Show L 0 4 I i rj Living Longer 4 T LIF T 1 IFE insurance nc statistics tend to show that the life span spa is growing in spite of the nerve racking tension of the present age One company after studying the figures figurs for 1922 fixes fixes fixes' the average life expectation for white males at years as compared to years ears in 1911 1 A similar increase in the n average v age years of white women is rioted the company fixing the 1922 expectation at t years while in i 1911 it was but The increase in the average life expectation tin tion no rio no doubt is based on experience experienc of the past decade which tend Jo show a material reduction in the death rate The death rate per thousand of of population in the United States has been reduced from 10 t in 1911 to 85 in 1922 It is not difficult to understand understand under under- stand these figures when we reflect on the work which has been d done me by insurance comp com com- p nies and other public health agencies during t the past few years Public health agencies including ding the insurance insurance insurance ance companies have done much to spread 4 the gospel of better living among the p people ople This This' automatically tends to lengthen the th life span eliminating dangers and hazards which were vere pr previously Ignored Safety campaigns in I factories and Ind industrial plants and on the railroads have served have served to reduce the accident 0 hazard which used to claim a a terrific death toll foil Home and school education in the care of Infants and arid growing children have served To t to lower Jower l the mortality rate among children Ve We also find organizations devoting themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to education designed to combat tuberculosis tuber tuber-I cancer an and other dreaded diseases Material progress progress is shown in a all ai directions I i with the possible exception of deaths which I are arc due to automobile accidents The automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile accident death rate has grown from 22 per per of population in 1911 to i 25 in in 1922 i while white the death rate from all accidents has declined from per of population tion in 1911 to in 1922 The value of health education is b strongly reflected in these figures and show what a wonderful public work Is being performed by tour bur jur life insurance companies Many people look life tife upon insurance companies as us strictly commercial organizations Similarly they regard regard re re- re- re gard money put into insurance only as proE protection protection pro- pro E for their dependents They fail fait to f appreciate the value of the insurance effort which I is put into human service The citizenship citizenship citi- citi t as a whole participates in the benefits of the Increasing life span They receive r direct benefits from the elimination of ace acel t d dent t haz hazards and the It conquering of dread dis- dis l. l eases eases ases The individual who I prolongs prolongs' his life cv n a t. t year or so as a result of th these se benefits t gains ins all that he puts into insurance in a life life- f j to eto say nothing of the benefits which M- M accrue to his dependents |