The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-18

KANSAS MONEY
FOR KANSANS"
The Kansas Life Insurance
Company Grows Rapidly.
Assets i'm Less Than Two
Years Reach $453,S62.
COMPOSED OF kANSANS
Loyal, Patriotic Citizens Sue
coed i'm This Enterprise.
Business Integrity and Sound
Principles the Foundation.

pany, under the banner, kansas
Money for Kansans,'' continues its
progress. The company has achiev-
ed notable success in organization.
In one year and nine months the
assets have jumped from $4,000 to
$453, S62, the present sum. This ac-
complishment has not before been
equalled in Kansas.
The success of The Kansas Life
Insurance Company of Topeka is
due to two important reasons:
F'irst-The plan upon which the
company was projected is fair and
square and honest. The methods
by which the business have been
conducted have been of the same
character. The closest scrutiny of
these details created confidence
the greatest business asset in the
world.
Second-The patriotic, loyal Kan
sas people supported their conf
dence and good wishes with money.
And this loyal band of Kansas
Boosters 1900 strong, is on the job
all the time. Their ambitions are
Kansas born; their successes were
achieved in Kansas; their future
hopes are in Kansas. and they are
personally and financially concern
ed in putting The Kansas Life In
surance Company at the forefront
of Kansas institutions. This force
of KanSans comes from all walks in
life. Bankers, 127 of them, are dl-
rectly Interested. Lawyers, doctors,
teachers, ministers, public officials,
state and county officers, autOmO-
hill q. lore fe1r -fn lx or
connective engineers, conductors,
railway office and shop officials,
painters, plumbers, printers, mer-
chants, managers of corporations,
editors, retired capitalists, are all
represented. No one will deny the
possibility of still greater achieve
ment with the potent forces of such
body of tIansans at work.
Fifteen million dollars of Kansas
money will be paid for insurance
this year. This is a little more than
10 of the S205, 100000 deposited in
operations of life insurance COM
panies may be gained by the know
ledge of the fact that for the year
ending December 81, 1918, the life
insurance companies of the United
States received an income of $685.
000,000.00. OF this sum, an amount
approXimating the total income of
the national government, 1865, O00,-
10000 went to four eastern cities.
In other words, this great country
of ours, with more than 100000
square miles of area, poured into
one little corner two-thirds of its
life insurance premium payments.
December 81, 1913, the total assets
of insurance companies in the Unit
ed States amounted to $4,667, O0O,-
000. OF this amount, 1870, or 3d.
566, 100000 is held principally in
the four cities referred to. KAN
sas' contribution to these four cit
les amounted to several million
dollars in 1914.
Hence, we suggest kansas Mon
ey for Kansans.'
The organization of the company
and the production of insurance IS
being extended as rapidly as pos
sible. There is opportunity here
for live-producing agents to engage
in remunerative and permanent
employment becoming identified
with a great and growing enter
prise.
Charles w. Barnes. president.
Topeka, former superintendent OF
Insurance of Kansas.
Thomas H. Bridges, first vice
president and agency director, To-
peka, former State Agent and
Agency Director Insurance Com
paniec
William H. Eastman, Topeka,
secretary and treasurer, former
secretary Shawnee Building & Loan
Association. -
Albert 7. Reid, vice president,
Topeka, president Kansas Farmer
company and publisher Leaven-
worth Post.
J. H Edwards, vice president,
Sedan, merchant and banker.
f. H. Scholle, NJ. D., Topeka,
physician and surgeon.
Robert Stone, general counsel
T. w. Whiting, Council Grove,
ranchman and banker.
d. F. Longenacker. NJ. D., EN-
poria, physician and surgeon
Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, Lawrence,
Loans-former Z. s. pension agent.
W. c. Smith, Phillipsburg, pres
ident w. c. Smith Clothing Co.
Capt. William J. Watson, Pitts
burg, postmaster and director First
National bank
w. C. Robinson, Winfield. pres
ident First National bank.
Ben S. Paulen, F,redonia, mer-
chant, vice president Wilson county
banls.
William H. Nelson, Smith Center,
county official-formerly assistant
state treasurer.
Frank Hodges. Olathe, manager
Hodges Lumber Co.
w G. Robinson, Clay Center,
banker and capitalist.
Geo A McNee, Cottonwood
Falls, president Exchange National
bank.
]. c. without, NJ D., Manhattan.
physician and surgeon.
S. l.. Benham, Wichita. former