The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-10
HUBBARD TALKS To
INSURANCE FOLK
Famous Roycrofter Delivers Char
acteristic Address-Says Nothing
Goes But Honesty Now.

Fra Elbertus Hubbard. the pictur-
esque author and philosopher from
East Aurora, N. u, delivered an ex-
temporaneous speech on Salesman
ship, human nature. and the reasons
why" before the National Association
of Underwriters in their convention In
the assembly hall OF the Hotel Pont-
chartrain. Saturday morning. His
talk was both humorous and serious,
and he had the delegates laughing one
minute and looking at him with grav-
ity the next. In the course OF his
address he defended the Standard Oil
Co.. declaring seriously that the at
tacks on the institution were not all
warranted.
Mr.. Hubbard delved into literature
and said that IL anyone asked him
what he considered the most impor-
tant book written in recent years
he would say The Life OF the Bee"
by Morris Maeterlink.
I'm that book you will find the
statement that bee taken four miles
from its hive will never find its way
back" said Mr.. Hubbard. In it's
lone state it is Of 10 use; single bee
makes no honey and has no intelli-
gence. So 1t Is with humanity; a
man alone has no intelligence. 1t
was Aristotle who said, $50 years be-
fore Christ, that one man was no man.
When a man realizes that he Is alone
his reason reels, and his mind totters.
All of our activities In life are for
other people, and the individual who
thinks but of himself and leaves hui
mainly out of equation Is q sick and
insane man. The measure Of your
sanity Is your ability TO cooperate
with other men. You tire divine
molecule in the mass, and while you
are an individual you succeed only as
you work for the good of all. The fact
helping others Is being recognized now
for the first time In history.
I'VE learn through experience and
one of the things that the world has
learned is that nothing goes but hon.
esty. We know this because we have
tried something else"
In dealing with the Standard OIL
Co., Fra Elbertus declared that the
attacks of Miss Tarben were not war
ranted. He said she Was prejudiced
against the Standard Oil Co. because
one of the company's oil wagons once
bumped her fathers wheelbarrow into
the ditch.
Senator Ross Speech.
Another feature Of the morning was
an address by Senator George w.
Ross, OF Toronto.
Senator Ross address was a COM
prehensive review of the Canadian
legislation affecting insurance in
Canada and was voted one Of the
best papers of the convention. At
the outset the senator pointed out
that the aggregate life insurance in
force in Canada, emitting insurance
conducted on the assessment plan,
was $780,370,232, Jan. 1, 1910. The
insurance represented 1.025,371 policy
holders and was divided among 23
IA British, and 16 Ameri.
can companies. In 1909 the insurance
In force in Canada increased $60.S54,-
21S over the preceding year. OF this
Increase the American companies got
S24, 869,225, while the British compan-
les got only $S36,4S7.
Canadians said Senator Ross,
have confidence in the solvency of
American companies and in their
methods of doing business, as shown
by these figures. British companies
have evidently ceased pushing BUSH
ness in Canada.
THE new insurance act of Canada
like the far-famed Arm.
strong bill, in the report of CON-
appointed to investigate GER
tain suspected Irregularities In the
mana cement OF Canadian companies.
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