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Show Make the Uncertain Certain It has been said that without thc-protection thc-protection of insurance business and industry couia not last a week. No one could purchase an interest inter-est in an enterprize without beinr assured that his investment would be safeguarded in case of fire. No one would employ men without an insurance policy to stand between be-tween him and ruin in case of an accident. Not a ship would g. to sea with its cargo unless insurance insur-ance protected its owners. In almost every human activity insurance plays a part. Its function, func-tion, in the words of ex-President Coolidge, "is to make the uncertain certain, and the unequal equal." it pays losses and damages which would be ruinous to one individual cr organization, by collecting funds arom hundrteds of thousands of individuals in-dividuals and organizations. It is the foundation upon which the structure of modern world credit has been erecteu. Insurance Is a quiet industry. It makes no noise. But it ac-complisnes ac-complisnes a tremendous task upon up-on which the very life of industry eepenas, andw hich benefits, di-recetly di-recetly and indirectly, in one way or another, every citizen |