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Show GAMBLING ON INFANTS' LIVES The Utah Legislature will do well to investigate that class of risks known as infant insurance and enact legislation which will prevent gambling on the lives' of children. There are certain insurance companies that insure babies from the time. they are two weeks old. By promising, upon payment of a small consideration weekly, big returns in the event of an infant's death, these concerns virtually put a premium on murder. Such companies breed crime. In the East the mysterious deaths of scores of babies were followed by the discovery that they had been murdered in order that brutal parents might collect the blood money which the insurance companies offered in the shape of policies. In several sev-eral States the Legislatures have bills against infant in-fant insurance pending. The Indiana Assembly is considering a measure which covera the case. This bill declares all policies hereafter Isssued to infants void, and fixes the penalty for issuing such a policy at cot more than f 1000 fine and six months in Jail. The bill excepts policies to pay the actual funeral expenses of children. ' The bill has an emergency clause. The legal definition of the word "infant" is any person under 21 years of age, and if the bill is passed, at least half of the business of two big companies com-panies now doing nearly $40,000,000 business in Indiana In-diana will be prohibited. These companies now pay the State of Indiana nearly $40,000 annually. Let the Utah law-makers take this matter up and make it impossible to gamble on the lives of Utah babies! |