Show I Adversity Brings Prosperity The truth of the old saying that Its an ill HI wind that blows been proved but it is shown no noone no one good now only again has resulted in ultimate benefit to tole toone that in to some cases the ill wind has one le e eo o ones es it it has injured j. j 3 O In this this instance it has to db with the life underwriting business rY inthe 1918 was one ole of the hardest hardest hardest hard- hard J the United States While the year incurred it is declared that it was one of est in the matter of losses the the the most beneficent for tl the life insurance business ever ever experienced d dI I I by the life underwriters of the country of the life insurance in- in in- in 1 I It is declared that never before in the history I I. I f lr n e business were there so lar large e a number numb r of momentous s st I solution As a r result sult of th the co cor- cor cor- cor I I t I questions questions 9 presented for prompt 4 feet ct solution of pf such problems which ar are credited to the the epidemic taxation belief bellef con 1 p ot influenza influenza the ivar war and unprecedented f dently Iy is expressed that the present year sear will be the greatest of Ithe I I any the life insurance companies have experienced i T According to a noted life insurance autho authority ity the influenza J endemic which it is estimated will necessitate the p plying paying ying out of more more re than OOOO for death claims last year was the most j E Severe eve e test of of the principle of establishing adequate reserves against just i ju just t such a contingency N In addition to this this and and this is is where the returns r f good for evil the evil the epidemic has had the re result of increasing the i demand for life insurance to such an extent that most of the big j 1 lif life insurance companies have announced that their dividend rates will will wiIl be maintained throughout 1919 of the larger insurance companies t c Salt Lake representatives report that while the mortality in this city was was' not as great in inI I proportion to the population as in the majority of cities there has t. t r F been a decided increase in the the demand demand for policies as as' as asa a result of the epidemic I. I r. r While the possession of a life insurance policy does not pret pre- pre f vent t the holder from eventually cros crossing ing the river St Styx x it does give j one ope sufficient security to look Charon in the eye and tell him to io toL row Prow L on |