The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-14
Col. H. D. Lindsey, in Mem
phiS En- Route East, De-
CIares $4,000, 100000 in
Policies Will Be Converted.
HEAD OF WAR RISK
OFFICE DETAILS SCENES
French Very DemOnStrative
Over Signing Of ArmiStiCe,
He DeCIareS--Former SeG-
retary Of War Also Here.

The United states government win
continue the greatest insurance organ
cation in the world. according to Col,
Henry n Lindsey, former mayor OF
Dallas, who had charge OF the war risk
bureau for the entire American eXpe-
dictionary forces IN Europe, and who,
With his uncle, former Secretary Of
War Jacob McGavock Dickinson, OF
Chicago is in Memphis,
Col. Lindsley states that the federal
government will allow soldiers, sailors
and marines any time within the next
five years to convert their war risk in
surance into any type Of standard In
liberal, the best aud the cheapest in
surance policies ever written.
The war risk bureau has written
Sl 600 100000 tp policies during the
war, inAurtng 30 per cent OF officers
and eH)lsted men at an average OF
$4,000 each. This amount exceeds the
combined policies Of all the life lnsur-
ance companies In the United States
and probably IN the whole world The
insurance office In washington en-
ployes $4,000 clerks to care for the
work
Col, Lindsey, who was stationed at
Tours, has Just returned to the United
States, aud after a brief visit in Dallas
is on route TO Washington to confer with
Secretary OF the Treasury McAdoo COP
cerning the conversion Of war risk poll
aSs into RsrmoSnyF.nt IRE Ssagss|nss WS
ton he will return to France,
The American soldiers were disap-
pointed when the armistice was signed,
according to Col Lindsey, who was on
the American front Nov 8. . and 10,
when the coming Of peace was accepted
as q certainty by the 4Allies.
'"rhe British and French had been
| in the war for four years ana were
weary of it, the colonel stated, But
| our own men had just tasted Of the
game Of war and were eager for more,
| They declared that they had been
The nfantrymen were very dlsap-
| pointed, but the airmen, | think, were
| the most disappointed OF the lot.
II was in Par rls on the night. Of Nov.
II and IN London on the following
night. The peace demonstrations were
a revelation, thousands Of men and
women and children absolutely. eraEed
| with 10y The Parts bouleyafds were
| filled with tens ot thousands of sing
| Ing, shouting dangling French people--
thbse~ glorious aAldleFs and eisilian'
whose nation hhd been saved from ~
Ing, great deaf Of laughter and some
tears, for tho French are demonstrn
tlye people and their JOY was un'
Inc morale NJ Ine GeTtnHHN uTIlY Wds
| broken long before the armlstice was
signed, col Lindsey asserted. He wns
| In n number of allied prison camps and
| was given the opportunity Of observ-
ing the attitude Of the Hun soldier to-
| ward his officers after the restraint OF
| the iron discipline Of Prussia was re-
| moved
"The German officers we're afraid oi
their own men" he stated, After they
had been herded into camp together the
| officers were separated from their men
and after that they would not go into
| n yard or anywhere where they came
| In contact with the soldiers unless al
| American guard was along, When the
| officers passed the men one could see
head shakinga and hear much NUT
| tering.
II was told of ono incident that was
| typical Tho clerks IN the offices whore
| the prisoners were registered were nj
Germans one Prusslan captain APP
peAred before a clerk for registration
| and that clerk cursed him by every
thing he could think Of An American
officer, who spoke German aud who
could understand what the clerk wa'
saying, intertered
"'This Is the first time ever got q
chance to tell those Prussian swine
what | think Of them, and I'm going tC
take advantage Of IT, the. clerk de
clared OF course yon can stop me, but
I'm going as far as | can Just rs .oftet
% ! can before you get chance to in
tertere.
The former secretary Of war declared
that In the future Americas standing
army would undoubtedly be muct
larger than In the past, the natlot
having learned the lesson of prepared
| ness.