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Till: TXDTAXAPOUS STAH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1923. FEW OF MANY WHO HAVE ARRANGED INDIANA INSURANCE DAY. .4 4 I.cft Ilighf Herbert Hnrr, rhnlrman publicity committee; Harry r. I-'raier, Evansville, member program committee; Inlng Williams, member publicity committee; R.

M. Hennessy, member executive committee; Joseph G. Wood, secretory executive committee; Joseph W. Stickncy, chairman registration committee; t'liarles Y. I5ean, member executive committee; Paul W.

Knowles, member publicity committee; C. D. Lasher, chairman speakers' committee; D. J. O'Keefe, Fort Wayne, member entertainment committee; Raymond C.

Fox, chairman entertainment committee; Frank L. Jones, member executive committee, and If. J. Hanley, chairman reception committee. Eleven various committees with ninety-four active members formed the organization that so successfully arranged the second Indiana Insurance day.

Wank L. Chandler, whose picture appears elsewhere in The 8tar, was general chairman of the organization and has warm words of praise for the hearty co-operation given him in this, one of the largest gatherings of Insurance men ever assembled in Indiana. ft 1 ii I i AV 1 1 '1 1 Jb i 1' is I' Lik ZiLJ tlvs in the fleM slve evfry Indication that In so far ns It lie within their CONVERTS GREASE HEARTY RESPONSE CREATIVE AGENT constructed, the mortars, the iron chests, the smaller cannon, the heap of huge iron cannon supports, the pyramids of cannon balls, wr all brought there by sheer force of human arms. NTO MOTOR FUEL ASSURES MEETING CANADA SENDS WHEAT TO NATIONALITIES OTTAWA, Ontario. Canada exported 26,082,000 bushels of wheat to 17 different countries during the month of November, according to a report of the Dominion bureau -of statistic.

Next to the United Kingdom, which took 20,675,000 bushels, the next bst customer was The Netherlands with 1,053,000 bushels. Germany took bushels; Japan, 97B.O00 bushels; Russia, 81.000 bushels; Lettonla, bushels, and British South Africa, 74,500 bushels. tween them the molecules of each hydro-carbide. "Let me make two comparisons, one borrowed from toxicology and the other from everyday life: "There are some poisonous substances which, when mixed together, form an inoffensive product, and which, divided, become, once again violent poisons. Thus the hydro-car-bldel of maaout or grease cornblned together will not burn, but once separated, they become combustible.

Or, for another example, take a. thick log of hard wood and try to set it afire. You find that your efforts are in vain. But cut it up into chips and It will burn like a match. This petroleum residuum which I use is similar in that respect to the log.

Confident of Success. "Comparisons are only comparisons, but all the same there are facts to bear out what I say. My experiments, officially supervised, at first encountered an amount of general skepticism simply because they upset existing ideas, but little by little they gained the confidence of those who witnessed them. "It is two years now since they first began to examine the effects of my apparatus, giving me heavyand impure oils to work with and setting me all kinds of tests. If my invention were an illusion I would have been dismissed at the end of a week." CHRISTOPHE HAD GRAND PALACE OF FIVE STORIES NEW YORK Christophe's palace of SAns Souci, on the island of Haiti, was once one of the most ornate and most commodious structures in the Western hemisphere, and is now the most massive and probably the most Impressive single ruin in America.

Chrlstophe was the negro King of Haiti from 1811 to 1820. The palace was five stories high, built of natlvu brick and plaster, It included a great ballroom, an immense billiard hall, separate suites for the Emperor and his black consort, and apartments for the Immediate royal family. The palace was bounded by heavy stone walls, and on the inside were hollowed out sentry boxes. The mighty stone walls are twenty feet thick In many cases. Cannons of the largest makes known when the fortress was constructed are found everywhere.

Many bear the royal arms of Spain's most famous monarchs, says the Detroit News. Tradition has it that Chrlstophe mounted 305 cannon of large caliber in the citadel of Sans Souci. high above the level. Yet not only these, writes Harry A. Franck in "Roaming Through the West Indies," but uncounted mammoth blocks of stone of which the acres of the thick walls are DISCARD DOLLIES FOR BOXING GIMS Russian Engineer Declares New Process Solves Gasoline Problem.

PARIS The problem of motor fuel In France, as elsewhere throughout the world, is very serious. Every effort Is being made in this country to discover some means of supplying the nation's needs without importing gasoline from abroad. For this reason a great deal of Interest has been aroused by the experiments of Ivan Makhonine, the Russian engineer, who claims to be able to transform any kind of oil or grease into a special fuel which will operate any motor. Competent au thorities have been examining the work of Makhonine and high hopes are held out tha the gasoline problem Is about to be solved. A recent interview in "Paris Soir" gives the best idea of what the Russian engineer has done and hopes to do.

