Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-10-07
ELSIE FERGUSON.
Coming to The Oregon Saturday only IN
"A SOCIETY EXILE"

from war, eventually, AFTER the gener-
al restlessness brought about by the
war has subsided, will be about 500,-
1000
Records in the bureau of war risk in
surance, compiled during the rapid de-
mobilization, covering the period from
January i 1919, to June 1st, last, show
that more than half the men change
their residence after being mustered
|out Of the service.
A certain percentage of the veter-
ans of the world war are keeping up
their government insurance. In order
to reach those who temporarily have
Iallowcd their insurance to lapse, the
bureau of war risk insurance has Or
ganized a voluntary field force which
will endeavor to conserve as much as
possible of the nearly $4,000, 100000
lof insurance carried by men in the
service.
Until recently the bureau of war
risk insurance was housed in 16 build
Iings in Washington ranging from gar
ages to the new national museum. At
present there are about $4,000 people
who are engaged in administering this
i insurance of world war veterans. If
the women workers of the bureau stood
finger tip to finger tip, they would
extend more than 13 miles.
| There are more than 30,000,000 in
dividual records in the bureau, this
large number being necessary in order
to keep the data on every mans insur-
anee up to date. More than five miles
of files are required to hold these ree-
ords.
Some idea of the magnitude of $4O,-
i00O,000,000 may be gained by figures
compiled by the acturial section Of the
bureau showing that if this amount,
were in dollar bills, end to end, the
| line thus formed would extend to the
moon more than IA times.
To July lst there had been II 1925
445 checks mailed. If these were in Q
line, end for end, they would extend
1891 miles During the first six months
Of 1919, there were more than 4,000,-
600 letters received by the bureau. An
army Of correspondents is needed to
take care Of the great daily inflow of
letters from former service men seek
ing information on all phases of war
risk insurance.
There are six permanent forms of
government insurance, as follows:
| 1-20 year endowment.
80 year endowment,
$40 payment life.
40 payment life.
5-Endowment at age 81.
l R-Ordinarv life
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