Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-23
Iowans lDrawing
Many Million in
WarRisk Insurance

Washington, Sept, 2S.-lowa families
arc being paid sSl.9S5,s6O in war risk
insurance claims by Uncle sam. lie is
making restitution to those whose
sons and husbands died In the
soryice of their country during the
greatest war of all times.
There arc 3,654 insurance claims be-
ing paid I'm Iowa thru the bureau of
war risk insurance to beneficiuries
named at the time application for in
surauoe was made by soldiers, sailors
and marines, now dead. The average.
policy carried by these 1854 men was
SS,74O.
disabled soldiers, as well as widows
and children and dependent parents
of those who have died. are being
made comparable by the government
which is paying l,57l compensation
claims to residents OF Iowa.
In addition to the insurance and
compensation claims now being paid In
Iowa, there are 1919 of both these
classes Of claims under investigation.
These cases, however, are rapidly be-
ing adjusted following an investigation
by bureau representatives.
The bureau of war risk insurance.
which administers these affairs, has
been Established by the government
as a permanent institution in recogni-
ton OF the service veterans of the
world war rendered their country.
The insurance which veterans are
able to carry as result of this act OF
an appreciative government will be Il
l ,l,. In ~
they took in the war; whether 1t has
| been n matter Of accomplishing deed
! of yalor as performed by Sergeant AL
vim Cullum York, of Pail Mall, Tenn.
| or that OF the newest recruit who only
| underwent the discomforts of barrack
| life and was deprived of overseas SER
vice by the armistce.
| Records in the bureau show that this
| has been Il young mans war and
mothers war. More than A per cent
| of the men who carried government
| insurance made mothers their bene-
| ficiaries. Fathers We're named by APP
proximately 16>pcr cent of the men.
| The average age of the men killed
| in France was 23 years.
! An examination of the records In the
bureau of war risk insurance shows
that Il large percentage of married
| men in arranging for the future pro-
lection of their families planned for in
! surance to be paid to their mothers.
while their thought, in arranging their
compensation benefits. was for their
wives.
About % per cent of the men who
| carried war risk insurance named
LII ~
for compensation. Mothers were
| named by 90 per cent. while the vile
and child were named by II per cent.
This is the natural consequences OF
privileges granted by the war, risk IN
surance act. They felt it their FIRST
duty to provide for the immediate
needs of their family. making at the
same time. thru application for insur-
ance. provision for their parents in
their advancing years.
Insurance claims which the bureau
will be called upon to pay amount to
! more than $1,012, 100000. The amount
of premiums received from all service
men and which was deducted from
their pay during the active period or
| the war abproximates only 5000, 600 900
| or less than ne-fifth of the amount
! of the insurance claims. The excess
above premiums will be paid by the
government.
More than 100000 men who were
| born and raised on farms in the Unit
ed States and who served in the army.
navy and marine corps during the re-
| cent world war carried approximately
| $40, ass 900 900 of war risk insurance.
Records show that large percentage
of this sum was made payable to their
| mothers. fathers and others who reside
on farms
According tol an estimate made by
the department Of agriculture, the loss
| in man power to farms as the result or
| former service men giving up farm life
for the city upon their return from the
war. eventually, after the general rest
lessness brought about by the war has
| will hn ohOnt zoo 600