Gunnison news-champion., 1919-01-10
MeADOO REQUESTS EVERY
AMERICAN FIGHTER TO
KEEP HIS INSURANCE

| desire TO remind ALL American
soldiers and sailors that it is their
opportunity and their privilege to
keep UP their insurance with the I. 5.
government after the war has been
officially terminated and even after
they have returned to civil life.
More than four million officers and
men OF the Army and Navy are now
insured with the United States Gov
arnment, thru the Bureau OF War
Risk Insurance of the Trasury re-
partment. The grand total of inslr-
ance is more than thirty-six billion
dollars.
May Be Kept Up
In its present form this insurance
is annual, renewable at net peace
rates, issued against death and total
permanent disability. Under the
provisions of the War Risk Insurance
tct, every person holding this IN
surance may keep it up IN this form
even after he leaves the ser> ice, for a
period of five years. All that Is nee
essary is the regular payment of the
premiums.
Moreover, the law provides that not
later than five years after The termin-
alton of the war as declared by Presi-
Dental proclamation, the term IN
surancc shall be converted, without
medical examination. into such form
or forms of insurance as may be pre-
scribed by regulations and as the in
sured may request, In accordance
with the provisions Of the law, these
regulations will provide for the right
4. = 70.
ment endowment maturing at age of
g., and other usual forms of insur-
ance. This insurance will continue to
be Government insurance. The vari-
Gus forms of policies which the Bureau
of War Risk Insurance will write are
now being prepared.
Safest Ever Written
Every person in the naval or militia
ry service owes it to himself and to
his family to hold on to Uncle Sans
insurance. 1t is the safest, cheapest
and strongest ever written. Just as
this insurance relieved our soldiers
and sailors of anxiety and misgivings
for the welfare of their loved ones and
protected them against the hazards of
war, so ii will continue to protect them
thru the days of readjustment and re-
construction and in time of peace.
Advantages In 1t.
The advantage of always keeping
this insurance in force cannot be en-
phasized too strongly. The right to
continue it is valuable right given
by the Government to our fighting
men as part of the compensation for
their services. If this right is lost
by allowing insurance to lapse the
holder cannot again obtain insurance
except from private companies, at a
considerable increase in cost. More
over, many of the men have become
uninsurable as a result of the war
thru physical impairment, and if these
allow their insurance to lapse, they
will lose their last opportunity for
their families to have the protection
of life insurance.
The economic value of life insurance
to society is so well recognized as to
need no argument. The government
now has in force upon the lives of four
million American citizens who have
fought its battles life insurance
group larger than all others combined.
it is manifestly of the
highest Importance, not only to the
fighting men and their dependents,
but to all the people, that the largest
possible percentage of this insurance
shall be continued in force after it's
holders dnave returned to civil life.
w. G. McADOO,
Secretary of the Treasury.
90
Two more dollars are reported on
the S., s. Armenian-Syrian Relief