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Show INSURANCE NED : BANQUET TOPIC National Authority Speaks ( Before Meeting of Utah -i Underwriters. j The mission of insurance was the theme last night of J. K. Voshell of Baltimore, 'president of the National Association of Life Insurance Underwriters, Under-writers, in an address delivered at a banquet given in his honor at the Hotel Utah. Mr. Yoshell expressed faith in tho power of America's insurance underwriters under-writers to help steady the nation during dur-ing "this vital hour of national unrest." un-rest." "Insurance men are in touch with eight million homes and this means eight million voters," declared the speaker. He praised tho insurance department of the government, declaring that en-trnnc.e en-trnnc.e of the rrovemnicnt into the in- surance business was "the greatest thing in a decade." Answering the objections advanced by returned soldiers sol-diers that they aro unable to answer to letters written to tho insurance department de-partment seeking information, Mr. Voshell said, "I really wish some of you could visit the insurance department depart-ment at Washington to see what people peo-ple in that department must contend with. For instance, one man wrote in for some information and siened his name as simplv J. T. Jones. He didn't givo his policy number nor the regiment regi-ment to which he belonged, and there were, without exaggeration, 70,000 J. T. Jones's on their files." Mr. Voshell predicted that before long every man and woman in tho United States will carry a rate book. Ho said that when the soldiers came home from France carrying $10,000 insurance in-surance their fathers and married brothers with families holding small policies were shamed, into increasing their policies and giving the deserved protection to mothers and chMrrn. Rpo-ardlng Income insurance, the eastern east-ern man aid: "There are 57,000 American Ameri-can young men who went to France and will nv"r come back. They are burled There and their families are receiving evorv month chacks for ?53 or more. This check is generally cashed at a near-by xtore The clerks ie It, and It is a silent evidence of the strength of life Insurance Insur-ance The hank clerk has to record it, and again life Insurance is brought be, ore the minds of business men. "People will soon forget the Influenza courge. They will noon forget the Imme-ill'to Imme-ill'to effects of the great war. While my wife isn't for woman suffrage I am, and I hope thn.t th women and the Insurance men of the United States will Join and present a Folld phalanx ot patriotism and help smother the evils of Bolshevism, Socialism and Anarch inm." President Heher J. Grant of the L. D. S. church stated his belief in insurance. William Spry, former governor of Utah, pave a short address in which he declared j that the insurance business is not only a means of livelihood for the men en- ! paored in it. but it is "uplifting and I economical, and I am ever ready to assist j In its advancement." J H. Coie Evnna, vice president of the Utah Association of Underwriters, pre- ! sided and read lettcra from Governor ; Bamberger and l?rter D. Freed, presl- J dent of the fialt Lake Commercial club, expressing- regret at tholr inability to at- ! tend on account of previous engagements. |