St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1918-05-04
degree to which the earning capacity

tu6SIS0 10 WHICH Lie SdIHtuS Sdp1GALy
is impaired.
The insurance policy issued by the
bureau may not be less than $1,000 or
more than $4,000, and is payable at
death or upon incurring total disa-
bility. The beneficiary may be any
person who is eligible under the or
binary rules Of insurance, Automatic
IL uranc was provided ii favor of
The wife. child or widowed mother of
the man in service for a period COW
e1ing the time required to bring the
lag9 to the attention of all of the mil
itary and naval forces of the gov
errment. Then the purely insurance
features of the law ceased to operate
except in favor Of those who applied
fer it's benefits and paid the small
premiums which were exacted.
one of the most important risks
covered by Uncle Sans policy is that
it insures against becoming unfnsura-
bic. IN ether words, a soldier or
sailor who may receive injuries
which would prevent him from TAX
ing out insurance after the war,
thereby automatically extends the
policy. This provision of the law
makes it permanent, and puts Uncle
sam in the insurance business as a
regular line. 1t is inevitable that
multiplied thousands of soldiers. and
sailors will be SO impaired in health
and strength as a result Of var serV-
ice that no insurance company would
be willing to write insurance upon
their lives. Uncle Sam will continue
in business as an insurer for their
benefit, and it would be hardly pos
sihle for him to run a business long
without pulling off the brakes. This
is the reason fer the growing belief
that the War Risk Bureau will
change its name and enlarge its act
ivities after the war.
II is more or less of a coincidence
that the author of the first coherent
and comprehensive life insurance law
passed by the state of Texas should,
in the whirligig of Time, become adj
mfnistrator of the greatest scheme
of benevolent insurance ever devised.
This piece of legislation stands out
pre-eminent as the most comprehen-
siye plan Of protection Of soldiers
and sailors and their dependents ey-
er written into the law of any ma
tion. Under its operations the man
who fights the battles of Uncle Sam
should never become a pauper nor
should his seed ever be required to
beg their bread. Much of course de-
ponds upon the administration of a
law SO broad and liberal in it's pur-
poses. It is fortunate that Secretary
Love is in thorough sympathy with
all of its provisions, and that he has
the experience ond training which
are required to put them in a success
fui operation. 1t was the good for
OF the writer to be associated
with him in the passage of the life
insurance law which, with some
amendments, is now in force in Tex
as. 1t was the handiWork of Com
missioner Love, and it is not exag-
geratien to say that it's passage
the state senate of Texas
was made possible by the support of
he writer, who brought it out of
and championed it on the
loor Of the state senate. That law
made every policy of life insur-
which may be issued in Texas
Is good as gold, has given full pro-
10 policy holders and their
)eneficiaries, and has eliminated
and false pretense from the
business as conducted in Texas, In
he broader field in which he is now
Engaged Mr.. Love is making prece-
which will last for centuries I
nd blaze the way for humanitarian
measures that will sooner or later
e copied throughout the civilized
forld.-E. G. Senter, in the Texas
arm and Ranch. of April 81. {
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