Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-11-29
PRICE. FIVE CENT.
a COIORED LIFE AND CASUALTY
INSURANCE. COMPANY.
a Nashville Corporation Increases
Capital Stock.

CalhtHA SpoCR-
1t was decided at a rcGeat meet
ing of tho directors Of tho Life and
Casualty Insurance Company to call
n meeting OF the stockholders to au.
thoriZc an increase in the capital
stock from 100000. to $500, 600. Nash
vile feels a special interest in the
success Of the Life and Casualty a
home corporation organized sixteen
years ago in n small way, which has
grown until it's assets now amounts
to something like a million dollars.
Starting i'll 10 write small industrial
or weekly payment life and sick bene
III policies only, they now write q
1ull line OF the larger ordinary poll
cles as complete as those issued by
the Eastern companies. Not only Nash
vile but the entire South may we'll
he proud Of the Life and Casualty
now ono OF the largcst insurance com,
panics in tho Southern states- Upon
inquiry it was learned that the Eross
income OF tho company ia estimated
at over three million and a. half dol
lars this year
Our representative WINS Informed
that over thousand men. arc active
~ employed in field work and over
hundred people at the home office
Ill NASHVILLE are required 10 enter
and keep track OF the business writ
ten.
me company's motto, 'Winners,
DON'T Knock, Knockers U0n'e- Win %
SHOWS one OF the underlying reasons
Vi tho company's success: as does its
SlrlcC observance OF the Golden Rule
as u working principle oS tho hasi.
ness.
inc Lie and Casualty Ia reeonfxetl
ny other Insurance companies ax
leader along lines OF practical wei.
, tare work for policyholaesx faeld
men and Office help. The frre xronn,
insurance idea for fSela reurssenta.
.,Vos was first put I'm operation by
the Lie and Casualty and Later adopt
cd ny other companies Anans the
welfare work among offiae enployes
are a cafeteria rest roSm superyised
! vocal and calisthenic ciassex, social:
evenings and practical relief work
through cooperation with charitable
organizations The largest depart-
ment recently started being two
tloors Of tho annex fitted ap as loiig
ing rooms for women employees and
other business women.
! Educational and industrial training
lor colcred boys and girls will be
gwen in new school that will be.
opened January 1. In the building
formerly occupied by tho Florence
Crittenden Homo on Ewing avenue
| in South Nashville
a. M. Burton. president Of the
Life and Casualty Co., has purchased
the building and will have charge OF
the school. Mr.. Burton proposes to
locate and interest intelligent and
deserving youths, both boys and girls
and offer them an opportunity TOR
an education and n practical train
ing that will fit them to become cau
able wage-earners-
Domestic servants are now heingS
paid from Sc to So per week with
board in Nashville and tho employ-
ers in the city will welcome a chance
to get bright boy or girl duriag the
busy hours for from SO to S4 with
Doard. The plan is to make sched-
nle allowing the hours from 6 to 8
A. M, and from S to 2. M. for work
in homes, for which graded record
will be kept. The remaining hours
will be divided up into recitation,
preparation, recreation and rest pert
ods.
Mr.. Burton's plans for tho school
are practical rather than theoretical
training the hands as we'll as tho
mind; building for intellect; cs,arae-
ter and usefulness.
(MasiUi11a RannnrN