The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-01
SALARY LIST Is
NOT EXHORBITANT
LovEJoY SAYS AGITAToRs HAVE
TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE
CRISIS IN THE MAC
cABEEs.

"All this talk Of amending the con-
stitution of the knights of the Mod
ern Maccabees TO eliminate certain
highly paid offices is without practi-
cally any backing in the order, and
| In the work OF two or three disgrun-
tied men," said George S. Lovejoy,
great commander of the order who is
now in Detroit.
"A number of the offices whose abol-
ishment is talked of are Offices whose
lincumbents are not paid by the order,
and there would be no saving effect
ed by their adjustment. Others are
necessary. The total amount saved
would be only $4,000.
"Take this idea of abolishing the
great editor. We are compelled by law
to notify all our members when their
Ias9essments fall due. The fact that we
publish a newspaper allows us to send
that notification. which is printed in
the official organ, as second class mat
ter. If the paper was done away with,
the cost of notifying our members i'm
a month would far exceed the saving
in the salary paid To the editor.
"The statement that the salaries
paid to some of the higher officers
of the Maccabees are exhorbitant is
untrue. The entire amount paid out
to the national officers of the Macca-
bees is only $17,500.
Action Impossible Now.
ssrThN ,yro font Gould
these offices anyway at this session.
The session was provided for at the
last regular session held in Kalama-
zoo in 1910, and corresponds to a
special session of the legislature 1t
can consider only those measures for
which it is convened. Furthermore.
the present grand tent would not
make the amendments If it could, as
ii is composed of the same men who
chose the officers of the Maccabees
last year, and who raised the salary
of the great editor. What the grand
tent will consider is the readjustment
of rates.
Intend to Raise Rates.
'In IA states insurance societies are
compelled TO charge rates based on
certain scale, which was compiled
after a study of the death rate in
every society in the country for Is
years, A measure providing for this
method was brought. up in the Michi-
gan legislature last session and drop
ped in the final rush of business. It
will ultimately be passed
what We are doing is putting the
new rate system into practice be-
fore we ere forced 10 do so by law.
Now. many of the older societies find
themselves with many old, and few
young members with proportionate-
ly high death rate. This is because
the young people enter the newer So
cieties where the rates are at first
lower. later when the ordinary mans
earning capacity becomes lower. his
insurance rates become higher This
will be regulated by the readjustment
of rates in all these societies through
out the country who have been operat-
ing under this system
Thinks Rumor Will lnjure.
"Of course the rates of any society
cannot be changed without opposition
from some quarters. The few men
who have made all this talk of doing
away with those Offices and effecting
big savings have simply taken adj
vantage of critical condition i'm the
affairs of the Maccabees to place the
officers in bad light. They will only
hurt the order, and it is probable that
a big falling off in membership will be
noticeable as a result of their agita-
ton"