Middletown transcript., 1919-03-15
MAKE VICTORY LOAN
AN OLD AGE PROP
Young Mans Chance to Evade
Mldd|e-Life Dependency.

Any young man who will take a
minute to study the tables upon which
insurance companies base their risks
will find therein an incentive for
making he biggest possible investment
in the Victory Liberty Loan.
The tables were compiled to enable
insurance men to get reliable death
rate averages. But in their prepara-
ton very interesting facts were also
established bearing upon the earning
capacity and ultimate fortunes of the
subjects kept under observation.
1t should point moral to every
young man to learn that in one hun
dred cases upon which are based
many important Insurance figures, only
five of the subjects died possessed Of
sufficient means to pay for their own
funerals.
When observation was begun, one
hundred men Of good health and
standing, aged twenty-five years, were
selected. Their careers were follow
ed through life At the age of As
sixteen were dead, fifteen were no
longer self-supporting, sKty-ive were
still able to work but had no other
means of support than their wages,
and only four were wealthy.
Think of it! Only four per cent
of these young men, who started in
the prime Of life under the same cir
cumstances, in the same town, with
the same health and the same oppor-
tunities, reached the age of As with
means to enable them to face with
confidence the downhill path Of de-
Ginning years.
At SIS years thirty were dependent
upon children, relatives or charity. AT
65 only ten of them, including the
four wealthy men, were still self
supporting. And at Is, sixty-thfee of
the original 100 were dead without
leaving any estate and all of the
others, excepting the few possessing
wealth, were supported by their chill
dren, their relatives or by charity.
These are no imaginary instances,
but hard, matter-of-fact illustrations
upon which the biggest insurance COM
panies Of the country stake their re-
sources.
There is a wonderful sermon to
young men in thi little story. 1t is
taken from the Book of Life and it
breaches Thrift. Unless the habit Of
saving is acquired in youth the pros
poets of reaching Old age with COM
petence are very poor.
No better means of saving is offered
to the young men of the country than
that presented by the Victory Liberty
Loan. You can share in the loan on
the easiest terms imaginable. In buying
you will be taking the first step
toward providing for your old age.
Perhaps it may be the foundation Of
q fortune.
Take heed of the unfortunate ex-
periences Of others. The law of av-
erages never goes wrong. 1t has point
ed an infallible moral in the case Of
the one hundred young men Of in
surance study and observation.
Don't drift into old age pennileSs al
they did. Subscribe to the Loan!
Ventilation.
The mayor Of Terre Haute the other
day appointed a number Of the city
schoolma'ams to do special police duty,
such as to seeing to the ventilating Of
stores, etc.. says the Indianapolis
News. Miss Margaret Kilroy, a high
school teacher. being one Of those ap-
pointed. visited q number Of stores. In
one the manager became indignant as
she explained the necessity Of his do
ing more ventilation. why, it's very
warm herA" she complained, unbutton-
ing her coat and revealing 4 goorgetto
crepe waist.