Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1927, Page 4

1 INSURANCE CODE PLANS DISCUSSED D. C. Companies Seen Op- erating Under Combination System Unauthorized. District of Columbia insurance com- der a system of combination authorized by law and has been de in some of the States, H general o X P. Janisch, deration of Companies, de- s eleventh annual meeting at the ) flower Hotel in conjunction with the thirty-second annual convention of the iation of Mutual Insur superintend District, ap Idwin, ir., anee of the s to support 1 in the next rict a new in- . The measure would le- nations of insurance com- s to fix rates and would put those rates under supervision of Congress, Proposed New Code. Discussing the proposed mew code, Mr. Janisch declared that the mutual companies are not now operating in conjunction with the stock companies in the District. The measure, he said, would allow them to act with the stock companies in setting ra Legalized combination and public re ition of rates, be said, has operated in other States to prevent ouging by com- and the public ganizations. s, he said, compen- are combined under nd fire insura new tricy of C s been Yeétommended by the on of Tnsutance Commission- declared. 1 mpanies are seeking to roperty from Stephen B: of Penn- aviation Sweene sylv & losses from aviation forced all but ond company out of the business n- 1922, he declared, and they £ in coming back. Greater Scale Seen. Prof. Sweeney said the activity of the Department of Commerce was do- ing much to make aviation safer by eliminating gypsy pilots, and express: ed the belief that eventually the in- surance companies would be able to go into aviation insurance on a greater scale as a result of this work. The Dole race, he said, would have been even more disastrous had it not been, for the department. Insurance com- panies lost little on that race, how- ever, because of a clause in their poli- cies which provides that the policy shall not be paid if land planes go more than a mile from shore or if sea- planes go mote than five miles inland. The human element was declared the most important factor in fire in~ surance by Walter C. Hill of Atlanta, Ga., in a talk on moral hazards. All fires start through the human agency, he sald, and companies really insure the person with reference to his prop- erty. One of+the greatest collections of sun spots ever witnesséd, causing the lessening of solar radiation, was re- sponsible for the recent Mexican hur- ricane and the storm in Japan, Her- bert Browne; ocean meteorologist, told the “cyclone division” yesterday. At the same time he sounded a warn- ing that the same sun spots are going to be the juse of other storms in the near future and at- tributed to them the recent hot wave and 1d_wave, he declared due in, 2 fea Bava: “adliing Trosts/ard freez. The | ing weather will be here in the near future,” he said, adding that the next 24 . boprs will witness a ‘“decided change.” SMITH DEMOCRATS HOPE FOR ILLINOIS, BUT ROAD IS ROCKY (Continued from First Page.) defeat was heralded over the country as an evidence of what might be ex- pected to happen to Gov. Smith should hebé nominated. If a Catholic could arry Cobk County, what chance nother in the State of Illinols L whole, it was asked. The |a seems to be none. has a preferential presi. primary next April. It is ad- [ v upon the delegates elected | than mandatory under the law. . however, are considered to morally bound to pay attention to the prefercnce expressed by voters in | the primary. In 1924 Gov. Smith did not enter the presidential primary here, though his old opponent, | McAdoo, did. Smith's name was not | on the ballot, but w. itten in by a_handful of voters, 2 MeAdoo's vote in that primary was 180,544, which may give some measure of the anti-Smith strength among the Iilinois Democrats. Men and women who voted for McAdoo are not likely to vote for Smith. Smith did not enter his name in any of the presi- | aential primaries that year. Brennan has Opposition. In the convention of 1924, in Madi- | son Square Garden, McAdoo on the | sixty-ninth ballot, when his strength was at its height in that convention, received only 14 votes from the | Illinois ~ delegation. ~ Smith, on the {other hand, on the seventy-sixth bal- lot, his hish point in the balloting, re- ceived 30 votes from Illinois. The State casts 58 votes In the Demo- cratic national convention. Brennan, the boss of the Democratic machine in Cook County, is not with- out Democratic opposition in the State and, indeed, in the county. With no little regularity a minority up, which eeks to undermine | the ge: . But he has held on | firmly and probably will continue to | do so. His job will be to line up dele- | gates for Gov. Smith, whether the gov- ernor’'s name goes before the Demo- | cratic voters in the primar xt April or not. Brennan is regarded as one of Smith's ablest lieutenants in this fight, and he is likely to be a_power in the national convention. If by any chance. Smith should finally decide to eliminate himself from considera- tion for the presidential nomination, it would be a great disappointment to his supporters in Illinois. . ‘While Austria is sending nearly twice as many goods to Germany and Poland as a year ago, its exports to Russia are decreasing in value. |Good-by Corns! 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Mr. McAdoo's withdrawal, which left his wing of the party leaderless, has led to many suggestions, notable omong which is one from Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa, that the Montana Senator’s nomination would be an answer to those who think the anti- Smith forces are affected by religious prejudice. In other words, if the Democratic party is to prove to the Nation that it is willing to nominate a Catholic, Mr. Meredith's query in effect, is, “Why must a wet Catholic be chosen instead of a dry?” Strategy Is Showing. The strategy of the anti-Smith forces is coming to the surface. They have recognized that the New York gov- ernar is a hard man to beat and that the resentment against the religious issue would help to win delegates for him. To offset this, the anti-Smith groups may center on Senator Walsh, The Montana Senator was popular at the last Democratic national con- vention and could have had the vice presidential nomination by acclama- tion. He led the fight on Teapot Dome for his party in the Senate and has been regarded as one of the outstanding lawyers of the American Senate. Is Good Campaigner. Mr. Walsh is a good campaigner and so far as political ammunition is concerned he has an opportunity con- stantly in the Senate to start investi- gations and prosecute them. This com- ing session he hopes to secure the adoption of a resolution to investi- gate the interrelationship of public utility companies through holding cor- porations, and this will keep him in the limelight, though the matter of Federal regulation of utilities is hard- ly an acute issue as yet. The idea of the antl-Smith element is that some one must be groomed to defeat the New York governor at the next convention, and that Senator Walsh is the most likely man. It remains to be seen, however, how effective this strategy will be, for cer- tain parts of the South are expected to oppose Mr. Walsh for the same reasons that the New York gov- ernor is oppsed, though this is not likely to be as pronounced as in the case of a wet candidate. Grows More Interesting. The_effect of the move may be, on the other hand, to drive the profibi- tion issue out of the party altogether, 'for if it becomes a contest between a wet and dry candidate there are hound to be groups who will insist that the issue be’dropped and some one named who will not make prohi- bition an issue. The friends of Gov. Smith will in- sist that, apart from prohibition or any other factor, he is entitled to the nom- ination on the ground that he not only has a better political record than any other candidate, but because of his vote-getting ability. It will be argued that Senator sh, for finstance, could not carry New York State.. To this the anti-Smith forces will make answer that an Eastern candidate of wet proclivities could not carry the West and South and that a_man who can do this s the one the Democrats must seek in order to assure victory. It's the same old story of a Demo- cratic candiate who can carry pop- ulous Eastern States as against one who might win the West. But mean. while the significant happening is that Senator Walsh s being put up to offset the growing strength of Gov. Smith. The Democratic race every day grows more interesting. (Covyright, 1927.) o 3 “Annual Drummer” Die Belfast's “annual drummer” is dead. Once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, he would start out through the streets with a drum. Each time he drew a crowd about him. The first offense brought a fine and a cau- tion. His conduct was exemplary until the following anniversary, when he drummed agaln. 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