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Show Stable, Outstanding, Safe During 1931 the life insurance industry again showed itself to be one of the most stable and out-handing out-handing of American businesses. Fifty years ago annual sales totaled to-taled about $200,000.000 less than half the volume sold in the poor-:st poor-:st month of 1931. It was an unusually un-usually bad year for business in general yet life insurance sales averaged $30,000,000 for every working day, additional proof of the faa that many persons, having hav-ing watched other investments fall uid dwindle away, are turning to ilc Insurance as the haven foi-,heir foi-,heir savings It is not a speciac-ilar speciac-ilar investment, and it does not offer fifty pcicc-nt dividends. Hat. it offers scinching better than ;hat the highest possible degrea S'f safety. The power of life insurance oolicy was recently given an interesting in-teresting demonstration by Senator Sena-tor Capper, in a plan for paying off within a generation the bulk of farm mortgage debts, which are estimated at $4,968,000,000. The average mortgage is $4,000 and ordinary life insurance policies pol-icies costing less than $80 per year if taken at the age of 35, according to the Senator, would pay off the debt. Life insurance is a living example ex-ample of the old saying, "Great oaks from little acorns grow." It is the great protector for our dependents de-pendents and for ourselves and it is likewise an investment whose safety and stability is unquestioned. |