Byuopnta of lb. Annual Rlatm ef " ( The Central Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company f Van Wert, in the Slate ef Ohiu, on the 31at dr of December. 1M17. road to the In aarattra CtnmiuiuUM of the btaie uf OfcKua. parauaat ta Ui: Incoma. Net premiaasa reeeteed aaribjr I the year . S 774.71 Intereit, dividenda and renta re- reived during- Ibe year 35,947.31 Total income . $ HlU.btiS .30 Dlabartamaata. Net loe paid tluriii tbr fir.$ 4iiti,'fU S3 CoaiBiaaioua aud aalaries paid during- the year Taaea. . lirenaea and frea paid during i he year Amount ut all other expenditure 13.9')4 o lift. - Ol Total expenditures .$ 77. HI". 75. ' Asaeta. Vain, of real eatate owned ra'rk.- aiu 4O.lMMl.00 Value of Mcrk and twud owned '(market ralm-i 571.74U.OO Loan on niori '' collat eral, etc - 14 .ooo nt rh ill iunk and on hand,.. iti.3tf4.13 Premium in eure of eollee tion written nince Heptember SO. 1V17 141.0417 Jntereat and renta due and arc-rued - fl.7M9.4 Total MWU 1.0l.ttS5 82 Toi.il aUmittfd in llregnii l.OM,9U0.3Z ' , Liabilitiea. Groat claim for ioimea unpaid. $ ol, 419.94 .Amount of unearned pruiuma on all outstanding- rik .... 435,177.13 line for commianion and liroker- aKe . -k- . 26.631.32 All other li'aiil'itiea 10.OOO.00 Total liabilitiea , 533,228.39 Total premiuma In force l ecr ra ber 31. 1917 .... , Sfifl.798.4j Buainc In Oregoajfer tna Year. 1 oiai mauranre w 1 1 iim the year . . . -...!...$ Groaa pretnluma received "during the year I- - Premium returned during the jraar -! - Iiaaea paid daring the Tear. . . Ise incurred during the year Total amount of inauraneW out- atandias In Oregon. December 375,409.00 10,130.84 3,914.83 5.216.46 4.549.83 9 Ml. ii 846.9O8.0O THB' CEN'TBaL' MANCPACTrHERS MU- By C. A. L. Pormort, Seorelary. Statutory reaident reneraV ageiit and attorney for aerriea: It M. Ortnt. Portland. Or. Hrnopaia of the Annual Statement of the American Druggist Fire Insurance Company of Cincinnati in the fitato of Ohio, on the 31at day of Pecember. 19 17-, made to the In aurance Commiaaioner of the Stato of Oregon, purauanf to law : Amount of capital paid op. . , . .$ Incomo. Net premluma received during the year , . . : Intereat. dirldend and renta r celed durinr the year lacime from other aoureea re ceived during the year. Total inepme Diahnrtamanta. !e loaae paid daring the ear.$ Dividenda paid on capital atock during tho year .. Commtaaiona nd aalartea paid during the year .. - Ta. lieenaea and feea paid during the year Amount of all other eipenditurea Total expenditurea ...... ... Aiaeta. Value of atneka and bonda owned marke value) ...... I Re-Insurance due from Mer chant' Firo Aaauranca Corp. for loasaa paid ............. Caih in banka and e hand.. Premium is conrae of eollee rloa written aince September 80. 117 Intereat and rent due, and ac crued i . 200.000.00 172.558.28 18.917.IM) 182.31 19I.C5S.19 I, OOO. 9,1 A.I 59 20,000.0 39.128.8fi 8,194.78 20,450.48 146,956.94 445.866.84 1,651. 5 88,170.42 22.347.44 i fl, 163.59 Total . . .... - - It Total aet admitted in Oreeon.f 514.200.24 Liabilities. ! . 514.200.24 Orona claim for loasea unpaid. t Abiohv of unearned nremiuma on alt outatandinu rlaka .... All other liabilitiea 9,618.54 91.726.11 9.913.46 Total liabiliti-a. evelnwye of ' capital atock of $20O0C0. . HO.6.8.11 Hl ST-iaiV 0re8 1 82.663.97 - Bualiaaa ia. Oregon for the Tear. hi VVaV'T. -t.'.. 'B 14.050.00 Grea premlumaeVived during 910.89 Preminmt retnrne'd dnring the , fij year .. . . . w Total amouot of Inaurnnco ont- rrft'A lB Oregoa Deeb- lg0 S50 (M TOK AMERICAS-DRUGGISTS- FIRE INS CO By Frank H. Frederick. Secretary. Rtatutorr reaident general arent and 8 for trvt": Carl A. Plath, Klamath Fall Syaopaia of the Annual Statement of The Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Co. of N. Y V.w York, irt the Stt of Xew York, on ?h.Vutdav of December. 1917. made to the XMurlnee CommUaioner of the Sute of Or. gon, pnranant to u 5,luL . i.,u.t .f capital rt5 P - - 20O.000.O0 ; Income. Sti premium! reteived during the year ...r . - S35.Si." Interaat, dividenda and renta re- ceived duringt the year 40,5s. Income from other ooteB re- . evv Total Income ... ... ....... - f 876.213 " XHabnraeateata. Lcaae paid during tho year. In- eludinf .djuatment .pen.e g0 ,7 T. He.