Mr. Makhonine said "Military examiners gave me a very heavy oil, of which the ebullition point was B30 degrees. It contained residues of oiling grease, in fact the crudest kind of cart grease, without the slightest commercial value, yet this as yet unnamed product, changed into a highly combustible fuel, was sufficient to set In motion without difficulty an or dinary tractor motor, and at the same time to increase greatly its power. Smoke Is Klimlna-tod. "And all this without any smoke from the motor and without the mechanism getting clogged up or causing any danger of explosion.

My carbu-rant is inflammable at any ordinary Opressure and can not burn in the cylinder. This has been verified by the committee, which admits the genuineness of my claim. "I make use of an appliance of my own invention, very light and of small volume, which Is placed between the tank and motor and which transforms this fuel oil, grease, mazout or'cart grease Into a carurant just as efficient as petrol. It Is a double operation, at the same time physical and chemical. It consists of separating the thousands of hydro-carbides which combine together to form the grease which I use, and then to group be INDIANA AGENTS YOU KNOW US American Ins.

of Newark, N. J. Columbia Fire Ins; of Dayton, 0. AGENTS WANTED WHERE NOT REPRESENTED RICHMAN AND BAWDEN, State Agents LON D. McCONNELL, Farm State.

Agent 705 Occidental Bldg. INDIANAPOLIS powir to present splendid gain In the estimation and esteem of the Insuring Kn iife aent is iooUe' tiirlan character of hi business rom- pellcd recognition to the extent that ninny of our great universities have, established courses In Ufa insurance for his special benefit and for the preparation of young men entering this Important field. "For the Improved commercial and socliil standing of the Insurance so licitor as compared with his position come yenrs ac grout credit is due the life underwriters associations of this country, if our occupation Is not a profession, it Is at least one of th- most dignified nod respected 'of ronimeivlal callltiKS, so therefore thai within recent years there has been developed a species of life Insurance peddler which If permitted to increase may soon set at naught nil the laudable efforts that have been and are now being expended to place life Insurance, on I ho plane of the professions. "The extension of the heneflts of life Insurance, like the extension of the benefits of the church and the Christian religion, have Always been dependent, and always will be de- ndent, upon a military organization of earnest ami enthusiastic men who either for hope of financial reward or of heavenly favor labor to overcome men's prejudices and make them em-braoe the Jirlnclples which they expound. Orwmttve Tnlent Sought.

"It Is not easy to make new converts of life Insurance or converts to an adequate amount of life Insurance protection. A man of more than ordinary talents, enthusiasm and vision must be employed to educate men to the big service that life insurance can anil docs render to humans and human affairs. Such men must be financially rewarded according to their creative and constructive ability, and unless 0 rewarded by life Insurance companies they will and must employ their talents In other lines of endeavor. "Without the creative, constructive nd comprehending life Insurance id-vocate there cin be no material "x-tenslon of life Insurance service. No life company executive who knows enough about our business to be entitled to draw a salary from it v.lll dispute that statement.

"Until within comparatively recent years the rates of premium charged by the various companies were prnc-tlcally the same and the compensation for the placing of policies was not materially different. 'Die contest for business was staged on servlcfl and returns to the policyholder. Agents were becoming skilled advocates of the doctrine of life Insurance and the difference in the service to be rendered, not the difference In the Initial premium to be paid, was the deciding point In the prospective applicant's mind when his patronage was sought by competing agents, and It Is not amiss to say that the comparative business standing and reputation of the agents was frequently a deciding factor. 'Today a changed condition con- fronts the Insurance agent and the insurance applicant. Price, not service or the ability and probity of the agent, is becoming a controlling factor in the securing of application, and unquestionably the price peddler Is Kiiawlng at the vltnls of the creative, service-rendering agent.

Trie Peddlers Hurt. "To Illustrate: The creative agent arouses in the mind of the prospect a deire for life Insurance or more life The prospect begs time to think It over, and while thinking It over is visited by an agent, the prime object of whose call is not. life Insurance and who after falling to interest him In his wares, says: 'If you should happen to want any life insurance I have something that can't be Mr. Prospect 19 thinking of life Insurance, so he says: 'What have you The price-peddling mendl-eaJit then produces his ratebook and you know the rest of tho story. "It Is the creative agents, my friends, the men with the true vision of life Insuronce service, that have made and munt continue to make the great American life insurance companies and If It should come to pass, as the tendency to which I refer Indicates that It may come to pass, that companies in the heyday of their success and affluence shall lie encouraged to forget that Innumerable army of creative agents upon whose shoulders their foundations test and their nroc ress depends, desertions from that to the point of weakening it i'' orcllr, recruits shall be foi-nd wan nc.

