Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-07-11
GOVERNMENT WILL INSURE SOL.
DIERS AT $1,000 EACH.
(Des Moines Capital.)

Every man who goes to war and
leaves dependents behind will have his
life insured for from $4,000 to $4,000
or more, according to the number of
dependents and the government will
pay the freight.
The man will not be required to
pass a medical examination and he
will have no premiums to pay. If he
is killed the life insurance will be paid
to his dependents as monthly income
| If he is totally disabled it will be paid
to him, and if he is partially disabled
it will be paid to him in part.
This is the plan Of the government
as outlined by President George
Kuhns of the Bankers Life company
who returned today from Washington
where he, Secretary G.. S. Nollen and
representatives of other Iowa life COM
panies attended a conference of life
insurance presidents with w. G. Nc
Adoo, secretary of the treasury.
"The government plan is to put
the pension system on basis" says
President Kuhns, "and that in the
future the evils of the old pension
business may be avoided Special Ac-
turary S. H. Wolfe is formulating
plans for the new life insurance sys-
tenn He reported to the conference
that lis widows of soldiers who fought
in the war of 1912 are still drawing
pensions from the government. This
is but sample of what the govern
ment seeks to avert in the future.
Figures On Cantonment.
eve were interested to learn that
Actuary Wolfe is also working on the
actuarial work for the. Des Moines
cantonment and for all the other can
tonments in the country. He is figur-
ing out the avrages on countless prop
ositions that come up in the recon-
struction of the nation for war pur-
poses.
THE present gossip in Washington
is that the debate in congress on the
food control bill is becoming a politi-
cal game of tit for tat and that the
outcome is likely to be bill which
will give the government control of
wheat and coal only. When the cot
ton of the south was put under the
provisions of the proposed bill the
southerners retaliated by putting wool
under the same category and that's
the way the congressman have been
playing havoc and politics with the
food control bill.
What Will Follow War!
Gossip in Washington is now on the
situation that will confront the ma
ton after the war and the crisis that
must be passed when lower wages and
other necessary establishments will
follow the present times of eXtraor-
binary activities along all lines. There
is feeling that this period will tend
| to promote socialistic tendencies to-
ward the government ownership of
railroads, telephones, telegraph lines
and other public. service institutions.
GAS far as the life insurance bust
ness is concerned the government is
going into it for war purposes only
and the normal business of the var
| ious life insurance companies will
not be affected. It was decided al
the conference that it would be a
distinct economy to all concerned for
the government to handle it's own life
insurance for the enlisted men of the
army and navy since if the compan-
les handled the insurance for the
government there would be a great
ly added expense for the details of
the operation, for the payment Of
state taxes by the companies, and
for the investment of the funds which
the companies would be required to
hold for the protection Of the risks
assumed"