Show I FOR STATE INSURANCE i. i i. i Antagonistic t 0 legislation 0 by b bythe J the state of Missouri has caused the Western estern Insurance Insurance bureau t. t to decide to withdraw from that I 01 state Former Governor who wife happened to be present at attl tl e meeting when this decision t was arrived at nt urged the insurance insurance insurance ance companies to send representatives representatives t. t to Jefferson City to confer with the Missouri attorney ney Rey general and other state officials officials offic offic- before belore any definite action t i was taken And he lie also gave them the gentle hint that in an any t event ent Missouri l would protect its citizens with insurance if the companies carried out their plan of withdrawing absolutely from front i I business jin the state But Mr 1 recommendations w were rc practically ignored b by the sixty sixty- 7 companies two represented at atthe f 1 the meeting r 1 j 1 To a u disinterested observer t 1 this looks like a serious blunder r 54 on the part of the insurance companies for they should not forget that they are walking onI on I l' l rather t thin in ice in ninny many of the r. r states It It was only a u. few months t ago that one smashing precedent-smashing state had the temerity to venture into the insurance business and ands ands' s' s worn rom all accounts the plan is w working even better than could be expected of such a fledgling t So it would naturally seem that r the insurance companies would do everything in their power to f discourage states from entering the insurance field and trying th the experiment The sentiment is growing throughout the United Unit Unit- Uniti i k tf ed States that the states should handle the insurance business l and when the plan has once been tried thoroughly we predict for forit forit it the same success that has followed followed followed fol fol- lowed the commission plan of government It is generally fit conceded that the more enlightened enlightened ened erred a government becomes the tho themore more it assumes the the duty of providing pro pro- viding viding for for the positive welfare 4 t i of its subjects and we believe 1 that insurance against loss and misfortune is one of the most t functions that a gov L r rit eminent could perform It is t but another form of pension and we we believe that both pension and insurance should be administered administered administered admin admin- not as a making moneymaking c but as an an altruistic I SSt the the only way it could be so administered ad ad- 41 mil ministered would be through the it f- ag agency of g government r I 1 |