| Show POOR PEOPLE INVEST IN LIFE INSURANCE 1 estimation In t In lu Washington ton Shows v I. I or K E boily ceJ I E Ex- x- x pt ci-pt Infant Uni er r r c-r a n Year 11 Old OltI Ole Washington July 22 How lIo low the lie theother other half hive livo in the lie District of or Columbia has lias boon been 1 n the tho subject of f an am ll Iny Investigation b by the lie Bureau of ff Labor of lie tho nt of Commerce and Labor for fO several week and amid the lie oh- oh cl which the i experts expert mad just been given to the lie public Nineteen n families s. s typical of ll pom ur wen selected families that hint ete tIp not nul m J paupers hut but to 0 wh which ch th the tho loss los of a 3 aday's dJs days waS wages s would h n boon been n a I keen keci Ct 11 embarrassment funned the lie basis ur sf this the tl investigation 1 One of time the 10 most t striking in drawn from the lie tw Investigation Is that lint nearly all carry life In Insurance Practically everybody was waH as Insured d. d except Infants under huLler Iller one Limit year lU of ag ago age and these ale are says sS the the- re me- me purL port The rhe which prompts t the hue poor hour to I Invest III In Insurance the lit til re report n.- n. port continues Is 1 akin alUn to II piety If sheath death should conic into nto the they want time the household to 10 ll bo le protected pro pro- from harsh and amid profane lu- lu 11 amid anil Uhl tIle the they want tho Uw departed one to tu receive o u a cont burial I It I t Is 19 Ii hinted that lint tl tim tho poor pUl iosi I St stint in themselves cs too much to 10 meet in Insurance I ance anc Installments On one ont occasion occa tasu Ola sion slon the lie Investigator In AU say It i did goun sound rather uncanny to mean hear hea a mother moth er fr Hl say s-ay If I anything should happen n to that child to o a a. fine nn little of jf nine we would girl years got get You cannot probe deep enough Into human hunan to tell lel whether the lie neglect ct ot a chill child chilI It s slime due to the lie ftc that lint H its life Is or ur whether the he neglect Is due duo to d else e. e Whatever r the time conditions the tho thC te- te dc- dc for bread ne an and bread stuffs 11 ro- ro about the thc same con constituting about 22 per cent of the lie lH entire entire- entre food expenditure while I that hat for fil meat of ofal all al kinds cuns constituted lutu but 30 31 per Ir cent Food Is the he chief i item m of ur expense n e. e In one omie family the lie boys were cre actually eating eat ut ing imig the be family out of nf house hous' and amid home remit lent relt was in Ill arrears in iii hip tho latter part of or this the Investigation and aUth to Ii save N e the lie situation t two of tl the lii bi bys hj y were wre sent semil to the Industrial school Just because lie they ate atc too tuo 01 much Tho ll report deplores s the lie working of the he nl Installment plan the tl among t poor ami anul alleys Jle's ami little streets teem em with wih In Installment men i it I says om omo sornO on their heir rounds rundS collecting others oth ers r soliciting new nw Dullness sometimes carrying Into 1110 the tw hu e the time very cry er articles ar ar- to 11 h be LIe Roll sold Under 1 Its working to be e In debt becomes tho normal C condition con cami- I- I of if If life and to buy without payIng pay pay- Ing lug pa passes St's from lom a cu custom tum to a habit hull The ln tendency nc of such fuch n a C system 1 is bound to be toward demoralization A special study was waR made of the hI conditions of or borrowing which prevail In th the district and In the Ihl report a scathing alling arraignment of or the 50 GO con cons cons- corns to loan loami lon money Tho Ihie hr bargains ln which th these lies loan heart make with wih the poor are too Iou lined hard aill to 10 be he classed with sih wih legitimate l business bus bus- iness ines transaction r roads reads Jf the th r port he are bargains hal forced In iii thus's s of f great groat tl distress lre and l often In him II times of ufEr avid and they y tire are an as great rea at sorrow luy at Er 11 as aM the they ar Arf unmerciful an and amid Immoral The In Installment man luaU and lie tiie Insurance man receive t the he favors and even I gratitude of the lie poor poO but butone one omit Oll tl nl a n good word for fol ei tin tin- ll loan oa n co company I |
