The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

dren receive $50 with S more per month for each additional child.
 The law has also provisions by which if soldiers grandchildren or parents or brothers or sisters are dependent upon him for support one half of his pay goes to them, the government add ing something like $10 per parent and from s5 to $50 forithe children. accord-' ing as there be one two, three or four
 From this it will be seen that every family that "tarries by the stuff" will receive from S30 to $50 or more a month. while itsSman is away fighting our bat ties At the present time hundreds of thousands of families are receiving such payments monthly, and this number will steadily increase as more soldiers go to the field.
 Tn addition to these payments the law makes certain provisions if the sol
 dier dies or is disabled during the serv- ] ice. Thtse are the same for men of all
 rank and are not based upon the pay of the soldier. The soldiers widow. if there are no children will receive s25 per month A widow and one child will ! get $35, and if there be two children I the amount will be s47 50 per month with $5 more for each additional child | up to two. If the soldier leaves child
 but no widow the amount paid will be | S-V anu IcT LWO I6N P0U, While i for three children 1t will be $40 a month
 with s5 additional for each child up to l two more. K the mother of the soldier I be a widow she may receive S20 but neither a widow nor mother shall
 have her pension continued after re-
 marriage. If the soldier becomes dis abled during the service he will receive
 a payment of from s3o to stoo per month, the latter sum being given only Ean hn ig AsNtr hn5 -t1 There are also compensations for in juries of various kinds received in bat
 tie or while in the service
 l Another important provision of Uncle l Sams for those who "tarry by the stuff''
 is insuring the lives of the men in the l service Arrangements for this have
 been made and they are carried out
 through this bureau of naval and mtli- l tary insurance, Already in the neigh
 borhood of 4.00o0o0 applications for polt- | cies have been made and the total 1 amount of insurance written to date is
 more than $30,000, 0000OO The average amount insured is for SS50o and it is esti- mated thatsmore than 90 out of every 100 men are insured.
 The object of the government war in- surance is to give the soldiers and sailors a chance to insure their lives at req sonable rates. When the war broke out the chief life insurance companies added $10o per 5000 to the ordinary rates on all war life insurance. This meant that l the man who took out a $1000 policy would have to pay as much as the man l in private life and s100 more per year If he took out $500 he would have to pay the regular rate and an excess of S51f per year. and if $S500 the average amount 1 which the government is giving, he would have to pay an excess of SS50. This was manifestly impossible for mer receiving only s360 and upward per year
 and the government established this war risk insurance bureau to take care
 of the situation According to it's regu- | lations the insurance rates are less thar l ore twelfth the excess war rate charged by the life insurance companies. These
 are lower than the ordinary rates oi those companies and are so arranged that after the man has applied for ln- surance the money for the premiums is
 taken out of his pay every month and he need not worry about his policy laps- ing from his not keeping it up.
 l Moreover, the rates are exceedingly low. Those of the draft ages from 2