The Washington herald., 1910-04-17
WOMEN In NEW FIELD
Succeed as Organizers of In
= SuPance Societies.
MACCABEES AFFORD EXAMPLE
Meeting of state Commanders I'm Chi
cngo Brings Out Special Fitness of
Women for This WOrk-HOw the
Fraternity Brings Special Talent
TO the Front Rank.

A new vocation for women has already
attained point of high development. 1t
Is that Of fraternal insurance organizer.
Several thousand women follow it and it
Is becoming a science, a science Of mathe-
MATES and diplomacy.
Women who are able TO enroll other
women. enthuse them and keep them
loyal TO any organization. must have a
high order Of tact and executive ability;
but this new vocation also requires a
broad knowledge Of a different subject
life insurance. Universities have added
this subject to their curricula, but the
fraternal insurance organizer Of women,
denied university training. secures an
education which makes mortality tables
and tables of life expectations familiar
topics and actuarial problems an appe-
tier for the harder task OF managing
and developing the organization
Maccabees Afford Example.
Light upon this new vocation was shed
by the recent meetings held IN Chicago
OF State commanders Of one Of the wom-
ems fraternal insurance societies, the
largest in the world. the Ladies Of the
Maccabees OF the World. The drill was
severe. for each State commander had
already gone through a school Of train
ing, and the officers OF local lodges, or
hives as the Maccabees term them, were
in for II next
The members themselves viii SOON be
lat school under the tutelage Of the hive
commanders. That means that insurance
and fraternalism will be carried 20 some
2.75O hives, Of a total membership OF l54
600 The society has insurance in force
amounting 10 approximately 100000
The State commanders went TO the an
nual school first. held at Port Huron.
Mich. and they are passing on the in
struction to hive commanders all over
the United States and they TO members.
There was nothing superficial about the
teaching no dilettante aspect to the
course which Mrs. Lillian NJ. HOLSTER
and Miss Bina NJ. West. master organ
izers and insurance authorities. laid out.
Mrs. HOLSTER Is supreme commander
and Miss West supreme record keeper of
their society
Have Big Problems 10 Solve.
State commanders had intricate prob
lens 10 solve and "boning' 20 do. In
other organizations the trend is in the
same direction, and schools for women
of the new vocation seem certain TO be
come general. the L. O. T. NJ O. W.
pioneering in this field.
Time was when fraternal societies were
organized altogether by volunteers, but
the problem proved too complex. and
now the towns and cities OF the entire
country are under the supervision of
STATS. fhe great growth in recent years
of women's organizations having made
it necessary for women 20 become leaders
of regiments, battalions, and whole army
corps. Fraternal insurance In force now
aggregates upward of $1,000. 100000. involv-
Ing responsibilities of fnanciering and
broad generalship which women are be-
ing trained TO share with men.
In the case of this largest women's So
ciety, Ladies Of the Maccabees OF the
World. reserve funds amounting TO $4,000
goo are invested by Mrs. HOLSTER and
Miss West and the board Of directors, all
women; and the assets are regarded by
bankers as just as safe and sound as
any insurance fund in the country, bonds
of municipalities which have passed a
test Of ultra conservatism.