Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
MEMS ASSOCIATION
MEETS HERE IN uNlMpoRr.
ANT SESSION..
ONLY ONE OFFICER, A
DIRECTOR, TO ELECT
to Be and Also the Next Place Of
Msstins-Annuai Report Of President
johnson Covers Associations Work
For the Year.

! Members Of the Hawkeye Commerce
! ial Mems Association met In annual
session at the Marshalltown Club this
| afternoon, for the purpose Of electing
one director. hearing the reports OF off,
GERS, and disposing Of routine business
The meeting was an unimportant one.
compared with next years or the one
last year, so the attendance was small
| The result Of the balloting, which de-
cides the election of the director and
the selection Of the next meeting place,
will not be known for several days, as
| hundreds Of votes were cast thru the
mails.
Cedar Rapids and Mason City, both
Of which want the next meeting. have
| representatives here. Sioux City Is q
candidate, but no one is on the ground
looking after her interests.
Presidents Annual Report.
Perhaps the most important Of the
formal annual reports was that OF Presi-
dent A. g. Johnson. OF this city, which
was read soon after the meeting opened.
1t was as follows:
Gentlemen OF the Hawkeye Com
mercial Mems Association.-Old Father
Time has recorded another year in the
history Of the Hawkeye Commercial
Mems Association. We are again as
sembled for the fifth time to transact
such business as may properly come
before this convention. This is our first
home meeting since our first annual
meeting, in January, 1907, in the east
court room We met for temporary
organization Feb II. 1906. in the city
hall of this city and completed our
organization at an adjourned meeting
on March 8 with about seventy five
knights Of the grip. Since that time
we have admitted 8,675 to membership
1t Is certainly source OF pride to know
that this has been accomplished with
cut any paid solicitors and scarcely any
advertising matter. We have placed
our dependence upon the rank and file
Of our membership for our growth and
prosperity. This magnificent result has
been brought about by our members
making themselves each committee
of one to secure new members.
Has Made Worlds Record.
'It Is a pleasure to know that our
association is the largest fraternal ac-
cident association in the world Of q
similar age. wish to extend my hearty
good will to all Of our members for
the year 1911, and beg to assure you
that that same determination to get
new members will make US equal In
strength to any accident association on
earth. We already have members In
almost every state In this country as
well as Canada, and I trust that before
the close Of the present year We shall
have covered every state In the union.
1--WE are paying in addition to all
benefits by accident a funeral benefit
of 5000 on proof of natural death.
am reminded in this connection OF
few lines that I read some time ago:
we come into this life without our
permission: we go out of II against our
will: time is our one brief possession
IL call your attention to the fact that
we are the only accident association in
the United States that protects its
members against natural death.
10 Business Proposition.
I'm securing new members I wish
that your chief argument would be
, hat our insurance should be taken out
as simple business proposition. The
funeral benefit at natural death should
alone attract new members II were
to offer a man the proposition that If
he would joint the H. C. NJ. A. and pay
the annual cost of 80. that when he
should die I would pay back to him
every cent he ever paid in as assess
ments as we'll as carry his accident in
surance during his life time. how many
would hesitate to join US. But such Is
practically the proposition that we are
Offering. The average age of the men
in this room is perhaps As years. II
you were to pay the cost Of 80 year
for twenty-five years you would only
have paid in $19s. How many of IS
will be living at the age Of 81. True We
all hope tc be. but can we tell at what
time the silent hand of death will be
upon us? Twenty-Five years OF assess
ments will only pay for the funeral
benent you will receive at natural
death and in the meantime you are
protected from accident the same as in
other associations.
Year Has Been Disastrous.
All Of the great life insurance COM
spanies allow their members to partic-
ipate in their accumulated surplus.
How many accident companies are
there besides our own that provide for
participation in their surplus upon
natural death? Ii it just to make a
man pay for accident protection.
which, tho valuable, he may never
need, and then lose all upon natural
death7 The insurance Investigators in
the state of New York q number Of
years ago said the life insurance COM
'panies had no right to withhold this
surplus. What should you say when
you are asked to join an accident COM
pany, many OF which have very large
Accumulated SURPRISES? Do we always
look at our accident as simply a bus
mess proposition?
The year 1910 has been the most dis
astrous one in the history Of the Unit
ed States in the way of accidents. The
loss Of life thru accident is given as
follows: Drowning, 5.112; in fires,
mines and hotels, 1904; storms, 265;
explosions. s61; automobiles, 941; light
ming, 1893: electrical, 1S9; asphyxia ton.
1859: elevators, 119; railroad fatalities
during the year are credited with hav-
ing killed $3.50 and injured s1.s5s per-
sons. The most serious single disas-
ter on the list was that Of Feb. %. 1910,
in which 11S persons persisted when
trains were wrecked BY . snowslids on
the Northern Pacific railroad IN Mon.
tana. Even ct our very doors. less
than . month after thie oeeurrel ths
horrible wreck near Green Mountain.