"When you discourage lha creative ji-on-i-diinn me insurance agent you Impede the progress of life insurance. and to thus stay the of this 1C DC DArlf DflMw Head of Illinois Life Pays Tribute to Genius and Dep- recates "Price Peddling Raymond W. Stevens, president of the Life Insurance Company, leaking befor. the Indiana Insurance day convention yesterday, praised the modern, creative agent and warned apainst the effect of the "price peddler." He said "When the President of the United States, speaking on behalf of our people, declared that we were at war with the imperial (lennan government, plans were speedily put Into operation that soon brought peace with honor to the American flag; and among the earliest of the major war winning proposals -was life Insurance for those brave boys who planted the Stars and above the broken battlements of autocracy. "Winn the call to the colors came and training camps and cantonments were' organlied, the business of life insurance was represented not only creditably but with honor by the nuni-hr and the caliber of the life Insurance men in uniform.

When the call for money came the legal reserve life insurance comjnnles, under no pressure and without urging, promptly Invested to the extent of their ability their available cash resources In Liberty bonds and immediately begaji shaping their finances for future pur-chsses. "When It was found necessary to the fullest success of our government Insurance plan to carry the message of Its advantages and benefits to the Individual members of our armies, life insurance men In military service delivered that message, so enthuslastlral-lv and to effectively to aatound us HI when we read the figures that told of their achievements. Agents Fill Banks. "When the call came for volunteers to carry on an Intensive canvass for the sale of Liberty bonds, life insurance men came marching strong, and how well they upheld their reputation for being the best sidesmen In the world is a matter of public record, and when our boys came marching Lome victorious and triumphant, we f-amd that of those who won the distinguished service medals, the clu-v-irns and the straps, no business, trade i profession showed a higher per- cf mn engaged than did the of life insurance: sine inltio-resourcefulness, determination i leadership, qualities hic make a distinguished military career, among the first attributes of the if, jr.s'irance man. Wll'iani j.

Mc.Vloo understood the i-reat advantage of life insurance, for ti.ose n.en who were rlsklnc nd lavirc hdr lives that lih-. 'rty ri.aU not perish from this earth, 'n i 'Knew that it was impossible for Me jiff insurance companies t() nwr, at s0''h mot as our soMirs arid 'ii!" i hear. th xtraordlnn ry lUk of engagement In war; therefore. re. and speedily had a wr insurance measure which shall tatnl ns a monument for all time to the cnerous appreciation which we of these Vnlted States have for those who have their all that our nation might live In honor ami security.

"To life Insurance men of the right sort no greater Inspiration and reason for self-gratulatlon was ever given than the unqualified and magnificent indorsement of their business and their work by the adoption of the government plan for the Insurance of soldiers and sailors. Life Insurance for those, who ventured the supreme sacrifice was among the first of the war-winning measures to receive the earnest consideration and early action of Congress, and In effect, when adopting its Insurance plan, our government, through Its great leaders, said that an Insured citizen is a better, a more efficient and a more reliable cltljcn than the one who Is uninsured. Renders Heal Servlre. "It truly is a great thing to be a life insurance, man these davs a real life Insurance man. Upon no other peace- time business has our government eve placed such a high mark of approval as it placed upon the business of life Insurance, and never since Its OFRISKBUSINESS I i Various Insurance Bodies, Agents and Companies Post Guaranty.

One of the Interesting features of arrangements for 1025 Insurance day was the raising of the $2,600 guaranty fund which was regarded as necessary to hold the convention. Last year the meeting was held at a loss, which was taken from tne treasury of the Indiana Insurance Federation, and to avoid a repetition It was decided to guarantee an amount to provide against a loss In the conducting of the various expenses of the meeting. This fund was raised almost Immediately at a meeting of the general committee. Contributors to the guaranty fund Included Insuranc Federation of Indiana; TraveUrs Insurance Company; Stone, Stafford and Stone; American Central Life Insurance Company; re. gistratlon committee; Meyer-Klsor bank; C.

D. Lasher; George W. Pang- born; Frank L. Jones; G. A.

Rams-dell; P. W. Simpson; Plnkus, Mills and Plnkus; Indianapolis Association of Life Underwriters; T. L. Locke; It.

M. Hennessy; Loreni Schmidt and Sons; R. H. Espey; H. J.

Hadley; W. J. Greenwood; Irving "Williams; Arthur AVells; H. L. Barr; AV.

