Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-28
UNION CASUALTY
REPLY TOMORROW
Wood, Insurance Wizard" "
Prepares Answer to
0'Neil Attack
TO ExAMIN E WITNESSES

The answer OF the Union Casualty In
surance Company Third and Walnut
streets, one Of the insurance companies
taken over by the Consolidated Investment
Company whose assets. according 10 State
Insurance Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil.
consists OF blood-colored mahogany furni-
ture and piles Of handsomely engraved green
certificates. may be filed in the Dauphln
County Court at Harrisburg tomorrow.
Hearing on the application for receiver
In the Union Casualty Insurance case has
been set for December 10. Attorneys for
Lyndon u. Wood. Insurance wizard" are
at work today on the answer. The hearing
in the Pension Mutual Llfc Insurance case
will be held December ts
state Insurance Commissioner O'Neil is
comforting with the office Of the Attorney
General In Harrisburg going over the re-
ports Of examiners relating TO the affairs
Of the two companies.
It Is probable that several witnesses will
be subpenaed by Commissioner O'Neil for
the hearing when the affairs of the Pension
Mutual will be threshed out, Under the
laws Of the ComE; 1nwealth, Commissioner
O'Neil has the power to call any person
who, he thinks, can throw light in any
Insurance scandal Much speculation exists
as to the identity OF the witnesses who
may be called
Wood, who yesterday announced that his
Ht
town today from Harrisburg. He said that
he was satisfied with yesterdays outcome.
u am like n fighting king who fights
his enemies when they are trying to de-
throne him." was all that Wood would
say
An interesting piece Of literature on file
In the Offices OF Commissioner O'Neil came
to light today In the shape of n pamphlet,
entitled To the men and women of
America" This piece of literature was
found among lot OF dust-covered papers
dealing with Woods operations.
Under date OF October 10, 1914, Wood
wrote to former Insurance Commissioner
Charles johnson that he was sending the
pamphlet to insurance "prospects. He
speaks of the Pension Mutual as being the
only instrument through which the poor
can hope TO avoid spending the remainder
or their lives In the poorhouse.
The pamphlet reads as follows:
ITO the Men and Women OF America.
How? BY an old age pension.
ut is as certain as a Government, bond
1t VIII protect your age in the only sure
way. 1t will give you an income from the
uay when your earning power fails to the
DAY when your eyes close for the la
time. 1t will remove all doubt as to the
manner in which the latter DAYS of your
life may be spent, for II makes cortain
1t makes you as independent at eighty as
you are now at forty. Is not that worth
something?
mo one wants to be dependent upon
others however dear they may be however
willing they may be: however able thew
may be. There is only one sure way 10
prevent 1t and that is by an old age PEN
sion. POI"
NO one wants to go to the poorhouse.
There is only one sure way to prevent II,
and that Is by an old age pension.
NO one wants to worry in his old days
There is only one sure way to prevent II
md that is by an old age pension.
Every one wants to be sure of n hann,,
'are-free old age. There is only one way
o be sure of II. and that Is by providing |
gainst everything which will prevent II bv |
aldng out now sufficient protection against |
hose things in the form of an old age |
enslon.
Your first duty is to your family. Pro.
ect them as well as you can.
your second duty is to yourself. II ia |
ust as the first, and should be performed
after the first.
Don't delay IT any more than you woulo
clay providing for them.
There is only one company in America
rom which an old age pension can be
purchased"