The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-21
BIRTH INSURANCE.
solution to Race Suicide Problem Said
to Have Been Found.


Boston, March 21.=Birth insurance
as an incentive for the furtherance of
the ideas of President Roosevelt for
the rearing of large families is now
proposed and the first organization Of
the kind in this country will begin
business this coming week.
Last July the American Birth IN
surance company was incorporated
fostered by some of the most promi-
nent women of the country, and now,
its promoters having secured the 500
applications for policies requisite un-
der the law to begin business, this
unique insurance will be given a test.
Offices have been opened in this city,
which is to be the headquarters of
the company, and they are in charge
taken an active part in the formation
of the concern. and next Monday the
first policy will be written.
One of the first applicants and
probably the first to receive a policy
is Mrs. Durkee, wife of Rev. ]. STAN
ley Durkee, pastor of the Warren
Street Baptist church of this city. She
made application when the charter
was taken OUT and has been one of
the most prominent agitators of the
subject. Rev. Mr.. Durkee heartily in
dorses the idea of birth insurance and
/ applauds the ideals which prompted
the incorporators in this work.
when the matter was presented to
| me-, he said 4 looked it up carefully
and it appears to me to be the ideal
remedy for a great many of the prob
lens which are hampering the Amer
| lean people today and especially the
poorer classes of the laboring people.
''Here is a real life insurance and, /
I believe, one which will prove to be q
/ great blessing to great many homes
4 of the poor and 1T will be the indirect
i means of Frightening more than one
/ lonely household with a dear little
! life. It is also a great incentive for
f17.a of T1n IF
dent Roosevelt for the rearing of large
families. I think it is the greatest
thing of the kind of the age and
heartily indOrse it and shall recon-
mend it from pulpit and platform
While to a great extent the scheme
is a philanthropic move, being in a
way a side issue of the American Pa
rents Educational association, the
company is organized on a firm finan-
cial basis and is already assured OF a
sufficient number of policy holders TIC
make it a success financially
The scheme which is indeed a SIM
: ple one. is as follows: To become g
policy holder one must be member
of the American. Parents Educauona
association and cannot be more thar
so years of age. A universal assess
ment is levied on the policy holders
each month and at the birth OF a Nv
? ing child, if not born until after tel
) monthly assessments have Deen palo
the policy holder receives a stiPuiateC
the child not occur until after eighteel
I payments have been made the sun
= received at the time of the chlldplrti
3 is correspondence greater tnan ~ IN
t beneficiary received arter the tent
Among the incorporators of thi
I philanthropic work, which the oIncer
E declare is the one solution OF the rae
D suicide problem, and members OF IN
advisory board are such women q
: Mrs. Mary A. Livermore ofs Melrose
n Mass; Mrs. Julia K. Dyer, preslden
n of the Charity and Wlntergreeh Giup
al Of BOSTON kIxs.-1AGaryss Pamele Rice
ell presidentpof the Mothers ana ram y
+. ers' club of Boston; Mrs Esteile ~
e Hatch Merrill, the well known nCe ERA
woman and president Of a hai1 doze
women's clubs; DR.. Mary E. Jone:
: exnresident of the Ladies' Physiology
: cal institute of Boston; Mrs. Anna I
. Fall, attorney at law; Dr. Mary woo NO.,
y Allen of Michigan, Dr. Agnes e Fa'
{ terson. Mrs Marion A. MacBrlde an
I John S. Cranston, president OF IN
: Roston Life Underwriters asSocidIloi
= The president of the company
n ME- I,sfeIle M Hatch Merrill, who fo
q wears was a writer for the press an
= magazines of Boston ana VINO IS u
wife of Samuel Merrill, well know
1t newspaper man, and the secretary
20 Miss Emma Menter, young Woma
to who has been prominent in CLUB III
/ and philanthropic organizations
or While applications for polcles nay
i been received from South Arnerlc'
1r Africa. India, the Sandwich Islands, II
is Philippines and from nearly every sta
in the union, people interested IN SIN
d liar work in France, BeIgluIh a.
"a ! Sweden have made extended inquire
Ig as to the plans. Among these was II
d Tnavor of Havre, France, who addresse
to his letter to Mayor Collins of Boston
IF was turned over to the promoters WI
If cent +7,e desired information. and, muC
III to their delight, they soon after receive
v Inquiries as to the possibility of estal
t fishing a branch in Paris. several sta
o. organizations OK women are dlso So %,
n siderine organizing branches and Il
prospects are that it will be one of IL
he / largest and most unique insurance con
cel panies in the world within few year
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