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» A Theoretical Interview On Insurance Officers Might Tell of Investment Troubles Raising Policy Cost. BY DAVI® LAWRENCE. ARTFOED, Conn., September H 18—This is the insurance capital of the world and I came here to find out the inside story of the controversy that has arisen over life insurance, and particularly why the President of the United States thought it of sufficient importance to summon & group of presidents of live insurance companies to the White—House. ‘Well, there were no presidents of eompanies here who had been at the White House, and, . Judging by the re- luctance which Insurance execu- tives have about being quoted, anyway, on deli- cate matters of this kind, I doubt whether they would have said very much any way about the : Washington con- ference. But there is a }rh:;“fi"flfr;’r‘: Davia Lawrence. and plenty of facts in such documents, for instance, as the annual proceed- ings of the Association of Life In- surance Presidents, so that, if the reader will indulge me the liberty of describing a hypothetical conversation, I will present here what the Presi- dent of the United States might have asked and what the life insurance presidents might have replied if this were not a political year. Q. Are life insurance companies eafe? A. Absolutely. Q. Are they well administered? Investment Troubles. A. With all due modesty, we think they are the best administered finan- cial investment institutions in the world. Q. What are your troubles, then? A. We cannot find suitable invest- ments that will yield us enough re- turn to keep up the earnings that we ought to have. The money we take in from permiums must be kept eonstantly invested. Q. But you can buy Government bonds, can't you? A. Yes, but we already have too large a proportion of them. Q. What is the proportion? A. We now have 14.5 per cent of all our assets invested in securities of the Federal Government alone. Q. Is this high? A. Yes, it is the highest in our history. In 1934, for instance, it was Just above 8 per cent. By December, 1935, it had gone up to 11 per cent, and now the latest figures shows 14.5 per cent of all our assets in Federal Becurities. Much Cash Idle. Q. What about your idle cash? A. That, too, is the highest we have ever had, We now have and have had since last December about $750,~ 000,000 in cash. Q. What's wrong about that? A. We must earn a certain return on our money if policyholders are to be given insurance at a reasonable cost. If we cannot invest our money for an adequate return, it raises the cost of insurance. We have frankly stated on more than one occasion that, if the low interest rate program instituted by the Government keeps up and if business and industry hesi-. tate to float new securities in which we can invest, there will have to be & reduction in dividend payments to policyholders. Q. This would not, of course, in- elude the companies that do not have & participation in earnings by policy~ ‘holders? A. No. but on new policies they, t0o, would have to raise their premi- ums to the policyholders. Q. You mean to tell me that the eost of life insurance generally may be going up? A. Yes, and that's why the public ought to buy now, so to speak. For, no matter what comes, life insurance policies are absolutely the best form of investment, and the cost is still Teasonable. Safe if Inflation Comes. Q. But what about the proceeds of life- insurance? Are they safe? A. That's something for the policy- holder to worry about. If the present trend in Government budgets con- tinues, and we have inflation, it means that the widows and recipients of paid-up insurance will not be able to ‘buy as much out of a dollar for their necessities as they can today. Q. Do you mean that, even if infla- tion comes, your companies will be safe? A. Absolutely, for we are just like banks. We pay out in exactly the same unit of currency—the dollar— as we take in. Theé purchasing power of that dollar, however, is something that we have nothing to do with. Q. Have you reduced dividend pay- ments as a whole in recent years? A. Yes, for various reasons, our dividend disbursements have been going down, partly due to defaults in in various mortgages and other se- curities and partly due to the reduced earnings of our investments and our nability to get suitable investments at & higher rate of return. Q. What do the figures show? Downward Trend Shown. A. Well, the spectator company, which publishes insurance trade jour- nals, shows that the trend has been downward. Dividends rose steadily from 1925 and reached a peak in 1931, dropped a little in 1932, but were still above the 1930 figure. Then in 1933, 1934 and 1935 the dividend pay- ments to policyholders dropped stead- 1ly to $424,255,553 for the year 1935. This is a drop of $138,000,000 from the year 1932. Q. Besides your unused cash would you say that much of the money you have invested in Government securi- ties is in short-term securities at very Jow interest? A. Yes. The portfolios of different companies vary, but perhaps 50 per cent, or about $1,432,000,000, is in short-term or medium-term Federal Government securities earning a very Jow rate of interest. Q. Then, if you can’t invest your money in more remunerative invest- ments, you must ultimately reduce your dividends, and this raises the eost of insurance to future policy- holders and to present policyholders who depend on their dividends to cut the annual cost of their premi- ums? - 9 That i right, dnd will be the ose THE E News Behind the News Next Congress Line.