Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-06
THE PtrTrToFFs.

Have you heard of the town Of Putitoff.
On the banks of the River Slow?
Where blooms the Waitawhlle flower
fair,
Where the Sometimeorother scents
the air
And the soft Goeasys grow?
1t lies In the valley OF whatstheuse,
In the province of Letterslide;
That tired feeling Is native there,
It's the home of the listless Idontcare,
Where the Putitoffs abide.
The Putitoffs smile when asked to in
sure,
And say they will do it tomorrow,
And so they delay from day unto day,
Till death cycles up and takes them
away,
And their families beg. steal or borrow.
-AustrSlasian Budget
Vice President l.. II. Stohrs views on
the question of life insurance preml-
ums. published last week, opened the
eyes OF the insurance public TO an Inn
portant fact and that is that the policy
holders pay the tax. The policyholdine
legislator may view the proposed in
crease with some new interest and feel
ing when this fact is driven home.
Hot Springs, Utah, June 2, 1905
press Bureau, Box 424. Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Dear Sirs--I thank your bureau for
the answer to my letter regarding the
Great Western Life Insurance COM
pany. In speaking of the agency COM
pany. you say that Companies so in
timately connected are subject to the
same ultimate ends i would like fur
Their information about the life insur-
ance company. AS | expect to leave
here today for Los Angeles | wish you
would send your reply there. care gem
eral delivery. Yours truly,
-- Physician.
Answered. L. Van Laningham, pres
ident and organizer. has resigned. The
receiver of the Great Western Agency
company called a meeting of the stock
holders few days ago and elected j.
b. Case of Abeline, Kansas, president
AS a result OF the failure of the agency
company, the affairs Of the Great
Western Life Insurance company ara
In rather confused state. Pending
an examination of the life company
the insurance department of Missouri
refuses TO register policies of the Great
Western Life, consequently the COM
pany cannot write any new business
until Its affairs are Strengthened out.
Moreover. 1t appears that large block
of stock of the Great Western Life has
been hypothecated to raise money to
keep up the payments on a note given
the receiver of the State Agency COM
pany of Indiana by o. l.. Van Laning-
ham as president of the Great Western
Agency company. The receiver of the
State Agency company of Indiana has
brought suit In Kansas City against o.
u. Van Laningham and the Great
Western Life Insurance company ana
its directors to recover on a note OF
$4,000. held by the receiver We have
not gone into the financial statement
of the life company, as 1t is not the
purpose OF the bureau to analyze a
company's statement unless specially
requested to do SO by the correspon-
dent.
The optimistic talker stands the best
chance OF getting business. Remember
when everyone else is talking pessiln-
istically and everyone Is listening with
discouraged ears, novelty appeals The
man who stands right up and talks OPP
timistically, who throws the shutters
wide open and let's In the sunlight, will
be heard. He will gain welcome, and
the policy he has to sell Will be sold be-
cause amid so many calamity howlers
and long faces, 1t will be good TO see
a man who brings hope and confidence
In with him There is a lot in IT, boys,