The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-05
Child WeIfare-Moose Insurance

NOW so long as you are alive you
know you a take care of the little
fellow n under my plan as soon as
you ole we VIII take over the job.
The money will continue to go to him
until he is at least twenty years old,
and consequently able to take care of
himself"
The young father thought it over.
Lets see, John; | am thirty-fve
years old and l will probably live for
W years more. Forty times $4,000
is 100000. That is what | will have
to pay in. You pay the little fellow
$4,000 a month, that is 100000 a year.
$12,000.00. In other words | pay you
100000 or less and you pay my baby
S12,000.00. Sounds like it is pretty
fair to my mind. Let's walk along
while | think it over"
After the friends had proceeded
down the street a block or so the
young father turned suddenly and
placed his hand on Johns shoulder.
All right, old man." he said I'll pay
you the $153.50 per year until | die;
but $1,000 per month is a lot of money.
l do not want the little fellow to have
too much. / simply want him to have
enough; and instead of your paying
him $4,000 per month | want you to
make the contract provide that you
will pay him $500 per month. But
there are four things | want you to
put in that contract that you will
agree to do for my son. First, he
must have such an education as will
prepare him in the hand as well as in
the brain so that at the age of 20
years he will be able to go out into
the world and earn at least $4,000 a
week in some recognized trade or pro-
fession. Second, he must have a good
high school education. Third, he must
be taught to remember who his father
and mother were, where they lived,
what their names were and told fire.
quently that they loved him and pro-
vided this protection for him; and
fourth, he must be taught to worship
God in the same manner and form as
did his father and mother before
him. You put these four things in
the contract, John, and give the little
fellow $500 per month and l will
pay the S153.50 per year until | die"
The insurance man smiled and shook
his head sadly. Its a great idea you
have there, old timer, but it can't be
done. No place in the world can you
insure the integrity of the human
soul. You pay US money, we will pay
you money. We are not going to
guarantee that your boy will have a
vocational education; maybe he would
not like it. We are not going to
guarantee the boy will receive a high
school education; maybe he will insist
on quitting school. We are not going
) to contract to tell him who you were
or where you lived; maybe the trus-
tees would forget all about it. And
we are not going to contract that he
will worship God at all, let alone wor-
ship God i'll the manner and form you
do. No, jim, there is no place in the
world where you al buy that kind of
insurance. 1t is not for SALE"
The young father went down the
street to his office sad at heart to
think that when for the first time in
his life he had really wanted to pur-
chase a protection in the way of in
surance that he could not buy the one
thing that he knew would save his
child.
He went on up the stairs to his desk
and was thinking on these things when
he remembered that some weeks be-
fore he had joined a fraternal society.
He had not been very attentive to the
ritualistic ceremony and had to admit
he did not get most of the lessons but
he remembered that after the regular
initiation the presiding officer of the
lodge had made a speech about child
- 81 4Ls11 ra,.xsaa n-I cA +hn
young father took down the phone and
called up this gentleman.
"Say, Henry" he said over the
phone, 81 joined that lodge of yours
the other night and in that speech you
made after the initiation you said
something about child service. AS
remember it you said that if the worst
came to the worst with the members
of the Order that there We're some
things that the child was entitled to
receive. What was it you said?"
And the voice came back over the
phone, 81 said that the child vas en-
titled to an education, preparing him
:, in the hand as well as in the brain so
: that at twenty years of age he would
be able to go out into the world and
t earn at least $4,000 per week at some
recognized trade or profession. l said
that he was entitled to receive a high
, school education and that he must be
taught to remember and revere the
memory of his father and mother, told
who they were, where they lived, what
their names were and constantly re-
minded that their dearest wish while
they were alive was that they might
themselves have lived and been en-
abled to prepare him for a good and
worthy manhood; and finally | said,
jim, that the child must be taught to
worship God in the same manner and
form as did his father and mother be-
fore him."
"Why, Henry" the young father
said, that is the same thing exactly
that ! have been trying to buy from
my friend, John, the life insurance
man. l offered S153.50 a year for it
and he said that that service could not
be hought any Mace for any price"