-... P"f ,,396 10 Total .penditure. 859.509.32 Premium in eoumo of colleetiijn ! written aince Sept. SO. 1917. 178.782 0? I Jntereat and renta duo and ac- 0 g i cmed ' Total a.aeta ........... L . 952.054.5? Lea apeeiol depoaite any M atato .... Total aaaeta admitted ia Ore - OB Wmitiei.' Gro claim for loaaea unpaid. $ Amount of unearned premium on all ou tat ending rka. . .. Dn for eommiaaion and broker age ... All ether liabihttea .......... 942.651.92 60,869.35 415.062.94 57.188.ST 17.700.32 ' Total liabilitiea . , ..... .V- .f 550.771.1S Total P3'"i; S ,or.f.!T!:m;$ 823.936.91 ' Xnalneaa In Oregon fo the Year. Groaa premium receiver ri the year Pretniumt retarn"d during the year . . . . Txea tid durinK the "r- 1,638 84 34.70 342 4P 342.49 THF VF.THOWl-'TN CASUALTY INKt R ANCK CtJ. OF 7i. T. Hy S. Wm. Burton, Secretary. BKtutorv reidr. reneral agent and attorney for aerire: T. E. Manner. Portland, Or. R IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years, Always bears tfca Signatur of TRYING PERIODS FIGHTING U-BOAT ARE RECOUNTEE If German Pluck Had Been Alert, Rich Harvest Would Have Resulted TRAWLERS SORE NEED Submarine Came As Surprise to British Who Began Gradual Fight HULL. England. Feb. 9. (Cor respondence of the Associated Piss.) How seriously the German sub marine might have crippled the Brit ish navy in the early days of the war, when there was not a single British naval harbor protected from sub marine attack, was told this week by Lord Jellieoe, formerly Fifst Sea Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech at the annual meeting of the Hull Sail ors Orphange here. "The work of the fleet was a good deal more arduous in the early daj'3 of the war than it has been since," said Lord Jellieoe, "In those days there were no bases protected from submarine attack and the flee was hunted from pillar to post to find security to carry out the necessary operations of coaling. Some of the coaling operations . .were performed under very exciting: conditions, the base begin open to any submarine that cared to come in. , German Pluclc Lacking, "ir the. Germans knew it, they never had the pluck to try it. If they had done so, they might have reaped a rich harvest. But we al ways bad to be thinking of the pos sibility of such attack, and whenever I was inside a base I spent many - Syaopai of the Annual Statement of the Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Company or Boston, n the State of Maaaachusetta, on the Slat day or December, 1917, made to the Inauranre Commiaaioner of the State of Ore gon puraoaai te law: . CapMaL . Amouot of capital paid up...$ 500,000.00 Income. Net premium received during the year 81,380,427.47 Interest, dividenda and renta re ceived during the year 60,764.72 Income from other aoureea re ceived during the year. 1,095.52 Total income $1,442,287.7! Dibarement. Xet loaaea paid during the year.f 640.S15.25 Miviuenua paid on-capital atock during the year- 30,000.00 ConiinHitiona and aalariea paid during the year 442,703.46 TaxeaV litenae and fees paid . during the year . 22,388.41 Amount of kit other expenditurea 64,277.55 Total expenditurea $1,199,824.67 Aeta. Value of atocka and . bonda owned (market value) $1,373,662.00 Caah in banka and on hand... 203,142.31 Premium in courne of CollectioB written aince Sept. 30, 1917. 244,050.78 Reinsurance recoverable on paid - loaaea . . 1,759.58 interest and renta due and se emed .. 10,014.37 ' Total aaaet 91.833,229.22 Total aaaets admitted in Oregon.81, 833,229 J2 ZJLabUlties. Groaa claims for loaaea unpaid. $ 295,489.65 Vrni ant of unearned premiuma on all ootatanding rink .... 832,430.79 An other liabilities 27,065.02 Total liabilities, exclusive of capital atock of $5OO,0J0. .$1,154,985.46 Total promiuma ia force Decern ber 31. 1817 $1,590,271.75 Bnataesa in Oregon for the Tear. Iotal insurance written during ------ the year $ 624,789.00 Qroa premiums received during the year 5,444.98 Loasea paid during the year. . . 