The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-15
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: FRArERNAl NOTES :!

|, amendement eNempting the legal re-
serves nj life insurance companies
from taxation. a
Colorado Springs and Denver are
candidates for the Head Camp W the
: Modern Wocdmen Of america 10 be-
held in 1914 S
The kniehts of Columbus are in
creasing their membership at the rate
of 10000 a year rho society has AIDE
: quate rates. ~
Ernest Parto,l. the heaviest man i'm
the Modern Woo.lmen of America, is
dead at Racine, Wis. He weighed $50
pounds.
John y. WHY'S. president of the
Willis Overland Automobile company
Of Toledo o.. carries 81 100000 Of life
insurance,
The attorney general Of Texas hes
given an opinion that life insurance
policies are not subject to taxation un-
Ill paid up and money becomes due on
them.
II il reported that the insurgent
members Of the Modern brotherhood of
america have decided To establish n
publication at Cedar Rapids TO combat
the new rates of the society.
The Modern Woodmen of Aemrica a,
Centralia. H.. mad n quarto-centenrial
celebration in September. There have
been thirty-five deaths in the camp
since its organization AID the benefici-
aries Of the dead members received
l S60.50O
| The Modern Woodmen want to bring
pressure 10 bear To remove Herman l..
Ekern. commissioner of insurance.
They. however, go the wrong way
about it and Ekern appears little
| hit stronger or account of that kind
Of opposition. The Modern wocdmeu
| should at this time be careful In judg-
| ment.-Eau Claire Leader. ris
No less than forty-fve fraternal
| beneficiary societies are now doing
business in Iowa and they have 29O,-
600 policies In force. about ono for
every seven Inhabitants Of the state
| The holder of every certificate should
receive the advice the coach extends to
the man At the bat with two strikes
and three balls called; MAKE il be
good"
According to the statistics of a
British life insurance company the
deaths Of abstainers from alcohol be.
verages are to the deaths Of those who
habitrally use them in the ratio OF
1919 per cent to s1.62 per cent. That
| out Of nh
deaths of insured persons in societies
that put abstainers In class by them
selves, $, 400 will he those of habtual
users. while only 5000 will be those
of abstainers. These proportions are
strongly corroborated by the expert
ence of other companies and of &c -
tuarial experts.
An advanced steam heating plant will !
be installed at once in the Modern |
Woodmen Sanatorium, near Colorado |
Springs. Heat for the tents and for all |
the buildings will be supplied from
central plant, 1and 26.0O0 feet of pipe. |
half of which will be underground, will |
he required. Nothing but steam will |
be used for producing heat in the |
kitchens for cooking. in the hospital |
buildings and laboratories for medi- |
cal purposes Of the sanatorium. The |
plumbing alone. contracts for which |
have been let to a local firm. will cost |
$50, 600 ... ..g 1929,
The widow of John A. Ryerson. a |
Chicago automobile manufacturer. |
who was killed by fall from the thir- !
teenth floor in that city. has brought |
suit against the Mutual Life Of New
York and the Phoenix Mutual Life for
$4,000 each. The companies deny liza
oility on the ground that Rverson
committed suicide. similar suit
agains the Bankers Life Of Iowa re-
suited in a judgement against the
company for $4,000 The insurance
companies charge that Ryerson was In !
financial difficulties and took out the
insurance with the intention of com
hitting suicide so as to provide for his
business and his family
There Is no matter OF moro vital IN
terest to life insurance than the ques-
ton Of conversation of the lives of
i'''N' ''''NNic' T''i' IItSIutIl bOl0,
addressing the Chicago convention of
lie insurance companies There l.;
no feature of this human welfare work
more important than that Of vital sta
1stics, for these are necessary 10 as
certain the true value of life preserva-
ton In It's relation to the life insurance
pusiness. All the civilized countries OF
the world are far ahead of the United
states in this particular. The nation
al government seems unable to accom-
plish the best results In obtaining vital
statistics under the powers Of the con.
stitution. The enactment of laws re-
gardinG the registration of births and
deaths Is within the province of the
iegislatures Of the various states and
the registration area is limited IN nc.
count OF the absence of these laws. In
isol the DEPARTMENT Of Commerce and
Labor reported only twenty one states
and the District If Columbia as hav-
ing these requirements. Stree that
time q few states have been added but
nearly oneIirAlf OF all the states of the
Union are outside OF the registration
area. That this Information is imnor-
tant to all interested, in the life in.
surance. business Is conceded by ALI
FAMILIAR with life. CON s.,.vat, IN ,,.,.,, -