-Up Means Check on White House, No Matter Who Wins. BY PAUL MALLON. HE important thing about this campaign so far from a business stand- | point has beeir obscured by the more spectacular contrast between the personalities of President Roosevelt and Gov. Landon. The Maine result forecast it. There, the Republicans regained two congressional seats, which have always been Republican, except for the New Deal landslide period. R R It is nmow possible to get down the erpectation that the Re- publicans can reasonably erpect to restors more of their old historic congressional representation in some 16 or more other States. A careful canvass indicates a Republican gain of 40 .to 75 House seats, no matter who wins the presidential election. These are mostly districts with a long Republican history, captured by majorities of 2,000 votes or less in the last two elections. It is almost a matter of routine readjustment for them to return to their old allegiance in an active national campaign. mum of 40; & substantial Landon victory might boost the maximum slightly above 75. But it will be virtually impossible for Landon to capture the 114 seats necessary to establish & Republican majority in T s TR the House. ‘The portent, therefore, is plain. Regardless of whether you accept the maximum or minimum ex- pectation, the effect on business legislation will be about the same. The day of the three-to-one ma- Jority by which Mr. Roosevelt con- trolled the House is over. In its place will be a curtailed Democratic 5 majority, made up of & substantial portion of Southern Democrats who do not share Mr. Roosevelt’s ideas regarding N. R. A. substitutes, Federal wage and hour legislation, power yard sticks, spending, etc. These Southern Democrats are nearly all coming back. They have been renominated and await only the routine ratification of election. The Democrats who will not come back are those chiefly from Eastern centers who have been most enthusiastic for Mr. Roosevelt's legislation. Add to this the further fact that Democratic Congressmen will not be as dependent on Mr. Roosevelt’s favor next session, because they Wwill not need to run with him again, and you have a somewhat new and different congressional picture already discernible. * ok k% From the Landon standpoint, the outlook means, of course, that he would have a thoroughly hostile Congress on his hands. He would have to govern by compromise wWith a Democratic House as well as a still top-heavy Democratic Senate majority, which is not at stake in this election. Note—States in which heavy Republican gains are expected include Pennsylvania, California, Ohlo, New York, Connecticut, Illinois and Indiana. Some who have been looking over Mr. Roosevelt's shoulder have been surprised lately at indications that the distinguished alumnus of Harvard may not be as influential there as generally supposed. The President received his invitation to the 300th birthday celebra- tion at the center of learning and poor foot ball teams & few weeks back, but the invitation said only three minutes had been allotted to him for s speech. Mr. Roosevelt makes a fairly gooc speech sometimes in one sentence, but, even if this had not been a campaign year, he could not have told all he wanted to say about Harvard in three minutes. He wrote back to that effect, expecting, of course, to be advised, as Presidents always are, that he could have as much time as he wanted. Instead, he received a letter, explaining the schedule was tight, and, while everyone was 50, so sorry, he could have only three minutes. Of course, Mr. Roosevelt did not let the matter stop there, but the unusual situation was an eloquent addition to Harvard tradition. * x X % b It was stated in this spot some days back that President Whitney of the Railroad Trainmen intro- duced Father Coughlin to his vice presidential candidate, Thomas O'Brien, only last March. It did not happen exactly that way. ‘Whitney wrote Father Coughlin ‘March 24, requesting his indorse- ment of O'Brien as a candidate for United States Senator. Coughlin investigated O'Brien and wound up by making the Bostonian his own personal candidate for Vice President. Incidentally, Coughlin has not yet answered Whitney's letter, and has not approached Whitney with respect to the Union Party, although he has been in Cleveland several times lately. Those who remarked about the stupidity of sending Gov. Landon to Maine have not said anything like that since the results were announced. Winners in politics are always clever, losers always dumb. Despite all the conflicting comment, the Maine result was just about what was expected. The accepted advance figure was & 40,000 majority for the Republicans, and the gubernatorial result hit the estimate ezactly. Politicians can clock elections better than polls. Some movie fans in Eastern cities suspect both political parties are planting claques in the theaters to see that neither side gets the better of the applause from news reel sketches of the candidates in action. A singular and healthy thing about current political comment is that