63.76 Lease incurred during the year 55.70 Total amount of insurance out standing in Oregon December B1,L017 48.998.00 MASSACHUSETTS FIRE V MAKISE IXSL'KAXCK CO, By, 'Walter Ad cord. Secretary. Statutory reaident general agent and attorney for service: Gilbert II. Durham. 284 Oak ? St, Portland.. Oregon, i Synopsis of the Annual Statement of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association A Seattle, in the State of Waahiagtoa. on the Slat day of December. 1917, made to the Insurance Commiaaioner of .the State of Oregon, pursuant, to law: ( Itroema. Xet premium received during the year ...$ 860,453.71 Interest, dividends and rents re ceived daring the year Income from ether aoureea re ceived during the year 15,790.21 1T.693.S0 : Total income $ Disbursement. .Vet losses psid during the year.$ Dividends paid policyholders during the year . Commitaions and salaries paid during the year Taxea. lieenaea and feea paid during th year laaount ed all other expenditures 893,937.42 176,798.30 229,839.27 188,862.04 10.943 01 83.066.98 ' Total expenditures' . $ 689,509.60 Asset. Value of real estate owned (market value) . . $ 22,568.18 Value of atocka and bonda ewned ( market value) 823,200.95 Loses on mortgagee and collat eral, etc. 35.r-00.Ort Caah in banks and on band... 140,365.57 Premiums in course of collection written aince Sept 30. 1917. 109.705.20 Other admitted asseta S4.113.o9 I nteresi and rents due and ac crued i 4.857.88 Total assets , $ 670.310.87 Total assets admitted in Oregn.$ 67t-.310.87 liabilitiea. Gross rlsims for loaaea unpaid. $ 26,829.07 Amount of unearned premiums on nil outstanding risks.... 374,073.65 Dne for commission and broker age .. 7,584 25 All other liabilitiea 12.979.30 Tot at liabilities . . $ 421.466.27 Total premiums in force Decem ber 31, 1917 f 734.003.84 Baslaes la Oregon for the Tear. Total insurance written during the year $114,843,131.00 tiros s premiuma received during the year . 1.S11.S87J0 Premiums returned daring the year . . Losses psid during the year . . . Losses mesrred daring the year Total staoont of insurants out 261.973.1$ 176.798.30 183,196.70 standing ia Oregon December 81. 1917 2.972.566.00 Br Vf. D. I. RHODES w..n' Statutory reaident general agent aad attorney for service; F. L Flalry, Portlaad, Orr.on. YOUR LIVER NEEDS Stirring Up and Stimulating n Spring. -Its sluggiah lack of vigor 1 a large factor in ctuaini'r the dullness. le preduiun aaid weaJcneaa .that haiix tn to you like l-al In your showi from morning till nigrt. Hoods 1'ilU re the best liver Htlinulant and family .-ithartic. beat 1. . ... . . .. V . 1 t f,a.ia ! if VaVlt flvfltl IUW WSWJ -a ! WW vm n - do not lepl-te the blood like purgative I . . . . . ..-I. I K ..flait !..'., ft trail a:tt nai i .-j, vix.m .-. .- . woful train, of catarrhal discharges I that arw ur.naliirul and weakening. I Then you may rt the splendid 1 liloud -enriching iuaiitiej of Hood" Harsiaparuia an.1 tne iroii-uuuuiug n fects of lvptiroa Into the combination, and the three medicines working to gether give the grandest health-uplift it is pOMnlUl to have from medicine. Any one of the- three medicines will do you good -the; uho of all three will accoinnllsh wonderful result for, you. Try thin treatment thl Sprins. anxious moments and some very amusing moments amusing ta look back upon, I mean, but not amusing at the time. There were constant scares of submarines, and we kenw that If a submarine pot inside It might sink a battleship with each of the ten or twelve torpedoes it car ried. Put yourself in such a poni- 4ion and you may be alle to appreci ate a little of the .anxiety that was felt whenever a signal was given that a submarine had been sighted near by. . "As usual in times of anxiety, wi called upon the merchant marine, and an arrangement was made that if a submarine got inside a base, merrh ant ships should place themselves alongside until the warship could get under way. Then if the torpedoes were fireo. the merchant ships would receive them instead of the battleships. 