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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
URGED TO RE-INSTATE
LAPSED INSURANCE.
Por»i«r Enlisted Man nr* T old of
Government Insurance Plan.
Dtncharired sailors and f soldiers
who hare dropped their war risk in
surance are urjred by Ensiirn E. P.
Thornton, Pay Corps, U. S. N. Ff. F.,
District Insurance Officer, New Or
leans, LA., to take steps to re-instate
their insurance. His statement is
as follows: ^
“Uncle Sam went into the insur
ance business for the benefit of the
lads who stood like a stone wall be
tween civilisation and “Kuttur.
reason for this was to frive his
Rilt edge insurance at the smallest
possible cost. With the government
backing the company and bearinft all
operating expenses, it can iasu# a
policy the value of which has never
before heen equalled.
New Bureau Created.
“After war ceased many of the
soldiers and sailors came back to eivil
life and, unfortunately, many left
the service in the rush of discharges
without being made to approbate
and understand the value of their
insurance and the method of keep
ing it up. Hence, many have, be
cause of lack of information, allow
ed their term insurance to lapse. and
Saany more are on the verge of do
ing so. .
“So the Bureau of War Risk in
surance created a Conservation fac
tion. A mighty campaign is being
conducted with the purpose of giv
ing every man with insurance, and
every many who has unwisely drop
ped his insurance, and every • bene
ficiary who is so vitally concerned,
the cut and dried facts. They are:
Facta mrm Cited.
“Why should the men keep up the
term insurance?
“Because it is protection agsmst
both death and disability, can b<- car
ried for a premium within reach of
the flattest purse—(66 cents per
thousand per month at age twenty-
one, for example)—and bemuse
those who carry it are going to hake
the privilege of converting it at any
time within five years after the dec
laration of peace into the soundest,
ihtist liberal and cheapest insuaance
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t was ever offered.
It is s privilege confined absolu
tely to Uncle Sam’s uniformed b.ick-
ers* either ia service or now dis
charged. It- is a reward for {their
many sacrifices of time and vocation
snd. sad to 'say. sometimes life,
*Cas. exposure and combat have
taken their toll of health and. tmtny
J f the boys will never get outat4e in-
urance, due to their service, but
hen the time comes for conversion
of Uncle Sam’s present term Insur
ance into permanent forms, if a man
still holds his term insurance,;that’s
all Uncle Sam wants to know'kbout
his health. If he was physically
s.-und enough to get into uniform
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THE B ATT A LI O N\
he is sound enough to gat in on a
government policy.
Uacl* Sam’s Policies.
‘♦Uncle Sam’s policies will insure
against disability during the entire
lifetime of the insured,- a feature
the • o-t of which, on the outside,
would be almost.prohibitive. If a
man becomes disabled to the extent
that he con not engage in a substan
tially gainful occupatkinj $5.78 per
month per one thousand dollars -
insurance is his for the remainder
of his life, no mattef if he ia dis
abled at age twenty-five and lives te
be one hundred. The Government
gives this feature free, the premium
charge being based only upon the
cost of death and hot dishbility:.
“If a man reaches age sixty, he
stAnds one chancel in two of be
coming disabled through disease
accident or old age during the re
maining years of hi# expectancy of
life, statistics show, and if he reach
es the age of seventy, his chances of
living the remainder of hb life with
out becoming disabled are only one
in four.
Privilege* Are Many:
“Some of the other privileges of
the policies are liberal cash and loan
values, paid up aad extended insur
ance, incontestibility from date of.
issue, freedom from all restrictions
as to residence, travel or occupation,
dividends from any gains and sav
ings, an<i proceeds of all policies to
be exempt from all taxation.
• “Uncle Sam is going to issue six
standard forms of policies—a policy
10 meet the need of every average
man. They are: Ordinary Life, 20-
Payment Life, 30-Payment Life,
20-Year Endowment, 80-Year En
dowment and Endowment ^maturing
at age sixty-two. | His premiums are
going to be about 25 per cent lower
than those of outside companies.
Premiums will be payable monthly,
quarterly semi-annually or anpually.
“If a man has dropped hb term
insurance he should write immedia
tely to the Bureau of War Risk In
surance, Washington. D. C.. stating
h»s full name and address, rank and
organisation at the time of applying
for insurance, the date of hb dis
charge or separation from service,
month for which last premium was
paid, and ask them what to do. It
b very proabable that he will be re
instated. If he has just left the
service he could mail all future pre
miums on the first day of the month
for which each premium b due to
the Disbursing Clerk, Bureau of War
Risk Insurance, making check or
money order payable to the Secretary
of the Treasury. Navy men in this
dbtrict can get futher Information
and advice by calling upon or writ
ing to the Dbtrict -Insurance Officer
No. 1 Canal SL, New Orleans, La.
Army Agn should communicate with
the nearest branch of the RediCross
After a long and thorough search,
Lt- E. D, Hopkins of Co. D, found
hb beloved trunk, and valuable con
tents. “Somewhere in Bryan.”
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