The Independent . encies $138,762, Outstanding Insurance $2,511,607, Represented by 1,228,601 policies. The actual mortality of the Company expressed in the per cent, which it bears tothe expected death losses according to the tables of mortality adopted by the State forvaluation purposes through a period of years is as follows: 1912 Actual death losses 76% of the expected 1913 Actual death losses 73% of the expected 1914 Actual death losses 73% of the expected (5 mos. of war) 1915 Actual death losses 73% of the expected (12 mos. of war) 1916 Actual death losses 71 % of the expecte
The Independent . encies $138,762, Outstanding Insurance $2,511,607, Represented by 1,228,601 policies. The actual mortality of the Company expressed in the per cent, which it bears tothe expected death losses according to the tables of mortality adopted by the State forvaluation purposes through a period of years is as follows: 1912 Actual death losses 76% of the expected 1913 Actual death losses 73% of the expected 1914 Actual death losses 73% of the expected (5 mos. of war) 1915 Actual death losses 73% of the expected (12 mos. of war) 1916 Actual death losses 71 % of the expected (12 mos. of war) Significant Facts: Mortality Rate reduced; Expense Rate reduced; InterestRate increased; New Business increased. The Company has subscribed for Ten Million Dollars of the Liberty Loan, andover 2,500 employees have subscribed for approximately $600,000. The Companys new business during the first five months of 1917 was larger thanthat of the first six months of 1916. DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, President. FOOD CONTROL NOW! THE President has got tired of waiting for Con-gress to stop bickering and squabbling over foodcontrol, and has acted. He has sent the followingsignificant letter to Herbert Hoover, the NationalFood Administrator: My Dear Mr. Hoover : It seems to me that the inaugurationof that portion of the plan for food administration which con-templates a national mobilization of the great voluntary forcesof the country which are ready to work toward saving food andeliminating waste admits of no further delay. The approaching harvesting, the immediate necessity for wiseuse and saving not only in food but in all other expenditures, themany undirected and overlapping efforts being made toward thisend, all press for national direction and inspiration. While itwould in many ways be desirable to wait complete legislationestablishing the food administration, it appears to me that so faras voluntary effort can be assembled we should not wait anylonger, and therefore I
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