The Washington herald., 1913-03-06

tional Benefit Association Is doing busi-
ness have come to this city all the dis
trict managers and secretaries, number
ing fifty in all. to see the National Cap
ital. the home Of the association. to wit
ness the political quadrennial show. the
Presidential Inauguration. and attend
the conference called by the general sec
retary, Mr.. S. w. Rutherford, for the
purpose of increasing the general eff
cheney Of the delegates as to the prin-
ciples and applications OF insurance in
its far-reaching range. The delegates
are from Rhode Island, New Jersey
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
The sessions held Tuesday and yester-
day were well attended and comprehen-
sive. yet succinct and of compelling in
terest. 1t is believed that sufficient in
spiration and energy We're impaired to
every delegate to compel him or her to
make the association of wider apprecia-
ton and benefit in every negro commun-
ity, that they may measure UP to the
opportunities which surround them and
sweep the insurance field before them.
The conference will adjourn at noon
to-day.
Hon. G.. c. Jordon. of this city. local
manager OF the Equitable Life Assurance
Society OF New York. upon invitation of
the association, addressed the conference
Yesterday in a most eloquent and effec-
tive manner revealing &c his auditors
truths and principles heretofore unknown
To them. His exhortation on loyalty and
the habit OF thinking Of twenty thirty
and forty years ahead was most telling
one. Mr.. Jordon said among other in
tcresting things. that:
1T seems really like carrying Goals to
New Castle to speak of life insurance to
this assembly Of master workmen. One
may speak from sense of obligation and
from a sense of honor. for 1t is an honor
to be selected by n body of men of this
kind to make speech on the subject
We have in mnd-life insurance business.
Life insurance is a profession
I'm fact. life insurance Is the running
mate Of the gospel as the forerunner OF
cur Lord As a man thinketh so is he.
AS he thinks. believes and wills TO do
so is he Therefore. when you tell me
about man. | will ask you what he
does and will Judge him by what he does
rather than by what he says. Pin your
faith to life insurance. Provide for the
widows and orphans. the well being OF
your community, and you have filled out
full the highest sphere in life and laid
foundations upon which they might build
az John the Baptist heard the voice in
the wilderness that the Scripture might
be fulfilled. Life insurance has made
the United States wealthy.
Fifty years ago life insurance was the
most unimportant of institutions. 1t was
most remote that life insurance would
ever be an upbuilding factor OF power.
Many a man has made great life who
did not have the opportunities you have.
And each of you can make your lie
great if you only will. As man wills,
so is he. Will is great. l Will do II.
II YOU put your money in savings
bank, you get il out from time to time.
II you put your money in life insurance
contracts which involves payment OF
money. in twenty years or more as a
twenty-year endowment, you have set
yourself like flint. and when you nave
made two or three payments. you nave
concerted yourself in force which moth
ing can break.
..The progress and development of the
National Benefit Association discloses the
fact that a wonderful work has been
wrought-one little short of miracle
vet one symbolic of strength and SOL
vency Its luminous record when inter-
pr.ted and illustrated by word and pic
lure. makes a story OF intense interest
and lasting impression
During the past year 81. was ano-
cd TO the surplus OF the National Benefit
Association. The gross receipts for III
were sli6, 109. a and the insurance which
the association wrote in 1872 aggregated
81, 81, ,s2351, represented by 1881 policies.
The secretary. 5. W. Rutherford. in his
fourteenth annual statement of the Ma
tional Benefit Association. made to Its
policyholders. stockholders, and agents
for the fiscal year ending December ii,
1917. says:
The combined operation and affairs
show that the gross revenues for the
year were l6 per cent over that OF the
previous year. Its onward strides stamp
II as the standard bearer of progress and
protection. The $4,000 reserve required by
the Six,y-third Congress of the United
States has been increased to S5o,00 to
comply with the insurance statutes of
Maryland. into which State your company
was admitted during 1912. You are to be
congratulated upon being the first foreign
colored insurance company to legally
qualify in that State. But the $4,000 de-
p1sit is for the protection of all the
policyholders in every State in which We