W. Davenport, Travelers Insurance Company; R. AV. Dorn, Travelers Insurance Company; D. E.

McDonald; Aetna Insurance Company; C. A. Mc-Cotter; O. J. Smith; Union Trust Company; E.

R. Shoemaker; Fidelity and Deposit Company; Farmers Trust Company; N. H. Richardson; Public Havings Insurance Company; William Seyler; C. O.

Janus; E. J. Scoonover; State Savings and Trust Company; Cooling-Grumme and Mumford; W. A. Courtwrlght; Greene and Layton George H.

Moore and Company; White. Wright and McKay; The Spann Company; Don R. Sidle; Elbert Storer; K. E. Flicklnger; Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Com-pnny; Aetna Trust and Savings Company; Security Trust Company; John Rellly: Lincoln National Life Insurance Company; Indiana Insurance Society; M.

C. Buckingham Harry P. Krazler; Gregory and Appel; K. IX Weaver; Hough Notes Company; Farmers Trust Company, Anderson, Ind. Indianapolis Life Insurance Company; Theodore Stein A.

L. RIggsbee; State Automobile Insurance Association; John Fitzgerald; J. G. Wood; Russell T. Byers; Washington Bank and Trust Company.

500 MILES OF ROADS COMPLETED -IN ALBERTA EDMONTON, Alberta About 400 miles of main highways were com pleted In Alberta during 1821 under the five-year program authorized by the Legislature last session, which contemplates a total expenditure of $3,500,000. The work was done on the chief tourist highways In the province, and as a result a total of has been earned by the province of the federal aid grant. Next year's program contemplates the building of about miles of highway. ENGLAND WILL MAKE FOX RAISING EXPERIMENT CHArtLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island. A dispatch from Ixndon states that England's first venture in silver fox farming will get tinder way soon, as a result of a shipment of twenty pair of foxes from the Island to the old country.

The. forty animals, which cost $10,000, will be Installed on fl plot of ground near Oxford, and it Is claimed by the promoters that the climate of England Is ideally suited for the rearing of silver foxes. BANNER POTATO CROP FOR EXPORT EXPECTED ST. JOHN, New Brunswick According to the official estimate of the provincial department of agriculture, the province will have available for export this year about 5,000,000 hundredweight of potatoes which, at 70 cents a barrel of 1C0 pounds, would mean a revenue of more than for the growers. This year's banner crop has made avallablo for export about 30 per cent more than last season.

NEW YORKERS PLAN BIG HOTEL IN OTTAWA, CAN. Ottawa, Ontario. New York Interests, operating a chain of prominent CHILD CLINGS TO BOOK AS HE DjES IN FIRE NEW YORK A child's picture book, charred and frayed, will be treasured by Mrs. Molly Elsenblatt 631 '(last Eleventh street, as long as she lives. It wdll bring to mind her fifth and youngest child, Nathan, 4 years old, who died while learning to read out of the volume.

He was pouring over a picture when a fire of mysterious origin swept the apartment, and when the flames were extinguished Nathan was found suffocated by the smoke. The boy was breathing faintly when they found him in the bedroom, face downward, on the floor. His picture book was clasped tightly to his breast. Efforts to force respiration failed, although physicians worked over him an hour. Mrs.

Eisenblatt was in the hall, speaking with her aunt and neighbor, Mrs. Rose Foreman, when smoke poured' out of her apartment in a huge black cloud. Frantically rushing to save her child, she was held back by her aunt and other neighbors. She collapsed by the time firemen put the blaae out. The four older children were at school at the time and the father, a tailor, was at work.

the REX HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY of INDIANAPOLIS J. H. TOY, rres, O. EWELL, Sec. Phonejjlncoln 6953 B.

B. BRINSON WEbster 5942 Illinois Bankers Life 7' im 76 i Bronx Girls' Greatest Aspirations These Days Is to K. 0. Teacher. NEW TORK It used to be only the biggest and worst boys in the school who aspired to land one on teacher's Jaw, but now even the girls put on the gloves and jab at his chin.

Yes, It has come to this with the young person. Instead of sniffling in the back row while that awful Tommla Burns tried to lick the new ichool-master, Battling Bessie of 6-B today throws off her white sweater, steps forth in bloomers and middy blouse, selects a tender looking ppot on teacher's Jaw and lets swing with all her might. Of course, she doesn't land It. No girl has ever achieved that glory yet, but some day a champion will rise up In the northern Bronx who will catch the big man off his guard and put public school No. 12 and its boxing girls on the map for evermore.

