Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-29
the resolutions.

What promises to be one Of the
most important political meetings of
the year will be held in Topeka on
November y, when Representatives
of the Women's Clubs of the state
will meet to outline the program of
political activity in which the women
of the state will engage during the
next campaign. The results of the
Topeka meeting viii be the de5ermin-
alton of those things which the wo-
men will endorse next year. Women
leaders have already declared fire.
quently that the strength of their
vote would go for legislation, not for
party organization. The women pro-
pose to support the candidates or
parties which promise support for
the things they want enacted into
law. The Topeka conference will
put these things concretely before
the three parties which will have
tickets in the field next year.
An association of life insurance
motion of better understanding
between insurance men and the in
surfing public, was organized a few
days ago at Salina, and formally
elected officers. David J. Hanna,
former lieutenant governor of Kan
sas, was chosen to head the new or
ganization as president. The other
officers were: Vice President, J. j.
Eberhardt; Secretary, Richard J..
Surface: Treasurer, L. A. Alexander;
all of Salina. Other members of the
executive committee were chosen as
as follows: ]. P. Harker of Salina,
and j. G. Cutler of Abilene The Sa-
lima organization makes the third of
its kind in Kansas, former organiza-
tions having been perfected at Tope-
ka and Wichita for the respective
portions of the state. The Salina as
ISOLATION, as well as the other two or
CARNATIONS, are affiliated with the
National Association of Life Under
writers.
Little stories teeming with human
interest, and also portraying the ig-
norance of policy holders as to the
value of their holdings are being call
ed to the attention of life insurance
man almost every day in the finding
of s1ost" policy holders. Practically
every such person has believed that
insurance carried awhile and then
dropped was valueless. and insurance
companies are carrying on their
books sums of money due to those
policy holders, or their heirs, who
perhaps years ago, stopped paying
premiums and supposed they thus
lost their insurance. Every policy
issued by an ''old line'' company,
however, after it has been carried a
certain length of time, has value.
The other day an agent found heirs
at Leavenworth who had no idea
they had any money coming to them.
Perhaps the most pitiful story comes
from st. Louis recently. A man had
taken life insurance and had carried
it number of years. Finally being
hard run financially, he stopped max
ing payments. The family moved
and finally the man died. When the
family was located the woman was
trying to raise her children by doing
family washing, and she. was called
from her washtub to sign receipt
for more than $1,000 due her from the
acknowledgements untold riches
to her. There are thousands of such
cases, and a great difficulty is often
found in locating the heirs.
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IT. is believed likely that there is
no business of such large proportions
about which SO little is known by
business men and others generally as
the business of life insurance. In a
more or less ignorant sort of way the
average man expects to protect him
self, his family and his creditors
against his possible death, but few of
them understand the scientific prin-
ciples underlying the great plan of
cooperation upon which the entire
insurance business is based. 1t might
almost come as a shock to many to
know how widespread the insurance
business is. In the United States
and Canada insurance to the aggre-
gate of $40, 600, GOO, 600 is being car
ried-fgures so large as TO be incom-
prehensible to the average person.
In Kansas alone last year, according
to the report of Ike S. Lewis, insur-
ance commissioner, there was carried