San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
GOVERNOR AIDS
SAN ANTONIO
IN WELCOME
Insurance Commissioners
VIII Meet Here Septem-
Der IA In Convention.

Extensive preparations are being
made by San Antonio insurance men
for the convention of State Insurance
Commissioners which will meet here
during Insurance Week, September IA
to 10. 1t will be the first time in
the history of Texas that these COM
missioners have met in this state. They
are the men who supervise the mil
lions of dollars invested by the pub
lie in insurance companies, policies
and investments of various kinds and
the Importance of such an assemblage
here is well understood by those who
hope to see vast sums invested in
Texas development.
State officials will actively support
the San Antonio insurance men in en-
PERTAINING the visitors and Governor
Ferguson probably will officially well
come them. She already has taken
official cognizance of the meeting and
has issued a proclamation designat-
ing as Insurance Week, the week of
September IA. Calling attention to
the vital part insurance in all lines
is playing in the modern world, the
governor declares that ''too much con-
sideration can not be given" to this
vital force by the people Of Texas
The proclamation says:
A VITAL FORCE.
"To the Citizens of Texas"
THE business of insurance enters
either directly or indirectly into the
affairs of the citizens of this state
more than that of any other CONNER
cial relation, and for this reason, too
much consideration can not be given
to this very vital and important mat
ter as it relates to the citizenship of
Texas.
Insurance beverages now reach al
most every activity of life and the
people Of this state are paying more
than $125,000,000 per year in insur.
ance premiums for protection. Fire,
life, limb, health, property, investment,
savings and estate are some of the
subjects for insurance, and the de-
tails run into hundreds of items.
Fire losses in this state alone ex-
coed S15,000,000 annually, and this
loss the people of Texas are called
upon to pay in the premium rates for
fire insurance. Casualty losses, bur.
glary, fidelity, surety, health and acct
dent and workman's compensation
losses run into millions of dollars in
this state each year, and insurance
carriers, fundamentally, only distribute
and pro rate the losses and the public
pays the bill.
STATE GUESTS.
During the week beginning Septem.
Der IA, and continuing through the
18th, the National convention of In.
surance Commissioners, together with
the National Association Of Fire Mar
shals of North America, will holC
their respective annual convention il
San Antonio, Texas, at which tint
there will be present the state super
vising officials of the several states
the State Fire marshals, company
executives, directors, attorneys, insur
ance journal representatives and rep
resentatives from Canada. These mel
will be the guests Of honor of the state
and in order that the people Of Texai
nav show their appreciation of tn
presence of the representatives, of tn,
great business of insurance, ], Miriam
A. Ferguson, governor Of Texas, here
by proclaim the week beginning Sep
TENDER IA, as Insurance Week il
Texas, and call upon all chambers o
commerce, all civic and commercial
organizations, all schools, colleges ant
universities, and all citizens TO observe
this week in honor of our distinguished
guests as Insurance Week.