The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-27
WOULD PROTECT BUSINESS
Roy K. Dorr Named as Temporary
Chairman and Herbert Yule as Sec'y
Expected That Hundred of In
surance Men in City Will Join.

Insurance men of the city gathered
at the office of Charles HI. Pfennig on
Tuesday afternoon and laid plans for
the formation of Kenosha county
federation. Many of the most promin-
ent men connected with the writing Of
the different kinds of insurance were
present at the meeting and all appear
ed to be enthusiastic over the plans for
the county organization.
Roy K. Dorr, prominent among the
life insurance agents of the city, was
named as temporary chairman Of the
organization and Herbert Yule as
temporary secretary, These two Of
ficials will make plans for perma-
nent organization to be effected later.
This is to include all Of the insurance
men in the city and county. There
are thirty fire insurance agents in Ke-
nosha and most as many who are en-
gagged in writing life insurance and then
there are representatives of the various
mutual companies. 1t is expected that
all of these men will have part in the
proposed county federation.
Organizations of a similar nature
are now being formed in all parts of
Wisconsin and it is expected that Ke-
nosha county will have one of the
strongest organizations to bee held in
the state. The organization plans to
make the business one that will be bet
fpYs NTrN4o 4nI L.
Wisconsin the federation has especially
aimed its work against the present law
giving the state the right to enter the
fire and life insurance field. The
agents claim that the state has no more
right to go into the life insurance field
than it has to go into any other line of
competitive business. One of the prin-
cipal leaders in discussing the work of
the federation, said:
The idea of the insurance fedora
tion is to promote the general good of
the business, to increase it's high
standing with the public, to aid in
furnishing maximum of service at a
minimum of cost, and to protect the
business against socialistic attack or
harmful legislation of any sort. In
this regard the federation insures
insurance
The legislation that hurts insurance
hurts the people also, since the people
are protected by insurance in all it's
branches life, fire, accident, etc.
This is the age of organizations. Al
most all businesses, trades and profes-
sions have their associations. The in
surance business in Kenosha and
throughout the state is well thought of,
as the men in it have been good citi-
zens, many of them unselfshly patri-
otto. But by organization it is posi-
BILE to still further increase the estima-
ton in which the business is held and
to safeguard it from being made an
experiment station for new and I'M
tried ideas in legislation The insur-
ance men do not ask legislative priv
leges or favors. They ask nothing to
be done for them They ask, only to
be let alone, to be permitted to de-
velop the business, which they have
built up by the expenditure of
much thought, energy and money, a
business which, as it now stands, bene-
fits the public more than most other
business in existence, ranking next af-
ter the furnishing of food, clothes and
shelter as necessity of modern life. -