'That was the arrangement. The merchant, marine as usual, did ex actly what they were asked. Scores of small craft dashed about the har bor at full Bpeed to keep the sub marine under water and if they saw it, to endeavor to ram it. It was extraordinary, having regard to thJe conditions of the sea ard .weather, that many collisions did not occur. The k!ll with which the whole pro gram was carried, out. time after time, was a great testimony to the seamanship of those in charge of the trawlers and bigger ship. . Trawlers Were in Need. "T.he British Grand Fleet could not exist without trawlers. One of the omissions in our pre-war naval prep arations was that we left the navy absolutely unprovided with vessels of the trawler type. When war came, the Admiralty .had to depend upon the generosity, of the trawler owners to keep the fleets, protected. So it is not too much to say that we owe the ' Synopaia of the Annual Statement of the Indiana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Company of Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, or. tho Slat day of Uecember. 1917. mads te the Insurance Commissioner of tho Stale of Ore gon, pursuant to law : Capital. Amount of Ledger Axuets, Dee. ? 311916 ; . .$ 693,537.50 Income. Xet premium received during ' the year . $ 577,022.34 Interest, dividend and rents re ceived during the yesr 39,766.03 TotaU income . . $ 6lS788.37 Disbursements. Xet losses paid during the year.$ 179,130.74 Commissions and aalariea paid during the year . - 61,770.24 Taxes, lieenaea ,and feea paid Curing tne year 12.24S.3C Amount of all other expenditures 221,197.39 Total expenditure $ 474.346.76 Assets. Value of real estate owned (market value) $ 36.500.00 Value of stocks and bonds owned (market value) 393,651.00 Loans on mortgages and collat eral, etc 353,350.00 Cash in banks and on hand 27,126.00 Premiums in course of collection . written ainee Sept. 30. 1917. 24.923.11 Interest and renta due and ac crued ... . , 10,008.59 Total aaaets $ 847,558.70 Total aaeeta admitted in Oregon. $ 847,558.70 Liabilities. Gross claims for loaae unpaid. $ 20,574.00 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks 28.960.06 Due for commission and broker age 3.783.30 All ether liabilities 14.062.07 Total liabilities $321,379.43 Total premiums ia force Decem ber 81. 1917 $ 563.920.13 Basiaesa In Oregon for the Tsar. Total insurance written during the year $ 204,125,00 uroaa premiuma received during the year . . Premiuma returned during the year . . Loaaea paid during tho year... Losses incurred during the yesr Total amount of insurance out standing in Oregon December 81. 1917 3.547.63 1,748.17 88.20 88.20 16O.125.00 I5IIAXA LBRMKX S MUTUAL INSUR ANCE CX) by T. B. Fowler, Secretary. Statutory resident general agent and attorney for service : F. I. Finlev. Portland. Oregon. raits WITH EVERY SUIT ORDER - SCOTCH WOOLEN MILLS STORE 426 STATE STREET .Mtl .FreB trawler owners and men a very large debt. - It would be impossible to re ward them inadequately, because if one attempted to bestow decoration' add medals, I don't suppose any body in the trawler service would go undecorated." "There have been several out standing deeds of gallantry, one or two particularly, which I would like to tell about, but I shall not tell, because they were performed against submarines, and if the particulars reached Germany. the Germans would if irn something of our meth ods. Moreover. If they ever got hold of anv man or officer who Had achieved some great success against the submarine, they would not treat him anv too well." In an address at the Hull Ex change, Iord Jellieoe said In part: "You who belong to a community connected with the sea know better than those who live fmlher inland the difficulties with whh the navy has had to deal during the war. These difficulties are due simply and solely to one source, and that is thv submarine. ' Submarine Tame as Surprise. "The submarine was rrunk upon the British navy, at any rate the new methods and morals of the sub marine, as a surprise. I remember that Lord .Fisher wrote a memoran dum in 1911 in which he expressed the . oulnlon that i the Germans were to go to war with Great Britain they would use submarines against merchant ships. That