The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Beebe's Column,
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s. Beebe, district manager,

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Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
Blackfoot, IDAHO.
My Dear Sir:
| wish to thank you for the kind
invitation to attend your meeting
held on January % of the policy
holders in the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance company which you repre-
sent in this city-and of which /
gladly availed myself. l want to say
| that this was one of the greatest
meetings l ever have attended, not
from the standpoint of numbers ex-
actly, but from the principle in
volved. Something had never seen
nor heard of before, an invitation
from representative of life in
surance company to it's policy holders
to meet with and discuss the merits
or dement's of the policy he had
written for them. | was curious to
witness the results as | expected to
find at least some little dissatisfac-
ton and misunderstanding among so
many policy holders, about so large
subject.
There were about eighty policy
holders from some 200 invitations
sent out, | learned, who were present
at the meeting, which led me to be-
|lieve the balance must be well salts
fed and having a thoro understand
ling of the policies. And after an eX-
|planation, and demonstration of the.
working of mutual benefit policy,
was indeed surprised to find that
every policy holder in the meeting
had already complete understand
ing of his policy as it was demon
strated by you. Not a single voice
said, Il did not understand it that
way" or that the minutest detail had
been misrepresented in any particu
lar. All was harmony and satisfac-
ton.
How | wish ! could say to every
young man in this community that
policy in such company as this
is the greatest opportunity that your
life presents today. Imagine your
self struggling thru long weary years
to create an accumulation of say
two, five, ten or twenty-five thousand
dollars by placing small amount of
your earnings each month in saw
ings account, without any positive as
surance of your accomplishing it if
you live, and none whatever if you
should die before your natural ex-
pectancy, and allow an opportunity
to escape whereby with stroke OF
a pen, and the payment of a small
premium, according to the size Of the
nrfof 70 hox cnf n
which will be your first deposit in a
great mutual savings bank, you can
create in advance, and live or die, it
is a positive and assured fact.
/ wonder il young men ever think
what it would mean for some great
financial institution to say to you:
Deposit with us small sum each
year, which judiciously handled will,
by the time you reach the age of
fifty-five or sixty years, create fund
of ten or twenty-five thousand, and
we will issue you stock in that
amount in advance and allow you to
participate in all the benefits derived
therefrom; and when you have
reached this age, we will take back
the stock and pay you the cash, or il
you die before that time, we will pay
it to your estate You would never
expect any financial institution to-
make such an offer as this, yet it is
exactly what the mutual benefit is
Offering you today. Investigate this
and IL you want the truth Iof it con-
firmed, "See Beebe." In my younger
days no such opportunity existed, or |
If it did, it was never brought to my
notice. Had l taken advantage OF |
such proposition as this l would
today at my age, be reaping the bene-
fit therefrom. And we see men
us every day, who had ambi-
lions in their young life to accumu-
late something for their declining
years, who nave failed utterly and
when thru life insur-
ance policy such as the Mutual
Benefit offers there is no such word
Is failure-it is an accomplished fact
rom the very beginning.
Again l wish to thank you for the
privilege of attending that glorious
Meeting and I wish to suggest that
n the future you continue to bring
he members together for mutual
presenting the benefits
If life insurance policy to the pub
ic. You should call attention to it's
in the everyday business
ife of the citizens.
In these days a mans thousands
ire often measured by the amount
II life insurance he carries. If he
las no other collateral, 1t is an asset
lpon which he can borrow money,
should a time Of need come. If
nan becomes sick, tho he has moth