The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-21

AFTER death, for statistics show thai
iaSt year thousands of dollars of IN.
oentedness 70 banks were puld from
vic oeceaSeos insurance money.
James P. Hauley.
- James P. Ranlcy. general agent Of the
SPOKE on Life Insurance Agents" ii.
marked back 10 the business in this
community mOre than IL score OF years
and told of the little confidence the pub
nc nad III insurance companies in those
days and less In the veracity of tn,
agent. but that conditions we're fur dir,
!erent today; that despite the fact that
there Is bigger temptation in the in.
surance business for representative
TO stretch the truth 1t Is not done
Inc companies doing business toda,
are among the strongest institutions II
the country and the agents are not mis-
representing the facts to prospect
tor IT'S not necessary to get the bust
ness. said he. AIR. Haniey said tina,
a man who could not make a success:
IN the insurance business today was due
70 the Individual and not the company
he interspersed his remarks with scv.
eral humorous stories well ILLUSTRATING
the subject in hand.
r. B. Naylor.
Il. b. Naylor. representative Of the
travellers Insurance company, ueliv-
cred ringing speech. He SAID he hat
oecn in the business less than Il year
but that he was engaged in u vucatio.
thai assisted i'll r!i..i.It,ing the sorrow
and poverty among widows and or.
phans. Insurance not only brings
peace and comfort to the man who car,
rics protection for his wife and chill
drcn but 1t makes Il mans commercial
standing higher in any community. II
factory burns down II can be rebuilt
If machinery wears out ii can be re-
placed. but when the head OF an insti'
tuition dies it materially affects the con
Germ, and for that reason The officials vi
all the larger concerns are insured BY
their respective concerns" said he. HI
told OF the loan values of policy, say.
ing that in 1907 in this city many heads
or firms put up their policies TO t1dt
over in business
c. Burgess Taylor.
G. Burgess Taylor, representative al
the Northwestern Mutual Life 1nsur'
ancc company. spoke al some length
He told Of his entering the business in
Kentucky IS years ago and the weak
that time; that AT Lexington IN 1905 q
mass meeting OF the citizens was hclt
and the life insurance business as al
institution was denounced. He con
tinued by saying that after a most thor
ough Investigation the insurance com
panies came out with Il clean record
that no institution could have stood un
less they were sound Ut the time. Dur
ing that investigation not n penny Of
the stock value decreased" said he. lie
declared that the insurance companies
were among the SoundCSt institutions r
the world today. Mr.. Taylor concluded
by appealing 10 his listeners to folio"
the teaching of the Bible in carrying Out
all business dealings and that II they
so did that they would eventually wiz
out because their business would bC
built upon z moral and godly principle
Beautiful Tribute to MIR. Peterson.
At the conclusion of Mr.. TaylorS talk
Mr.. Peterson crosse 10 speak. but MS one
man, the crowd Sprang up and ap'
plaudcd him. and i'll chorus cried out:
"Whosc's All Right. All Right? Petcr-
son, Peterson. Peterson. Hes All Right;
He's All RiGht.!
Upon motion Of Mr.. Hanlcy and Sec
onded by the big audience. Mr.. Crok
president of the Wheeling tndrrwrit.
erS' association. was instructed To call
a meeting and have resolution framed
and presented Mr.. Peterson in GNprrS-
sion Of tho insurance mems appreciation
for the dinner.
Mr.. Peterson said that the dinner WAS
just the beginning Of tho program ut
cooperation between the Dollar Savings
and Trust company and the Wheeling
life insurance men: that other affairs
will I've given and that beginning in a
few days. ~ series Of articles on insur-
unCe will be run for three weeks in all
the local papers addressed to insurance
men relative I" insurance. prepared by
authorities and arc not by any OF the
bank officials He said he regretted
that his brother bankers were not pres
cnt that they might gather ;ngrthcr as
the inSuranC" In"n had.