
| than the past Arrangements being
made to put organizers in the field to ex-
| plore new territory and assist the councils
| plan they know no competition, it has
proved such a success that even their most
ardent admirers felt very much in doubt as
to 1t proving such q blessing. When first
| preached a vigorous and malicious attack
was made upon the. order when first an
nounced by them that the new system
would be placed in vogue that the courts
and newspapers aSSailed it and a large per-
centage of the membership, through hasty
passion and fright, were lost by the way
side. AS time passed all thoughtless action
| gave place to reason and investigation, and
q feeling Of security took the place of doubt.
| The order has now passed through the fire
| and is coming out purified and refined. 1t is
again upon the highway of success. Equal
| benefits for an equal cost appeals to the
| thoughtful Americans idea of business and
| fairness. At a session of the National Fra
| ternal Congress held in November 1895,
| led writer well versed in life insurance to
ALREADY it is evident that the master
| minds in the several organizations recognize
| that iily-adjuSted methods of assessments
| are numbering the orders with members
| who are not paying for the protection they
| are receiving, but whose presence is making
| more difficult the maintenance intact of the
| roll of members under the gradual increas-
| ing assessment rate, burdening alike the
| new entrant and the member of many years
standing. Fraternity and brotherhood are
| proving themselves unable to stay the ac-
ton of the law of mortality although they
are proving themselves powerful forces to
withstand the tendency toward disintegra-
ton which under similar circumstances
would play havoc with a business organiza-
tom
The following statement made by the SUI
preme treasurer gives a lucid account of the
beneficial results already attained since the
inception of the equalization plan.
EQUALIZATION
ASSESSMENTS.
Under the. equalization plan adopted at
our 1885 session, we have received from Oct.
/, 1895, to June go 1897 $2SS. 391. OF 10 make
up the pro rata charge of $500 upon each
$1,000 of benefit upon certificates that have
matured by death, which has resulted in
saving to our members the payment of at
least seven assessments that otherwise they
would have been called upon to contribute.
Under our new plan the order has entered
upon new lease of life, and l sincerely be-
lieve IS destined to become the leader of all
death benefit assessment associations.
Respectfully submitted In +. A and p
WILLIAM B. WILSON,
Supreme Treasurer.
1t may also be mentioned that this was
the first order to accept women on their
merits; nrSt to pay for permanent and total
| disabilities, also first to pay for disability
| at old age after fixed date. These princi-
| pies were embodied in the constitution when
| the order was launched, and ever since, by
| reason of the impetus given it then a new
departure has been a growing success.
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