Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-23
WAR INSURANCE ACT
EXPLAINED TO SOLDIERS
Each Man Urged to Take Up to
$4,000 Benefits to Be
Desired.

The provisions for the war risk act
are being explained fully as an essen
tial part of the campaign which is on
tn induce all soldiers to insure them
selves to the amount Of $4,000 before
the time limit is reached.
To begin with, a soldier must sup
port his dependents, and the govern
ment aids him: officers are not COM
PEELED to contribute to the support Of
any one, and the government gives their
dependents no aid unless they are in
sured.
When a soldier is selected for service
and asks government assistance for
those who are dependent upon him he
must allot as much as he asks the gov
eminent to give, but not more than
one-half his pay. He may voluntarily
allot as much more as he wishes
Thus the monthly assistance to the
members of a soldiers family in addi-
ton to his SIS is. SIS for his wife. $25
IL he has a wife and one child. $3.50 If
he has a wife and two children and IS
for each additional child.
Uncle Sam Does Part.
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wife the government contributes IS a
month in addition to his SIS. $3.50.
where there are two, children and no
wife, see for three children and no wife.
$40 for four children and no wife and
Uncle Sam allows $40 additional
where there is one dependent parent,
and $50 month where there are two
dependent parents and IS month
more for each grandchild, brother sis
ter and additional parent. These al
iowances are only paid. however. for
those whom the soldier actually sup
ported in civil life, and the soldier must
make an allotment or no allowance will
be paid.
Then. too there is more protection, in
addition to any insurance the soldier
may buy. and the lad does not. have to
pay anything for the compensation. 1t
Is given to him free. 1t Is best ex-
planned in the words of an explanation
which has been. printed and circulated
among the soldiers. The pamphlet
reads:
Case Of Total Disability. |
II you have no wife or child. you will
receive $50 per month; If you have
s45 per month: II you have wife and
ore child. you will receive $55 per
month; IL you have wife and two chill
dren,. you will receive S65 per month;
Al you nave wire ana three children or
more, you will receive SIS per month;
If you have no wife, but one child,
you will receive sac per month. with
$40 for each additional child up to two.
The money will be- paid to you as long
as you are totally disabled II you
have dependent widowed mother, she
Will receive $40 per month
Your widow will receive $25 per
month; widow and one child will re-
ceive $S5 per month: widow and two
children will receive $47.5O per month.
with. IS for each additional child up
to two; your widowed mother will re-
ceive $40 per month
These amounts will be paid until the
death or refnarriage OF your wife or
widowed mother and until the child is
eighteen years old.
The soldier can only take out insur-
ance in favor OF himself or the follow
ing relatives: Wife, child, grandchild.
parent, brother or sister. Insurance is
payable in case Of death (from any
cause) or total disability: And for the
lad who is twenty-one or twenty-five
years of age. $4,000 worth of protec-
ton In addition to that which is given
free by the government. costs him only
$3.50 month. For those who are old
er the premiums are larger.