The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
For Good of
 the Community

A LIFE insurance company IS ln the business of paying money over to the estates of those who carried policies in it during life. The other part of the business is getting the money with which to pay these claims from the living policy holders
 The longer the policyholder lives and the fewer of them die per annum the more money will the company have to pay on the estates of those who die and the larger reserves for emergencies.
 The Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany for years has been conducting health conservation work It has been through printed pages and through employment of skilled men and women going among the insured It has done for men, Wom- en and children in it's corporate capacity what they could not have done for them selves
 The United States Steel and other in- dustrial corporations do this work on a large scale. Tens of thousands of men, women and children lead happier lives and longer ones by reason of this work. Results speak for themselves. The eye alone tells the visitor to the modern min ing and mill village what the corporation is doing for it's workers.
 Back to the Metropolitan. Its health conservation work has borne cumulative fruit; greater yeilds each year. The 1920 record is the best. Summing up the results for that year the Metropolitan Life says:
 The low mortality record in 1920
 means that 38,000 fewer deaths oc- 7
 cured among Metropolitan indus
 trial policyholders than if the health {
 conditions of 1911 had prevailed,
 and 13,O00 fewer deaths than if the
 death rates of 1919 had occurred
 That many lives saved by telling and showing men how to live. That many fewer death claims paid by the company in 1920. That much more of human energy conserved for building up the world That much more of happiness and that much less of funerals and grave yards.
 The Metropolitan Life with truth re- marks:
 The outstanding fact in the record
 for 1920 is that health work pays
 whether conducted by governmental
 or by private bodies It means longer
 and happier lives for the great mass
 of the population engaged in the
 worlds work.
 It pays to be decent to the other fellow, because each depends on the welfare of the other. Insurance and industrial con cerns benefit quite as much as those for whom they do by doing for them.
 The Metropolitan reports 9 per cent lower death rate among it's insured wage earners in 1920 than in 1919 and 23 per cent lower one than in 1911. The death rate from tuberculosis in 1920 was IA per cent less than in 1919 and 40 per cent less than in 1911. The mortality from all ac- cidents in 1920 was one-fourth lower than in 1911 and 10 per cent lower than in 1919.
 The report is not all roseate, because nothing human is. Death rate for ma- ternal diseases and conditions associated with child-bearing is no better. The com pany is going after this evil and in the end should attain the same results as in other health conservation steps taken.
 This concern has sixteen million policy holders of one kind and another. It is this mass of men and women whose health it seeks to safeguard. In doing that work it is conserving it's own resources as well. All are better off when mutual interests are considered and cared for