The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-26
Dedicated! Structure Is Added To the
City's Galaxy ofArchitectural Gems
Magnificent New Home Formally Is Opened By Western
and Southern Insurance Company Eloquent Orators
Praise the Achievements of Cincinnati and Ohio
Citizens-Open House To-Day.

SlntOn Hotel given by the Western and |
Southern Life Insurance Company,
which marked the opening of its mag
nihcent new home office building,
Broadway and Fourth street. and the
twenty-eighth birthday anniversary of
the organization. Earlier in the day
the dedication took place, and was wit
messed by more than 1000 business and
professional men of Cincinnati and 9TH
er cities of the Middle West
Thomas J. Cogan, Third Vice Presi-
dent of the company, was POSTMASTER
at the dinner. and after serious talk
on the work accomplished by the West
ern and Southern, "a purely Queen City
enterprise, he dropped his seriousness
and accorded each speaker humorous
introduction.
II. Nj. Daugherty. Columbus. Ohio,
was given the closest attention through
out his address on Our State and
when he declared in his peroration that
the American people are broad-mnded
and composed. They now show patriot
ism in universal stubborn neutrality
which is the greatest tribute to civliza-
ton and good citizenship the world has
ever witnessed" he was applauded heart
ily
"Planned by Wise Men,"
MIR. Daugherty began his address with
a brief history of the American Consti-
tuition, which, he said, was planned BY
wise men and cool ieads for the pres
ent and the future
There is no favored class in this
country he continued. "and the credit
for our governmental construction, pre-
servation and perpetuation never will be
given to class, or blood. or kind. The
towpath of an Ohio canal led the way
to the Presidency of an Ohio boy, James
A. Garfield.
in the adjoining county of Clermont
General Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest
General the world ever saw, was born.
And who knows but that Thomas Edison,
who was born in little hamlet in
Northern Ohio, and worked for day
wages when a boy in Cincinnati, may
wizard spark from the storm cloud and
protect America from successful in
vason, if in a remote contingency one
should be attempted
1T would require more pages OF his.
tory to record the marked achievements
of men and women of Ohio than those
Of any other State. There never was a
crisis in America since Ohio was admit
ted to Statehood that her sons did not
stand in the forefront and bravely bear
the brunt OF battle for home. and State.
and country and the right while Ohio
women cheered and prayed and helped.
irio"te TO insurance Men.
Mr.. Daugherty paid tribute to insur-
ance mem and their work. He declared
life insurance softens more sorrows and
prevents more children and aged people
from becoming objects of charity than
any other institution managed by men.
On preparedness the speaker said;
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