most of the national commentators live in Washington, and do not have a vote. The next Literary Digest poll will show Roosevelt gains, but Landon still leading. (Copyright, 1936 ) _—-s m e —_ — +| other, if the preseint trend in money rates continues. Q. Whom do you hold responsible for the low interest rates? A. The administration in Washing- ton has claimed credit for the low interest rates. The - Government possesses artificial factors which can keep money rates down, as, for in- stance, by purchase of Government securities with various funds of its own and by its restrictions upon business and industry that cause busi- ness men to hesitate to undertake new financing. Few for New Capital. Q. But haven't the figure from the Securities and Exchange Commission shown a huge total of new financinugs? A. Yes, but nearly all the issues being floated are to refinance or re- fund old issues. Very few are new capital. Also the ones refunded are brought out at even lower ‘nterest rates than before, and this further cuts our earnings. Q. What do you think is the cure for all this? A. A real budgetary program for the Government and a cutting out of all extragavance and waste and a policy that removes the fears and un- certainies from industry and busi- ness and revises, if not repeals, such vicious pieces of tax legislation as the recent tax on the rainy day reserves of prudently managed industrial com- panies. Q. When do you expect all this to happen? A. When the presidential and vice presidential candidates get through campaigning and we all get down to fundamental economics once more, (Copyright, 1936.) GLICKMAN SERVICE Carroll and Tulip Aves. Tak al Park, Md. Lubricaticn, Tires, Batteries KEYSTONE CERTIFIED SERVICE sy (@5 7ty Philip A. Tolson the station of ™ "Phone. NO. 9674 5th & R Sts. N.W. Tires, Batteries. 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Harvard Tercentenary Con- ference of international sci- | ntists and philosophers, which has been meeting in the last few days, has laid down an inspiring challenge to this country. In com- menting on proposals that acience and should definitely at- chaotic world, Prof. Gilson of 1 the University of = Paris said: “This conference is a recognition of the fact that the fu s ture of Western 3 civilization rests - upon what the o United States will make it in the next hundred years cee Whether weDerethy Thompson. shall fulfill that mission depends upon whether we shall be able to arrest the forces which in many other countries have disrupted society and led to its re-integration under myths which are at direct variance with what the con- sensus of science and philosophy be- lieves to be truth. *x ¥ x ‘There are many indications that the process of disruption is under way. When the Republican candidate and his supporters speak of the menace of class division, they merely record what is evident. Unfortunately, too many of them are prepared to assist the process from the extreme right. The process is not one which we need to speculate about. For nearly two decades now, we have been able to ob- serve it in Europe as in a laboratory. ‘With practically no variation, the proc- ess has been the same. The nation splits into two or more contending groups, whose divergencies eventually become irreconcilable. That contest leads to social and economic disorder and even, possibly, to civil war. There is Spain. The disorder continues to the point where one group becomes overwhelmingly stronger than the ‘That group then establishes order, on its own premises, and main- tains it by force. That is to say, freedom, which has resulted in chaos, is supplanted by authority, resting upon armed force. For in the long run authority is summoned. It is summoned by a cry reaching to high heaven. * % % For us, at present, the case of France is the most illuminating. There, on the one side, is the group which is symbolized by the so-called “two hundred families.” It is the French Liberty League. On the other side is the class-conscious, militantly organized proletariat and its allies. And in between is the overwhelming rity of the French people. There are, at the outside limit, 50,000 fam- 1lies whose whole philosophy is that government exists to further their in- terests, and that those interests and the welfare of the whole are insep- arable, At the other extreme there are 4,000,000 organized workers, of whom at most, 2,000,000 are really class con- sclous and prepared for action. Be- tween these two minorities are 37,000,- 000 Frenchmen. And at this moment this majority is being forced to make what for them is a devil's choice. 