The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-07
ABOUT INSURANCE
General Wood Urges Soldiers
To Continue 1t.
Advantages Cannot Be Empha-
sized Too Strongly.
(From Trench and Campo


The following special memorandum
calling the attention of the officers
and enlisted men of Camp Funston to
their insurance with the government.
has been issued by Major General
Wood:
Il desire to remind all officers and
enlisted men under my command that
it is their privilege and their duty to
ke.., up their insurance with the
world war has officially terminated
and even after they have returned to
civil life.
I'm it's present form this insurance
is annual renewable term insurance at
net peace rates. issued against death
and total disability. Under the pro-
visions of the war risk insurance act
every person holding this insurance
may keep it up in this form even after
he leaves the service, for a period of
five years All that is necessary is
the regular payment of premiums on
or before the last day of each calendar
month"; These payments to be made
by certified check. draft or money
order drawn in favor of The Treas
urer of the United States" and mailed
to the bureau of war risk insurance.
treasury department., Washington,
D. c.
Moreover, the insurance act pro-
vides that not later than five years
after the termination of the war as
declared by presidential proclamation,
the term insurance shall be converted,
without medical examination, into
such form or forms of insurance as
may be prescribed by regulations and
as the insured may request. Regula-
tons now prescribe ordinary life.
twenty payment life endowment ma
turing at the age of sixty-two and
other usual forms. This insurance will
continue to be government insurance.
The various forms Of policies which
the war-risk insurance bureau will
write are now being prepared.
Every person in this camp having
government insurance owes it to him
self and family to hold on to Uncle
Sans insurance. 1t is the strongest
safest and cheapest life insurance ever
written. Just as this insurance re-
lieved our soldiers and sailors OF
nxiety and misgivings for the well
fare of their loved ones and protected
| them against the hazards of war. so il
| will continue to protect them thru
| the days of readjustment and recon
struction in time of peace.
The advantages of continuing this
insurance in force cannot be toe
strongly emphasized. The right to
continue it is valuable right giver
ny OuT government " our IlS
| part Of the men as compensation fol
their services. If this right is lost by
| allowing the insurance to lapse it car
never be regained. When government
| insurance is allowed to lapse the
| holder cannot again obtain insurance
| except from private companies and
then at a considerable increase in
cost, moreover, many of our soldiers
have become uninsurable as a re-
suit of the war thru physical impair
ment and if these men allow their in
| surance to lapse they will lose the last
| opportunity for their families to have
the protection Of life insurance. The
| economic value of life insurance t6
society is SO well recognized as toned
| of no further argument.
| Therefore. it is manifest1y of the
highest importance, not only to the
fighting men and their dependents
but to all the people that the larges
percentage possible of this insurance
| be continued in force after it's holder
| shall return to civil life.
| LEONARD WOOD,
| major General, United State.
] Army, Commanding"