The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-11-06
WHAT the NEXT
LEGISLATURE COULD Do
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,.4 nv the City of MiSSOual Many thOuobt the NJ
% neOpIe were just obstructive reactiOnaTies a a,
S the benefit of doubt and thought thew vUoro ot
~ Nv honest local motives.
ords ROtarianiSm runs rampant there and noEd
% dares tell of their local peril from fire + - =
ali known that the water pressure on the mains in Mic
"a is too low for eXtnguShing any serOus fire "a +h
srty or in the town. Standing on the sixth floor of
W. hding there, ObServant person notices the roso
r Tor catch baSn) about his own level on tha horh
across the Northern Pacific tracks The Montana Power
Sompany (AnaCOnda) this fair weather safety de-
ire In the memory of many, the largest hoteI there
has burned twice. magnificent high school once each
mrfagraiOn causing losses way up in the hundreds of
aS Rather than tell where the blame actually is the
mid pOpuace each time bames it's fire department. IF
This water system publicly owned one tax equal IN
hs annual premiums added by the fire companies would
lace an emergency pumping plant in the river canaho
presng button and folding any fire. There are other
tbeap methods. Il am not an engineer)
An act of the Legislature making privately owned
public service water companies responsible in damages
for failure Of quantity and pressure of water at fires
and making such judgments lien superior to any mort
gage bonds would quickly relieve the peril under which
our MSSOula citizens live, due to their habit of licking
the corporate boots that kick them with such law on
the statute books and MsSOula relieved from this peril
which from private ownership that prefers divi
dS to service the State of Montana could safely enact
real production for use state fire insurance law.
The Board of Examiners, Elective officers Governor
Attorney General Secretary of State should be empower
ed hire CHIEF adJuSter and architect to Vaua-
tons and determine with the Fire Marshal. The pre-
NUNS at ordinary private company rates at first should
paid by cities towns, counties school districts into
fund until it reached million and One-haH million dal-
hB WatChmen should be placed at all times in the
larger structures to shoot ncendareS friendly to private
foreign insurance companies When the wonderful saw
hg from this plan realized the law could be sup
pemented by a state owned fire insurance company
wherein just the state now nsures against loss by
hail. II would then insure against loss by fire.
WHAT WOULD RE THE SAVINGS To MONTANA
PEOPLE? During twenty-seven years. according to
act figures kept in the state auditors office, fire insur
ace companies absorbed from Montana people, in pre-
NUNS, $92 $685.. The companies paid back in fire
losses in the state in the period, $45, 4O7 O38.O7
@ng balance In favor of the fire insurance business
lO2 percent or 46,892,52579 And there was in
VeStment at ALL only line Of credit and stationary
ana good line of high power sales talk. However, Life
insurance is twice god racket. In twenty-five years
ue insurance companies got from 1924 202 48O.2O and
d US back only $S4, 19349. Their balance favor
Soe was $S9 $50 percent investment
wonder Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court of the
United States says that "fe Insurance is the present
menace to the Nation"
The SIMPLEST WAY TO BEAT THE LIFE INSUR-
A HI RACKET IS BY OLD AGE PENSION-TO ALL