The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Life insurance agents.
 some of us can remember when the status of the life insurance agent was not what 1t Is today.
 In It's Infancy a man who sold life in- surance was considered to be just bit of a nuisance and failed to get a proper hearing.
 But now all this is changed. Life in surance is a profession and it takes brains, study and push to be a success full agent
 Some of the brightest and most sub stantiai'1nen in the country are now num- bered in the ranks of the solicitors while the executives are men of the highest ability.
 Today, June s, has been named by Secretary of Treasury McAdoo as life in- srrance mems day to sell liberty bonds. The National Association of Life Under writers, in accordance with the govern ment's wishes, has requested that all members on that day devote their entire time to the selling of the bonds.
 Birmingham. as usual, falls in line be- hind every worthy cause and so all the members of the Birmingham Association of Life Insurers are out hard at work to make a record.
 It will be easy for them to sell liberty bonds. It's but an easy thing to switch from providing for one's family to stand ing by ones country and they will ha5 mer in the need to do it good and stroa
 
 Now IS they are so unseifishiy Tir ing to speak a Ao'-r
 ance. I think it a good time to call attention to it's virtues.
 The insured man continues to prev for his family long after he has e.. to live. The continuance of the pay r envelope after the death of the N. earner is no fantasy but comfort fact to the loved ones left behind. 
 We are having a i.o.ne bdyns pagn and we have had mothers da IL seems to me that we ought soon to have a life insurance week wnen It's necs should be set forth in telling and !l pressive way.
 It may not be the proper thing in higi- society to frame the marriage certfcat. It might be embarrassing but in some humble homes where husband and wife expect to live together until parted by death it is frequently done. Highbrows may laugh as they please, call it vulgar, but it has been proven in many cases that couples can be happy though mar ride, and why be ashamed of advertising the fact?
 I started out with the single word, Life" but before I realized it I was writing about those who were or at least ought to be. coupled for life, for better or for worse, with all of the marriage cere- parties.
 
 Now, I'm going to get back to life in- surance It has been pithily said:
 "The very best wedding gift that a young husband can make his bride Is an insurance policy. It carries with it a conviction of starting out right; it is a guaranty that living or dead his protec- ton still will be the constant atmos- phere of her life. The wedding ring may bear it's consecrating inscription, Yours while life lasts but the policy tells of love not ended with life, of love that spreads over her the wings of guardian ship even from beyond the grave
 Furthermore, even so conservative a counsellor of women as the Delineat tor wisely remarks:
 Wives are often infected with strange hesitancy, an oversensitive delicacy, in preaching the subject of insurance to their unspeaking husbands They fear that the suggestion might be misinter- preted, that they might be deemed mer- cenary or some other wildly improbable thing; so in a really cowardly way, that throws into eclipse their own rights and their duty to their children, they suffer in silence what they feel is a slight of loves consideration.
 
 Now, listen to this. It's warning and it ought to be acted upon by every bride. Their simplest expression on the sub ject might have acted as an alarm clock on the sleeping conscience of the hus- band, wakened him to his duty and stirred him to instant action. The result of this would have been greater peace of mind to all concerned, and hardly mo- ticeable increase of present expenditure It is vital that the insurance question should by all means be solved as early as possible in married life
 Now, l know I'm boosting life insur- ance and I don't mind confessing that I'm booster for married life, but hope that every husband and particularly every father who is called to- serve his country will be protected by life in surance policy.
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