The girl who first knocks out Dr. John F. Condon, principal and boxing master of P. S. 12, will get more publicity than any fighting female since Delilah blew the whistle on Bamson, and even she didn't meet him In a fair flight, but sneaked up on him with scissors while he was asleep.

Boxing Gloves Supplant Dolls. The little girls of P. S. 12 aro not afraid of any. man three times their nlze since the boxing lessons began, and while It may be more peaceful in the streets of that furthest north in the Bronx, on the borders of Pelham Bay park, it is a fact that life In the home is not what it used to be.

Whereas the Young Person used to curl up beside the radiator with a spelling book after supper, or even with a doll, if the truth were told, they say that evening is) the sparring; hour in the best regulated Bronx homes now, and If Uncle Henry, who used to hold the proud title of ban tamweight champion of Hunt's point, drops in for a quiet game of pinochle he Immediately Is attacked by Bantam Bessie and her gang. The little girls all asked Santa Claus to bring them boxing gloves instead of vanity cases for Christmas. proud Amazons already own their own. The lessons In boxing were undertaken by Dr. Condon, not to teach girls to fight, but to teach them to protect themselves, and to this end, when the thirty little, girls line up in the gymnasium and take partners for sparring, the Instruction is more on preventing the assailant from landinp a blow than on knocking her out.

Fights Off Man Assailant, "I see that one of the newspapers criticized me for teaching girls to fight," said Dr. Condon after the lesson yesterday, "but that's not the, point at all. Why, only a few nights ago, one of our girls was attacked on Pelham Bay parkway, and with the lessons in boxing which she had in this school she fought off a man twice her size. "I have had letters from over 100 parents of girls in this school asking me to instruct their daughters in the art of self-defense. 'We live In a very remote part of the district and I believe my daughter would be safer if she understood how to beat off an 'is the burden of the letters.

No girl has lessons without her parents' consent. "I teach the boys to defend themselves, too. That's been going on for years. I gave John Purroy Mltchel, the late mayor, his first lessons In boxing. If a boy knows how to defend himself with his fists he never thinks of using a weapon.

Again, If a boy knows how to fight he never strikes the first blow, because he knows what he lets himself in for, but if some one else strikes the first blow your trained fighter never lets him strike the last." The lessons in boxing consist of class drill In swinging with either arm, and both arms in rotation, in footwork, in shadow boxing, sparring with partners and finally as the climax to the lesson the head of the class Is invited to step up and knock the teacher on the Jaw if she can. "DEAD" HUSBAND RETURNS; INSURANCE PAID FUERAL jKEVV YORK Robert O'Donnnll, who turned up after spending some time in a hospital, to discover that during his absence his wife had identified as his the body of a drowned man, is still try'nff Ept Mrs- O'Donnell, who lives at 46 St. Paul's avenue, Stapleton, Staten island, to acknowledge over her signature that he Is alive. Each of them engaged counsel in the contro versy. Mrs.

O'Donnell and her relatives admitted informally when they saw O'Donnell that they had made a mis take and adorned a stranger with a funeral paid for by part of O'Donnell's insurance, but they refused to speak to the man they held responsible for the mistake, Mrs. O'Donnell referring: her husband to her attorney. O'Donnell in desperation has been to the police, the medical pxnmlner and the undertaker who had charge of his funeral, but none of them could help him. Mrs. O'Donnell wants to refund to the insurance company the amount of the Insurance consumed In the funeral and cancel the rest.

O'Donnell wants to continue the policy and make his son instead ot his wife the LIABILITY PROPERTY DA MAG COLLI SON I R.E THEFT AND CY LONE 1Mb Prot beginning has the business of life pret institution means greater inlrv I A -ral cities, a re Jnves Igat-insurance selling had the-opportunity tr) the ami the whole boo po Ue 'T 'f1 wlth and the encouragement to attain to than Polhlv It If the trend T1' 7 the dignified and respected a i increa" wVli i T' that is now enjoved bv those who are I ing o' the crest I Tc-eo Intent' to worthy; and the worthy represent-' Hon gent cmpensa-; eree a modern hostelry of fireproof i I construction having 2,10 rooms. progress i DEPENDABLE AUTOMOBILE SSURANCE SERVICE FIRST Cooling-Grumme-Mumford Co. General Agents Automobile, Burglary, Compensation, Fire and Tornado, Liability and Plate Glass Insurance. Take Up Rate or Contract Problems With Us Representing Leading Companies PAID TO POLICY HOLDERS 0 606,597 BLDG. HOME OFFICE OCCIDENTAL INDIAN APO UIS BRANCH OFFICE 47 American Central Life Bldg.

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