memorandum went to the board of admiralty after I had joined it as second sea lord, and there was nobody in a responsi ble position who agreed that ihe German navy would really do-such a thing as Lord Fisher predicted. Well. Lord Fisher was right, as In many cases, and" the navy was un prepared to deal with the submarine in that particular direction. Hut even if the words of Lord Fisher had been believed, there was no time to introduce measures which i would have effectually stopped the subma rine ironi getting out. and that Is the only way to deal with them. There is no roval road to the saving of your merchant f hips from the submarine once trie latter has got out of its harbor. The only royal road is to block him in, and that 13 an impossible operation. ' "But the British navy was faced with its task, and it did its best. It ia a superhuman task, because the subm.r-ie '3 ax craft which can go inCer water for twenty-four hours ml lie ti -tier walrr for, forty-eight ( hours, a J yzu don't know where: IS. :tr.l V.'r-.frr foully. '!.,!; !:ave el nie recently win M:r lor-vs !n Ihe IrUh Sea are -i heavy. Tha roawn is this: There '-. i;'teh shoal water in the Irish Sea, no that the submarine. can find plenty o; places where they can drop right to the bottom end sit theiV without a sound. In deep Vater they can't do that, because a sub marine can't safely go deeper than 150 or 200. feet, and can't lie still until she ia on the bottom. T keep submerged in deep water sh must keep her engines going. "Well, in the Irish sea a subma rine sinks ja shin and gets a craft after her. Our shift hunts her out. but as soon as thinrs get too hot for the Urboat, she dives and sit quietly at the bottom until her trou bles are over. a ship must after -a time go back to port for fuel. Then up comes the U-boat again and con tinues her nefarious career. That is the difficulty in that particular lo cality. She can sit at the bottom for forty-eight hours if she likes, an-1 then come up in some other part of the sea. "Similarly, the difficulty of keep ing them to teir own ports is accen tuated by the fact that the water in and around the Heligoland bight for a radius of 150 miles is of a depth in which the submarine cn sit at the bottom. Assuming that we had a sufficient number of craft thor oughly to patrol that area, which stretches something like 300 ni'les from Denmark to the Dutch islands, we should still have to meet this difficulty. - "Immediately you tackle a subma rine, it dives to the bottom and w.iits until night, when it can come up and continue Its course without being seen. At night, even on the surface, a submarine can only he seen for a distance of about 200 yards. PRESIDENT AND MDOQTALK Plans Discussed for Organiza tion Under New Railroad 1 Control WASHINGTON. March H. Plans for future organization of, tho gov ernment administration uftder the railroad control bill, finally passed by congress today, were discussed tonight at a conference between President Wilson and Director Gen eral McAdoo. One of the first tasks will be making contracts with each railroad company for government compensa tion on the basis provided in the bill. Under the direction of John Hart on Payne, chief counsel, Joh.i Skelton Williams, finance dlrecto', and C. A. Prouty, chief of the di vision or accounts, the negotiations of these contracts will be undertak en immediately. With a fund at his disposal with which to administer the railroad af fairs, Mr. McAdoo now will fix the salaries of his assistants, most of whom have severed connections with railroads. Heretofore the expenses of the railroad administration have been borne from an allotment froirt the president's emergercy fund. The treasury has sufficient funds to eare for minor drafts., particular ly since a clearing house for railway earnings and expenses is to be es tablished and payments to roads will be on the basis of the difference be tween the actual earnings and the guaranteed rate. i see rrAKKiFiKi An .."'MEN: MEN! MEN!" With the Already our showing of the smarteslattire is marvelbusly interesting. 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