The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-29
TELLS ABOUT THE
LADY MACCABEES
FRANCES e. BURNS, GREAT CON-
WANDER OF The ORDER, RE-
VIEWS WORK OF THE
ORGANIZATION.

AZ the ccleDidtioh VI lue twenty
fifth anniversary of the order OF the
Ladies of the Modern Maccabees at
Marquette Wednesday evening, Fran
ces Il. Burns. OF ST. Louis, Mich, great
commander of the. order, was in at
tendance and her address was the
principal event of the evening, its sub
ject being Twenty Years of Fra
ternaism."
Mrs. Burns called attention TO the
fact that the Ladies of the Maccabees
was the first beneficiary society in the
United States to undertake to engage
i'm cooperative fraternal insurance for
a membership composed exclusively of
women, and from beginnings of the
smallest kind and with the most dis
couraging prospects it had grown to a
membership of over $1,000, with hives
i'm most of the states of the union. 1t
has paid out in death losses and other
benefits to date approximately $4,000
OOO and had in force on January 1 of
the present year certificates amounting
TO $50, 100000 on March /, the order
had on hand in cash $249,2S3.25, and in
municipal bonds. $324,O4S, making a
total of $57S,331.25, exclusive Of inter-
est.
The ability of women recruited from
the regular walks of life to successfully
promote and carry on the great work of
fraternal insurance is. Mrs. Burns said,
splendidly indicated in this unique
record.
The great commander then reviewed
the principal events that eliminated i'm
the readjustment of the rates in 1910
or an adequate basis. The inspiration
in this movement was, she said, "the
moral and intellectual honesty of the
lady membership" Out Of the enor-
nous sum of $4,916,12723 paid by the
order up TO January /, 1910 only $415,-
527 had been received by the order
from all of the deceased, disabled and
lapsed members of the order from the
beginning Of the society to the begin
ming of the year mentioned. The es-
Inmates of the next five years for death
disability and old age claims will
amount to SS.25S,O00,as against 1885,
1928 for the last twenty years.
These facts, stern and relentless"
said the speaker, "hnadc my checks
pale and drove me with other loyal and
Godfearing women of this order to in
vestigate and take counsel. for we
wanted to satisfy ourselves that ample
provision would be made to pay the
face value of every certificate in force,
and not ten, twenty or thirty per cent
thereof, and the present revised rates
are the result of our work and the CO.
operation of the Lady membership"
The long and. seyere struggle against
q many sided opposition, powerful too
was graphically portrayed by Miss
Burns, also the stirring incidents OF
the Great Hive al, which the question
Of an adequate rate was settled on the
affirmative, and the speakers simple
and effective recital held the audience
spell bound.
Mrs. Burns has musical speaking
voice, under fine control. She is wide
reader a deep thinker. has limitless
fund of information and facts at hei
! fingers end, possesses the truest mora
! fibre, and at all times has the courage
of her convictions. These among other
qualities have made her one of the
greatest powers in the realm of fra
ternal insurance. Fraternal insurance
everywhere is benefited through the
genius Of this remarkable woman, and
the ladies of The Maccabees are for
tunate to be able to claim her as their
own.