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And suddenly these middle classes wake up to the choice of death by electrocution or death by hang- ing; to military dictatorship or prole- tarian dictatorship. In Prance it looks as though that awakening may have come too late. * % % ‘This middle group, everywhere the majority, is not the least competent class in the nation, On the con- trary, it is by all odds the most numerous, the most productive and the most stable group. There is more good will in it than there is any- where else. It furnishes the organ- izing brains, the stamina and the intellectual leadership for all other classes. But except in Sweden, in Holland, and to an extent in England, it has failed to come forward with an aggressive program. k¥ % ‘The aggressive programs are formu- lated by the right and the left. Both of them repeat over and over, with finally an almost hypnotic influence, that one must choose. And, confronted with this choice, the people of the center make the falsest kind of alli- ances, some of the worst offenders being the intellectuals and, with them the youth of the so-called intelli- gensia. For the very passivity of the middle classes offers to youth and in- telligence little resonance for their ideas, their energy and their con- tinual restless searches. Both the young and the intellectuals are in revolt against complacency. They are in revolt against outworn myths, cherished by the comfortable so long as they are comfortable, Youth and the intellectual long to stir up the self-satisfied moloch. They look for alliances, and they find them—in the militant proletariat, eager to welcome them. If their dissatisfaction takes the form of disgust and cynicism, they may join the extreme right and try to furnish it with a philosophy. But one fine day the intellectuals find they have betrayed themselves, and worse than they have betrayed any other group. For under all the dictatorships, military or proletarian, their citadel is the one which is first laid low. * % % % And yet it is to the intellectuals, who spring predominantly from this great group of the center, that we ought to expect the new synthesis for which the whole world is looking. It is they who ought to affect the fusion between change and tradition; the integration of liberty with au- thority. It is they who ought to fur- nish the new principles by which valid standards of social behavior can be set. For it is only from them that ‘we can expect a disinterested program based upon knowledge that we can expect standards approaching univer- sal validity. * x % x ‘When will they stop ghosting their inferiors? When will they take re- sponsibility for their own values? (Copyright, 1936, To Hold Listening-in Party. ‘The Junior Republican Women of ‘Washington will hold s “listening-in" party at 3 o'clock today at the Na- tional Republican Club, when Gov. Landon will deliver his address to the youth of the Nation by radio from Topeka, Kans. Tea and refreshments will be served. P S—— One hundred twenty of the 700 drug addicts in Great Britain known to the authorities are members of the med- ical profession. Memorial Esso Station 1414 King St., Alexandria, Va. Alexsndria 1414 Verified Lubrication Washing, Tires and Batteries ‘We will eall for and refurn your car NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936. We, the People Retreat of G. O. P. to New Deal Principles Seen in Landon’s Maine Strategy. BY JAY FRANKLIN. ET others try to laugh off the Maine election, to sensibia observers :1‘: xh::. as if the Roosevelt admini:tration had taken a tremendous Let others fiddle with percentages and majorities, the fact re- mains that the only Maine Democrat who made a close run—Gov. Brann— was an anti-New Dealer who had walked out on the Roosevelt administra= tion on Passamaquoddy. Let others argue as to whether it was Maine forecasting a national return to rule by the Mellons, Morgans and du Ponts or whether it was only a retreat to New England sectionalism which dictated the 40,000 ma- Jority by which the old guard triumphed over the Rooseveltians. All that 1s chaff in the wind and a gnawing and emptiness to the political soul. * ¥ ¥ x But the fact remains that Roosevelt’s defeat is not far from a New Deal victory. The Republicans did not score this resounding success with= out adopting two of the basic prin- ciples of the New Deal: (1) For the purpose of winning the Maine election, the Republicans abandoned their shouting about the sacredness of “States rights.” The local commanders of the G. 0. P. faithful were besought not to vote on State issues, not to vote for the men they thought best quali- fled for the job. Instead, they were begged by no less a “States righter” P e than Mark Sullivan to forget their own interests, to forget the interest of the State of Maine, and to vote for a national program and a national candidate. (2) Gov. Landon abandoned his synthetic pose as “an imaginary man in the middle of America,” and came forward as an exponent of the Hitler “leader-principle.” He rushed into Meine and urged the down-east Yankees and Canucks of that rock bound community to vote, not for or aganst Gov. Brann, but for Landon and against Roosevelt. In other words, the Republican party explicitly abandoned both the principal of “States rights” (J. P. Morgan model) and of con- stitutional Government (du Pont brand) in order to obtain the paychological advantage of carrying the “barometer State” in Sep- tember, even though they were assured of its five electoral votes for Landon in November. This s of the greatest importance. In the first place, it shows that Roosevelt is quite right to bank on general public opinion as the key to political power in America. And it shows that the Republicans were entirely wrong to have based their initial campaign on tho fiction of “States rights." In the second place, it shows that the dynamic leader, as opposed to the committee chairman type, offers the only way in which this public opinion can be aroused. Ve Liaction | *x % ¥ For the New Deal is a vital process which cannot be copyrighted by the Democratic party or by Roosevelt's administration. It is working everywhere in our national life. The Republican party is no more jmmune to it than is the Supreme Court. And if the Republican party should, by some wild fluke, win this election, it will only be because the Landon managers learn that their only chance for political success in modern Ameri- ca is to go twentieth century and not to wallow in any nostalgic McKinley candiacy. Se Maine does, after all, mark the turning point of the 1936 camaign. At Des Moines, Landon surrendered his “States rights” and “ecomomy” planks in favor of a national program for drought control. In Maine, he jettisoned the Jonahs of his “back porch,” Bruce Barton type of campeign. From now on the election will be & contest between New Dealer Roosevelt and New Dealer Landon. ‘Whoever wins, the future of the country is assured along the lines 1aid down by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933. (Copyright. 1936.) AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY PLAN GIVEN APPROVAL Governor's Plan to Houses are largely centered on wheth Mississippi by the Governor. Balance Economie Passes Both Houses. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, Miss., September 18—A sponsored by Gov. Hugh White for balancing agriculture with industry in Mississippi had approval of both Houses of the State Legisla- ture today. Only differences between the two Houses ovpr administration of the pro- | gram remain to be settled before it reaches the Governor for final ap- proval. ‘The industrial bill, described by its opponents as communistic and social- - 6-Mile Hike Planned. Forces the bus garage at Fourteenth an day will start at Bridge and follow & river-side tra to Whites Bridge. are building aviation fields. necessarily The Star’s. er or not the program will be admin- istered by & three-member board of State officials or a board appointed The Wanderbirds Hiking Club is asked to meet at 9:30 am. Sunday at Buchanan streets for its weekly out- ing. A 6-mile hike planned for the Hawlings River | Cork and Galway, Irish Free State, . Headline Folk and What They Do HenryFonda’sWedding in Continuity for Matinee Idol. A BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. 1 ENRY FONDA of Grand Isl+ and, Nebr., was the star lasy year in the Erie Canal play, “The Farmer Takes a Wife." Then, not on the canal, but boating on the Thames, he met Mrs. Frances Seymour Brokaw, kin to the Pells, Stuyvesants, Biddles, Fishes and An- tons. Their wedding in a Park avenua church is smooth continuity, with no break between the make-believe and real worlds—one shading nicely into the other. # His success in the Broadway play and moving pictures made him & matinee idol, but not of the sleek, mellifiuous tradition. He is & husky chap, 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, an interesting variant from William Faversham, last living carryover of the mauve decade heart- breakers. His friends call him “Hank.” He wanted to be an artist or & writer. Landing in Omaha from the University of Minnesota, he helped design scenes for the communityt playhouse. In an emergency, he was all but dragooned into acting. Ree | luctantly, he continued. He was des termined to write plays and now has a trunk full of manuscripts. Giving up painting was also a wrench. The wedding was an event of con< siderable social importance. He is 31 years old, curious, informed and busy in a wide range of the arts in addition to the theater. He previously was married to Margaret Sullavan, ths film actress. i Gov. James M. Curley of Massachu« setts, winning the Democratic sena« torial nomination, fought his way up in rock-and-sock battles in the Irish wards of Boston. His Republican op« ponent, Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., is & Beaconese, with comparable political skill and sagacity of entirely different derivation. He.learned politics at his grandfather’s knee, the latter being the famous Senator of great Repube lican tradition. They mobilize the chivalry and the shovelry. An entere taining contest is promised. Mr. Lodge’s father died at the age of 35 and his shrewd, peppery old grandfather took over his education. As an undergraduate at Harvard he had a short workout in practical polie tics with Boies Penrose II. He traveled a great deal and worked as a reporter, on Boston, New York and Washington/ newspapers. He was a good reporter and got an exclusive interview with Mussolini. He is tall and handsome, & good talker, soundly apprenticed in all the artifice of politics. He was the only one in the long Lodge parade at Hare vard to win honors, having been grade uated cum laude. In his fascinating book, “The Amere ican Language,” H. L. Mencken tells of the rage stirred in England by Noah | Webster’s dictionary, with its inclusion | of home-grown words. The battle has raged for a century. Today comes the news that the British have capitulateds | Sir William Craigie, the great British | lexicographer, lets it be known that the supplement to his monumental Oxford dictionary will give the Benie son of good usage to Americanisms pre« viously rated as “Barbarisms.” It's “words across the sea” from now on. 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