Show Modern Woodmen of America The order is taking steps to avoid paying claims by suicide A recent Issue of The Echo has the following in reference to the matter The committee selected by the head = pat p-at Des Moines consisting of Attorney G H Haight of Ottaway ills Attorneys Frank W Joslyn of Elgin His and H C Agnew of Macomb together with Head Physician P L McKinnie met at tho Sherman house Chicago Jan 12 to formulate a new application appli-cation and benefit certificate that will servo to prevent such frequency of suicide The committee did not come to a full and definite agreement to a plan but will hold an adjourned meeting the latter part of the month after having given full investigation to the legal aspects of tho subject The Woodmen Wood-men are determined to cut off this source of loss to the very last degree and the courts aro beginning to rule that fraud upon 03 order or society by deliberate suicide cannot can-not ba successfully carried out Tho committee com-mittee is composed of able men and they will give the order tho best attainable results in the matter submitted to them The clause when formulated will be in the nature of a contract and be a part of the application as well as tile benefit certificate The Woodmen Wood-men aro determined to weed out tho suicide lass |