The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-06

Need For Intermediate Insurance,
and What 1t Means For the Masses,
Organizers Combine Sound Bust
ness and True Philanthropy in Big
Business Enterprise Which Will
Promote the Common Good.
The Fourth of July, which the
people of the entire United States
have just celebrated with genuine
pleasure, naturally brings to the
minds of a patriotic and just people
the name of that incompatible pa
triot and statesman, George Washing
ton, 1.-The father of his country" who
was and is first in war, first in peace
and first in the hearts of his coun-
trymen."
But the time is not far distant
when the celebration of this day of
haIlowed memories, this birthday of
American freedom, will suggest other
debts of gratitude to the people of
this section of the South The time
is not far distant when there will be
added to the great obligation which
thinking men recognize is due to the
brave, leaders who gave the Ameri-
can people their independence from
England, another and a scarcely less
great obligation which the people of
this section will rest under to tina
band of able and far-seeing capital
lists who have launched the Washing
ton-Lee Life Insurance Company of
Georgia, which will lift from the
working people of this section the OPP
pressive hand of debt and poverty.
There is a class of people, the la
boring class, the people who are
struggling day after day to make
both ends meet, and who are unable
to harbor any savings to protect
their families from absolute want.
These are the people to whom the
Westinghouse Life Insurance Com
pany of Georgia will give a real in
dependence, and will enable them to
enter into the true spirit of future
Independence Days.
How will this be accomplished?
Through the intermediate insurance
which this newly organized company
will write. This is insurance for the
masses. 1t is insurance which some
of the biggest and most successful
companies of the North have provided
for the people of that section, but
which has not been written to any
extent in the South intermediate
insurance is insurance which is sold
in small denominations, and which
is thus placed within the reach of
the man who is not blessed with an
abundance of this worlds goods, and
whose earning capacity is limited.
The Washington-Lee Life Insur-
ance Company of Georgia will write
insurance in small denomination
500, $500, $500, S400, etc.-at the
same prOportionate rate that is
charged for policies of $1,000 or
more. For instance, if the premium
on a policy for 1000 were $29 per
annum the premium on a policy of
500 in the Washington-Lee Life In
surance Company Of Georgia would
be $3.50, or exactly one-tenth of $29.
There are a great many men to whom
the rate of the premium on the ST.
900 policy would be prohibitive, but
who could easily carry a policy of
800 or 5000, which would give
their families a measure of protec-
ton which could not be enjoyed in
any other way.
In view of this policy on the part
of the organizers of the Washington
Lee Life Insurance Company of Geor-
gia, who have been magnanimous
enough and wise enough to combine
true philanthropy with sound bust
ness, is it too much to predict that
the time is not far distant when they
will be given places of esteem and
honor in the minds and hearts of the
people who will recognize in the or
ganization of this great enterprise
an institution for the common good?
Of co rse the Washington-Lee
Life Insurance Company will not con.
fine it's business to intermediate IN
surance. 1t will write the regular
standard insurance policies as issued
by other old line companies, but it
Will make a speciality of insurance
for the masses, and its most siren
uous endeavOrs will be exerted in
the development of this woefully neg
lected insurance field in the South.
Through this opportunity, which will
be attractively presented to all the
people of this rich territory, thou
SoAuS VIM are NOW WITHOUT insurance
and who entered into the celebration
of the Glorious Fourth this year half
heartedly because of the tinge or
sorrow which a realization of the
menacing possibilities which hang
over their families through an utter
lack of protection will be able to
carry enough insurance 10 save their
dear ones the sufferings Of actual
want and the humiliation of the aims
house or other charities.
The progress of the organization
of the Washipgton-Lee Life Insur-
ance Company of Georgia has been
most significant. 1t emphasizes the
need for such an organization in
Southern Georgia. The advantages